Requirements at a glance

Master degree (Required)
Third-party funding experience (Required)
Project management (Required)
MS Office (Required)
Public relations (Required)
German and English (Required)
Additional languages (Preferred)
Team management (Required)

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Today

The Kelso Professorship of Comparative Law, East European Business Law and European Legal Policy (Prof. Dr. iur. Jens Lowitzsch) at the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, European University Viadrina invites applications for the position of a

Team Manager / Public Relations (m/f/d) (up to salary group 13 TV-L, 20 hours / week)

for the period starting 1 January 2027 until 31 December 2028. The employment contract (formally to be concluded with viadrina Dialog und Transfer gmbh, a daughter of European University Viadrina administering the chair's funds) is currently limited to two years but subject to prolongation or increase in the number of working hours depending on available funding.

Background

The Kelso Professorship was established in October 2010, endowed by the Kelso Institute for the study of economic systems (USA). Today it operates based on a cooperation agreement between the Kelso Institute Europe gGmbH in Berlin and the European University Viadrina Foundation, Frankfurt (Oder) of December 2021.

The Kelso Institute Europe and the Kelso Professorship conduct studies on policy design with a special focus on the energy transition and consumer co-ownership, employee financial participation, ownership and privatisation, insolvency and restructuring, as well as financial crises and their impact on the welfare state. The research of their interdisciplinary team (economics, law, sociology, political science, and engineering) is largely financed by third-party funding. The Kelso Professorship is a member of the Interuniversity Centre, comprising of Viadrina, Free University of Berlin, the University of Split and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

The Kelso Institute Europe and the Kelso Professorship organise events both in the context of our research activities and to communicate and disseminate results. This concern both the research and policy community and the general public and includes a broad variety of types of events (lectures, discussions, movie projections, concerts, annual summer celebration, etc.).

The central task of the Team- / Public Relations Manager is the coordination and administration of the cooperation between the Kelso Institute Europe and the Kelso Professorship at Viadrina including team building, public relations as well as knowledge and data management.