Berner Fachhochschule
Bern
Postdoc & Scientific Coordinator (80-100%)
- 22 October 2026
- 80 – 100%
- Bern
Job summary
Join the THRIVE project, funded by Horizon Europe, focusing on digital practices and youth. Enjoy a collaborative environment with diverse teams across Europe.
Tasks
- Lead project coordination among 13 European partners effectively.
- Facilitate communication and organization of meetings and workshops.
- Conduct research, focusing on mixed methods and AI-supported interventions.
Skills
- PhD in Information Systems, HCI, Psychology, EdTech, or related fields.
- Strong organizational and proactive project management skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
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About the job
What you'll be doing here
- Take a central role in the delivery of THRIVE, a newly funded Horizon Europe project tackling a timely and urgent topic: investigating how adolescents' everyday digital practices impact self-regulated learning and emotional well-being.
- Lead scientific project coordination across 13 European partners, managing work packages, milestones, dependencies and deadlines.
- Facilitate collaboration and communication among international research partners and stakeholders, including organising and moderating meetings and workshops.
- Conduct and lead research publication projects.
- Apply research methods and contribute to mixed methods research designs, longitudinal data collection and analysis, and the development and evaluation of human-centred AI-supported interventions.
What you'll bring with you
- PhD in Information Systems, Human- Computer Interaction (HCI), Psychology, EdTech or a related discipline.
- Strong organisational and coordination skills, a proactive and independent working style, and ideally experience managing international, interdisciplinary or multi-stakeholder projects.
- Excellent communication, facilitation and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to take ownership, foster collaboration and drive complex projects forward in uncertain environments.
- Experience in mixed-methods approaches, longitudinal studies, conference and journal publishing processes.
- Excellent written and spoken English (C1); German is an advantage for data collection.
To start with, here are some of our strong points
- An almost unbelievably large variety of themes and topics and a great mix of research and teaching.
- Plenty of contact with eager young people from all over the world who are set on achieving things.
- Responsibility in hugely exciting projects for the future attracting attention beyond the professional world.
- National and international networks and contacts with business, economy, society and the political world.
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