Applications are invited for a 12 -month Task Co-ordinator position on the NG’IPALAJEM job, funded by the ERC. The job aims at collecting new palaeontological, historical and geological data in the area and in museums to tackle inquiries concerning human evolution in Africa in the last million years and is led by Prof. Marta Mirazón Lahr. Additional details concerning the project and its collaborative companions can be discovered at: https://www.palaeotrails.org/current-projects/ngipalajem/
The successful prospect will be an integral component of the Ng’ipalajem team, providing extensive administrative and organisational assistance to the job, making sure the reliable sychronisation of activities, events, and communications. They will certainly oversee the management of task milestones, documents, and economic processes, while maintaining accurate data sources, web sites, and documents in line with college policies and treatments. As a key point of contact, they will certainly liaise with stakeholders and companion establishments, support the prep work of reports, allows, and applications, and facilitate engagement throughout the task team. They will also play a central role in organising meetings, workshops, and meetings, along with handling promotion and dissemination activities, consisting of via social networks. Additionally, the successful prospect will execute human resources and pay-roll administration, provide management support to the Principal Detective and committees, help with accurate transcription and organisation of research information, and add to the smooth running of the bigger task group. Candidates need to have superb organisation skills, focus to information, capability to deal with their own initiative and as component of a group, outstanding social abilities, computer system skills (spreadsheets and databases), outstanding written and dental interaction abilities, and be prepared to invest time periods in Kenya.
The successful candidate will certainly be based at the Henry Wellcome Structure, Department of Archaeology, College of Cambridge, and be prepared to hang out in Kenya aiding in the collection of information or during the task’s fieldwork.
Fixed-term: The funds for this article are readily available for 12 months in the very first instance.
Starting day must be no later than 15 th November 2025
Once a deal of employment has been accepted, the successful candidate will certainly be called for to undertake a health evaluation.
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Closing date for application is: Friday 17 October 2025
Interviews will certainly be held on-line soon after the closing date.
Informal queries enquiries should be resolved to: Prof. Marta Mirazà ¿  ¿ à ¿  FIVE n Lahr, mbml 1 @cam. ac.uk
If you have any type of questions pertaining to the application procedure please contact [email protected]
Please quote referral JC 47509 on your application and in any correspondence about this openings.
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