Do you aim to combine IT and Data Science with sustainability? As a Green Information Technology Coordinator for the Radboud Interdisciplinary Research Platform (IRP), you will identify potential collaborative research projects and bring these to the attention of stakeholders and funding agencies. You will also find ways to promote the IRP's presence, to give the platform an even bigger impact on valuable solutions for a more sustainable world.

The IRP has integrative academic research with external stakeholders as a core value. We expect you to identify potentially valuable collaborative projects involving complementary researchers at Radboud University's Faculty of Science, and to conduct pilot research to bring these projects to the attention of external stakeholders and funding agencies. This will involve extensive discussions with various researchers at the Faculty of Science and building a network of external stakeholders. Furthermore, we expect you to co-create, together with our Innovation and Communication departments, the IRP’s external presence. The coordination of the Interdisciplinary Research Platform will be a team effort together with two other coordinators (for Experimental laboratories in life sciences & Machine learning in natural sciences) and with the IRP Management Board, consisting of one senior researcher per focus area and the knowledge transfer manager of the Faculty of Science.

• You are an enthusiastic researcher with a PhD in data science or natural sciences with a strong focus on Information Technology and Data Science in the natural sciences and with a strong interest in interdisciplinary research involving sustainability in e.g. hardware, large processes and energy.
• You are an inclusive builder that will turn the Interdisciplinary Research Platform into an institution that is recognised and valued by external industrial and societal stakeholders.
• You are a meticulous coordinator who can facilitate Radboud Green Information Technology researchers by organising, voucher programmes and matchmaking between valuable potential collaborators, among other platform activities that you may develop.
• You are an experienced networker with excellent communication skills in English, with Dutch being a pre.

• It concerns an employment for 0.8 - 1.0 FTE.
• The gross monthly salary amounts to a minimum of €3,226 and a maximum of €5,090 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 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 Interdisciplinary Research Platform (IRP) has been founded to establish novel collaborations between comlpementary natural scientists, crossing the boarders of these institutes. Often, these projects also cross the boarders of the faculty, by involving other (Radboud) scientists or private partners. Green Information Technology, making the world more sustainable through computer technologies, one of the three focus areas within the IRP. The research within the Interdisciplinary Research Platform is highly versatile: in one project, physicists and machine learning researchers may develop data storage that is much more energy-efficient, while in another project, chemical data scientists may collaborate with environmental scientists to adjust large chemical processes to run more efficiently and sustainably. A third project may involve continuous measurements of greenhouse gases to monitor and predict air quality; the research is as exciting as it is societally valuable.

You will be appointed as a Researcher/Coordinator at the Institute for Molecules and Materials (IMM). This institute is one of the major research institutes of the Faculty of Science at Radboud University, comprising 19 research groups in areas ranging from condensed matter science to organic chemistry and biochemistry. The institute focuses on fundamental research with a view to developing applications for society and educates the next generation of leaders in science and innovation. IMM distinguishes itself from peer institutes through close collaborations and rich interactions between chemists and physicists and/or experimentalists and theorists, and also through its excellent infrastructures.


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