35.669, Jobs: General Linguistics: Multimodal Language and Diversity Outreach Assistant, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

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Subject: 35.669, Jobs: General Linguistics: Multimodal Language and Diversity Outreach Assistant, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

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Date: 21-Feb-2024
From: Angela Heuts [Angela.Heuts at mpi.nl]
Subject: General Linguistics: Multimodal Language and Diversity Outreach Assistant, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

University or Organization: Max Planck Insititute for
Psycholinguistics
Department: Multimodal Language
Job Location: Nijmegen, Netherlands
Web Address:
https://www.mpi.nl/department/multimodal-language-department/23
Job Title: Multimodal Language and Diversity Outreach Assistant
Job Rank: Other

Specialty Areas: General Linguistics

Description:

The Multimodal Language Department at the Max Planck Institute for
Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands is offering a Multimodal Language
and Diversity Outreach Assistant position from 1 June 2024 onwards
(precise start date flexible).

The successful candidate will work closely with the Communications
Department, the Diversity Team and the Technical Group at the MPI. In
general, the aim of this position is to help the Multimodal Language
Department with its research with diverse populations and researchers
(see below) and help its outreach in terms of workshops, conferences,
summer schools and public events. The candidate will help enable
Department’s visibility through websites and social media within the
MPI as well as in its collaborations outside of the MPI.

Job description:
 - Help running internal and external international inclusive and
diverse workshops, conferences, training events such as summer schools
and open days for public or other researchers.
 - Ability to connect with universities, public organizations and MPI
officers of different levels.
 - Help develop regulations how to work with researchers with diverse
needs in the Multimodal Language Department (e.g. sign language
interpretation, inclusivity).
 - Increase the diversity of our data bases including the diverse
populations (see below).
 - Preparing multimodal stimuli and multimodal PR videos (embedded
with pictures, text, avatars, gestures etc.) with the expertise
provided by our in-house Technical Group.

Tasks in close cooperation with the Communications Team:
 - Help with (inter)national outreach for the Multimodal Language
Department research output for diverse populations (heritage speakers,
deaf signers, hearing impaired populations, aging populations, blind
populations).
 - Write updates on the Multimodal Language Department news page,
using diverse media (pictures, stories, videos).
 - Maintain and update social media for the Multimodal Language
Department in line with the MPI policies, guidelines and workflows.

Requirements:

Essential
Our preferred candidate would meet the following requirements:
 - Minimally hold an MA degree in a field such as linguistics,
communications, psychology, media studies. We will also consider
outstanding candidates at the BA level.
 - Experience in social and media outreach, PR, research visibility,
using technology (or affinity to learn) for outreach (e.g. AI tools).
 - Good organizational skills.
 - Knowing or willing to learn a sign language.
 - Knowledge of inclusive writing, using the institute guidelines.
 - Able to update and maintain the website (for collaborative
conferences, joint projects, lecture series), audiovisual movie
editing, narrative ability.
 - Enthusiastic, creative and ability to think out of the box.
 - Good English language skills, written as well as spoken.

Desirable
 - Programming skills (HTML, Python, etc.).
 - Knowledge of Dutch and (German).

What we offer you
 - The position is available from 1 June 2024, though start date is
negotiable.
 - Full-time position (39 hours per week), with a term of appointment
of 1 year with extension possibility. Half time is also considered.
 - The salary is in accordance with the German TVöD (Tarifvertrag für
den öffentlichen Dienst) and will be, depending on the education and
experience of the applicant, within the range of EUR 3,619.09 and EUR
5,061.67 gross per month plus a holiday bonus of 8% of the gross
salary. This equates to EUR 46,903.41 – EUR 65,599.24 per year,
including holiday bonus.
 - An allowance of 30 days annual leave and the German as well as the
Dutch public holidays.

Application Deadline: 01-Apr-2024
Mailing Address for Applications:
Web Address for Applications: https://www.mpi.nl/career-education/vaca
ncies/vacancy/multimodal-language-and-diversity-outreach-assistant
Contact Information:
        Asli Özyürek
        Email: Asli.Ozyurek at mpi.nl

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