Dear all,
Please find below a job ad for a “Science and Research Manager” at the
Multilingual Technologies Research Lab/Language Technology Lab, DFKI,
Saarbrücken, Germany.
Best regards,
Stephan Busemann
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The Multilingual Technologies Research Lab/Language Technology Lab of
the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) is seeking
to fill a full time position with a
Science and Research Manager
in the areas of Machine Translation, Multilingual Technologies, Natural
Language Processing and Data for a portfolio of large-scale and
high-profile international collaborative research projects. The position
is located at DFKI Saarbrücken, Germany.
Science and Research Managers are professionals with a science and
research background that support project Principal Investigators (PIs)
and Research Teams in the proper management and discharge of research
projects in order to deliver world class research.
Duties include the support of Principal Investigators through the
provision of project management (covering people, resources, finances),
ensuring the successful delivery of projects, quality assurance and
monitoring, as well as proper discharge of project reporting duties
towards funding authorities.
In more detail, responsibilities and capabilities will include:
* Adopt, develop and implement simple and efficient management
procedures that best support scientific excellence;
* Gain a thorough understanding of project goals and objectives as well
as of project resources;
* Continuous project progress monitoring and reporting against project
resources, goals and objectives;
* Providing quality assurance including the support of timely and proper
execution of project tasks, preparation of deliverables as well as
internal and external reporting to PI, research consortia and funding
authorities;
* Liaison and communication with diverse constituencies including
research teams as well as industry and public organisation partners in
consortia across Europe;
* Support the coordination of (linguistic) data acquisition, curation
and management, including management of IP;
* Organization of internal project meetings, partially in coordination
with other projects, initiatives and organizations;
* Organisation of public workshops and conferences together with project
partners and external collaborators;
* Coordination of surveys;
* Monitoring and coordination of dissemination activities and external
communication, including outreach;
* Support of project communication infrastructure (including website);
* Assisting the PI in financial planning and management of project budgets;
* Assisting the PI in change management and conflict resolution;
* Develop a thorough understanding of the relevant European Science,
Technology and Research landscape;
* Support of project acquisition activities.
The successful candidate will work closely with lead scientific
Principal Investigators and Project Consortia in order to ensure
successful project delivery and acquisition.
Ideal candidates will
* Have a strong and verifiable track record in research (ideally at the
level of a PhD) in data-driven and machine-learning based approaches to
machine translation, natural language processing, multilingual
technologies or computer science;
* Be proactive, problem solvers, clear and independent thinkers;
* Have excellent organisational and management skills;
* Have excellent people and communication skills;
* Enjoy working with international research teams to deliver world class
science;
* Be highly articulate in both writing and oral presentations;
* Have excellent proficiency of English as the project working language;
good proficiency of spoken and written German; additional languages are
a plus;
* Be fluent with office and project management software;
* Have experience (2+ years) in administration and execution of European
projects in the above areas, ideally with established connections to key
figures in the field;
* Have experience (2+ years) in the organization of international events.
We will consider otherwise outstanding candidates, who at the time of
application have limited management experience, but have a genuine
interest in developing a science and research management career. We
encourage them to apply.
The position is open until filled. The initial contract will be for a
duration of 2-3 years. Successful candidates will be offered a
competitive salary based on their qualifications and experience.
The Language Technology Lab of the DFKI, led by Prof. Josef van Genabith
and Prof. Hans Uzskoreit, counts among the leading research groups in
language technology. The Multilingual Technologies Group is located on
the University of Saarland Campus, offering an excellent research
environment. The University of Saarland has a strong research focus on
Natural Language Processing and Computer Science, with one of the
largest Computer Science Schools in Germany, two Computer Science
Max-Planck Institutes, the Cluster of Excellence in Multimodal Computing
and Interaction, the Computational Linguistics department and the
Collaborative Research Center 1102 on Information Density and Linguistic
Encoding.
Please contact for formal inquiries, and send your electronic
application (in PDF format) to, Professor Josef van Genabith
([email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>) and
Professor Stephan Busemann ([email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>) referring to job opening No.
06-15/JvG by Feb 15, 2015. A meaningful application should include a
cover letter, a recent CV, a brief summary of professional interests,
and contact information for three references.
--
Prof. Dr. Stephan Busemann, Principal Researcher
Associate Head of Language Technology Department
Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz GmbH
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, Campus D 3_2, D-66123 Saarbruecken
phone: (+49 681) 85775-5286, fax: (+49 681) 85775-5338
http://www.dfki.de/~busemann
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Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz GmbH
Trippstadter Strasse 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
Geschaeftsfuehrung:
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang Wahlster (Vorsitzender)
Dr. Walter Olthoff
Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats:
Prof. Dr. h.c. Hans A. Aukes
Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313
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