Project Management

Who are they?

What do they do?

Project consultants help companies or other institutions to access information at the national, community or international levels in the areas of research and innovation via research and development programs and/or calls for bids.

This role entails, depending on the exact position, guiding the company or institution in preparing, rolling out, managing and overseeing a project.







 


There are three types of career path:

  • Project Engineer (with an engineering or technical educational background)
  • Senior Project Consultant (in a consultancy firm)
  • Junior Project Manager (in a consultancy firm)
  • Project Director (in companies or institutions)
  • Project Manager (in companies or institutions)

People tasked with handling projects, whatever their level, are required to have a minimum postgraduate level education related to research, monitoring, institutions and processes at the national, community or international level.

Fundamental training would have taught project managers to:

  • Create, innovate, design
  • Negotiate, convince
  • Communicate, inform
  • Manager, administer
  • Direct, decide, steer
  • Control, verify
  • Work with abroad.


Project management skills are principally based on:

  • Sound expertise in the company or institution's professional field,
  • An aptitude for methodology,
  • A good understanding of procedures practiced by countries or alliances,
  • Excellent listening, analysis and reformulation skills,
  • An aptitude to work as part of a network or team,
  • Excellent autonomy and rigour,
  • Respect for confidentiality,
  • Excellent receptiveness,
  • Exceptional negotiation skills,
  • First-rate IT and English skills.
The key functions include:

  • Monitoring and collecting information,
  • Detecting potential projects and identifying and collecting their needs,
  • Analyzing potential synergies with other partners,
  • Preparing and drafting responses to calls for bids,
  • Helping to find resources,
  • Supplying advice on the strategy to adopt,
  • Closely monitoring indicators set for evaluating projects,
  • Drafting statistics reports.
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