The Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities at the Austrian Academy of Sciences offers the following new position:

Research Associate (f/m, full time), deadline: 15.07.2016

Department “Variation und Wandel des Deutschen in Österreich (VWDiÖ)”

Your tasks

• assistance in the central research areas of the research department “Variation and Change of German in Austria”
• editorial management of the working group “Dictionary of Bavarian Dialects in Austria” (WBÖ)
  (including the text-technological reconceptualisation of the dictionary)
• coordination, organisation and communication tasks within the research department
  (consisting of postdocs, predocs, non-scientific personnel, student employees)
  as well as in cooperation with other working groups at the ACDH
• organisation of project meetings (of different constellations and sizes), conventions, conferences and symposia
• acquisition of third-party funding (independently and as part of the team)
• obtaining an additional scientific qualification (habilitation or other equivalent postdoctoral qualification)

Your profile

• doctoral degree with excellent marks in the subject of German philology /
  German studies with a main focus on German linguistics
• Research focus in one or more of the following areas
  (verifiable through dissertation, project experience, final paper for a degree, publications, etc.):
  variation linguistics, dialectology, lexicography, corpus linguistics
• actual or planned research project with great scientific relevance and innovation
  within the field of variation linguistics as well as relevant to the research department
• openness to the newest developments in the field of digital humanities
• very good knowledge of German, very good knowledge of English

Desired additional qualifications:

• experience in the conception and execution of research projects and/or leading project tasks is of an advantage
• experience in the area of text technology (digital humanities) is of an advantage
  (especially in the area of scientific data management, web technologies, visualisation of linguistic data)
• Research focus on (east) Upper German is of an advantage

Personal requirements

Leadership and management skills, teamwork, integration capacity, independence, reliability, ability to work under pressure, flexibility
Application documents

• CV
• letter of motivation including career plan
• documentation of academic success (transcripts)
• publication list as well as the three most important publications
  (including a description of their relevance for the further development of German linguistics)
• a short description of research projects carried out to date
• a short description of research projects and/or research focuses planned for work carried out within the research department
• three possible references (letters of reference)
• where appropriate a letter of recommendation

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