Technical Director

Working under the supervision of the Managing Director, he/she will be responsible of the development and management of technical projects related to language technologies, as well as partnerships, guaranteeing the timely and cost effectiveness of the execution of those projects.

He/she will be responsible for the management of project teams and the steering of all technical aspects.

He/she will organise, supervise and coordinate the technical activities, guaranteeing of the good scheduling of tasks. He/she will be in charge of the establishment of new contacts, in order to ensure the development of the firm and negotiate business activities in collaboration with our Business Development Manager. Thus, he/she will help setting up all necessary means such as new competences, in order to develop the activity of the firm. Most part of the activity is taking place within international R&D projects co-funded by the European Commission, the French ANR or private partners.

 Skills required:

• Engineer/PhD degree, with a minimum of 5 years’ experience as a project manager in the field of information technologies (human language technologies)
• Experience and/or excellent knowledge of European cooperation programmes in the field of human language technologies, as well as international programmes
• Experience in project management, including the management of European projects
• Experience and/or good knowledge of issues related to Language Resources and tools of natural language processing in general.
• Service-, customer- and business-minded, he/she has ability to work with a team and to listen. Excellent communication, as well as good social skills, written and oral ability will be a plus. Knowledge of market strategic orientations of human language technologies.
• Proficiency in French and English

Candidates should have the citizenship (or residency papers) of a European Union country.

Salary: Commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Applicants should send (preferably via email) a cover letter addressing the points listed above together with a curriculum vitae to:

Khalid Choukri
ELRA / ELDA
55-57, rue Brillat-Savarin
75013 Paris
FRANCE
Fax : 01 43 13 33 30
Courriel : job@elda.org

For more information on ELRA/ELDA, visit the following web sites:

http://www.elda.org

http://www.elra.info