Job Offer: Two Student Assistants for BuddhistRoad

The EU funded research project BuddhistRoad invites applications for the position of two student assistants (studentische Hilfskraft, SHK) for 10 hrs/week.

Tasks:

• assisting the Principal Investigator of the project Prof. Dr. Carmen Meinert and her research team in admistrative and research related work
• assisting with updating the project's data base and project management software
• support for organising events
• support for preparing field work trips
• support in research, literature supply, editioning of publications

Requirements:

• in-depth interest in Buddhism in pre-modern Central Asia (best to verify with attending classes of Prof. Dr. Meinert)
• excellent English and German language skills (oral and written)
• high amount of self-organization and social competences
• first skills in data base softwares and/or editing texts for publications
• basic knowledge of at least one classical Asian languages (e.g. Tibetian, Sanskrit, Chinese, Uyghur)

Please send your application in one pdf-file to ina.heisterkamp@rub.de until 15th of August 2017.