Interim Coordinator

**REFERENCE NUMBER**: 155 | 8893
The School is a joint initiative of the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, other Max Planck Institutes and Research Groups of the Faculty of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Neuroanatomy and Neuropathology of the Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich. The IMPRS office is located in Munich at the MPI of Psychiatry.
Your Tasks
- Coordination of the recruitment process for the PhD students
- Organization of selection symposia and interviews
- Organization of the course program in close cooperation with the scientific faculty
- Maintenance of the IMPRS-TP website and development of online portal
- IT skills (especially Excel)
- Advertisement of the PhD program
- Organization of events (including annual retreats of PhD students and advisors to facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration)
- Support of PhD students (e.g. visa issues, accommodation, dealing with public administration), tracking of Thesis Advisory Committees and keeping track of achievements of PhD students
- Budget responsibility for IMPRS-TP
- Day-to-day communication with PhD students, advisors, applicants, reviewers, partner programs

Your Qualifications
- The applicant needs to have a Master’s degree. Professional experience in higher educational or scientific management would be an asset.
- We seek an enthusiastic, self-motivated person who works in a structured manner and has excellent communication and organizational skills.
- Experience working in a multinational environment is advantageous.
- The coordinator must be fluent in spoken and written English and have some good knowledge of German.

Your Application
We Offer
- Payment and benefits according to the collective agreement for public service employees (“Tarifvertrag für den öffentlichen Dienst - TVöD-Bund”)
- We are easily accessible by public transport (Munich Public transport)
- We provide a subsidy for the DeutschlandJobTicket DJT

The position is a maternity leave substitution and is limited to approximately one year. Starting date should be as soon as possible.
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At the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, basic scientists and clinicians are working in close cooperation to understand the causes of complex diseases of the brain, searching for new prevention and treatment strategies. This translational research strategy is supported by a modern psychiatric research hospital as well as a number of research departments and research groups with expertise ranging from neurobiological research methods as well as clinical and behavioural studies to molecular genetics and computational approaches. The overarching goal is to optimise the benefit of research advances for the patients by way of close and innovative networking of basic research-oriented and clinical neuroscience.
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