Environmental Monitoring Consultant Engineer at Science For Change!

Project Management

• Project Leadership & Coordination: Lead and coordinate complex environmental, air quality and climate monitoring projects from initiation to closure, including defining objectives, detailed planning, resource allocation, timeline management, implementation and follow-up - guaranteeing excellence and timely deliverance in the complete project cycle. The right candidate will take full responsibility of the technical tasks implementation, including designing monitoring plans using traditional and citizen science methodologies, sensor/App/technology selection, data collection and analysis, and technology transfer towards society, environmental policies and the market. He/She will also take full responsibility of App and technology development and maintenance in coordination with the external team of developers, including the design of new functionalities for meeting client or project requirements, the interoperability of data and any other related tasks. He/She will also coordinate with the allocated Operations team to guide their contribution to the projects while guaranteeing technical compliance.
• Partner Liaison: Act as the primary liaison between internal teams, external partners (universities, public administrations, communities), and national/international funding bodies. These functions include the follow-up of the work and compliance with the established deadlines, the contact with the European consortium partners and/or clients, the presentation of the projects in events, the attendance to consortium meetings, the preparation of deliverables, dissemination articles and scientific papers, according to the needs and requirements of the project.
• Grant Compliance, Excellence & Reporting: Ensure strict adherence to grant requirements and reporting guidelines for projects funded by various agencies (e.g., European Commission, Catalan or Spanish government, etc.), while guaranteeing excellence in the deliverables. Prepare technical reports and support the financial reporting of funded projects.
• Monitoring, Evaluation & Impact Assessment: Establish key performance indicators (KPIs), monitor project progress, evaluate outcomes, and assess the overall impact on sustainability goals.
• Risk Management: Identify potential project risks and develop mitigation strategies to ensure smooth execution and successful delivery.
• Communication & Dissemination: Contribute to the effective communication and dissemination of project results and impact to diverse audiences, including writing papers, attendance to scientific conferences and/or sectoral fairs, writing blog articles or posts for social networks, etc.
• Business Development: Contribute to identifying new funding opportunities, synergies or other paths of collaboration, both at the private and public level, and to the design of new projects answering them. Contribute to increasing the client portfolio of the company, while maintaining and following up the existing one in relation to the Air Quality Area and territorial monitoring, in collaboration with the Business Direction.

Promotion of new projects within the Air Quality Area

• Market Transfer: Contribute to the valorization and transfer to the market, to public policies and to society, of the methodologies and technologies developed by SFC in the Air Quality Area with the collaboration of the Business Direction, by chasing collaboration agreements and new private projects with research organisations and clients.
• Client Engagement: Engage with external partners (universities, public administrations, private companies, NGOs…) to explore and materialise new business opportunities with the support of the Business Direction.
• Proposal Development: Contribute to the development of proposals, private offers and technical bids to answer to public or private calls or new business opportunities and enlarge the SFC portfolio.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• A Master's degree or a PhD in Chemical Engineering, Environmental Engineering or Environmental Monitoring, air quality and sensory analysis, climate, gas measurements, odours, and/or noise. Training in GIS, Dispersion Modelling, air quality or climate monitoring, or similar will be highly valued.
• Minimum of 3 years of demonstrable experience in managing complex projects, preferably in environmental monitoring, air quality and sensory analysis, gas measurements, climate, odours, and/or noise.
• Minimum of 3 years of demonstrable experience in GIS and App development for environmental monitoring, including, but not limited to, citizen science.
• Knowledge of the waste, wastewater, biogas, chemical, petrochemical and food markets.
• Specific training in project management will be considered a plus.
• Knowledge of European funding programmes (HE, H2020, Interreg, Eurostars, Life+, Erasmus+, Creative Europe), as well as national (CDTI, FECYT, Next Generation) and regional (Catalonia) funding instruments.
• Professional proficiency in Spanish, English and Catalan.
• Experience in managing projects funded by European frameworks and national funds will be highly valued, preferably in scientific or consultancy environments.
• Solid understanding of environmental monitoring, air quality, sensory analysis, gas measurements, odours and/or noise, climate emergency, citizen science, GIS and App development for environmental monitoring, and citizen engagement in environmental issues.

Interpersonal skills

• Proficiency at scientific and technical level.
• Problem-solving skills and creativity to find new solutions to complex issues.
• Outstanding organisational and time management skills.
• Ability to think autonomously and to respond to tight deadlines.
• Ability to multitask and prioritise workload in a demanding environment.
• Proactivivity and adaptation capacity.
• High attention to detail.
• Interpersonal skills to interact in a professional and kind manner in multicultural environments, including the SFC team and external partners, clients and organisations.
• Great interest in science and in positive social and environmental impact.
• Values oriented by human-sustainability relationships.
• Commercial and strategic view.

What We Offer

• The opportunity to contribute to meaningful and impactful research projects that can make a difference in our society and planet.
• A dynamic, collaborative and international work environment.
• Professional growth opportunities.
• Flexible work arrangements, including remote work options (2 remote working days).
• A nice office with a terrace in the centre of Barcelona.
• Coffee, fruit and biscuits to share with a young and motivated team, interested in improving society with a gender perspective, with a huge mix of interdisciplinary knowledge… and, above all, a super nice team! :)