Stellenticket Technische Universität Braunschweig

The objective of the collaborative project is to help to connect farmers, actors, policy makers, projects, and initiatives to speed up innovation and promote faster, wider co-creation and transposition of innovative solutions on sustainable soil and farm management into practice. Soil-X-Change, initiated by EIP-AGRI Operational Group practitioners (OGs), will enhance and exchange the knowledge of the main actors. It will collect, combine, harmonise, analyse and integrate the results and data products developed by the different EIP-AGRI OGs and the project partners and disseminate and share innovative practices across 9 member countries. Furthermore, Soil-X-Change will bring together EIP OGs and key stakeholders working on sustainable soil and farm management to create an EU-wide network, share knowledge, and introduce ready-to-use practices that will enable farmers to make the right decisions related to agricultural production practices.
In addition to supporting the other work packages, the main responsibility of the ATB work package will be to collect, analyse and present ready-to-use farming methods and develop adaptation pathways to facilitate their outscaling to farmer’s needs of other regions and EU countries.

Your responsibilities

• Independent and autonomous research activity on innovative methods of sustainable soil and farm management in the EU
• Establishment and maintenance of a pan-European network of agricultural stakeholders
• Collect the needs and barriers of farmers and practitioners to apply methods of sustainable soil and farm management
• Development of guidelines to adapt these methods to specific circumstances in other regions and EU countries
• Organisation of stakeholder workshops and presentation of project results
• Publication of results in scientific and practice-oriented journals

Your qualification profile

• Very good master degree in the field of agronomy or related subjects
• Knowledge and experience or willingness to become familiar with methods of sustainable soil and farm management
• Willingness to get in contact with agricultural stakeholders (authorities, farmers, service providers, policy makers, scientists) of different European countries
• Experience with stakeholder interviews desirable
• Knowledge and experience in writing articles for both, scientific and practice-oriented journals
• Very good written and spoken English skills, knowledge of another European language is of advantage
• Independent work, personal commitment, reliability, flexibility as well as the ability to work in a team and willingness to cooperate are required
• Willingness to travel into other EU countries
• Confident use of MS Office programs
• European driving license class B

We offer

• An attractive, interdisciplinary working environment in a mixed team of experienced and young scientists and technicians
• Excellent infrastructure for carrying out scientific work
• Access to national and international networks for your scientific career
• Family-friendly working conditions that promote the compatibility of work and family life
• Company-owned electric bicycles and business cars for work trips
• Subsidy for the VBB company ticket or Deutschland-Ticket
• Our institute is located on the edge of a picturesque park-like landscape and is easy to reach by public transport or by bike

The position is part-time (75%) and limited to three years. The salary depends on your qualifications and professional experience according to TV-L up to salary group 13.
For further information please contact Dr. Sebastian Vogel (E-Mail: svogel@atb-potsdam.de) and visit our website www.atb-potsdam.de.
If you would like to participate in our interdisciplinary research, please apply by September 30, 2023 using ATB’s online application form for the job advertisement, code 2023-4-6, at https://www.atb-potsdam.de/en/career/vacancies .
Equality of opportunity is part of our personnel policy. Disabled applicants with adequate qualification will be preferentially considered.
By submitting an application, you agree that your job application documents will be stored for a period of six months, even in the case of an unsuccessful application. Further information on the processing, storage and protection of your personal data can be found at https://www.atb-potsdam.de/en/services/data-protection-declaration-for-the-application-process.