Experienced EU Funding and Grants Consultant HF

Founded in 2000 FI Group has become the specialist in the performance and financing of innovation and productive investments. Today FI Group is proud to support more than 18000 innovative companies around the world each year thanks to a 360 offer on the entire innovation chain (Innovation Financing Innovation Management support to startups etc.).

Above all FI Group counts more than 1400 employees worldwide including 400 in the French offices (in Paris Lyon Nantes Toulouse Lille Nice Strasbourg and Bordeaux) monitors many strategic projects with our customers creates regularly new offers to constantly improve our added value and treasures the ambition to contribute strongly to the construction of tomorrows society.

It is an exciting adventure that we started 20 years ago and that we would like to continue with you

POSITION :

As part of its development FI Group is reinforcing its International Grants Department (IGD) and is recruiting an experienced senior consultant to actively contribute to the development of the European Aid and Subsidies sector of the IGD branch in France.

Your role: Within the International Grant Department your main objective will be to advise and accompany our customers in identifying applying for and managing public funded grants at European level.

Your key activities will be to generate new business opportunities support the sales team during EU grants presales and contract negotiations as well as to support FI customers in the development of their EU Research Development & Innovation (RDI) project ideas (consortia building & proposal development).

In collaboration with the other members of the team your missions will be organised around the following main axes:

1 Consortia & Proposal Development

Contribution to project conceptualisation including consortium building an existing personal network in the field of EU projects and notably civil security is appreciated.

Development and followup of budget negotiations

Coordination of the scientific project proposal preparation including drafting and editing of nontechnical/scientific proposal parts

Administrative support to clients and consortia during proposal development

2 Business development activities

Analyse Horizon Europe strategic papers work programmes and call topics on a regular basis

Implement the strategy and service offers defined by FI Group in France for Horizon Europe

Support and guide the sales team during presales and contract negotiations and followup

Active networking with the existing FI Group networks and continuously extend it (geography type of organisations etc.

PROFILE :

You have at least 5 years of successful experience in a similar position (at a consulting agency university RTO public institution) (preferably within the Civil Security ecosystem).

You are excited by the possibility to join a rapidly growing department with high market ambitions. You are interested in RDI able to adapt and get quickly familiar with new project concepts.

You are well experienced and fully autonomous in Horizon Europe proposal writing (focus on collaborative projects of pillar 2 e.g. cluster 3).

You appreciate networking and feel comfortable approaching new prospects clients or partners with the aim to trigger opportunities for new proposals.

You are a real team player keen in sharing experience and knowledge in EU Grants and in supporting the training of your junior colleagues You have excellent oral and written communication skills in English and preferably in French and you wish to join a dynamic solid and agile company

Do not hesitate to send us your resume and motivation letter !

A bientt chez FI Group !