Head of Project Support & Development Department

Quick Facts

• Role: Head of Project Support & Development Department

Description

You will build and lead a new department that coordinates and provides methodological support for non-research projects. The role focuses on creating unified project management processes (from preparation and approval through monitoring and evaluation), centralizing the agenda, and setting up portfolio reporting for leadership. You will closely collaborate with the project support team for science and research and support the professionalization of project management culture.

Responsibilities

• Establish the department: define competences, processes, and collaboration with other organizational units
• Recruit, lead, and provide methodological management for team members; build required project competencies
• Centralize and coordinate non-research project activities across the organization
• Create and continuously update unified project management methodology, including standards for all project lifecycle phases
• Set processes for identifying project ideas, assessment, prioritization, approval, preparation, delivery, and closure
• Define clear roles, responsibilities, and competencies for project participants
• Implement a unified system for project records and a portfolio overview
• Set up regular project reporting for management (status, budget usage, schedule milestones, indicators, and key risks)
• Monitor deadlines, costs, indicators, outputs, and coordinate corrective and mitigation actions
• Provide methodological support to project managers, project guarantors, and other staff involved in project preparation and delivery
• Actively identify suitable grant and other external funding opportunities for development activities
• Contribute to the preparation and delivery of strategic and development projects

Requirements

• University degree
• Proven experience in project management, ideally grant, investment, or development projects
• Experience designing project management processes, methodologies, or systems
• Advantage: experience building or leading a project team or PMO
• Orientation in European and national grant programs and funding mechanisms
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities within a portfolio
• Excellent organizational, analytical, communication, and coordination skills
• Very good knowledge of MS Office and experience with project management tools
• Very good written and spoken Czech; English knowledge is an advantage
• Independence, accountability, systematic approach, and ability to drive tasks to completion

Benefits

• Employment in a prestigious healthcare organization in Brno
• Motivating salary placement based on experience
• More than 5 weeks of vacation plus sick days
• Contributions from FKSP (meals, vacation, retirement savings, etc.) plus discounted phone plans for family members and other employee benefits
• Subsidized on-site meals
• 40-hour workweek (1.0 FTE) with occasional Home Office
• Start date possible immediately or by agreement