Do you have a solid background within microbiome research, along with a genuine interest in supporting researchers? Do you have experience with people management?

If the answers are ‘yes’, then apply for this exciting position at the DTU National Food Institute.

The DTU National Food Institute is coordinating a big international research initiative funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation and entitled the Microbiome Heath Initiative (MHI). We are looking for a scientific centre coordinator to assist the centre leadership with a variety of tasks. Additionally, the scientific centre coordinator will head the research promotion unit at our institute, which currently employs 4 people. This small and highly skilled team assists our researchers with grant applications and post-grant administration and helps the institute management with specific tasks related to research promotion. 

The Job
As scientific centre coordinator, you will be working closely together with the centre leadership and the international partners, providing them with the support they need, and coordinating the many tasks of the centre. This can include planning of scientific meetings and committee meetings, coordination of joint publication writing, prioritization of new research initiatives, as well as administrative tasks, which will be carried out in close collaboration with the centre administrator. 

You will additionally be leading the research promotion unit at the DTU National Food Institute, which works with a high degree of autonomy and in close collaboration with our researchers in a variety of activities related to pre-grant and post-grant activities such as proposal drafting and steering committee meetings. 

Our expectations of you
To be considered for the position, you have:

• A PhD degree within microbiology or microbiome research
• Experience and genuine interest in people-management
• Experience with financial tasks
• Desire and ability to work in a proactive, supportive, and coordinating role
• Good skills in prioritizing and planning your tasks in an often busy and unpredictable workday
• A good command of English, written and spoken, as well as understanding of Danish.

As a person, you are highly responsible and thrive on providing the best support in collaboration with your colleagues. You are cheerful and positive, a team-player, and have a good overview as well as an eye for details. You also willingly take on both large and small practical tasks.

What we offer in return
You will get a developing job with influence on your own work and very varied tasks, which you plan together with the MHI centre leadership and coordinate with your colleagues in the research promotion unit. We emphasize high quality in the work and a good working environment. 

The DTU National Food Institute has 14 research groups conducting research, teaching, and research-based consultancy to national and international authorities in the food and health area, including for example bioactive substances, nutrition, food production technology, chemical food analysis, microbial biotechnology, and reproductive toxicology.

You will thus be part of an exciting and relevant university environment where new knowledge about food and health is created, as well as of a research centre working with groundbreaking research into the intestinal microbiome in setting involving partners in four countries. 

Salary and appointment terms
The appointment will be based on the collective agreement with the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (AC). You are employed as a Senior Executive Manager.

The position is a full-time position. The starting date is 1 august 2025 (or according to mutual agreement).

The workplace is DTU Lyngby Campus.

Application and contact
Please submit your online application no later than Thursday 22 May 2025 . Open the “Apply now” link, fill out the form and attach your motivated application, CV and exam certificates. 

If you would like additional information about the position, please contact Institute Director and MHI co-Lead, Tine Rask Licht on 35887186.

Applications received after the deadline will not be considered.

All interested candidates irrespective of age, gender, disability, race, religion or ethnic background are encouraged to apply. As DTU works with research in critical technology, which is subject to special rules for security and export control, open-source background checks may be conducted on qualified candidates for the position.

DTU National Food Institute
DTU National Food Institute conducts research into and disseminates - through advice, innovation and teaching - sustainable and value-creating solutions in the area of food and health for the benefit of society. The vision of the DTU National Food Institute is to make a difference by generating future prosperity through research into food and health. The institute works to prevent disease and promote health, develop new and better food products for a growing population and create sustainable technological solutions. The institute’s tasks are carried out in a unique interdisciplinary cooperation in e.g. nutrition, chemistry, toxicology, microbiology, epidemiology, modelling, and technology. This is done through a strong academic environment of international top class with corresponding skilled researchers and employees. The Institute employs approximately 350 staff members.

The Microbiome Health Initiative (MHI)
The new Denmark-based research initiative MHI aims to establish a potential causal link between the gut microbiome – the combined genetic material of the communities of bacteria and other microbes in the human gut – and the development of cardiometabolic diseases (CMD) such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. The goal is to generate knowledge that can lead to new prevention or treatment options for people living with, or at risk of, CMD.

Technology for people
DTU develops technology for people. With our international elite research and study programmes, we are helping to create a better world and to solve the global challenges formulated in the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Hans Christian Ørsted founded DTU in 1829 with a clear mission to develop and create value using science and engineering to benefit society. That mission lives on today. DTU has 13,500 students and 6,000 employees. We work in an international atmosphere and have an inclusive, evolving, and informal working environment. DTU has campuses in all parts of Denmark and in Greenland, and we collaborate with the best universities around the world.