Archives

CEFRES IS HIRING AN ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

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

  • entering and archiving invoices, checking supporting documents, entering suppliers and recording payment requests via Elap (AGE) tool
  • follow-up of administrative and scientific team trip requests: preparation of requests, purchase of tickets and hotel reservations, calculation of expense statements and post-trip data entry
  • preparation of salary documents of 5 Czech employees, in direct contact with the firm in charge of payroll management and the accounting agency
  • placing orders with suppliers and monitoring of the cash register for the Center’s small expenses (including issuing appropriate administrative certificates)
  • follow-up of CEFRES invitations: drafting of invitation agreements, purchase of tickets
    and hotel reservations
  • logistical support for CEFRES events (setting up & preparing receptions)
  • ad hoc tasks on request (proofreading of administrative documents, minor translations)

Expected skills

  • Good command of French (spoken and written), English (read, written, spoken)
  • Proficiency in office automation tools (in particular Outlook, Excel)
  • Versatility and ability to handle several tasks simultaneously

Required qualities

  • Autonomy, precision, punctuality
  • Thoroughness and exactitude in administrative tasks
  • Communication skills, responsiveness and ability to work as part of a team
  • Respect for confidentiality and good presentation

Qualification

  • Studies in administrative management / economics or business / humanities or social sciences / OR experience in a similar position
  • Appetence for human resources, accounting and administrative management
  • Knowledge of Czech labor law and tax administration is a plus.

Conditions & benefits

  • 1-year fixed-term Czech law contract, with possibility of extension
  • part-time job according to candidate’s profile and needs: 28 to 36 h attendance / week
  • Flexible working hours
  • Gross salary 28 to 36k CZK / month
  • 21 to 25 days paid vacation
  • Long summer break with no scientific events
  • Professional training offered by the employer according to the candidate’s profile and needs
  • French language courses at all levels at the Institut français de Prague offered by CEFRES
  • Office in the center of Prague, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
  • Free access to the Kino 35 cinema at the Institut français de 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.

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: 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.

CEFRES Interdisciplinary Seminar

Session led by Mátyás Erdélyi.

The present seminar session investigates how social statistics were created, comprehended, and used for commercial and public purposes in Dualist Hungary. It explores different modes of quantification, the inter- or pre-disciplinary sights of scientific production, and power relations between competing expert and nascent professions. Central to this line of inquiry is the investigation of relations between statisticians and other notables (i.e. every person worth of attention and involved in the debate, be it a politician, businessman, any type of scholar) inclined to claim authority over the creation and political/economic use of social statistics. This session contributes to the overall discussions on the nature of interdisciplinarity by describing primeval workshops on interdisciplinarity and by showing how the search for timeless truths and objectivity can be deviated by political and economic interests amidst disciplinary competition.

Readings:

  • Theodore M. Porter. ‘Life Insurance, Medical Testing, and the Management of Mortality.’ In Lorraine Daston (ed). Biographies of Scientific Objects. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000, pp. 226-246.
  • Alain Desrosières. La Politique des Grands Nombres: Histoire de la Raison Statistique. Paris: La Découverte, 1993.

CEFRES Epistemological Seminar – introductive session

The first introductive session will be hosted by Jérôme Heurtaux (CEFRES’ director), Tomáš Weiss (IMS FSV UK) and Mitchell Young (IMS FSV UK) who will introduce the seminar and present general remarks about concepts and their uses in humanities and social sciences.

To introduce this session, we shall base our discussion on the following texts:

  • John Gerring, “What Makes a Concept Good? A Criterial Framework for Understanding Concept Formation in the Social Sciences”, Polity 31-3, 1999, p. 357-393.
  • Giovanni SARTORI, „ Concept Misformation in Comparative Politics“, The American Political Science Review, Vol. 64, No. 4. (Dec., 1970), pp. 1033-1053.

During this session, the program of the winter semester will be set up.