Do you enjoy helping and relieving researchers with administrative tasks? If the answer is ‘yes’, then apply for an exciting position at the DTU National Food Institute. If you also think that the interplay between gut microbes and human health is an interesting topic, you should really keep reading.
The DTU National Food Institute is coordinating a big international research initiative funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation and entitled the Microbiome Heath Initiative (MHI). We are therefore looking for a center administrator to assist the center leadership with a variety of tasks.
As center administrator, you will be working closely together with the center leadership and the international partners, providing them with the ongoing administrative support they need. This include system support related to the use of financial systems, tasks associated with hiring and terminations, help with planning and conducting meetings and other events, follow-up related to project administration – and much more.
You will be affiliated to the Institute Secretariat at the DTU National Food Institute, which generally assists with administrative system support, management support, on- and offboarding, as well as coordination regarding buildings, procurement, IT, events, and communication. You may also be involved in other cross-coordination tasks within the institute.
To be considered for the position, you have:
- A couple of years of experience with similar tasks, preferably from a larger workplace
- A relevant education preferable at the master’s level
- Good system understanding and you are quick to learn new administrative systems
- Experience with financial tasks
- Desire and ability to work in a proactive, supportive, and coordinating role
- Good skills in prioritizing and planning your tasks in an often busy and unpredictable workday
- A good command of Danish and English, written and spoken.
As a person, you are highly service-minded, conscientious, and thrive on providing the best support in collaboration with your colleagues. You are cheerful and positive, good at collaborating, and have a good overview as well as an eye for details. You also willingly take on both large and small practical tasks.
What we offer you
You will get a developing job with influence on your own work and very varied tasks, which you plan together with the MHI center leadership and coordinate with your colleagues at the Institute Secretariat. We emphasize high quality, good service, good humor, and a good working environment.
You will be working together with other administrative coordinators at the institute, helping research group leaders with similar tasks. The DTU National Food Institute has 14 research groups conducting research, teaching, and research-based consultancy to national and international authorities in the food and health area, including for example bioactive substances, nutrition, food production technology, chemical food analysis, microbial biotechnology, and reproductive toxicology.
You will thus be part of an exciting and relevant university environment where new knowledge about food and health is created, as well as of a research center working with groundbreaking research into the intestinal microbiome in setting involving partners in four countries.
Salary and employment conditions
Salary and employment conditions according to the agreement for academics in the state. The position is 37 hours per week. Employment starts February or according to mutal agreement in 2025.
Application and contact
We must receive your application no later than 2 January 2025
. Open the link “Apply now”, where you fill out the application form and attach a motivated application, CV, and relevant diploma.
If you have questions, you are welcome to contact Head of Administration Heidi Kornholt, phone 22 84 48 61, or MHI Center co-Lead and Head of the DTU National Food Institute Tine Rask Licht, phone 35 88 71 86.
Applications received after the application deadline will not be considered.
All interested candidates irrespective of age, gender, disability, race, religion or ethnic background are encouraged to apply. As DTU works with research in critical technology, which is subject to special rules for security and export control, open-source background checks may be conducted on qualified candidates for the position.
DTU National Food Institute
DTU National Food Institute conducts research into and disseminates - through advice, innovation and teaching - sustainable and value-creating solutions in the area of food and health for the benefit of society. The vision of the DTU National Food Institute is to make a difference by generating future prosperity through research into food and health. The institute works to prevent disease and promote health, develop new and better food products for a growing population and create sustainable technological solutions. The institute’s tasks are carried out in a unique interdisciplinary cooperation in e.g. nutrition, chemistry, toxicology, microbiology, epidemiology, modelling, and technology. This is done through a strong academic environment of international top class with corresponding skilled researchers and employees. The Institute employs approximately 350 staff members.
The Microbiome Health Initiative (MHI)
The new Denmark-based research initiative MHI aims to establish a potential causal link between the gut microbiome – the combined genetic material of the communities of bacteria and other microbes in the human gut – and the development of cardiometabolic diseases (CMD) such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. The goal is to generate knowledge that can lead to new prevention or treatment options for people living with, or at risk of, CMD.
Technology for people
DTU develops technology for people. With our international elite research and study programmes, we are helping to create a better world and to solve the global challenges formulated in the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Hans Christian Ørsted founded DTU in 1829 with a clear mission to develop and create value using science and engineering to benefit society. That mission lives on today. DTU has 13,500 students and 6,000 employees. We work in an international atmosphere and have an inclusive, evolving, and informal working environment. DTU has campuses in all parts of Denmark and in Greenland, and we collaborate with the best universities around the world.
INFORMATIONER OM STILLINGEN:
- Arbejdspladsen ligger i:
Lyngby-Taarbæk Kommune
-Virksomheden tilbyder:
-Arbejdsgiver:
Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Anker Engelunds Vej, 2800 Kongens Lyngby
-Ansøgning:
Ansøgningsfrist: 02-01-2025;
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