Job Description

Your responsibilities

Besides its main focus on fundamental research in particle physics CERN also establishes connections to other science fields. The EVERSE EU project’s goal is to set up the European Virtual Institute for Research Software Excellence. CERN is partnering in this project in its role as a high energy physics research laboratory with other European institutions in biological, medical, environmental, social, human and other sciences.

Key aspects of EVERSE which are relevant to this job opening are:

• A collaborative ecosystem to ensure software and code quality assurance
• Code quality assurance to support reliable and reproducible results via policies and a framework to implement it
• Recognition for researchers and software engineers who implement research software and code quality assurance and best practices

A major objective of EVERSE will be to provide training infrastructure, guidance and education for researchers and software developers across the above fields.

In your role you will join the CERN IT department and together with our partners you will work on the capacity building aspects of the project. Activities include:

• Development of a training infrastructure
• Building of an inventory of existing training programs
• Curation and enhancement of training resources as well as
• Initiation of new trainings as needed

Another important aspect of the activity will be the establishment of a framework for the recognition of researchers and research software engineers who engage in best practices of software engineering.

Your profile

Skills

• Experience in design and development of web applications and related tools and infrastructure (ruby on rails, postgresql, docker, …)
• Work experience as training coordinator or training facilitator
• Very good planning and organising, as well as didactic skills
• Experience with modern training methodologies as well as e-learning platforms
• Diploma in Software Engineering / Web development combined with Training Management or vice versa
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills

Eligibility criteria:

• You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State.
• By the application deadline, you have a maximum of two years of professional experience since graduation in Software Engineering / Training Management (or a related field) and your highest educational qualification is either a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree.
• You have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.
• Applicants without University degree are not eligible.
• Applicants with a PhD are not eligible.

Additional Information

Job closing date: November 17, 2024 at 23:59 CET.

Contract duration: 24 months, with a possible extension up to 36 months maximum.

Working hours: 40 hours per week

Target start date: 01-January-2025

This position involves: Work during nights, Sundays and official holidays, when required by the needs of the Organization.

Job reference: IT-FTI-2024-174-GRAE

Field of work: Software Engineering and IT

What we offer

• A monthly stipend ranging between 5134 and 5647 Swiss Francs (net of tax).
• Coverage by CERN’s comprehensive health scheme (for yourself, your spouse and children), and membership of the CERN Pension Fund.
• Depending on your individual circumstances: installation grant; family, child and infant allowances; payment of travel expenses at the beginning and end of contract.
• 30 days of paid leave per year.
• On-the-job and formal training at CERN as well as in-house language courses for English and/or French.

About us

At CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, physicists and engineers are probing the fundamental structure of the universe. Using the world’s largest and most complex scientific instruments, they study the basic constituents of matter – fundamental particles that are made to collide together at close to the speed of light. The process gives physicists clues about how particles interact, and provides insights into the fundamental laws of nature. Find out more on http://home.cern.

Diversity has been an integral part of CERN’s mission since its foundation and is an established value of the Organization. Employing a diverse workforce is central to our success.