Postgraduate or Postdoctoral Research Associate (Senior Scientist) / Reference Code 166

Organisation: Universität für Bodenkultur

Research Field: Agricultural sciences - Forest sciences

Country: Österreich

Type of Contract: Permanent

Job Status: Full-time

Hours per week: 40

Offer Starting Date: 1 October 2025

Reference Number: 166

Workplace: Wien und Forchtenstein

Application Deadline: 5 September 2025

The Department of Ecosystem Management, Climate and Biodiversity, Institute of Forest Demonstration Centre Rosalia is currently seeking a Postgraduate or a Postdoctoral Research Associate (Senior Scientist).

Extent of employment: 40 hours per week

Duration of employment: 1st of October 2025 - permanent

Allocation in compliance with the Collective Agreement for University Staff to job group: B1 or B1 lit. b

Gross monthly salary: depending on previous eligible experience at least without doctorate B1 Euro 3.714,80, with doctorate B1 lit. b Euro 4.932,90, payable 14 times per year

Responsibilities

• Responsibility for teaching, research and administration
• Reorganisation of the Rosalia Teaching Forest Centre as a cooperative research infrastructure BOKU Research & Training Forest
• Further development of the eLTER site in Rosalia in the context of establishing the European eLTER research infrastructure as an ERIC
• Coordination and harmonisation of research activities
• Communication and coordination with ÖBf AG as landowner
• Coordination of maintenance, repair and expansion or optimisation of the research infrastructure
• Management and coordination of other infrastructure, including buildings
• Budget management
• Participation in the acquisition of research projects
• Promotion awareness of the BOKU Teaching and Research Forest Rosalia through stakeholder management and third-mission activities
• Writing reports and raising third-party funds for the procurement of research infrastructure
• Support for teaching activities and workshops
• Communication and coordination with university steering bodies, for example the scientific advisory board
• Research data management
• Professional management and responsibility for the staff assigned to the Rosalia Teaching Research Centre

Required skills and qualifications

• Doctorate degree or PhD in Forestry or diploma degree in Forestry with appropriate professional experience or other equivalent university degree
• Fluent German and English skills

Desired skills and qualifications

• Theoretical and practical experience in the planning, acquisition and coordination of field research projects
• Experience in project and infrastructure management including reporting
• Experience in the field of science communication
• Independent working style, high level of motivation and ability to work in a team
• Strategic thinking and problem-solving skills

Please send your job application including motivation letter and CV, summarized in one file, to Personnel Management, Peter-Jordan-Strasse 70, 1190 Vienna, E-Mail: recruiting@boku.ac.at, Reference Code 166.

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