Programme Manager
Can you make our new flagship progamme become a success?
Programme Manager for the Danish Hydrocarbon Research and Technology Centre
The Danish Hydrocarbon Research and Technology Centre (DHRTC) at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) is seeking a programme manager to help build up and manage one or more flagship programmes. Each flagship programme will have an objective to radically improve oil and gas recovery in the Danish North Sea and will consist of a portfolio of cross-disciplinary and cross–institutional research projects. Each flagship programme will have a budget of around 50 to 150 million DKK and last around 4 to 7 years.
About the Hydrocarbon Research and Technology Centre
A clear objective of the DHRTC is to identify and create confidence in ideas that can radically improve recovery from the Danish North Sea. It is believed that such ideas are typically cross-disciplinary in nature and that the ideas are typically created in a dialogue where insight in existing fields and technologies meets knowledge of new technologies.
The programme manager is expected to play a key role in facilitating such processes of cross-institutional idea generation and subsequent project portfolio management.
The research activities of DHRTC will be centred around 5 - 10 application-oriented flagship programmes, each with an aspirational objective and consisting of a larger portfolio of cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional projects with a budget around 50 to 150 million DKK and are expected to last around 4 to 7 years. The overall management of the cross-disciplinary project portfolio towards the objective will be critically important. The reason for this is that the flagship programme should be viewed as an ecosystem of projects where the value of each single project to a large extent relies on its synergy with sister projects and their collective potential for generating improvements in regard to specific application-oriented aspirational objectives.
Make cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional projects come together
The programme manager will work closely together with the scientific directors, senior research scientists and the centre director in all aspects of the job. While the research staff will have the responsibility to lead their respective fields, you will have the responsibility to keep an overview of programme progress, be alert on improvement potentials, and participate in management planning and follow-up. This will make you a key player in the overall management as an important support to the Centre management.
As programme manager you will, together with the management team, have the responsibility that activities are constantly aligned with the overall programme objective and that progress is monitored and communicated timely and appropriately. Since it is the responsibility of the research staff that the scope of individual scientific activities are appropriate and of high scientific quality, the work of the programme manager requires close collaboration with a multitude of researchers across disciplines, institutions and companies. You will therefore be responsible for several key processes running across disciplines and with stakeholders from both external institutions and companies.
As the research programme will involve activities at other institutions and companies, it is important that you know how to facilitate an effective dialogue ranging from idea generation over project execution to project termination. It is anticipated that DHRTC will work with concepts like “Open Innovation” and it is expected that you will take a key role in developing and executing such cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional processes.
You will report directly to the centre director and often participate in management meetings to support prioritization of resources, discuss progression towards line of sight, involvement of industry- and university partners, etc. In addition to this you will have to understand and navigate across all relevant scientific disciplines such as reservoir characterization, EOR, drilling and production technologies and materials in close dialogue with the researcher staff. These scientific disciplines are all under the scientific leadership of one of the scientific directors and senior research scientists to ensure research quality and access to top international research communities. Your ability to collaborate with high level of integrity, transparency and communicative skills will therefore be a key to your success. Or to put it simple: your new weekday will be to make the impossible possible by uniting the best brains in the academia and the industry.
Solid experience within technical project/programme management
We expect you to have a relevant master’s or PhD degree combined with solid industrial experience in regard to technical project management. Ideally the candidates also have experience from research collaboration between industry and academia.
On the personal front, you should be open-minded and enthusiastic about your job and you should have good co-operation skills, a flexible and entrepreneurial mind-set and find it natural to deliver according to deadlines and targets. You should be fluent in both written and spoken English on a professional level, and you should value an international environment with colleagues from different cultural backgrounds.
As programme manager you will work with highly skilled researchers with a deeper scientific insight that yourself. It is therefore critically important that you respect the value of passionate academic researchers with ideas and ambitions that go beyond todays practice, but could entail true game-changers.
The ideal candidate holds the following qualities:
- Upstream Oil and Gas background; technical and preferably with some economic aspects
- Preferably a PhD or documented experience in research and in-depth analysis in one or more disciplines, for example reservoir engineering
- Good communicative skills; it is for example critically important that the programme manager can help explain how the individual research projects contribute towards the larger programme objective
- Good collaborative skills
- Structured, capable to develop a structured project and programme progress reporting scheme at the right level of detail.
Salary and appointment terms
The appointment will be based on the collective agreement with the Confederation of Professional Associations (AC). The allowance will be agreed with the relevant union.
The place of work is DTU Lyngby Campus.
Application
Please submit your online application no later than 22 March 2015. Please apply online via the "Ansøg" link and fill in the form and attach your cover letter, CV and exam certificates.
Additional information may be obtained from Director Bo Cerup-Simonsen, +45 2178 9403, bcsi@dtu.dk. You can read more about the Centre here.
All interested candidates irrespective of age, gender, race, disability, religion or ethnic background are encouraged to apply.
The Danish Hydrocarbon Research and Technology Centre (DHRTC) is established by the Danish Underground Consortium (DUC) and DTU. The centre has received a starting grant of DKK 1 billion for a 10-year period and relies on close interaction between academia and industry. The establishment of the centre is a part of the Danish long-term national budgeting and it is a cornerstone in the National Strategy on Oil and Gas, which is an ambitious, targeted effort to enable increased recovery of oil and gas from the Danish North Sea.
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