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Managing Director (f/m/div) of the DFG Infrastructure Priority Programme “New Data Spaces for the Social Sciences” (SPP 2431) Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories
The Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories is offering a position (salary max. E 14 TV-L, 100 %) limited until 30 April 2030 (subject to approval of the second three years of the six-year funding period). The position is based in the central management and coordination project within a long-term priority programme. The programme may also be extended for another six years.
Managing Director (f/m/div) of the DFG Infrastructure Priority Programme “New Data Spaces for the Social Sciences” (SPP 2431)
The Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi), with about 250 employees, is an independent research and infrastructure institution for empirical educational research and a member of the Leibniz Association. The core of the institute is the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), the largest long-term educational study in Germany.
Your work environment
“New Data Spaces for the Social Sciences” (SPP 2431) is a multi-local programme distributed across several institutes and universities in Germany. Coordination and management of the Priority Programme are located at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) in Bamberg. The programme aims to drive a surge in innovation by improving, enhancing, and combining existing panel data infrastructures and emerging data sources to develop new data spaces for social science research. It integrates and consolidates skills, knowledge, and expertise from different fields of empirical social research and computer science and provides the means to test new methods and procedures of data generation and data analytics.
The position is located in the Coordination and Management Project (CONNECT) of the programme. The Managing Director will work in close cooperation with the speaker of the programme, Prof. Dr. Cordula Artelt, Director of LIfBi, and the other members of the programme committee: Prof. Dr. Corinna Kleinert (LIfBi), Prof. Dr. Stefan Liebig (Freie Universität Berlin), Prof. Dr. Alexander Mehler (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt), Prof. Dr. Reinhard Pollak (Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, GESIS). The programme committee and Managing Director are also in charge of coordinating the programme’s central project ENTAILab, the programme’s core infrastructural service and research centre. ENTAILab integrates four measures: (1) Build on and Develop Existing Panel Studies, (2) Research-driven Infrastructure for Advanced Survey-related Data (CIRCLET), (3) Protection and Data Ethics, and (4) Results for Future Data Spaces and Open Science. The Managing Director will also work in close cooperation with ENTAILab Measure 4 to ensure that the knowledge and best practices developed in the “New Data Spaces” programme are compiled, summarized, and made available to the scientific community and the public. For more information on the programme and CONNECT, visit: www.new-data-spaces.de.
Your tasks
The Managing Director will be responsible for
- Ensuring coordinated processes and facilitating collaboration within and between the SPP projects, together with the programme speaker and the members of the programme committee, including the coordination of ENTAILab
- Conceptualizing, initiating, organising, and coordinating annual meetings, workshops, conferences, and regular Scientific Advisory Board meetings for knowledge transfer and networking with the international scientific community
- Coordinating, organizing, and accounting for the central network funds and exchange initiatives, such as interdisciplinary research tandems and short-term grants for travel
- Science communication (public affairs) and dissemination in cooperation with ENTAILab Measure 4 and in consultation with the programme speaker and other members of the programme committee
Together with their team (one administrative support position and two student assistants), the Managing Director might also be responsible for coordinating central output of the programme and supporting the dissemination of projects findings.
Your profile
- A doctorate in a relevant subject area (e.g., social sciences, psychology, educational research, or computer science)
- Strong facilitation and networking skills to proactively foster synergies, manage community building, and organize high-impact scientific exchange formats
- Experience in science communication
- Experience in the field of survey methods
- Interest in, and ideally experience with, questions of (longitudinal) empirical social research and panel studies, survey data, data protection and ethics, and open science
- Excellent knowledge of English, the ability to work in and coordinate interdisciplinary and multi-local teams, and extensive experience in project management
- Excellent knowledge of German (CEFR level C4)
We offer
- Integration into a highly visible third-party funded project, including possibility of intensive networking in seminal subject areas highly relevant for society with a network of national and international collaboration partners
- Extensive opportunities, support, and good conditions for further professional development
- Performance-related remuneration according to the collective agreement of the federal states (TV-L) as well as a company pension plan with VBLU
- Flexible working hours and opportunities for mobile working
- Working in the socially relevant field of educational research and in a region with a high quality of life
- Modern equipped offices, social rooms, company health promotion, parent-child room, etc. for a pleasant working environment (details about our social benefits at https://www.lifbi.de/en-us/Start/Career)
LIfBi advocates gender equality and staff diversity. Our institute promotes the compatibility of family, care, and career through flexible working and part-time models.
Your contact
Please send your meaningful application by 7 June 2026 via our online form.
If you have any questions about the position and programme, please contact Dr. Anika Schenck-Fontaine (+49 951 70060-340, anika.schenck-fontaine@lifbi.de) or the programme speaker, Prof. Dr. Cordula Artelt (+49 951 70060-001, cordula.artelt@lifbi.de).
The interviews are scheduled to take place in calendar week 26.
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