Are you a scholar with a background in linguistic research and methodology, with the ambition to coordinate the mobility aspect of a large-scale international consortium? Then help to bring together researchers, PhD students and postdocs by organising activities to facilitate knowledge transfer as a mobility officer within the 3-year MEDAL consortium. 

EU Twinning Project MEDAL Consortium (Methodological Excellence in Data Driven Approaches in Linguistics) is looking for a scholar with linguistic research and methodology background to help coordinate the mobility aspect of the Consortium. MEDAL is a 3-year International Consortium (January 2023-January 2026) between the University of Tartu, University of Birmingham, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and Radboud University. It aims to bring together researchers and train ECRs (PhD candidates, postdoctoral researchers) in methods such as corpus-based linguistics and experimental and computational methods, and in diverse languages and modalities (e.g. speech, gesture and sign). To do so, it aims to organise summer schools, training modules, workshops and visiting scholar schemes across the four sites to facilitate the transfer of knowledge between the institutes and initiate cross-disciplinary projects.

As International Consortium Mobility Officer, you will be able to participate in the research environments of multimodal language research groups, such as Prof. Asli Ozyurek's PI Group on Multimodal Language and Cognition at the Donders Centre of Cognition and Dr Judith Holler's Communication in Social Interaction research group, based at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour as well as the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.

You will help consortium members at the four sites exchange information within and outside of the consortium. The aim is to facilitate participation in network events from each institution, foster individually tailored research training and access to joint student supervision and mentoring, collaboration in research, and conference participation. You will also help promote the Consortium's international visibility and its impact with regard to these aspects.

Your responsibilities will involve setting up a scheme to distribute funding for mobility for guest lectures, workshop presentations, short- term collaborative research visits and collaborative student mentoring visits between partner institutes, and joint conference/workshop participation. To this end, you will establish formal requirements and create an application and selection criteria process for distributing relevant funding, maintain informational web pages about mobility funding schemes and how to apply, and manage a calendar for scheduling events, deadlines, etc. You will also be able to make selections in requirement with diversity rules.

• You have a background in Linguistics and/or Psycholinguistics (PhD obtained or about to be obtained) or a related field.
• You have expertise in corpus, computational, and/or experimental methods in psycho/neurolinguistics.  
• You are motivated and able to work in a cross-disciplinary and international environment.
• You have excellent communication and networking skills, and are fluent in English.
• You are able to set up websites and web-based interfacing environments.
• Experience in working with diverse languages and/or from a multimodal perspective is desirable.
• Programming skills are also desirable.

Fixed-term contract: It concerns a temporary employment for 1 year, with the possibility of extension for a maximum of 2 years.

• It concerns an employment for 0.6 FTE.
• The gross monthly salary amounts to a minimum of €2,960 and a maximum of €4,670 based on a 38-hour working week, depending on previous education and number of years of relevant work experience (salary scale 10).
• You will receive 8% holiday allowance and 8.3% end-of-year bonus.
• It concerns a temporary employment for 1 year, with the possibility of extension for a maximum of 2 years.
• 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.
• Working for us means getting extra days off. In case of full-time employment, you can choose between 30 or 41 days of annual leave instead of the legally allotted 20.

Work and science require good employment practices. This is reflected in Radboud University's primary and secondary employment conditions. You can make arrangements for the best possible work-life balance with flexible working hours, various leave arrangements and working from home. You are also able to compose part of your employment conditions yourself, for example, exchange income for extra leave days and receive a reimbursement for your sports subscription. And of course, we offer a good pension plan. You are given plenty of room and responsibility to develop your talents and realise your ambitions. Therefore, we provide various training and development schemes.

The Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour is a world-class interfaculty research centre, that houses more than 700 researchers devoted to understanding the mechanistic underpinnings of the human mind. Research at the Donders Institute is focused around four themes: 1. Language and communication, 2. Perception, action and decision-making, 3. Development and lifelong plasticity, 4. Natural computing & neurotechnology. Excellent, state-of-the-art research facilities are available for the broad range of neuroscience research that is being conducted at the Donders Institute. The Donders Institute has been assessed by an international evaluation committee as ‘excellent’ and recognised as a ‘very stimulating environment for top researchers, as well as for young talent’. The Donders Institute fosters a collaborative, multi-disciplinary, supportive research environment with a diverse international staff. English is the lingua franca at the Institute. In this function, you will be part of the Donders Graduate School for Cognitive Neuroscience.


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