Project Manager of the PUNCH4NFDI Consortium in the NFDI

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Project Manager of the PUNCH4NFDI Consortium in the NFDI

Limited: 31.12.2028 | Starting date: 01.01.2027 | ID: FHMA031/2026 | Deadline: 03.12.2026 | Full-time/Part-time | Remote work possible

DESY, with more than 2900 employees at its two locations in Hamburg and Zeuthen, is one of the world's leading research centres. Its research focuses on decoding the structure and function of matter, from the smallest particles of the universe to the building blocks of life. In this way, DESY contributes to solving the major questions and urgent challenges facing science, society and industry. With its ultramodern research infrastructure, its interdisciplinary research platforms and its international networks, DESY offers a highly attractive working environment in the fields of science, technology and administration as well as for the education of highly qualified young scientists.

The PUNCH4NFDI consortium aims at a sustainable utilisation of research data and the establishment of FAIR and open science for particle physics, astroparticle physics, astronomy, and hadron&nuclear physics. The consortium is part of the German national research data infrastructure (Nationale Forschungsdaten­infrastruktur, NFDI) and supported by around 35 institutions - university institutes, Max Planck institutes, Helmholtz centres, as well as Leibniz institutes. As project manager of PUNCH4NFDI, you are a central point of coordination. You oversee the execution of the consortium's work plan and build bridges to other consortia in the NFDI. You organise the internal procedures of the consortium, and you support the spokesperson of the consortium in technical and administrative matters, with the assistance of a project office at DESY. An important part of your work is in supporting the transition of the consortium into a new NFDI structure foreseen to become effective in 2029.