Project coordinator within Mistra BIOPATH

The Department of Business Administration is looking for a project coordinator with experience of collaboration with various societal stakeholders to lead the development of a policy lab methodology within the Mistra BIOPATH research programme.
The position is funded by the Mistra BIOPATH research programme.

Type of employment: Temporary position, 11 months
Scope: 100%
Placement: Department of Business Administration, Lund
Starting date: 15 September 2025

Duties and responsibilities

The BIOPATH research programme at the Department of Business Studies, Lund University, is looking for a qualified researcher to join our team that works to integrate biodiversity considerations into the financial system. You will work with our co-creative activities involving researchers, industry partners and policymakers. More specifically, you will be responsible for coordinating, supporting, and scaling up our policy lab methodology. In recent years, our policy labs have served as central arenas for collaboration between academia, government agencies, financial and business actors and civil society. The goal has been to explore, develop and test strategies and innovative methods to better integrate biodiversity into financial decisions. These labs have proven to be valuable platforms for co-creation and learning, and have helped to identify both barriers and drivers for more effective biodiversity management.

We are now entering a phase where we aim to further strengthen this approach. The task involves developing a more structured institutional framework for how policy labs are designed and implemented, as well as exploring how the results can be used more effectively and translated into concrete policy outcomes and guidelines for decision-making that incorporate biodiversity considerations. The project will also analyse the current policy landscape and explore the possibilities of introducing new policy instruments – such as biodiversity credits and market-based incentives – that create synergies between biodiversity and climate action.

We are therefore looking for a candidate with proven expertise in biodiversity, environmental policy, corporate/sustainable finance or a related area, and with experience in leading or coordinating stakeholder engagement processes. We particularly value knowledge of behavioural politics, political acceptance and experimental methods. Experience of working with actors from different sectors – including government agencies, companies, financial actors and civil society organisations – is seen as a great asset.

Are you ready to help shape the next generation of policies that align biodiversity with the financial system? Then we look forward to receiving your application.

Qualifications

Requirements for the position are:

• Master's degree, Doctor's degree, or a foreign degree deemed equivalent to these degrees in business administration, sustainability, policy development or related area of relevance to the subject area to which the position relates.
• Subject knowledge in business administration, sustainability, policy development or related areas
• High degree of scientific expertise.
• Very good knowledge of English, in speech and writing.

Qualifications for the position are:

• Background in or subject knowledge in business administration, sustainability, policy development or related areas
• Ability to interact with the surrounding community.
• Work experience in the above areas is a merit
• Other achievements and awards that demonstrate the applicant's scientific expertise.

Assessment criteria

The assessment takes into account both your scientific merits and abilities in the subject area as well as documented collaboration experience between different societal stakeholders.

About the employment

The employment is limited to the period 2025-09-15 to 2026-08-31.

Competition

The position is applied for via the university's recruitment system. The application must be written in English and contain the following:

• Cover letter with motivation for why you are interested in the position and in what way the position matches your qualifications
• CV
• Documented experience of collaborative activities
• Publications
• Diploma
• Contact persons for two references

Certified copies of certificates are required.

The University applies individual salary setting. Please state salary requirements in your application.

About us

As a teacher and researcher at the Department of Business Studies, you will be involved in creating a leading academic environment for research and education on the economics and governance of companies and administrations in a broad societal perspective. The department brings together researchers from a variety of research areas in business administration, including financial management, entrepreneurship and innovation studies, finance, research policy, management, marketing, organization, accounting, and strategic management. The department reflects the interdisciplinarity of business administration and the diversity of research traditions that characterize the subject. You can read more about the department and our research on our website.

BIOPATH - Pathways for an Efficient Alignment of the Financial system with the Needs of Biodiversity, is a research program with the vision that the knowledge and innovations generated in BIOPATH are broadly integrated into decision-making in industry and the financial system, and thus contribute to a transformative change that leverages the financial system to halt and reverse biodiversity loss. BIOPATH aims to, together with our financial and industrial partners, map, evaluate, co-develop and test existing and new approaches where biodiversity is integrated into financial decision-making, and analyze the institutional and policy implications of these approaches. You can read more about the program on our website.

The workplace is located at our offices at Holger Crafoord's Ekonomicentrum in Lund. It is well connected by train from Malmö, Helsingborg and Copenhagen and by bus from Malmö and Lund C. You can walk from Lund C in 25 minutes.

Lund University is a government agency, which means that you receive special benefits, generous holidays and a favourable occupational pension. Wellness compensation and paid wellness hour are self-evident.

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Contact

Programme Director Susanne Arvidsson (susanne.arvidsson@fek.lu.se), responsible for the BIOPATH research programme.

Application deadline: 15 August 2025