Corporate Development (UE)

Berufsbegleitendes Trainee Programm für Einsteiger:innen im Wissenschaftsmanagement

Support Programme for young professionals in science management

We offer exciting and challenging tasks, an attractive salary, intensive induction training and support on-the-job training.

Science management is an expanding field that is developing dynamically and offers you excellent development prospects. Apply to join our Corporate Development department at Forschungszentrum Jülich and get to know the many different facets of science management – from Research and Innovation management over the Support for Young Researchers and the maintenance and expansion on international and national relations.

Why Science Management?

Scientific findings are based on a whole system of scientists, (non-university) research institutions, universities, but also scientific funding agencies and governmental stakeholders. It is a Science Manager’s task to coordinate the individual stakeholders and their interests in this complex system, to create a profound base for scientific progress to address the major challenges of our time.

How does Science Management at Forschungszentrum Jülich work?

The Forschungszentrum Jülich is a non-university research centre, consisting of 11 scientific institutes. In the individual institutes, Science Managers have a close connection to the respective scientific work in their everyday work. We, from Corporate Development, take a broader perspective and focus on five topics National and International Relations, Scientific Controlling, Research Management, Support for Young Researchers and Innovaton & Strategy with a strategic focus on the whole centre.We work at the intersection between scientists, administration, and the Board of Directors. Our task is to develop concepts, provide guidance in the course of action and implement the latter in agreement with the variety of stakeholders.

Apply for one of our exciting jobs in science management and, once you have been hired, benefit from the individually tailored modules of our structured onboarding programme:

Is this part-time entry-level programme in science management right for me?

You are …

about to complete your doctorate, a former postdoc or a young academic with a master's degree.
communicative and can imagine working at the interface between science and administration.
interested in conceptual and coordinating activities and enjoy advancing topics and tasks together with others.
interested in the international science system and the actors involved.
curious to take a look at various areas of science management.
willing to develop further, build new skills and gain a perspective in the science environment.

The programme offers you a practical introduction, in which you will be supported and mentored by experienced science managers in the field of corporate development: