Job Offer: Two Student Assistants for Project DiGA

The team of the research project DiGA based at the Center for Religious Studies (CERES) invites applications for the position of a two student assistant (studentische Hilfskräfte).

First Position

Tasks:

• literature search on Buddhism and the art of Gandāra
• building up a data collection and inventory of the corpus
• developing a terminology for describing the objects of research
• general support of the project team

Requirements:

• basic knowledge of Buddhism
• good knowledge of literature search including online databases
• good English and German language skills (oral and written)
• skills in reference management programmes (Citavi, Zotero a.o.) are an advantage

Second Position

Tasks:

• identification of applicaple technical vocabulary
• installation and administation of a test server
• installation of applicaple online databases
• data uploads and administration
• general support of the project team

Requirements:

• relevant experience in Linus servers
• relevant experience in setting up content mangement systems
• good English and German language skills (oral and written)
• experiences in the basics of Linked Open Data are an advantage

The working load of each position is 9 hrs per week. Both positions are temporary jobs and expire 31 October 2017.

Please send your application documents (including a tabular resume, a letter of motivation) with the headline "Bewerbung Hilfskräfte DiGA" to frederik.elwert@rub.de until 31 January 2016. Frederik Elwert (0234 32-23024) is also available to answer your questions.