Early Career Officer (f/m/d)

Early Career Officer (f/m/d)

Heidelberg University is a comprehensive university with a strong focus on research and international standards. With around 32,200 students and 9,540 employees, including numerous top researchers, it is a globally respected institution that also has outstanding economic significance for the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region.

The Cluster of Excellence 3099 “GreenRobust” investigates the robustness mechanisms of various plant species at all levels of biological organization in response to biotic and climatic disturbances. Within the cluster, various research teams from the Universities of Tübingen, Hohenheim, and Heidelberg will collaborate. In this context, the following part-time position (19,75 h/week; 50%) is to be filled as soon as possible, for a limited term until December 31, 2032:

Early Career Officer (f/m/d)

Your tasks:

• Implementation and further development of the training and mentoring program for doctoral candidates, postdocs, early-career group leaders, and assistant professors of the GreenRobust cluster
• Proactive collaboration with the doctoral offices and mentoring programs at the three partner locations
• Development of a GreenRobust guide for early-career researchers
• Organizing and communicating events related to junior researchers such as onboarding days, annual summer school, annual retreat etc.
• Administrative and financial management of the training program and close collaboration with the cluster’s administrative office
• Public relations work regarding the external image of GreenRobust and its early-career researchers at public outreach events (school workshops, Long Night of Science etc.)
• Support with the regular interim evaluation of the success and mentoring concepts, as well as the progress of individual projects
• Travel and schedule planning
• Assistance with the planning and organization of courses
• Support in maintaining the GreenRobust various databases and the content of the website