Career Service Coordinator at the External Engagement Office

Do you want to contribute to improving human health?

The Research Support Office (RSO) is a section within KI administration whose overall goal is to stimulate the utilization of KI research and maximize KI external research funding. The department has 4 units, Grants Office (GO), Grants Management Office (GMO), Compliance & Data Office (CDO) and External Engagement Office (EEO).

EEO supports researchers in establishing and managing partnerships with industry and other external actors, and offers career support within the Career Services function, the team responsible for developing career services for the target groups of doctoral students, post-docs and junior researchers.

Your mission

KI Career Service is looking for a coordinator. You will be part of a career service team that consists of two people and that conducts activities towards doctoral students and post-docs / researchers. Your responsibility will mainly be to focus on career support for post-docs / researchers and this is done in close collaboration with your colleague in the team, other employees at the unit and within other parts of the university.

The work has an outward focus and involves collaborating with many different actors both within and outside the university as well as nationally and internationally. Career Service has been coordinating two well-established and appreciated internship programs for doctoral students and researchers since 2011. Staying up to date on the sector and communicating are large and important parts of the office development.

Your duties will, among others, be:

responsibility for the entire process around career events; such as inviting lecturers, publishing and marketing events, communicating with participants and evaluating events
to create good contacts with business and other organizations, e.g. recruit internship projects to the internship programs
to present career service activities for doctoral students, post-docs and researchers in various contexts, e.g. at introductory days and at courses for researchers
to support and answer questions from KI doctoral students, post-docs and junior researchers regarding their professional career development within and outside academia

The position may involve travel.

Your profile

You shall have:

A doctoral degree within Life-Science
Experience of running projects
Experience of working at a university and with good insight into doctoral education and research
Very good knowledge of spoken and written English. You should be able to both write your own texts and give presentations in English

Merits for the position are:

Experience of working with career development
Experience of web publishing and working with social media such as Facebook, Wordpress, LinkedIn and Instagram.
Good knowledge of spoken and written Swedish

We assign great importance to personal qualities and social ability. It is important that you are without prestige and are results oriented. You have documented good administrative and organizational skills and a structured way of working. You are service oriented, clear and take initiatives. The role needs you to be able to work independently, and that you yourself seek out necessary information and take personal responsibility for the work tasks. You are good at prioritizing, can see the bigger picture and can connect the dots to benefit the work we do. You also have very good collaboration skills and want to actively contribute to good relationships with colleagues, collaborators, and researchers.

What do we offer?

Karolinska Institutet is one of the world's leading medical universities. Our vision is to pursue the development of knowledge about life and to promote better health for all. At Karolinska Institutet, we conduct innovative medical research and provide the largest range of biomedical education in Sweden. Karolinska Institutet is a state university, which entitles employees to several benefits such as extended holiday and a generous occupational pension. Employees also have free access to our modern gym and receive reimbursements for medical care.

Location: Solna

Type of employment: Twelve-month temporary position with potential for permanent employment

Your career continues here

Application

The application is to be submitted through the Varbi recruitment system. In this recruitment, you will apply with your CV without a personal letter. Instead, you will answer some questions about why you are applying for the job in the application form.

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