Projects Team Manager

**Job Category**:
**Project Management**

**Job Experience**:
**Not mentioned**

**Job Location**:
**Brussels**

**Expiration Date**:
**Mon, 08/25/2025**

Are you interested in the energy transition and overcoming the challenges it brings to the power sector? Are you keen to lead a team’s work on European research and innovation projects in the field of smart grid development and related sectors, such as e-mobility? Then this position might be right for you

**European Distribution System Operators (E.DSO)**, the Brussels-based association of leading electricity distribution system operators (DSOs), is looking for a new Projects Team Manager.

**Purpose of the role**

**Key duties**

**The Projects Team Manager takes the lead in**:

- Coordinate the EU projects team
- Ensuring that activities undertaken by E.DSO in the projects in which it is a member of the consortium are on track
- Managing project assignments and workload allocation in the projects team, forecasting as appropriate
- Contributing to the overall budgeting of the project contributions to E.DSO’s annual budget
- Ensuring appropriate coordination between projects
- Working with a senior staff member on proposals and their coordination, setting topical priorities for the projects team, obtaining appropriate input from relevant E.DSO committees
- Coordinating with the project team members who have committee management responsibilities to ensure effective input or knowledge sharing to/from committees where relevant
- Keeping the Secretary General updated and bringing salient issues for his attention/decision
- Liaising with the Governance & Administration Director appropriately on administrative and financial matters
- Serving as the primary point of contact/interlocutor with E.DSO’s consultant that carries out certain administrative and financial tasks as per an annual contract and provides some advice and training for E.DSO’s projects management, ensuring a smooth coordination with E.DSO’s accountant and the consultant.

**The Projects Team Manager also is responsible for his/her own project(s) work**:

- Performing research tasks on regulatory and technical topics related to assigned projects; drafting reports; actively contributing and/or coordinating project meetings and activities
- Disseminating project results through the organisation of webinars, drafting of articles and publications and contribution to conferences and events
- Engaging with key stakeholders in the energy industry and policymakers; contributing to communication activities
- Carrying out technical and financial project management tasks on assigned projects.

**Other**:

- The Projects Team Manager may be assigned to assist one task force from the Technology & Knowledge Sharing Committee, depending on need and interest.

**Required skills and experience**
- Relevant master’s degree (e.g. engineering, energy policy or law, project management; a relevant bachelor’s degree with sufficient experience can also be suitable)
- Previous working experience with EU-funded projects, particularly Horizon Europe is essential, experience in other programmes such as Interreg, Digital Europe, LIFE, etc. is a plus
- Relevant experience in the electricity sector, with grids sector experience particularly advantageous
- Proven interest and understanding of topics related to the energy transition, including digitalisation, electrification, and customer empowerment
- Team management experience strongly advantageous
- Strong team spirit and ability to work in an international environment
- Proactive, organised and capable of taking initiative as part of a small team where every member is essential
- Great communication skills and fluency in spoken and written English.

**What we offer**
- A full time, open-end contract (CDI)
- Competitive benefits package, including group insurances (including pension plan), supplemental health insurances and other benefits
- Support for professional development with opportunities for training and growth
- Structural telework options to support a flexible work-life balance
- Multicultural environment among colleagues with diverse professional backgrounds.

**How to apply**

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