Communication expert, Energy Markets, Halden, Norway

Do you want to engage people and market actors in the energy industry?

Smart Innovation Norway AS, Halden, Norway, is looking for a communication expert, Energy Markets.

With growing demand for behavioural science and social innovation towards creating a sustainable energy future, Smart Innovation Norway wishes to strengthen its capabilities in this area.

The successful candidate for this position will join our team in Halden and work with a number of clients and partners from all over Europe being part of our communications team and have a close link to the Social Innovation Team.

Our ideal candidate will have expertise in communications and be able to bridge the theoretical understanding of customer and societal dynamics with designing and implementing concrete strategies to communicate and engage people and market actors in the energy industry.

The position will consist of:

• Designing concrete activities and strategies to engage all actors of the energy value chain
• Leading interdisciplinary collaboration processes in an international environment
• Producing both thorough high-quality reports and concise, easy-to-understand written and visual deliverables
• Verbally communicate findings to a wide variety of internal and external audiences
• Structuring and organising communication activities such as webinars, workshops, exhibitions and fairs together with internal teams and external partners
• Create and handle SoMe strategies for international research projects
• Create and handle online newsletters and deliver articles, interviews and engaging communication on research activities within the energy industry
• International travel will be required

The best combination of experiences, skills and background is:

• A degree in communication or similar with an academic focus
• Preferably, you have worked in areas related to energy and/or consumer insights
• Interest in green technology and the green energy transition
• You easily decipher the big picture and can communicate and describe it in simple terms
• Comfortable in academic reporting and in developing communication and engagement strategies and transform them into action
• Comfortable with dealing with technical descriptions
• Ability to manage large initiatives with various teams and stakeholders
• Excellent written and spoken English. Professional knowledge of Scandinavian languages is an advantage

The successful candidate for this position will join our team in Halden and work with a number of clients and partners from all over Europe and India. You'll be a part of a small and energetic Communications Team. Our ideal candidate will have interest in the social sciences or humanities and be able to bridge the theoretical understanding of customers and technologies, market actors and governance structures and design, and implement communication strategies in big research projects and smaller national projects.

Personal characteristics:

• We are looking for you who have excellent communcations skills, and a systematic approach to your work tasks.
• You have good analytical skills, you can understand complex questions and problems and make sound and rational assessments.
• On the other hand, you are creative and quick in developing new concepts and ideas, and develops an ambitious but realistic business vision and transforms it into one feasible strategy.
• Since you will be working in interdisciplinary and large teams, it's necessary that you are able to convinces and persuades others and get impact for ideas and plans.

We can offer:

• An international, innovative and inspiring work environment in one of Norway's leading research and innovation environments
• Good opportunities for professional development
• We can promise you an exciting position with competent and pleasant colleagues
• Short way from idea to reality
• Varied tasks, flexible working hours and a large degree of freedom
• A unique opportunity to participate in further developing and positioning Smart Innovation Norway in a national and international context
• Competitive benefits, good pension, and insurance schemes
• Office space at Remmen Kunnskapspark in Halden (or one of the others offices) with the possibility of a partial home office
• Permanent employment

For any questions regarding this position, please do get in touch with our recruitment partner Bee2Bee AS:

Kristin Vestli, Recruiter, mobile +47 4041 2876, [email protected]

How to apply?

Read more about the vacancy and apply online on

https://arbeidsplassen.nav.no/stillinger/stilling/5d910b97-fc78-4349-83b3-77487b82bfe9

Latest application date is 14.03.2022.

We look forward to receiving your application!

(from NAV EURES Norway)

Smart Innovation Norway er et non-profit forsknings- og innovasjonsselskap som spesialiserer seg på forskningsbasert nærings- og samfunnsutvikling innenfor bærekraftig energi, anvendt kunstig intelligens, smarte byer, digitalt entreprenørskap og sosial og adferdsmessig innovasjon. Smart Innovation Norway har 60 medarbeidere fra 16 nasjoner og omsatte i 2021 for 57 millioner NOK. Selskapet har hovedkontor i Halden, og har i tillegg kontorer i Oslo, Narvik, Stockholm, Barcelona, Delhi, Hagen (Tyskland), Helsinki og i Jystrup (Danmark). Smart Innovation Norway leder næringsklyngene NCE Smart Energy Markets, Cluster for Applied AI og DECOM Cluster for Decommissioning. Smart Innovation Norway har stort fokus på kommersialisering gjennom sin Venture-avdeling med over 50 inkubatorbedrifter og gjennom Fortress Fond for tidlig-fase finansiering av teknologibedrifter.

https://www.smartinnovationnorway.com/


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