Academic Staff Member bei Universität Potsdam

The successful candidate will work 40 hours per week (100 %). The position is classified within
remuneration group 13 of the collective wage agreement among the German federal states
(“Tarifvertrag für den öffentlichen Dienst der Länder” – TV-L). The fixed term of employment is
in accordance with Section 2 subsection 1 of the German Act on Fixed-Term Employment
Contracts in Science and Academia (Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz or WissZeitVG.

Your Field of Work:
We are delighted to announce an exciting opportunity to join our ERC Consolidator Grant pro-
ject, “STATE-DNA: Origins and Consequences of Structural Change in Government”. This pro-
ject explores the inner structures of ministerial administrations (i.e., ministries and agencies)
and their changes over ~200 years and across six countries (France, Germany, Japan, Neth-
erlands, Norway, and the UK). It investigates the causes of change as well as its effects on
government policy and exploits primarily text (multilingual) data.

We are seeking a highly motivated and dedicated academic staff member to join our inter-
disciplinary team of project and student researchers, with a specific skillset in qualitative and/or
quantitative data analysis. We work with historical case studies as well as text data from par-
liaments, governments, and ministerial bureaucracies and aim to contribute to debates on state
formation and state-building, the structure and organization of government, comparative policy
(agendas), and executive politics.

The Scope of Your Responsibilities:
• Preparing and running (semi-)automated data collection, data analyses, and visualization

• independent research on topics that are covered by the project (e.g., (administrative) state

capacity, policy agendas, executive politics, etc.)

• active participation in and support of the wider Research Group on Comparative Govern-

Your Qualifications:
• Master’s or equivalent in a relevant discipline (e.g., Political Science, Public Administration,

Political Economy, Sociology, Data Science, (Digital) Humanities)
• Completed successful PhD in a relevant discipline (e.g., Political Science, Public Admin-

by the University of Potsdam to refine your subject-specific and interdisciplinary
competencies for professional as well as personal growth.

• All campuses have good transport connections. You can receive a monthly subsidy for the

public transport job ticket and use our