Karolinska Institutet is looking for a Careers Service coordinator

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research?

Karolinska Institutet’s goal is to improve human health through education and research. Its core operations are supported by administrative staff at the University Administration and the departments.

Career Service at Karolinska Institutet is looking for a coordinator who can contribute career support to doctoral students, post-doctorates and junior researchers. The career service function belongs to KI's External Engagement Office (EEO), a unit within the department for Research Support and External Relations (FER).

Your mission

We are looking for a dedicated colleague who can contribute to the team's various support programs and activities in close collaboration with other members of the team, other employees in the unit and within other parts of the university.
Your tasks will include:

• responsibility to manage the KI Career Service internship programs, for PhD and postdoctoral researchers including creating good contacts with companies and other external organizations and matching candidates and projects.
• responsibility for the entire process around career events, such as inviting speakers, publishing and marketing the events, communicating with participants and evaluating the events
• present career service activities for doctoral students, post-docs and researchers in various contexts, e.g. at introduction days and on courses for researchers
• support and answer questions from KI's PhD students, postdoctoral researchers and junior Faculty researchers regarding their professional career development within and outside academia

The position may involve travel.

Your profile

We are looking for someone with:

• A doctoral degree within the 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 include:

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

What do we offer?

A creative and inspiring environment with wide-ranging expertise and interests. 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 a better health for all. At Karolinska Institutet, we conduct successful medical research and hold the largest range of medical education in Sweden. Karolinska Institutet is also a state university, which entitles you to several good benefits through our collective agreement. And you get to practice freely in our modern wellness facilities, where trained staff are on site.

Location: Solna

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Application

Welcome to apply.

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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