Job Reference
365_24_DIR_IBD_IO
Position
Senior Technology Transfer Officer
Closing Date
Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
Reference: 365_24_DIR_IBD_IO
Job title: Senior Technology Transfer Officer
About BSC
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is the leading supercomputing center in Spain. It houses MareNostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, was a founding and hosting member of the former European HPC infrastructure PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe), and is now hosting entity for EuroHPC JU, the Joint Undertaking that leads large-scale investments and HPC provision in Europe. The mission of BSC is to research, develop and manage information technologies in order to facilitate scientific progress. BSC combines HPC service provision and R&D into both computer and computational science (life, earth and engineering sciences) under one roof, and currently has over 1000 staff from 60 countries.
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We are particularly interested for this role in the strengths and lived experiences of women and underrepresented groups to help us avoid perpetuating biases and oversights in science and IT research. In instances of equal merit, the incorporation of the under-represented sex will be favoured.
Look at the BSC experience:
BSC-CNS YouTube Channel
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We are particularly interested for this role in the strengths and lived experiences of women and underrepresented groups to help us avoid perpetuating biases and oversights in science and IT research. In instances of equal merit, the incorporation of the under-represented sex will be favoured.
Context And Mission
Reporting to the BSC Technology Transfer Manager, the BSC Senior technology transfer officer will facilitate the exploitation of BSC’s research results by transferring knowledge and technology developed at BSC to the market, and being in contact and promote the linkage with technology transfer, entrepreneurship and HPC ecosystem, and help with the legal documentation related with Spin Off management.
Key Duties
- Be responsible of the accomplishment of the internal procedure to spin off creation by helping researchers who want to constitute a spin off and prepare legal documentation for the final approval of Consejo Rector.
- Be responsible of stablish the internal mechanisms to ensure the internal procedures to spin off creation are correctly executed
- Help with the management of the portfolio of BS constituted spin off, acting as an interlocutor with them and BSC, attending to boards when is necessary and follow the technology transfer agreements by invoicing royalties based on agreement conditions
- Act as secretary of Comité de Seguimiento de Spin off
- Be in contact and promote the linkage with technology transfer ecosystem, European, Spanish and Catalan
- Act as an interface with external legal services and help with the legal documentation related with Spin off management.
- Responsibilities: 1.Help with the management of the BSC Spin off portfolio; 2. Follow the technology transfer agreements with BSC spin off ; 3.Interlocution with external legal services related with spin off management
Requirements
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Education
- Business or Law degree preferred (applicants with a science or engineering degree will also be considered)
- Master in innovation, IPR management, or similar a plus
- Specialized courses on the exploitation of research results, or similar a plus
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Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
- Min 3 years’ experience in a technology transfer team
- Min 3 years’ Projects between non-profit research centers and private industry
- Min 3 years’ experience in creating start-ups
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Competences
- Fluency in English, Spanish and Catalan, essential
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to take initiative, prioritize and work under set deadlines and pressure
- Willing to travel
Conditions
- The position will be located at BSC within the Directors Department
- We offer a full-time contract (37.5h/week), a good working environment, a highly stimulating environment with state-of-the-art infrastructure, flexible working hours, extensive training plan, restaurant tickets, private health insurance, support to the relocation procedures
- Duration: Open-ended contract due to technical and scientific activities linked to the project and budget duration
- Holidays: 23 paid vacation days plus 24th and 31st of December per our collective agreement
- Salary: we offer a competitive salary commensurate with the qualifications and experience of the candidate and according to the cost of living in Barcelona
- Starting date: 01/08/2024
Applications procedure and process
All applications must be made through BSC website and contain:
A full CV in English including contact details
A Cover Letter with a statement of interest in English, including two contacts for further references - Applications without this document will not be considered
In accordance with the OTM-R principles, a gender-balanced recruitment panel is formed for every vacancy at the beginning of the process. After reviewing the content of the applications, the panel will start the interviews, with at least one technical and one administrative interview. A profile questionnaire as well as a technical exercise may be required during the process.
The panel will make a final decision and all candidates who had contacts with them will receive a feedback with details on the acceptance or rejection of their profile.
At BSC we are seeking continuous improvement in our recruitment processes, for any suggestions or feedback/complaints about our Recruitment Processes, please contact recruitment [at] bsc [dot] es.
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In accordance with the OTM-R principles, a gender-balanced recruitment panel is formed for every vacancy at the beginning of the process. After reviewing the content of the applications, the panel will start the interviews, with at least one technical and one administrative interview. A profile questionnaire as well as a technical exercise may be required during the process.
The panel will make a final decision and all candidates who had contacts with them will receive a feedback with details on the acceptance or rejection of their profile.
At BSC we are seeking continuous improvement in our recruitment processes, for any suggestions or feedback/complaints about our Recruitment Processes, please contact recruitment [at] bsc [dot] es.
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Deadline
The vacancy will remain open until a suitable candidate has been hired. Applications will be regularly reviewed and potential candidates will be contacted.
OTM-R principles for selection processes
BSC-CNS is committed to the principles of the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers of the European Commission and the Open, Transparent and Merit-based Recruitment principles (OTM-R). This is applied for any potential candidate in all our processes, for example by creating gender-balanced recruitment panels and recognizing career breaks etc.
BSC-CNS is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or any other basis protected by applicable state or local law.
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BSC-CNS is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or any other basis protected by applicable state or local law.
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