Regional Innovation Coordinator

Quick Facts

• Role: Regional Innovation Coordinator
• Workload: 0.5 FTE

Description

You will help connect local entrepreneurs and other stakeholders in economically and socially disadvantaged areas with innovations, technologies, and collaboration opportunities. This is a new pilot role focused on testing how to better leverage innovation and technology for regional development.

Responsibilities

• Independently coordinate the pilot and plan its activities
• Map local needs, stakeholders, capacities, and opportunities
• Build and develop collaboration with local entrepreneurs, municipalities, and relevant partners
• With experts, identify suitable technological and innovation solutions—especially in small-scale energy, food industry, digitalization, and wellbeing
• Connect identified needs with technologies, experts, research organizations, and other support options
• Organize and facilitate joint meetings and support opportunities toward implementation
• Continuously evaluate pilot experience and transfer lessons into the next setup of support for disadvantaged areas

Requirements

• Independent, communicative approach and ability to gain stakeholders’ trust
• Ability to organize your work independently
• Proactive mindset: actively searches for opportunities
• Comfort working with diverse partner types

Benefits

• Opportunity to participate in a new pilot designed to improve the practical use of innovation and technology for regional development in hard-to-serve areas