Project Assistant (d/f/m)

09.01.2025

Project Assistant TheMuseumsLab (d/f/m)

Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity (MfN), Berlin

The Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN) is an excellent and integrated research museum of the Leibniz Association with an international reputation and globally networked research infrastructure. It is active in three closely interlinked fields: collection-based research, collection development and cataloguing, and research-based public and educational work. Over the next ten years, the Museum für Naturkunde will realise its plan for the future. New laboratories and jobs for cutting-edge research will be created. At the same time, one of the world's most comprehensive natural history collections with over 30 million objects will be housed in modern collection buildings and completely digitized in the process. The implementation of the Future Plan, funded with a total of 660 million euros from the Federal Government and the State of Berlin, will only succeed with strong interdisciplinary national and international partners.

Become part of our team as

Project Assistant TheMuseumsLab (d/f/m)

• Work schedule: Full time
• Duration: third-party funding, at the earliest possible date until 31.12.2026
• Salary level: E 9b TV-L
• Code: 01/2025

Project Description:

TheMuseumsLab, a project for collaborative learning and knowledge exchange between African and European museum professionals, was launched in May 2021. Since then, the project has brought together diverse perspectives, skills, and expertise to create a space for open dialogue on how museums can confront their colonial histories, address contemporary social and global challenges, and work together toward shaping a more equitable future. The main goal is to build connections that link individuals, institutions, and nations across two continents, fostering engaged discussions on how museums can actively respond to their colonial pasts, meet current societal and global challenges, and collaboratively build a more equitable future.

Responsibilities:

• Calculation of project budgets for national and international funding agencies
• Planning, organizing, and implementing project accounting
• Compiling documents for external audits and other requirements
• Preparation, support, and follow-up of work/service contracts
• Preparation of meetings
• Administrative and organizational tasks in project management

Requirements:

• Completed studies in public administration, business administration, or a commercial education with relevant professional experience in project management or a similar field.
• Extensive experience with procurement procedures and administrative processes in the public sector.
• In-depth knowledge of service contracts, fee agreements, commissioning, procurement processes, and the allocation of funds.
• Strong understanding of national and international grant law, both from public and private donors.
• Basic knowledge of tax law, particularly VAT in the nonprofit sector.
• Excellent proficiency in German and English.
• Professional experience in managing third-party funds.
• Motivated, diligent, and independent approach to work
• Enthusiasm for collaborative teamwork
• Distinct Diversity competence

We offer you

• exciting working environment in an attractive research museum with varied tasks in a dynamic and future-orientated market
• very good public transport connections in the centre of Berlin
• extensive further training opportunities on a personal and professional level
• flexible working hours and a wide range of options for balancing work and family life (e.g., flexi-time or individual part-time models)
• depending on the job, mobile working is possible for up to 60 per cent of individual working hours
• remuneration according to TV-L with company pension scheme (VBL), special annual payment and capital-forming benefits
• employee events, company health management and German and English language courses
• 30 days' holiday plus 24 December and 31 December off

Special notes:

In support of equal rights applications from qualified women are particularly welcome. Handicapped individuals will be given preference in cases of identical qualifications.

We look forward to receiving your application with the usual documents (cover letter, curriculum vitae, certificates) by 26.01.2025 preferably via our online application portal

https://www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/en/jobs-and-career/jobs

For information on the application procedure, please contact re********ng@***.berlin.

Further information

Privacy Policy:

By sending your application, you provide us with your information for the purpose of processing your application by the Museum für Naturkunde. Your data will be kept strictly confidential at all times. Once we have received your application documents, they will be entered into our database. Your data will be stored on our server. In doing so, we observe the provisions of the data protection laws.

Information about the handling of applicant data at the MfN (in German)

and

Privacy policy for the MfN website (in German)

Family Policy:

The Museum für Naturkunde has set itself the goal of promoting a work-life balance and has been awarded the certificate berufundfamilie audit of berufundfamilie gGmbH - an initiative of the Hertie Foundation.

Further information can be found under:

https://www.naturkundemuseum.berlin/de/jobs-und-karriere/arbeiten-am-museum-fuer-naturkunde/audit-berufundfamilie (in German)