The Institute for Market Analysis of the Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute, Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries, located at Braunschweig is looking for a temporary employee to start on 1 May 2026 and work until 31 August 2028 a **Research Assistent agricultural science (w/m/d)** Part-time position with 50% of regular working hours (currently 19.5 hours/week) for work on the externally funded project "BioServicES".

The BIOservicES project will generate and provide new knowledge about the ecosystem functions and services associated with soil organisms. New indicators, tools, and incentives are being developed to identify and monitor the most important soil organisms that contribute to the provision of ecosystem services in European land use. Based on this, strategies and management measures can be selected to improve the provision of ecosystem services by important soil organisms in the context of climate change, and investments in soil health can be promoted.

The employment relationship is governed by the TVöD Bund (Federal Collective Agreement for Civil Servants) and, if the collective agreement and personal requirements are met, remuneration is based on **pay grade 13 TVöD Bund**.


**Job-ID:** J000000215
**Location:** Braunschweig
**Start date:** 01.05.2026
**Organization:** Institut für Marktanalyse (MA)
**Job Category:** Agricultural sciences
**Working hours:** Part time
**Published:** 21.11.2025


### Your responsibilities:

- Collaboration in establishing a transdisciplinary stakeholder community for co-design, co-creation, and co-learning to promote soil biodiversity, coordinated and guided by the project partners
- Development of an economic assessment framework for ecosystem services provided by soil and associated with soil organisms, taking into account different land use intensities and biogeographical regions, followed by an economic evaluation
- Collaboration on the analysis of European, national, and regional policy requirements and incentives to promote soil biodiversity management and investment
- Co-design and implementation of analyses of policy and economic strategies and programs to improve soil biodiversity- Development of policy recommendations for public and private incentives and policy measures at EU and national level to promote soil biodiversity
- Carrying out networking activities with other European research projects within the framework of relevant Horizon Europe missions and partnerships
- Preparing scientific publications, project reports, and policy briefs


### Your profile:

- completed university degree in agricultural sciences (M.Sc./ Univ.-Dipl.) or related fields of study, as well as a doctorate
- Experience in transdisciplinary research projects and co-creative approaches
- Experience in coordinating research projects and multi-stakeholder networks
- Knowledge of the interrelationships between soil biodiversity, ecosystem services, and the corresponding economic and political assessment and funding opportunities


**Your personal requirements profile:**


- Creativity and interest in creating new knowledge and new multi-stakeholder networks
- Ability to work in transdisciplinary and co-creative projects
- analytical thinking skills, critical judgment
- organizational skills and openness to transdisciplinary working methods
- Suitability for team- and project-based, independent work
- Ability to present complex issues clearly and comprehensibly in writing and orally in both German and English to different target groups
- very good written and spoken English and German language skills
- Willingness and ability to undertake extended business trips in Germany and abroad
- Driver's license


### Our offer:

- **Responsibility and a sense of purpos**e: responsible work in a dedicated team, involvement in a dynamic, interdisciplinary research institute and proximity to current policy and practice-relevant topics
- **Flexibility and work-life balance**: flexible working time models, fundamental possibility of part-time employment as well as mobile working and teleworking, certified employer berufundfamilie audit with a wide range of offers for reconciling work and life phases
- **Prospects**: further training opportunities for the area of responsibility and individual development
- **Benefits:** employment based on collective agreements with attractive social benefits (e.g. company pension cheme, one-off annual payment, capital-forming benefits)
- **Health:** company health management and preventative healthcare programmes
- **Mobility:** JobTicket, public transport connections, free parking spaces and the option of using e-charging stations


The Thünen Institute promotes professional equality between women and men and therefore expressly welcomes applications from women.

The Thünen Institute is committed to inclusion. Applications from people with severe disabilities are therefore expressly welcome. These will be given special consideration in the selection process.

If you have any questions or require further information, please contact Dr. Marie von Meyer-Höfer (email: marie.vonmeyer-hoefer@thuenen.de).

If you have an international degree, please also enclose a certificate evaluation from the Central Office for Foreign Education (ZAB) with your application. If you do not yet have a certificate evaluation, you must apply for one if your application is successful. You can find further information at  https://zab.kmk.org/de/zeugnisbewertung

If you are interested, please send us your application documents with a cover letter, tabular CV (outlining your education and professional career), copies of certificates (master's degree certificate, school leaving certificate, etc.), list of publications and references by 31 January 2026, quoting reference number 2025-261-MA, preferably electronically (as a single PDF document) to the following email address: **ma-bewerbung@thuenen.de.**

We are looking forward to receiving your application!