Corporate Development (UE)

Berufsbegleitendes Trainee Programm für Einsteiger:innen im Wissenschaftsmanagement

Trainee Programme on-the-job for young professionals in Science Management

We offer you exciting tasks and challenges, attractive compensations as well as comprehensive onboarding. The position is accompanied by training offers on-the-job.

Science Management is an expanding rather new field that develops continuously, offering a wide range of prospects of development. Apply with us to become part of the Corporate Development of Forschungszentrum Jülich and explore the diverse facets of Science Management – from Research and Innovation Management over the Support for Young Researchers to maintaining and expanding on national and international relations.

Why Science Management?

Scientific findings are based on a whole system of scientists, (non-university) research institutions, universities, but also scientific funding agencies and governmental stakeholders. It is a Science Manager’s task to coordinate the individual stakeholders and their interests in this complex system, to create a profound base for scientific progress to address the major challenges of our time.

How does Science Management at Forschungszentrum Jülich work?

The Forschungszentrum Jülich is a non-university research centre, consisting of 11 scientific institutes. In the individual institutes, Science Managers have a close connection to the respective scientific work in their everyday work. We, from Corporate Development, take a broader perspective and focus on five topics National and International Relations, Scientific Controlling, Research Management, Support for Young Researchers and Innovaton & Strategy with a strategic focus on the whole centre.We work at the intersection between scientists, administration, and the Board of Directors. Our task is to develop concepts, provide guidance in the course of action and implement the latter in agreement with the variety of stakeholders.

Apply for one of our exciting jobs in Science Management and benefit from the modules of our trainee programme upon recruitment.

Is the trainee programme something for me?

You are …

close to finishing your dissertation, an early Postdoc or a young scientist with a masters degree.
a communicative person that would like to operate at the intersection between science and administration.
interested in conceptual and coordinating tasks and looking forward to make progress together with others.
interested in the national and international science system and the participating stakeholders.
eager to dive into the diverse aspects of Science Management.
ready to progress with you personal development, aquire new competencies and develop a career perspective in the scientific area.

The trainee programme offers …