Postdoc for Stakeholder Dialogue and Project

The Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB) is a research institute located in Oldenburg. It researches marine biodiversity and its importance for the function of marine ecosystems. In doing so, it develops the scientific basis for marine nature conservation and ecosystem management.
The HIFMB was founded in 2017 and is an institutional cooperation between the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), and the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg.
- PostDoc for Stakeholder Dialogue and Project Management (d/f/m)

**Background**
The manifold human interventions in coastal marine ecosystems, for example through shipping, the construction of wind turbines, fishing, nutrient input or tourism, are increasingly leading to conflicts between the users of marine resources and nature conservation objectives. These conflicts have recently been exacerbated by the ambitious expansion targets for offshore wind farms (OWF) associated with the energy transition.
In this societal context, the project ´CREATE´ in the sustainMare research mission of the German Marine Research Alliance is developing solution-oriented knowledge for better marine protection, the resolution of conflicts of interest and the efficient marine monitoring necessary to achieve nature conservation goals. In particular, ´CREATE´ pursues three objectives: 1) The co-creation and transfer of non-invasive monitoring strategies to monitor the marine environment, 2) The assessment of the biodiversity and connectivity of marine protected areas (MPAs) in the context of multiple uses, and 3) The co-creation of socially acceptable marine conservation measures and MPAs, associated governance structures and marine education measures. 'CREATE' addresses these goals through a transdisciplinary approach in which concrete products are co-developed together with relevant stakeholders and transferred to them. This takes place in the context of three real-world labs
in the North and Baltic Seas
The advertised position will be responsible for managing the collaboration with stakeholders in close cooperation with scientists from eleven research institutions and universities and the HIFMB Transfer Office for Marine Biodiversity Change as well as scientific project coordination.

**Your Tasks**
- Project-wide stakeholder management
- Supporting the CREATE scientists in the stakeholder dialog
- Leading the project management
- Management of the project's organisational, public relations and transfer tasks - Support for scientific project coordination
- Transdisciplinary exchange of research approaches and results
- Participation in, organisation, co-management and moderation of project meetings and workshops
- Public relations and knowledge transfer (including maintenance of the website, creation of fact sheets and newsletters)
- Quality management: ensuring compliance with scientific quality standards and carrying out quality controls and audits
- Preparation of interim and final reports and publications
- Management and implementation of a final evaluation of the project

**Your Profile**
- PhD in the field of environmental/natural sciences, social sciences, or related disciplines
- Very good experience in project management
- Very good and efficient communication skills
- Very good knowledge of German and English
- Experience in public relations and knowledge transfer
- Publications in scientific journals

**Preferred Qualifications and Skills**
- Experience in marine or socio-ecological related work and transdisciplinary research is an advantage
- Experience in stakeholder management and dialog is an advantage

**Further Information**

This is a full-time position, limited to 3 years, pending final funding approval. It is also suitable for part-time employment. The salary will be paid in accordance with the Collective Agreement for the Public Service of the Federation (Tarifvertrag des öffentlichen Dienstes, TVöD Bund), up to salary level **13**. The place of employment will be **Oldenburg.**

Postdocs have to register with AWI's postdoc office **PROCEED**, thereby gaining access to a set of tailor-made career development tools.

**The AWI is characterized by**
- our scientific success - excellent research
- collaboration and cooperation - intra-institute, national and international, interdisciplinary
- opportunities to develop - on the job and towards other positions
- an international environment - everyday contact with people from all over the world
- flexible working hours and the possibility of mobile working up to 50% of regular working hours
- health promotion and company fitness with Hansefit and Wellhub
- support services and a culture of reconciling work and family
- occupational pension provision (VBL)

Applicants with disabilities will be given preference when equal qualifications are present.

AWI fosters work-family compatibility in various ways and has received several awar