# Competences — research manager

Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/c02ee787-c30b-4f0d-9d7f-6eb36fc44a5d).

## Essential

- **cope with challenging demands** (skill/competence)
- **discuss research proposals** (skill/competence)
- **estimate duration of work** (skill/competence)
- **manage budgets** (skill/competence)
- **manage research and development projects** (skill/competence)
- **manage staff** (skill/competence)
- **multidisciplinary research** (knowledge)
- **perform scientific research** (skill/competence)
- **project management** (knowledge)
- **provide project information on exhibitions** (skill/competence)
- **report analysis results** (skill/competence)
- **research design** (knowledge)
- **respect cultural differences in the field of exhibition** (skill/competence)
- **scientific research methodology** (knowledge)
- **study a collection** (skill/competence)
- **study topics** (skill/competence)
- **work independently on exhibitions** (skill/competence)

## Optional

- biology (knowledge)
- chemistry (knowledge)
- computational chemistry (knowledge)
- conduct qualitative research (skill/competence)
- conduct quantitative research (skill/competence)
- direct an artistic team (skill/competence)
- evaluate employees (skill/competence)
- image recognition (knowledge)
- interact with an audience (skill/competence)
- laboratory techniques (knowledge)
- liaise with cultural partners (skill/competence)
- perform project management (skill/competence)
- physics (knowledge)
- present exhibition (skill/competence)
- project management principles (knowledge)
- urban sustainability (knowledge)
- use ICT resources to solve work related tasks (skill/competence)

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## Market evidence (job-ad analysis, 20 ads, as of 2026-07-19)

Share of analyzed job ads mentioning the item (threshold ≥ 20 %). Source: JSearch/Adzuna APIs.

### Hard skills

- data analysis — **40 %**
- machine learning — **25 %**

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