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Location

Bamberg | Germany

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Job description

Within the DFG-funded Infrastructure Priority Programme New Data Spaces for the Social Sciences (SPP 2431) , the following position (salary max. E 14 TV-L, 100%) is to be filled as of 1 April 2024, provided that final approval is granted by the DFG. The position is initially limited to three years. It may be extended depending on the approval of the second funding phase. The programme may also be extended for more than six years.

Managing Director (f/m/div)
of the DFG Infrastructure Priority Programme New Data Spaces for the Social Sciences

New Data Spaces is a multi-local programme distributed across several institutes and universities in Germany. Coordination and management of the Priority Programme is located at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) in Bamberg.

The Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi), with about 250 employees, is an independent research and infrastructure institution for empirical educational research and a member of the Leibniz Association. The core of the institute is the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), the largest longitudinal educational study in Germany. LIfBi is active in acquiring third-party funding and is constantly expanding its research profile through successfully acquired projects.

The Managing Director will work in close cooperation with the speaker of the programme, Prof. Dr. Cordula Artelt, Director of LIfBi, and the other members of the programme committee: Prof. Dr. Corinna Kleinert (LIfBi), Prof. Dr. Stefan Liebig (Freie Universität Berlin), Prof. Dr. Alexander Mehler (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt), Prof. Dr. Reinhard Pollak (Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, GESIS). The programme committee and Managing Director are also in charge of the programme’s central project ENTAILab, the programme’s core infrastructural service and research center.

The programme New Data Spaces for the Social Sciences
This coordinated long-term research programme aims at innovating the data landscape available for social science research by improving, enhancing, and combining existing data sources and data that have only recently become available. The programme contributes to this aim by bundling the skills, knowledge, and expertise in different fields of empirical social research and computer science and by providing the means to test new methods and procedures of data generation, to develop best practice examples of data sources, data collection, and data integration, to enhance data quality, and to anchor innovations in data collection programmes.

For more information on the programme and ENTAILab , see .

Your tasks
The managing director will be responsible for

• Ensuring coordinated processes and enabling collaboration within and among the SPP projects, together with the programme committee’s members and their lead and coordination of ENTAILab
• Conceptualizing, initiating, organizing , and coordinating a kick-off meeting, annual workshops and hackathons, a cluster conference as well as regular steering group and board meetings
• Coordinating, organizing, and accounting for the central network funds and the exchange initiatives (exchange programme, organizing interdisciplinary research tandems)
• General media and science communication (public affairs) in cooperation with the LIfBi communication team and in consultation with the speaker

Together with his/her team (one administrative support position and two student assistants) the managing director might also be responsible for coordinating central output of the programme and supporting the dissemination of findings.

Your prerequisites

• A doctorate in a relevant subject area (e.g., social sciences, psychology, educational research, or computer science)
• Experience in science communication
• Experience in the field of survey methods
• Interest in, and ideally experience with, questions of (longitudinal) empirical social research and panel studies, survey data, data protection and ethics, open science
• Excellent knowledge of English, the ability to work in and coordinate interdisciplinary and multi-local teams, and extensive experience in project management

We offer

• Possibility of intensive networking in seminal subject areas highly relevant for society
• Performance-adequate salary (TV-L)
• Flexible working times, possibility of remote work, broad offers of further training
• Modern workplace and environment (see )
• Working in an attractive region with high living standards

The programme is committed to gender equality and staff diversity. We promote the compatibility of work, family, and care. LIfBi is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and promotes diversity. It aims to increase the proportion of underrepresented groups in case of equal suitability. All qualified persons, regardless of race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other classification protected by law will receive consideration for employment.

Your contact
Please apply by 29 February 2024 via our online form . If you have any questions about the position and programme, please contact Dr. Patrick Rummel (+49 951 863-3784, [email protected] ) or the programme’s speaker, Prof. Dr. Cordula Artelt (+49 951 863-2060, [email protected] ).

Do you have any questions?
Please feel free to contact the person named in the job posting or our human resources team! Further information about LIfBi as an employer, about our offers regarding further education and promotion of young researchers, and about the World Heritage City Bamberg can be found on our career site lifbi.de/career .

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