Vacancies

Current Vacancies at the Bonn Alliance Head Office

Currently we have no open vacancies.

Current Vacancies at Bonn Alliance Partner Institutions

1. Postgraduate Student Research Assistant (WHK) - Sustainable Consumption

Employing Institution: University of Bonn, ILR

Position:  Graduate Student Research Assistant (WHF; 19 h/week)

Application Deadline: March 10, 2022

  • Support the chair’s research associate in research activities on issues in the field of sustainable consumption (e.g. sustainability labelling, consumer motives/values, marketing) with a special focus on sustainable food,
  • Research and familiarisation with national and international research funding programmes,
  • Content and administrative support in preparing research articles and funding applications (e.g. co-writing, proofreading, formatting, revising),
  • Thematic literature research and preparation of literature lists and (systematic) literature reviews,
  • Support in establishing research cooperations (e.g. acquisition of practice partners),
  • Support in developing and pretesting quantitative-empirical research designs (e.g. choice experiments, surveys),
  • Support with other content and administrative tasks, as required (e.g. preparation/implementation/follow-up of workshops).
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2. Student Assistant - Drought risks in Europe

Employing Institution: United Nations University -Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS)

Position: Student Assistant (8-12 h/week)

Application Deadline: February 27, 2022

  • Under the guidance of the Head of the VARMAP section and the supervision of the project manager, the successful candidate will be entrusted with the following tasks:
  • Conduct desk study and literature review on drought risks and gaps in drought risk assessments (with a special focus on Europe);
  • Set up and maintain an online literature database (e.g. using Mendeley, Citavi or similar);
  • Support the preparation of expert and stakeholder consultations (workshop and interviews);
  • Support background research on drivers of drought risks (including hazard, exposure and vulnerability) for selected sectors and systems (e.g. agriculture, energy, etc…) in Europe;
  • Support the creation of conceptual models (impact chains) of drought risk for different sectors and systems;
  • Support the drafting of project deliverables and publications;
  • In addition, the selected candidate is expected to support any other duties as may be assigned or required in the VARMAP section of UNU-EHS.
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