Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology

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The Department of Ecology and Environmental Science are searching for a Research Engineer. The employment is on 100% and is a fixed term employment for six months. Starting date is 2018-12-20 or according to agreement. The employment will be divided between Climate Impacts Research Centre (CIRC) and Integrated Science Lab (IceLab). We welcome your application on 2018-12-06 at the latest.

Job description
The overall goal is to develop tools for the effective implementation of technology in citizen science projects for the Arenas for Cooperations (ARC) web platform, for Climate Impacts Research Centre. You will also be working on maintaining the Integrated Science Lab’s (IceLab) interdisciplinary communication efforts.

You will collaborate with ARCs team members in the creation of shared resource, including bibliographic database, database of citizen science projects and design of a survey for Swedish scientists. You will be categorizing citizen science publications and projects using technology-specific tags and create summaries of publications and projects. Based on this, you will be assisting in the development of content for the ARCs website, in both written and visual formats.

In the work for IceLab the main goal is to develop and maintain communication platforms and materials to highlight IceLab’s core business: bringing researchers together over traditional subject boundaries. Tasks will include maintaining communication platforms (icelab.se and the Twitter feed). You will also be generating new content to communicate, and coordinating interdisciplinary communication events that IceLab arranges.

Qualifications
You should have a Master’s Degree in Natural Science and experience in communications relevant for both IceLab and CIRC. Skills for development of knowledge and communication product content and design, as well as carrying out research literature reviews are necessary. Experience in web publishing (e.g. WordPress), running social media accounts (e.g. Twitter) for science communication is necessary. This position requires good skills in written and oral English.

Hands-on experience in public relations, outreach activities, and event management is desired. Experience in networking and proactive collaboration with research groups, community groups and other critical partners. You need to have the ability to plan your own work and do it independently.

Application
Apply through our recruitment system Varbi/MyNetwork. The application can be in Swedish or in English and include:

  • A personal letter with a short description of your qualifications and interest for science communication, including a motivation on why you are applying for this employment.
  • CV
  • Certificates from higher education
  • Name and contact information for two references

Information
For more information about this employment, please contact: Keith Larson, keith.larson@umu.se or Martin Rosvall, martin.rosvall@umu.se

Type of employment Special fixed-term employment
Employment expires 2019-06-20
Contract type Full time
First day of employment 2018-12-20 or according to agreement.
Salary Monthly salary
Number of positions 1
Full-time equivalent 100%
City Umeå
County Västerbottens län
Country Sweden
Reference number AN 2.2.1-1921-18
Contact
  • Keith Larson, projektsamordnare, 090-786 50 29
Union representative
  • SACO, 090-786 53 65
  • SEKO, 090-786 52 96
  • ST, 090-786 54 31
Published 15.Nov.2018
Last application date 06.Dec.2018 11:59 PM CET

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