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HiWi Stellen 5St./Woche flexibel (m/w/d)

  • Organization of International Conferences and Travel
  • Administrative Assistance
  • Website Design

We are hiring two staff members, so it is ideal but not required to be able to perform all tasks.

Responsibilities and tasks: 

  1. Assistance with organizing and logistics to prepare conferences at JGU Mainz (e.g., responding to emails from conference speakers, booking hotel rooms)
  2. Travel and reimbursement coordination (e.g., filling in reimbursement forms for books purchased for the project)
  3. Website/blog editing (e.g., creating a website for the DFG project)
  4. Literature procurement and scanning (e.g., ordering interlibrary loan materials, book scanning)
  5. Language proof-reading and editing (e.g., checking the German grammar of an email)

Desired profile:

    1. Ability to communicate in English and German
    2. Administrative assistance experience 
    3. Ability to locate and fill out appropriate JGU Mainz forms
    4. experience with website building and blogging
    5. experience coordinating meetings and conferences
    6. ability to work well in a team environment in a support role
  2.  

Who: The assistance is for two principal investigators, Prof. Justin Strong and Prof. Ruben Zimmermann, for the DFG project, “The Ancient Fable Tradition and Early Christian Literature,” hosted at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

Salary: 5 hours per week = ca. € 272.76/month (plus Christmas bonus, vacation entitlement). The position is available for the duration of the project, currently planned for 3 years. 

Start Date: ideally in June or July

Remote Work: Permitted with some exceptions

To apply:

  • submit a CV (Lebenslauf)
  • a short message of interest to Prof. Justin Strong and Prof. Ruben Zimmermann

Send to: fable.project@uni-mainz.de