Training and Education Coordinator

MAX IV provides world-class instruments and methods for studies of matter. Our users, being experts in their fields of research, need access to targeted education and training on the theory and practice of the experimental methods and techniques used at the state-of-the-art facilities at MAX IV. Well-prepared and educated scientific users are key to successful experiments leading to impactful science. During a normal year we have more than 1500 individual users and this will continue to grow. MicroMAX is a beamline for (frontier) macromolecular crystallography, including serial crystallography, time-resolved experiments, and micro-crystallography, funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation. The funding includes an education and training initiative.

Would you like to work at one of the brightest lightsources in the world?

MAX IV is looking for a Coordinator Education and Training (life science) who will be centrally responsible to develop and conduct an education and training programme within the life sciences geared towards future scientific users of the life-science beamlines at MAX IV, particularly the MicroMAX beamline. Your tasks will include identifying training needs, planning course curricula for hands-on courses and training workshops, and preparing teaching material including on-line training resources. You will act as host for the students and teachers during the course, and dependent on your background and knowledge, participate in the teaching as well. You will contribute to MAX IV’s training activities in life sciences in a broader sense and contribute to the development of routines and toolboxes for training activities in all disciplines. We expect that you actively seek new collaborations and explore funding opportunities, which includes writing funding applications.

You will work in close contact with the scientific staff at the beamlines and other MAX IV staff.  MAX IV organizes training on its own as well as in collaboration with other departments at Lund University and other universities in Sweden and abroad. You therefore take care of several external contacts in your work.

To be successful in this role you need to have the following qualifications

• A life science background (master or PhD in a relevant field)
• Documented own experience as a teacher / teaching assistant within natural sciences
• Shown interest and actively participated in outreach activities
• Documented experience with organization of courses or other smaller educational projects in collaboration
• Experience with coordinating and writing funding applications in larger collaborations related to training and education
• You speak and write in English with very high proficiency (Europass C1-C2 level)

 
Below are seen as merits

• Experience in producing teaching material/course scripts or similar documentation
• Teaching/pedagogical courses that you have taken on a graduate or post-graduate level
• Proficiency of a Nordic language (Danish, Norwegian, Swedish or Icelandic) is a merit

Please try to be as specific as possible in your application and cover letter as to how you see that your individual education and experience connects to these qualifications and the work tasks.

As a person you are

• taking initiatives and can build relationships to achieve results
• an efficient communicator who can follow up on and collect information from others
• creative, while keeping focus on your work priorities and delivering results
• a good writer and able to provide clear, structured information in form of documents, presentations or online

We expect that most of the work is done during normal office work hours (we apply flexitime), but we expect flexibility in connection to travel for attendance of schools and workshops.

What we offer
When you join the MAX IV team, you step into a world of front edge science. We make the invisible visible by supporting scientist from all over the world, generating scientific results for the benefit of society. We offer you a multicultural work environment with great opportunities for personal development with respect for a healthy work-life balance.

Would you like to work in a challenging and supporting environment? Then join us and take the opportunity to make a real difference!


For further information, please visit:
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/about-lund-university/work-lund-university
www.sweden.se
https://www.maxiv.lu.se/about-us/careers/compensation-benefits/