Stadt Freiburg im Breisgau | Germany | 79xxx Freiburg | Permanent position | Part time - flexible / Full time / Home office | Published since: 18.04.2026 on stepstone.de ♿️
Research Assistant in the Department of Ethnological Collection at the Museum Natur und Mensch
We love Freiburg. We live diversity. Also as an employer. That's why we look forward to applying for all those who want to burn for their topic and continue our city. All people with different origins, gender, gender identity, disability, age, skin color, religion or sexual orientation are welcome. The city of Freiburg is looking for you for the museums of Freiburg
The Museum Natur und Mensch is divided into the two fields of natural science and ethnological collection. The ethnological collection includes about 20,000 ethnographics from Africa, America, Asia, Oceania and Ancient Egypt, as well as a historical photo archive with about 4,000 photographs. In close coordination with the head of the Ethnological Collection, you are responsible for the collection areas Africa, Oceania and Asia. The collections you care about 12,000 objects and photographs. .
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We love Freiburg. We live diversity. Also as an employer. That's why we look forward to applying for all those who want to burn for their topic and continue our city. All people with different origins, gender, gender identity, disability, age, skin color, religion or sexual orientation are welcome. The city of Freiburg is looking for you for the museums of Freiburg
The Museum Natur und Mensch is divided into the two fields of natural science and ethnological collection. The ethnological collection includes about 20,000 ethnographics from Africa, America, Asia, Oceania and Ancient Egypt, as well as a historical photo archive with about 4,000 photographs. In close coordination with the head of the Ethnological Collection, you are responsible for the collection areas Africa, Oceania and Asia. The collections you care about 12,000 objects and photographs.
You are responsible for the scientific support, processing and strategic further development of the collection areas Africa, Oceania and Asia, including the maintenance of the collection database per as well as the processing of data records for the online collection of museums Freiburg. You take over the concept, development and implementation of partizipativer projects in cooperation with partners in Germany and abroad. You are responsible for the conceptualization and implementation of exhibition projects and for the cooperation of accompanying publications, events and mediation formats. You are a contact person for external enquiries about the collection areas Africa, Oceania and Asia and you take care of volunteers and interns.
You have a completed academic study of ethnology, cultural and social anthropology or interdisciplinary anthropology. Ideally, you have well-founded museum and exhibition experience in at least one of the collection areas mentioned, including safe object handling in the depot and brings experience with participatory mediation and work approaches. At best, you have experience in conducting cooperation projects with partners in Germany and abroad as well as research experience and/or longer stays in Africa, Oceania or Asia. You have very good communication skills, intercultural competence, team skills, reliability, enforcement and conflictability. Ideally, you bring very good English skills; Knowledge of a language from Africa, Oceania or Asia is also advantageous.
An indefinite job full-time with pay by pay group 13 TVöD. The body can also be occupied by two part-time workers. An active and creative collaboration with high self-responsibility in a dynamic team. Mobile work and our flexible working hours (in the working time frame from 6 am to 22 pm, without core working hours) enable a good reconciliation of work and private life. Many development opportunities offer you our training programme and our internal career and promotion opportunities. With a high grant to the JobTicket or We relieve your account and protect the climate together. JobRad allows you to comfortably and comfortably get to your workplace with your desired bike. Hansefit (for currently 37 €/month) ensures more movement and (D) compensation in everyday life. A lot of colleagues are ready for you, your questions and concerns: our social service, our working physicians, the heavy-handed representative, the place for inclusion and health, as well as the delegates for people with disabilities, the women's representatives, the Gender&Diversity team, the senior office with care center, our work protection, ... And our operational health management offers you many different movement and workshop offers. .
Location
![]() | Stadt Freiburg im Breisgau | |
| 79098 Freiburg | ||
| Germany |
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