Project manager Alzheimer’s Disease research: the pan-European ACCESS-AD project

The European project ‘ACCESS-AD’ (Advancing Clinical Care and Equity through Scalable Solutions in Alzheimer’s Disease diagnosis and treatment) is a collaborative research initiative aiming to transform the patient journey for people affected by AD by turning scientific advances into everyday clinical care across Europe. ACCESS-AD will validate and implement accessible diagnostics, such as accelerated MRI/PET imaging, biofluid-based biomarker, digital monitoring tools, and AI-supported decision tools into routine healthcare pathways, enabling earlier treatment selection, risk stratification, tailored multifactorial personalized interventions, and continuous monitoring. Patients will move from fragmented, delayed care to a coordinated, personalized experience across specialist and primary settings. As such, we will deliver a new holistic standard for real-world AD care: connected, inclusive, and impact-driven.

Amsterdam UMC is the coordinator of this large consortium and will involve over 30 partners across Europe. Due to the size of the study, the sponsorship role will entail continuous communication with several academic and industrial parties, requiring excellent communcaiton skills and a good eye for detail. Therefore, we are looking for a qualified project manager to support the coordinator in ensuring good conduct of the study across participating sites. The primary responsibility for the project manager will be managing the study within the consortium and in collaboration with our industrial partners. He or she will be in charge of overall management, setting up and chairing meetings, ensure compliance with the IHI guidelines on reporting, and reporting queries to the executive committee. Furthermore, he or she will serve as the main point of contact between researchers, acamedic sites, industrial partners, and the coordinator.

As a project manager your most important tasks and responsibilities are:

• coordinate day-to-day management of the consortium and act as central contact point for partners and funding agencies;
• monitor overall progress of the project against milestones, deliverables, and timelines;
• ensure timely reporting of deliverables;
• develop and maintain the project management plan, risk register, and quality assurance processes;
• ensure compliance with European Commission (EC) IHI guidelines;
• prepare periodic administrative reports for the funding body;
• draft progress updates for stakeholders, funders, and consortium members;
• manage internal communication tools (SharePoint, Teams, mailing lists);
• support organization of face to face meetings and yearly general assemblies;
• setting up and maintaining Trial Master File / archiving study documentation and correspondence.

We are looking for a manager that preferably has a PhD in a relevant field and meets the following requirements:

• experience with project management of a large multi-center study;
• experience with IMI/IHI/European project is a plus but not a requirement;
• good communication skills in English (written and oral);
• good organizational and managerial skills are a must; project management certification is a plus;
• experience with Alzheimer’s disease research is a plus but not a requirement.