Call opens 15 June 2024
Deadline for submission: 15 July 2024
Publication of the results: 28 July 2024
Period: 1st October 2024—31st December 2025
Application Language: English
Address for submission: mateusz.chmurski@cefres.cz (send a copy to: claire.madl@cefres.cz)
One post-doctoral researcher will be recruited from 1 October 2024 for 15 months at CEFRES. She or He will be both affiliated to CEFRES and to a relevant department for his or her research at Charles University (UK). The selection of the post-doctoral researcher will be based on the quality of his or her research project and its adequation to the research area it intends to contribute to.
Charles University & CEFRES joint postdoctoral positions. Presentation of the program
Charles University (UK) and CEFRES jointly finance two high-quality post-doctoral research fellows who reside elsewhere than the Czech Republic when applying and have also defended their PhD dissertation in a university outside the Czech Republic. Both post-doctoral researchers are assigned to CEFRES as a hosting institution of the Post-Doc research program of Charles University: “Junior Fund”.
The present position is a 15-months contract starting on 1 October 2024 at CEFRES. The gross monthly salary is 40 173 CZK.
Eligibility criteria
- Be a high-level young researcher from abroad (resident of a country out of the Czech Republic), who defended a PhD dissertation no more than 5 years prior to the application deadline in a university outside the Czech Republic (exceptions to this rule apply for parental or medical leave; for other reasons please contact us directly).
- Conducting a research befitting one of the CEFRES Research areas
- Good command of English is mandatory, French is a plus.
Counterparts
UK-CEFRES post-doc research fellow is expected to:
- contribute through her or his own research to the research area, within which she or he applies;
- take part in the scientific life of the CEFRES;
- submit a yearly report on their research to the director of CEFRES;
- come to live in Prague from 1 October 2024
Evaluation
The applications will be evaluated by a commission chaired by CEFRES Director and composed of researchers from and outside of the CEFRES, to represent the applicants’ various disciplines.
This post-doctoral position is intended for researchers whose research project can be part of one of CEFRES’s three research areas:
1 – Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies: People, Knowledge & Practices
2 – Norms & Transgressions
3 – Objects, Traces, Mapping: Everyday Experience of Spaces
Research projects whose object is located in Central Europe, connected to this area and other areas or in comparison with other “cultural areas”, will be prioritized.
Application Package
Applicants must submit the complete application package consisting of the following elements:
- The application form duly filled in (to be downloaded here).
The application form includes the description of the personal research project and must:
- specify the CEFRES research area you want to apply to and how the personal project will benefit it
- include:
- an explanation on the methodology and inputs of your own research, as well as a selected bibliography (max. 1 page-long)
- expected outcomes (publications, conferences, and so forth).
- One letter of reference from the former PhD supervisor of the candidate. Please use the following model form to be downloaded here. The letter must mention the title of the PhD, the date of defense etc.
- A detailed CV
- A list of publications
- A copy of the PhD diploma
Application packages must be submitted by 15 July 2024 at 23:59 CET electronically in an email entitled “YOUR LAST NAME_CEFRES-UK” at: mateusz.chmurski@cefres.cz (send a copy to: claire.madl@cefres.cz). Please send the application form in both PDF and as a Word-document.
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: 12 to 20h attendance / week preferred
- Flexible working schedule apart from one fixed day at CEFRES
- 9 to 14 days’ annual leave
- long summer break 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
- Free access to the cinema Kino 35 at the French Institute in Prague
How to apply
- The position is to be filled no later than on 1/10/2024 · 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.
Calls for applications at CEFRES for 2015 are now published. For fellow researchers in France wishing to apply for a 2 to 6 month-long research residency at CEFRES, applications must be sent before July 15th.
See our call for applications.
Calls for applications at the CEFRES for the year 2015-2016 are now published.
- For Charles University’s and Czech Academy of Science’s doctoral students: (1.9.2015-31.8.2016, deadline June 20th 2015)
- For PhD students and post-doctoral researchers from France, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia: (1.9.2015-31.8.2016, deadline: June 20th 2015)
- For French researchers (duration: from 2 to 6 months, deadline: July 15th 2015)
See our calls for applications
The French National Research Agency has just published the second edition of the “Hosting High-Level Researchers” call. This funding instrument dedicated to individuals and open to all scientific fields enables “junior” or “senior” researchers from any country to carry out an ambitious research project in a reputed institution in France. The ANR funding is designed to help French laboratories fulfill their role as host and researchers to conduct their research.
See the description of the program on the site of the French National Research Agency.
See the 2015 call
Ten contracts for post-doctoral students are available at the EHESS starting from September 2015 for a year. Those jobs concern the different fields of the humanities and social sciences. They are available to young researchers who defended their PhD dissertation between January 1st 2012 and April 7th 2015, in a French of a foreign institution outside the EHESS.
Deadline for application’s submission: 11 May 2015.
See the call for applications on EHESS website
