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CEFRES is hiring a Communications Manager

CEFRES in a nutshell

  • a French public research institution with partnerships throughout Central Europe
  • an international research and administrative team (12 nationalities by 2024), developing cutting edge research projects in the humanities and social sciences
  • twenty in-house researchers & fifty associates
  • about fifty events a year
  • some twenty funding grants.

Responsibilities and tasks

  • Maintaining a dynamic content calendar with the administrative team;
  • Administrating CEFRES’s trilingual website, ensuring it is updated with the latest information, www.cefres.cz (WordPress);
  • Writing and producing engaging content for CEFRES’s trilingual accounts on social media (FB, Instagram, LinkedIn, X);
  • Producing visual contents (website, social media, posters and programs) for scientific events
  • Analyzing data to gauge content performance and proposing communication strategy in accordance

Expected skills

  • Exceptional written Czech skills (C2), French (C1 or B2) and English (C1 or B2),
  • In-depth knowledge of social media and their monitoring tools
  • Experience in translation
  • Experience in updating websites using content management systems
  • Experience in creating visual contents – video cuts if possible

Required qualities

  • Excellent interpersonal skills, proactive
  • Exacting and precise written skills,
  • Esthetic visual taste,
  • Reliable and autonomous,
  • Collaborative team player with a positive attitude.

Qualification

  • Degree in communication management / digital marketing / languages OR equivalent experience,
  • Enthusiastic interest in communication and translation;
  • A strong curiosity toward Humanities and Social Sciences is more than welcome.

Conditions & benefits

  • 1-year fixed-term Czech law contract, with possibility of extension
  • Part-time job according to candidate’s profile and needs: 15h attendance / week preferred
  • Flexible working schedule apart one fixed day at CEFRES
  • 14 days’ annual leave
  • Long Summer breaks with no scientific event,
  • Professional training offered by CEFRES according to the profile and needs of the employee
  • French language courses offered by CEFRES at the French Institute in Prague
  • An office in Prague city center, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
  • Reduced prices of access to the cinema Kino 35 at the French Institute in Prague

How to apply

  • The position is to be filled on 1/2/2025 · Send your CV and motivation letter in French to: Claire.madl@cefres.cz Subject:« Candidature au poste de chargé/e de communication et de traduction »; Cc mateusz.chmurski@cefres.cz.

Only selected applicants will be invited to be interviewed, in French.

CFA – Research and teaching stay at the EHESS in Paris in 2025

Call for applications: one month visiting professor at École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris

As part of the cooperation agreement between EHESS, CEFRES, Charles University in Prague and the Czech Academy of Sciences and the partnership between EHESS and CEFRES, concluded with the aim of intensifying Franco-Czech scientific exchanges in the field of humanities and social sciences, EHESS proposes the hosting of a teacher/researcher from a Czech academic institution for one month between February and June, or between October and December 2025, thanks to the support of the French Embassy in the Czech Republic.

Duration: One month
Period: February-June, October-December 2025
Applications are to be sent no later than: November 30, 2024

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CFA | CEFRES Residential Fellowships for Ukrainian Researchers in HSS

CFA | CEFRES Residential Fellowships for Ukrainian Researchers in Humanities and Social Sciences

The French Center for Research in Humanities and Social Sciences (CEFRES) in close collaboration with the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE), the French National Research Center (CNRS SHS) as well as the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (ÚSD AV ČR) and Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (ÚDU AV ČR) launches a program of residential fellowships in Prague dedicated to Ukrainian researchers in humanities and social sciences.

Duration: from 14 days to 2 months at CEFRES in Prague
Suggested periods: March 1-May 31 or September 1-December 15, 2024
Funding: 2 000 € / month (prorata temporis for shorter periods)
Housing: Offered by CEFRES in collaboration with the Czech Academy of Sciences’ Institutes of Contemporary History and of Art History
Deadline for submission of applications: January 31, 2024

Objective of the program

The goal of the new program is to offer the recipients of the non-residential fellowships comfortable conditions for developing research goal, accessing resources (archives, libraries, scientific events…)  in Prague and strengthening collaborations and contacts developed in the frame of the nonresidential fellowships program.

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CFA | TANDEM CNRS-SAV PROGRAM, 2026-2027

Due to a change in CNRS schedule, the deadline for submission of applications had to be brought forward and has been set for September 15, 2025 (23:59 CET)!

The Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV), the French Research Centre in Humanities and Social Sciences in Prague (CEFRES) and the CNRS Humanities & Social Sciences (CNRS HSS) are launching the second call for applications for the Tandem incubator program dedicated to researchers from the Slovak Academy of Sciences and CNRS.

 GOALS OF THE PROGRAM

The Tandem CNRS-SAV program endeavours excellency in social sciences and humanities by bringing together Slovak and French colleagues to intensify scientific collaboration between our countries in the frame of European Research Area. It benefits from the experience of two Czech-French Tandem program schemes at CEFRES, whose former members have obtained two ERC grants, incl. the BOAR project. Continue reading CFA | TANDEM CNRS-SAV PROGRAM, 2026-2027

AAC – Séjour de recherche au CEFRES des chercheuses et chercheurs de l’EHESS

Séjour de recherche et d’enseignement au Centre français de recherche en sciences sociales (CEFRES) de Prague

Dans le cadre de la convention de coopération entre l’EHESS et le CEFRES, qui inclut également l’Université Charles de Prague ainsi que l’Académie des sciences de la République tchèque, et pour intensifier les échanges scientifiques franco-tchèques dans le domaine des sciences humaines et sociales, le CEFRES propose l’accueil d’un/e enseignant/e-chercheur/se de l’EHESS pour deux à quatre semaines durant l’année 2025.

Durée du séjour : 2 à 4 semaines
Période du séjour : février-juin ou octobre-décembre 2025
Date limite d’envoi des candidatures : 15 mai 2024

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CFA – Postdoctoral Positions at CEFRES. 2025 Call

Call opens June 16, 2025
Deadline for submission: September 15, 2025
Publication of the results: beginning of October 2025
Period:
January 1, 2026-December 31, 2027
Application Language: English
Address for submission:  mateusz.chmurski@cefres.cz (send a copy to: claire.madl@cefres.cz)

Two postdoctoral researchers will be recruited from January 1, 2026 for two years at CEFRES. They will be both affiliated to CEFRES and to a relevant department for their research at Charles University (UK). The selection of both postdoctoral researchers will be based on the quality of their research project and its adequation to the research area or the research project it intends to contribute to. Continue reading CFA – Postdoctoral Positions at CEFRES. 2025 Call