SBL LabManager – Nederlands Herseninsituut – Amsterdam

Location: Amsterdam
Max hours per week: 36 hours per week
Max salary: € 3764,00
Duration of agreement: 1-3 years
Apply until: 23 April 2023

What you will be doing

Did you enjoy your master or PhD experience but feel that what excites you most is the managerial side of science? Then this job is for you! The lab is currently looking for a dynamic, enthusiastic, flexible and organized lab manager who will help the lab manage a variety of tasks.

What you will be contributing to

• Manage the lab external visibility by updating the website, coordinate social-media presence, help creating videos and other forms of outreach material.
• Organize and create informative guidelines, pipelines and shareable documents about best scientific practices, protocols, information for students and lab members
• Help with data management and curation, and with creating equipment inventories. 
• Organize scientific meetings within the lab and across the many collaborators
• Help with data collection, in particular for the human work (e.g. communicate with participants, create participant’s database, and handle the collaboration with the patients at the hospital). If the applicant has experience with fMRI, EEG or other techniques, there would be scope for direct data acquisition as well
• If the applicant has animal work experience, there would also be possibilities to help with standard procedures and handling

What we will expect from you

• Excellent organizational and social skills  
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English. 
• Familiarity with social media, and Teams-like platforms
• Highly motivated, energetic, detail orientated and capable to work and troubleshoot independently and collaboratively.
• Interest in social behavior and empathy, and in translational research
• Some knowledge of data curation.

What we will additionally value

• Fluent in Dutch 
• Flexibility in daily schedule and in mobility
• A PhD in related research fields  

What we will offer

• A stimulating international research environment
• Guidance, support and mentoring
• Possibility for training in fMRI data acquisition
• Possibility for training in TMS data acquisition
• Training in creating scientific figures
• Managerial job along with active scientific work
• National and International Networking opportunities 

Work Environment

The Social Brain Lab is the results of the joint venture of the research groups of Christian Keysers and Valeria Gazzola, aiming at shedding light on the neural mechanisms of empathy by combining studies in humans and rodents. The SBL is funded by multiple European (ERC, Marie Curie) and Dutch (VIDI, VICI, Gravity, XL) grants, and is characterized by an unusually diverse environment, with members from all over the world, backgrounds (ranging from philosophy to engineering with an emphasis on biology and psychology), and neuroscientific techniques (spanning from ultra-high field fMRI in humans to single-cell recordings in rodents). The Social Brain Lab currently includes, beside the two PIs, about 15 staff members (PhD and postdocs), 5 undergraduate students, 5 guest researchers and a wide network of collaborators. 

English is the working language of the research group and the institute and is extremely well spoken in the vibrant and international city of Amsterdam, creating an attractive, progressive and easy-to-integrate environment.

Appointment

The appointment requires a minimum of 22h a week on site, up to 36h, for a maximum of 3 years. The first appointment is for one year with the option for an extension pending on an evaluation. 

Application procedure

Only applications that have filled this form will be considered

Evaluation of candidates will begin immediately, and after about 4 weeks from the deadline candidates will be informed whether they passed the first round or not. Shortlisted candidates will receive, taking into account candidates’ availability, a short assignment to be done within 48h. Based on the results of the assignment, we will organize a 1h Zoom interview followed by a visit on site. We foresee a final decision to be communicated within three months after the first submission date. If no excellent candidate can be identified, we might re-advertise the position. 

About the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience

The Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience is the country’s leading fundamental neuroscience research institute, in the international and progressive city of Amsterdam. It provides a critical mass of scientists (spanning more than 27 nationalities) and neuroscience facilities, in a highly interactive, dynamic, multi-cultural environment, with English as the working language.

Terms of employment

Depending on education and experience the minimum salary is € 2471,00 and the maximum salary is € 3764,00 gross per month for a full-time appointment (scale 7/8 cao Nederlandse Universiteiten/KNAW). This is exclusive of 8% vacation allowance, 8.3% year-end bonus, travel allowance, internet allowance, home working allowance and pension accrual with ABP.

The KNAW offers its staff an excellent package of secondary benefits. A package that meets the different needs of employees depending on their stage of life, lifestyle or career ambitions. For example, by working an extra two hours a week, it is possible to increase the number of days off from 29 to 41 days a year (with full-time employment).

For a complete overview of the terms of employment, please refer to the web page: werken bij de KNAW.

Diversity & Inclusion

The KNAW considers a working environment in which everyone feels welcome and appreciated of great importance. A working environment in which attention is paid to individual quality and where development opportunities are paramount. Together we strive for an inclusive culture in which we embrace differences. We would therefore like to invite candidates who want to contribute to this through their background and experience. In the event of equal suitability, preference will be given to the candidate who thus enhances diversity within the Academy.

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