International Consortium Mobility Officer at the Donders Centre for Cognition - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply

1. Introduction

The EU Twinning Project MEDAL Consortium (Methodological Excellence in Data Driven Approaches in Linguistics) is looking for a scholar with a linguistic research and methodology background to help coordinate the mobility aspect of the Consortium. MEDAL is a 3-year international consortium (January 2023-January 2026) between the University of Tartu, University of Birmingham, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and Radboud University. It aims to bring together researchers and train ECRs (PhD candidates, postdoctoral researchers) in methods such as corpus-based linguistics and experimental and computational methods, and in diverse languages and modalities (e.g. speech, gesture and sign). To do so, it aims to organise summer schools, training modules, workshops and visiting scholar schemes across the four sites to facilitate the transfer of knowledge between the institutes and initiate cross-disciplinary projects.

2. Job description

As International Consortium Mobility Officer, you will be able to participate in the research environments of multimodal language research groups, such as Prof. Asli Ozyurek's PI Group on Multimodal Language and Cognition at the Donders Centre of Cognition and Dr Judith Holler's Communication in Social Interaction research group, based at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, as well as the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.

You will help Consortium members at the four sites exchange information within and outside the consortium. The aim is to facilitate participation in network events from each institution, foster individually tailored research training and access to joint student supervision and mentoring, collaboration in research, and conference participation. You will also help promote the Consortium's international visibility and its impact with regard to these aspects.

Your responsibilities will involve setting up a scheme to distribute funding for mobility for guest lectures, workshop presentations, short- term collaborative research visits and collaborative student mentoring visits between partner institutes, and joint conference/workshop participation. To this end, you will establish formal requirements and create an application and selection criteria process for distributing relevant funding, maintain informational web pages about mobility funding schemes and how to apply, and manage a calendar for scheduling events, deadlines, etc. You will also be able to make selections in the requirements using diversity rules.

3. Profile

• You have a background in Linguistics (MSc/MA obtained or about to be obtained) or a related field.
• You have expertise in corpus, computational and/or experimental methods in psycho/neurolinguistics (e.g., prosody, gesture).
• You are motivated and able to work in a cross-disciplinary and international environment.
• You have excellent communication and networking skills, and are fluent in English.
• Experience in working with diverse languages and/or from a multimodal perspective is desirable.

4. We are

The Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour is a world-class interfaculty research centre, that houses more than 700 researchers devoted to understanding the mechanistic underpinnings of the human mind. Research at the Donders Institute is focused around four themes: 1. Language and communication, 2. Perception, action and decision-making, 3. Development and lifelong plasticity, 4. Natural computing & neurotechnology. Excellent, state-of-the-art research facilities are available for the broad range of neuroscience research that is being conducted at the Donders Institute. The Donders Institute has been assessed by an international evaluation committee as 'excellent' and recognised as a 'very stimulating environment for top researchers, as well as for young talent'. The Donders Institute fosters a collaborative, multi-disciplinary, supportive research environment with a diverse international staff. English is the lingua franca at the Institute. In this function, you will be part of the Donders Graduate School for Cognitive Neuroscience.

5. We offer

• We will give you a temporary employment contract which will terminate on 31st December 2025. 
• Your salary within salary scale 10 depends on your previous education and number of years of (relevant) work experience. The amounts in the scale are based on a 38-hour working week.
• You will receive an 8% holiday allowance and an 8,3% end-of-year bonus.
• You will be able to use our Dual Career and Family Support Service. The Dual Career Programme assists your partner via support, tools, and resources to improve their chances of independently finding employment in the Netherlands. Our Family Support Service helps you and your partner feel welcome and at home by providing customised assistance in navigating local facilities, schools, and amenities. Also take a look at our support for international staff page to discover all our services for international employees.
• You will receive extra days off. With full-time employment, you can choose between 30 or 41 days of annual leave instead of the statutory 20.

6. Practical information and applying

You can apply only via the button below. Address your letter of application to Prof. A. Ozyurek. In the application form, you will find which documents you need to include with your application.

You can apply until 24 July 2024. The interviews will take place on 29 July 2024.  You will preferably start your employment on 1 September 2024.

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