A lab manager to join the team of SPRINT ('Speech Prosody in Interaction: The form and function of intonation in human communication'). This is a five-year project (October 2019 to September 2024) funded by the European Research Council (ERC) through grant no ERC-ADG-835263 to Prof. Amalia Arvaniti. SPRINT aims to investigate the phonetics, phonology and pragmatics of intonation in a number of varieties of English and Greek, examining both production and perception.

You will be a key contributor to SPRINT, providing a range of technical and administrative support for the project's PI (Prof. Arvaniti), postdoctoral researchers, and student assistants. Your duties will focus on preparatory work for experiments, help with data collection, the day-to-day running of the project, and assistance with the statistical and computational analysis of the data, and the visualisation of the results. In addition, you will provide essential administrative support (including but not limited to handling purchasing, participant payments, travel arrangements, and the financial aspects of workshop organisation); you will liaise with the Faculty's Senior Controller in fulfilling these duties, and handle financial reporting to the ERC.

You should be able to work independently, under the PI's direction, and as part of a team. You should be able to balance multiple project demands, enabling the SPRINT team to complete research according to the project's deadlines, while completing ongoing administrative and technical tasks to schedule. You will be expected to work independently for much of the time, but this need should be in balance with the need to collaborate and discuss progress with the PI and postdocs at weekly team meetings. The position requires different knowledge and skills as the project progresses; you will have to be adaptable to these demands of the project.

• At least a Master's degree in a relevant discipline (e.g. linguistics, cognitive science, neuroscience, computer science, engineering, psychology, physics, or mathematics), or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Familiarity with, or a willingness and technical aptitude to become familiar with, software and scripting languages that are or will be used in the project (e.g. Praat, R, Experiment Builder eye-tracking software, Besa EEG analysis software) to a high level of proficiency.
• Knowledge of linguistics, or willingness and aptitude to become familiar with concepts essential for the project.
• The ability to use audio recording software with confidence, and to provide IT software and hardware maintenance support in relation to SPRINT.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with, or a willingness and technical aptitude to become familiar with, software and applications that will be used for project reporting at RU and the ERC portal, and with ERC data protection and ethics policies.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, giving the post-holder the ability to deal confidently with a range of people at all levels.
• Independent, proactive and a team player.
• Working knowledge (or better) of either Greek or Dutch will be an advantage.

Fixed-term contract: fixed term contract until 30-09-2024.

• Employment: 32 hours per week (0.8 FTE).
• A maximum gross monthly salary of € 4,402 based on a 38-hour working week (salary scale 10).
• The exact salary depends on the candidate's qualifications and amount of relevant professional experience.
• In addition to the salary: an 8% holiday allowance and an 8.3% end-of-year bonus.
• Duration of the contract: fixed-term contract until 30 September 2024.
• You will be able to use our Dual Career and Family Care Services. Our Dual Career and Family Care Officer can assist you with family-related support, help your partner or spouse prepare for the local labour market, provide customized support in their search for employment  and help your family settle in Nijmegen.
• Have a look at our excellent employment conditions. They include a good work-life balance (among other things because of the excellent leave arrangements), opportunities for development and a great pension scheme.

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Faculty of Arts

SPRINT ('Speech Prosody in Interaction: The form and function of intonation in human communication') is a project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) through grant no ERC-ADG-835263 to Prof. Amalia Arvaniti. Currently, the SPRINT team includes two postdocs, Kathleen Jepson and Cong Zhang, while two other postdocs will join SPRINT in the autumn of 2021. In addition, the team will include a number of student assistants in four locations, two in the UK (Canterbury, Bristol), and two in Greece (Athens, Corfu). You can find more information about the team here.  
The Faculty of Arts employs over 500 academic and support staff in the fields of history and art, languages and cultures, and linguistics and communication. Research is embedded in one of the two faculty research institutes: the Centre for Language Studies (CLS) or the Radboud Institute for Culture and History (RICH). The faculty currently enrols some 2,400 students in three departments: the department of History, Art History and Classics, the department of Modern Languages and Cultures, and the department of Language and Communication. We want to be a diverse and inclusive organisation, which is why we aim to create a culturally diverse staff.