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External Evaluation Coordinator

As part of a small, international and dedicated team you will take on the responsibility for the management and coordination of the Eureka remote expert community and the maintenance and further development of the Eureka Expert Database (EED) and its interface with the central Eureka Evaluation Process and Project Management platforms.

Eureka has over the years established a community of several thousand international experts within a wide range of technological fields. These experts are called upon to evaluate project proposals received through the Eureka programmes.  The experts are all registered and made available through a dedicated IT platform and database. The qualitative management of the experts community and database is essential for the success and quality of the Eureka funding programmes. The biggest programme and user of the external evaluators is the co-funded European Partnership between Eureka and the European Commission called the Innovative SMEs programme with two strands, namely Eurostars3 and Innowwide.  The database is also used for national calls and programmes as a service to the Eureka members.

We are looking for a proactive, self-driven and dynamic professional, with a keen interest and preferably with prior experience in programme evaluation, to join our team and take on these responsibilities.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Act as the primary contact point for applicants, experts, and the Eureka network to guide project applications through the Eureka evaluation process in the interface with the EED and associated Eureka project management platforms.
• Review of profiles of technical experts applying to enter the EED, checking these against standard criteria, requesting further information if necessary and performing necessary updates relating to invalid or outdated profiles.
• Liaise with other services in the Eureka Secretariat and Eureka countries to ensure the efficiency and quality of the EED and explore further development options.
• Explore possibilities for expanding the use of the EED beyond Eureka programmes as a service to national funding bodies.
• Implement a methodology to ensure the quality of the assessments provided by the experts across all different Eureka programmes.
• Liaise with the IT, communication and financial teams within the Eureka Secretariat to ensure that evaluation and financial processes are delivered effectively and following deadlines, contributing to the continuous analysis of programme processes, identifying areas for improvement, implementing changes.
• Performing the role in accordance with the organisation’s strategy of quality and risk management.
• Participating in and presenting Eureka’s programmes at external events.
• Assisting and contributing across different activities / domains of Eureka’s programmes and its projects, in support of colleagues during periods of high workload.

Education and experience

• A level of higher education corresponding to a bachelor's degree in a relevant field of study, preferably with a master's degree
• Relevant professional experience of at least two years
• Preferably experience from project evaluation and database management  
• Experience working with survey tools and statistical software would be an asset.

Personality and skills

• A positive, flexible and highly motivated team player, with the ability to work independently, manage deadlines and focus on results.
• An ability to produce and present analysis of both qualitative and quantitative data.
• An exceptional administrator, well organised and able to multitask.
• As a member of a multinational team: sensitivity to cultural differences.
• Fluent in English, written and spoken.
• Fully conversant with Office 365, particularly Microsoft Excel.
• Experience working with survey tools and statistical software preferred.

What we offer you

• A full-time position with an open-ended contract.
• A competitive salary, taking into account educational level and previous professional experience.
• Attractive benefits, including homeworking two days a week, additional holidays, pension plan and hospitalisation insurance, free public transport to commute to the office, meal vouchers, etc.
• An international and dynamic team of roughly 35 employees from 16 different countries.
• Eureka strongly lives by the values of trust, transparency, passion, creativity, autonomy, collaboration, work-life balance and diversity across all our teams and our whole network of customers and partners.
• A nice and modern working environment, close to the centre of Brussels and the European quarter and easily reachable by public transport (Merode).

Applicants must be legally entitled to work in the European Union. 

The selected candidate should be available to start as soon as possible.

Application and closing date

Please send you CV and motivation letter, completing the application form via the online APPLY button.

By sending an application, candidates give their consent to their diplomas and references being verified.

The Eureka Association is an equal opportunities employer.

Closing date: Monday 17 April 2023, 5pm Brussels time

Business Analyst

As part of a small, international and dedicated team you will take on the business analysis for applications internally developed in an Agile environment.

Eureka has been developing a funding management web platform for following up on projects from when they are submitted until they are finalised and we can measure their impact on the economy. This management platform has been implemented for a single funding programme so far, but with your help, we will integrate additional funding programmes to create a unified experience across all the programmes Eureka supports.

Apart from this platform, there are secondary specialised platforms that will require further improvements, as well as potential new development projects where we need your skills.

We are looking for a proactive, self-driven and dynamic professional, who’s good at translating business needs into clear requirements, to join our team and take on these responsibilities.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Work with users and stakeholders to elicit, analyse, document and communicate business needs through e.g., interviews, walk-throughs, modelling, etc.
• Develop and document business and functional requirements, use cases and business process flows
• Participate in design and testing activities
• Develop and document business rules and test cases
• Work with the project team to ensure that the project meets business requirements
• Act as the primary contact point for business requirements with colleagues in the IT team
• Translate technical and architectural issues so that project/programme stakeholders can understand and make effective decisions
• Validate released features to be compliant with requirements and user expectations
• Define project scopes, current situations and desired project outcomes in collaboration with the project manager and product owner
• Find root causes for problems, possible optimisations and propose solutions in existing and future processes
• Thoroughly document and communicate outcomes of efforts

Education and experience

• A level of higher education corresponding to a bachelor's degree in a relevant field of study, preferably with a master's degree
• Relevant professional experience of at least two years
• Practical and/or conceptual knowledge of software development
• Knowledge of database usage and SQL
• Experience with modelling tools
• Experience in an Agile environment

Personality and skills

• A positive, flexible and highly motivated team player, with the ability to work independently, manage deadlines and focus on results
• As a member of a multinational team: sensitivity to cultural differences
• Able to challenge ideas and views of stakeholders in a cross-cultural work environment
• Fluent in English, written and spoken
• Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills
• Good time-management skills
• Excellent people skills

What we offer you

• A full-time position with an open-ended contract
• A competitive salary, taking into account education level and previous professional experience
• Attractive benefits, including homeworking two days a week, additional holidays, pension plan and hospitalisation insurance, free public transport to commute to the office, meal vouchers, etc.
• An international and dynamic team of roughly 35 employees from 16 different countries
• Eureka strongly lives by the values of trust, transparency, passion, creativity, autonomy, collaboration, work-life balance and diversity across all our teams and our whole network of customers and partners
• A nice and modern working environment, close to the centre of Brussels and the European quarter and easily reachable by public transport (Merode)

Applicants must be legally entitled to work in the European Union. 

The selected candidate should be available to start as soon as possible.

Application and closing date

Please send you CV and motivation letter, completing the application form via the online APPLY button.

By sending an application, candidates give their consent to their diplomas and references being verified.

The Eureka Association is an equal opportunities employer.

Closing date: Monday 24 April 2023, 5pm Brussels time

What is Eureka?

Eureka is the world’s biggest public network for international cooperation in R&D and innovation, with more than 45 countries in Europe and beyond, in addition to the European Commission. They cooperate in organising and funding programmes where companies and other organisations can apply for funding and support for their international R&D projects. What is unique about Eureka programmes is that the public funding is particularly focussed on projects involving small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that collaborate beyond borders to produce innovative products, processes, or services and commercialise them, with resulting socio-economic benefit.

Eureka collaborates very closely with the European Union. To this day, Eureka remains the only initiative of its kind committed to a ‘bottom-up’ principle, ensuring that any R&D project with an excellent business plan and civilian purpose can receive the support it deserves, regardless of its technological nature or the types of organisations involved.

The Eureka Secretariat in Brussels (Etterbeek) is the central support unit for the network. With a strong international team of around 35 staff members, the Eureka Secretariat centralises all Eureka project information and undertakes communications, data analysis, impact assessment and network development activities.

The Eureka Secretariat is responsible for the implementation of the Eurostars and Innowwide programmes, dedicated to highly innovative SMEs and co-funded by Eureka countries and the European Union as part of the Horizon Europe framework programme.

The Eureka Secretariat collects and distributes information on projects, manages the project database, develops and maintains a centralised programme management platform, assists the various constituent bodies in the evaluation and monitoring of projects and works jointly with national and regional authorities to raise the visibility of the network, its portfolio of programmes and the impact of its projects.