Would you like to help us at the Center for Landscape Research in Sustainable Agricultural Futures (Land-CRAFT)?

Department of Agroecology at Aarhus University, Denmark, is looking for 3-4 student assistants for the Center for Landscape Research in Sustainable Agricultural Futures (Land-
CRAFT). The positions are available from August 1st, 2024, or as soon as possible thereafter and will be for a period of 2 years.

The Center for Landscape Research in Sustainable Agricultural Futures (Land-CRAFT)
at Aarhus University addresses three of our major societal challenges - food security,
climate change, and loss of biodiversity. With Center partners from University of Copenhagen, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany), and Colorado State University (USA), we bring together expertise in climate impact research, landscape analyses, biogeochemistry, agronomy, biology, and geography to develop solution-oriented research that extends across multiple spatial and temporal scales.

Established in June 2022, Land-CRAFT is building a collaborative team to undertake both fundamental and applied research aimed to reduce the environmental impact of agricultural systems, specifically regarding greenhouse gas emissions. To achieve our goals, we are using a combination of empirical, field-based approaches, digital technologies, including modelling and remote sensing, while closely interacting with stakeholders.

We need 2-3 student assistants for helping us with the administrative, experimental and survey tasks, and 1 student assistant for helping our engineer with developing greenhouse gas measurement systems and software for the data analysis.

Job description

Your main tasks for the administration/experimental support are:

assisting in field measurements as we develop our projects
assisting in the laboratory experiments
assisting with the communication tasks (website, social media, etc.)
assisting with our events like workshops, meetings, etc. (both preparation and service on the day)
assisting with onboarding and offboarding our (international) guests/employees
assisting with public outreach and activities regarding high school students
various ad hoc tasks from the Center Management
farmer workshop facilitation assistance in socio-economic projects

Your main tasks for the tool/software development support are:

assisting in field measurements as we develop our projects,
supporting the laboratory experiments,
assisting our engineer with developing tailor-made greenhouse gas measurement equipment and software for retrieving/analysing the data collected in our experiments.

Your profile

We expect that

you are a student in Agrobiology, Biology, Ecoscience, Environmental Sciences or similar for the administration/experimental support, and you are a student in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronic Engineering or similar for the technical support
you are service oriented,
you are interested in communication with a variety of people including students, farmers and other stakeholders
you have good English and/or Danish skills (Danish is an advantage if you will work on our socio-economic projects for survey analysis and farmer workshops, etc.; workshop facilitation experience is a plus.)
you are motivated by working on projects, where overall aim is to support the green transition of agriculture,
you have worked with TYPO3, or you have a flair for developing website content (for the admin support).

Please specify in which area you would like to support us.

Expected start date and duration of employment

This is a fixed part-time student assistant position. We welcome applications independent of which semester you are in your studies, but we hope to be with you for more than one semester.

Weekly working time will be 8 to 12 hours, but the number of hours can vary.

Place of work

The employment will be at Department of Agroecology. The main place of office work is Ole Worms Alle 3, 8000 Aarhus, and the field experiments might vary in location, but will mostly be in Foulum.

Contact information

For more information feel free to contact the Center Manager, Gülnur Dogan-Hansen, email:gulnur@agro.au.dk, Phone: +45 9358 8335.

Deadline

All applications must be received no later than May 15th, 2024.

Formalities and salary range

Salary and terms as agreed between the Danish Ministry of Taxation and the Union of Commercial and Clerical Employees in Denmark/State (HK/Stat) for clerical staff, laboratory technicians and IT employees and the joint collective agreement concluded between the Danish Ministry of Taxation and the Organisations of Public Employees - Denmark - Danish State Sector (the OAO-S joint collective agreement).

Aarhus University’s ambition is to be an attractive and inspiring workplace for all and to foster a culture in which each individual has opportunities to thrive, achieve and develop. We view equality and diversity as assets, and we welcome all applicants.

The application must be submitted via Aarhus University’s recruitment system, which can be accessed under the job advertisement on Aarhus University's website.

Aarhus University

Aarhus University is an academically diverse and research-intensive university with a strong commitment to high-quality research and education and the development of society nationally and globally. The university offers an inspiring research and teaching environment to its 38,000 students (FTEs) and 8,300 employees, and has an annual revenues of EUR 935 million. Learn more at

Student assistants at Land-CRAFT