25.5227, Jobs: German; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Language Documentation; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Project Coordinator, Institut für Deutsche Sprache and University of Heidelberg

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Subject: 25.5227, Jobs: German; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Language Documentation; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Project Coordinator, Institut für Deutsche Sprache and University of Heidelberg

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Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 13:56:29
From: Andreas Witt [applications_lwc at cl.uni-heidelberg.de]
Subject: German; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Language Documentation; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Project Coordinator, Institut für Deutsche Sprache and University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

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University or Organization: Institut für Deutsche Sprache and University of Heidelberg 
Department: Leibniz ScienceCampus and Department of Computational Linguistics
Job Location: Mannheim, Germany 
Web Address: http://wisscamp.de/en/
Job Title: Project Coordinator for a new Leibniz ScienceCampus, Heidelberg and Mannheim
Job Rank: Manager; Other; Post Doc

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Language Documentation; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Required Language(s): German (deu)

Description:

The Institute for the German Language (Institut für Deutsche Sprache, IDS) in
Mannheim and the Institute for Computational Linguistics (ICL) at Heidelberg
University will jointly establish the Leibniz ScienceCampus "Empirical
Linguistics and Computational Language Modeling". The Leibniz ScienceCampus
aims to conduct innovative research to support the high-quality automatic
annotation of large-scale corpus resources of German language through
induction of domain-, genre- and variety-adaptive natural language processing
models, to enable advanced empirical research in linguistics as well as
innovative applications in the humanities and the social sciences.

For more details on the Leibniz ScienceCampus, seen http://www.wisscamp.de/en

The Institute for the German Language (IDS) and the Institute for
Computational Linguistics (ICL) at Heidelberg University offer a position
starting 1 April 2015 for a Scientific Coordinator (Reference number: 1/2015).

Salary is based on Germany's academic salary level TV-L 13. The weekly working
hours correspond to 100% of the regular weekly working hours. The vacancy is
for an initial period of two years, with the possibility of extension for
further two years.

Responsibilities:

- Administration and coordination of the research project
    - Project management
    - External representation of the Science Campus
    - Organization of conferences
- Communication with research projects of the ScienceCampus and with 
cooperation partners
- Research activities within the Leibniz ScienceCampus
    - Contribution to projects within the ScienceCampus and third-party funded
    projects
   - Fund-raising for projects at EU and national levels.

Requirements:

- Completed Ph.D. in computational linguistics, linguistics, computer science
or related areas
- Experience in the acquisition and management of projects very welcome
- Excellent teamwork skills, outstanding commitment, openness and 
flexibility, experience in the coordination of research groups very welcome

For more information, please contact Prof. Anette Frank and Prof. Andreas Witt
at the email address below.

Please forward your application including:

- Letter of motivation and areas of interest relating to the research program
of the Science Campus
- CV including information on publications and experiences
- Degrees/diplomas, when appropriate, references

to Prof. Anette Frank and Prof. Andreas Witt by 31 January 2015, exclusively
in electronic form. Please use the the application email below and make sure
that your application quotes the reference number and uses pdf format.

Applications will be accepted until the vacancy is filled.

IDS and the University of Heidelberg seek to increase the proportion of
qualified women in academic staff and strongly encourage women to submit
applications. The reconciliation of job and family is especially supported by
IDS and Heidelberg University. Handicapped persons with equivalent
qualifications will be given preference.

Application Deadline: 31-Jan-2015 (Open until filled)

Email Address for Applications: applications_lwc at cl.uni-heidelberg.de 
Contact Information:
	Andreas Witt 
	Email: applications_lwc at cl.uni-heidelberg.de 

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