Project coordinator – citizen science

Eurocities is the network of major European cities, comprising more than 200 members, working across a wide range of thematic areas that reflect cities’ priorities.

We are currently recruiting a Project Coordinator – Citizen Science to support the final phase of the Citi Obs Horizon Europe project. The successful candidate will join the Learning and Research Team and play a key role in ensuring high-quality implementation, strong policy engagement, effective dissemination and a lasting legacy of the project’s results.

Eurocities is a dynamic and international team where we trust in people, value constructive exchanges and collaborative work. We help people thrive in a friendly, open and healthy environment while promoting a work/life balance.

Citi Obs – Enhancing Citizen Observatories for healthy, sustainable, resilient and inclusive cities is a 4-year Horizon Europe project with a total budget of €5 million and 14 partners across Europe.

As the project enters its final year, the focus is on:

• supporting the implementation of activities by Citizen Observatories,
• translating results into policy-relevant outputs, and
• ensuring strong dissemination, uptake and sustainability of results beyond the project’s lifetime.

As Project Coordinator, you will support the delivery and consolidation of Citi Obs activities in its final phase, working closely with consortium partners, Citizen Observatories and internal Eurocities teams.

• Final-phase project coordination and delivery: coordinate the implementation phase of Citi Obs, ensure timely delivery of remaining tasks, milestones and deliverables, monitor progress against objectives and KPIs, support risk mitigation, contribute to technical and financial reporting, and liaise with the European Commission during the final reporting phase.
• Engagement with Citizen Observatories and cities: coordinate and support engagement with Frontrunner, Alliance and Fellow Citizen Observatories across Europe, facilitate peer learning and knowledge exchange, and support the uptake of Citi Obs tools, methodologies and guidance in collaboration with work package leaders.
• Policy engagement and policy uptake: support the refinement, validation and dissemination of Citi Obs policy briefs, organise and facilitate policy round tables at local, national and EU level, translate technical and citizen-generated insights into clear policy messages, and strengthen links with relevant EU policy frameworks.
• Dissemination, events and external visibility: coordinate and contribute to dissemination activities (workshops, conferences, webinars and study visits), represent Eurocities and Citi Obs at relevant events, and ensure coherence between implementation results and communication outputs.
• Internal coordination and knowledge integration: ensure smooth coordination between Eurocities, consortium partners and internal teams, consolidate lessons learned and good practices, contribute to reflections on the legacy and sustainability of Citi Obs results, and create links with relevant Eurocities working groups, policy and training activities.

You are an experienced, proactive and organised professional with a strong interest in citizen science, urban policy and EU-funded projects. You are comfortable working in complex, multi-stakeholder environments and in the final delivery phase of large projects.

• At least 5 years of relevant professional experience.
• At least 3 years of experience in EU project management, preferably Horizon Europe or similar programmes.
• Experience working with cities, local governments or public sector partners.
• Strong coordination, communication and relationship-management skills.
• Experience organising workshops, events and participatory or peer-learning activities.
• Knowledge of citizen science and citizen engagement approaches and practices.
• Full professional proficiency in English, spoken and written.

• Experience translating project results into policy recommendations.
• Knowledge of EU institutions, policy processes and key policy priorities.
• Experience working with transnational partnerships.
• Additional European…