Senior Project Manager (Freelance)

You support the healthdata.be service within Sciensano; the Belgian National Institute of Public Health.

Sciensano is looking for a Senior Project Manager with additional skills as a Functional Analyst

healthdata.be is the branch of Sciensano that provides researchers and policy actors with support in the field of healthcare technical expertise, as well as in the field of developing and managing policy-supporting scientific research databases. The platform helps healthcare actors to exchange medical data with researchers in a secure and efficient manner, which can then be used for policy-supporting scientific research. healthdata.be's mission is to facilitate the exchange of data between healthcare professionals and researchers in order to increase knowledge about public health in Belgium.

Ninety enthusiastic employees supervise hundreds of national and international research projects towards a standardised way of working.

JOB DESCRIPTION
We are currently looking for a Senior Project and Process Management Specialist to strengthen our healthdata.be platform. The new colleague shall be expected to deploy a high level of expertise to manage and finalize various processes s/he will be tasked with.

FUNCTION
The collaborator will report to the team leader of the Project Management Office, s/he will have the responsibility to follow-up various projects and processes from A to Z, deploying high level of personal expertise, to deliver the best output within the allocated specific timeframe and as per SLAs (Service Level Agreements) being in force. The Functional Analyst will manage the implementation of previously selected solutions in service of company objective and business requirements. To do so, he translates business analysis coming from the Business into technical roadmaps detailing the designs, configurations, installations or updates needed

Technical and Functional Skills

• Supporting healthdata.be customers in developing public health projects;
• Supporting the healthdata.be project management team in a way that allows all employees within the team to reach their full potential;
• Analysing the needs of the customer (scientific institutions, government, pharmaceutical industry within the framework of Art. 81);
• Taking responsibility for writing a detailed project description to define the scope and objectives of the project, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility;
• Monitor and track the progress of the projects;
• Assist in the preparation of dossiers (for submission to ISC-SSH, Home Office,...) together with the Data Protection Officer of healthdata.be and the customers, in order to obtain the required permissions in a timely manner;
• Being able and willing to create quality documentation (functional and technical), from start to finish, according to the business process;
• Ensuring that all projects are delivered on time, within scope and within budget;
• Being able and willing to give presentations;
• Complex data visualization and data warehousing;
• Dashboarding and reporting skills;
• Knowledge of notation and modeling systems;
• Managing changes in project scope, project schedule and project costs and communicating these changes in an appropriate manner to all relevant healthdata.be teams;
• Managing the relationship with the customer and all stakeholders, ensuring clear and transparent communication with customers;
• Reporting changes that may affect commercial and/or strategic relationships or cooperation agreements;
• A strong analytical and synthetic capacity
• Experience in conducting interviews that will allow them to establish relationships with stakeholders, collect the necessary information and test the hypotheses and recommendations that will be formulated
• Ability to write documents and presentations
• Continuously stimulating the development and improvement of the quality of processes in order to offer an optimal service and thus strengthen cooperation;
• Possession of certificates in related fields and processes, including Prince2 and/or ITIL, would be plus.

Soft skills

• Like us, you have a passion for ICT and an urge to learn every day;
• Experience in people management: participative leadership and the ability to motivate your team;
• Dialogue and listening skills;
• Good written and verbal communication skills;
• Sense of organisation, management of priorities and anticipation of risks;
• A customer-focused and results-oriented approach;
• Being able to productively communicate with all profiles in a multidisciplinary team
• Reporting in service of business requirements and company objectives toward management
• A strategic vision and the ability to share it with partners and staff;
• Demonstrable experience in analysing and solving problems and a thorough attention to detail;
• A commitment to continuous improvement;
• A leader with a focus on incident response;
• Comfortable dealing with other team members and customers.
• High proficiency in English, Dutch and French is a must.

OUR OFFER

• You have the opportunity to work regionally, close to home;
• We offer the possibility to work remotely three days per week;
• Attractive working conditions and nice colleagues;
• A challenging function with a lot of responsibility, room for initiative & creativity ;
• You will work in a scientific environment where everyone encourages each other to develop and grow.

GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR HIRING NEW CONSULTANTS AT HEALTHDATA.BE

• Candidate must be able to start within 30 days, at the latest, of the day on which the recruitment is confirmed by healthdata.be;
• Candidate must be resident of a European Economic Area country;
• Candidate must be able to be present at office (Brussels) for a minimum of 2 days a week;
• Candidate must own a personal laptop in order to work via a virtual desktop application;