The Institute for Geoinformatics (ifgi) is a globally networked institute renowned for its interdisciplinary research and teaching in geoinformatics. It provides its diverse and multicultural staff and students with a tolerant, collaborative, and outstanding working and learning environment. Core principles such as open science, sustainability and social impact are integral to its research, teaching and outreach activities. The research groups cover areas such as spatial data science, spatial cognition, interaction with spatial information, computer vision and machine learning.
The Institute of Geoinformatics at the Faculty of Geosciences of the University of Münster is seeking to fill the position of an
Project Coordinator and Innovation Manager (Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in, salary level E 13 TV-L, 100%)
The position is full time and the regular working hours are currently 39 hours and 50 minutes per week. This permanent position is set to commence on 1 April 2025. Full-time employees are required to teach eight hours per week during the semester. We are looking for a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher to coordinate and manage institute-wide research projects, initiatives and innovations. Tasks linked to this position include, for example, supporting the Institute in developing ideas and writing proposals for large research grants, typically involving more than one research group, e.g. for funded graduate programmes such as international training networks, Erasmus Mundus programmes, graduate school scholarship programmes, and European, national or local collaborative programmes.
Your tasks:
- Management of large interdisciplinary and international projects and training programmes
- Identification, organisation and management of (large) funding proposals for national and European funding lines such as the Erasmus Mundus programmes
- Coordination of institute-wide initiatives and innovations
- Participation in academic self-organisation
- 8 hours per week of teaching during the semester in our degree programme
Our expectations:
- A completed PhD in geoinformatics, spatial data science, computer science or a related discipline is required.
- Excellent command of written and spoken English is required.
- Excellent soft skills such as the ability to work in a team, management skills, communication skills, (self-)organisational skills and the ability to work independently are required.
- Demonstrated experience teaching and supervising students is required.
- Experience writing proposals for external funding (e.g. the DFG or the EU) would be advantageous.
- Demonstrated experience in academic administration would be welcome.
Advantages for you:
- Appreciation, commitment, openness and respect – values which are important to us.
- Our broad range of diverse work-time models offers great flexibility – also when working from home.
- If you have family members or young children in your care, our Family Service Office offers concrete support to help you balance your private and professional responsibilities.
- As an educational institution, we are deeply committed to offering occupational training and continuing education opportunities tailored to your individual needs.
- From A – Z, Aikido to Zumba, our sport and health programmes ensure a healthy work-life balance.
- As a university employee, you are entitled to numerous benefits afforded to public servants, e.g. an attractive company pension scheme (VBL), an annual end-of-year bonus and a position that is shielded from economic fluctuations.
The University of Münster strongly supports equal opportunity and diversity. We welcome all applicants regardless of sex, nationality, ethnic or social background, religion or worldview, disability, age, sexual orientation or gender identity. We are committed to creating family-friendly working conditions. Part-time options are generally available.
We actively encourage applications by women. Women with equivalent qualifications and academic achievements will be preferentially considered unless these are outweighed by reasons which necessitate the selection of another candidate.
If you have any questions, please contact Prof Christian Kray (c.kray@uni-muenster.de).
Are you interested? Then we look forward to hearing from you!
Please email your application – including a cover letter, CV and copies of your degree certificates – as a single PDF file (max. 10 MB) to ifgi.office@uni-muenster.de by 2025-02-28. with the reference number: 2025_01_28.
Please note that we cannot process or consider other file formats
Reference number: 2025_01_28
