Research Associate 100%

Dieses Stelleninserat von Familie Larsson-Rosenquist Stiftung wurde von unserem Impact-Team für dich kuratiert.

Warum ist das ein Futurejob? Du hilfst, wissenschaftliche Evidenz zu Stillen und Muttermilch in belastbare Daten, Forschungsprojekte und öffentlich nutzbare Ressourcen zu übersetzen. Der Hebel liegt darin, Wissen so aufzubereiten, dass es Praxis, Förderung und Mutter-Kind-Gesundheit international mitprägen kann.

The Family Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and promoting breastfeeding and breastmilk. Our work is international, science-based, and carried out in collaboration with global experts. Together, we build publicly available, sustainable resources designed to help drive changes in practice that increase breastfeeding rates and improve the health of mothers and babies worldwide.

Are you seeking a career dedicated to advancing maternal and child health and infant nutrition? If so, we look forward to receiving your application.

To complement our small, collaborative and ambitious team in Frauenfeld, we are looking for a committed, proactive, and flexible individual to support our research team on a 100% basis.

Your responsibilities

• Act as a project manager to monitor, coordinate, and co-lead research projects funded by the Foundation, ensuring scientific quality, timely progress, and effective collaboration with grantees and partners
• Further develop and maintain our internal scientific knowledge management system and research datasets
• Contribute to the development and ongoing updating of an information system for generating and evaluating global data related to the Foundation’s funding areas (health data, macro- and socio-economic indicators, systems analyses)
• Consolidate, review, and evaluate current scientific literature
• Support the Foundation’s scientific communication by preparing and editing scientific reports, presentations, publications, and other scientific materials in German and English
• Summarize data in various formats including reports, tables, charts, and graphics
• Assist in preparing presentations and publications to disseminate research findings to scientific and technical audiences
• Support the team on matters related to human sciences and research methodology
• Participate in the evaluation of grant applications from a human sciences perspective
• Perform additional duties as requested by the team

Your profile

• Relevant degree in the life sciences (Bachelor’s or Master’s), e.g. biology, medicine, food science, biochemistry, molecular biology, etc.
• Experience in research in the human sciences
• Experience and interest in scientific writing and communication is a plus
• Excellent Excel skills; strong MS Office skills; experience with programing is of advantage
• Motivation to familiarize yourself with the subject of breastfeeding and breastmilk
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in German and English
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a small team environment
• Motivated, self-reliant, highly reliable, flexible, creative, and enthusiastic about supporting the implementation of programs in Switzerland and internationally
• You have the excellent interpersonal skills necessary to thrive in a small, ambitious team environment

Our offer

We invite you to join us for a varied, challenging role with global perspective in an unusual subject area. We are a motivated and committed team with vision, the drive to contribute to something bigger than ourselves and the opportunity to tackle new tasks repeatedly.

Have we sparked your interest? We look forward to receiving your electronic application sent to Dr. Michaela Turan.

michaela.turan@larsson-rosenquist.org

Contact
+41 52 511 30 72

Themen: Datenanalyse, Forschungsmanagement, Frauenfeld, Gesundheitsforschung, Mutter-Kind-Gesundheit, Muttermilch, Public Health, Stiftung, Stillen, wissenschaftliche Kommunikation