Secretary (m/f/d) Part-time (50%)
Date: 6 Oct 2026
Location: Hannover
Company: Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung GmbH
Job advertisement no. 784
The department Computational Biology for Individualised Medicine, led by Yang Li, at the Centre for Individualised Infection Medicine (CiiM), is offering the position of a
Secretary (m/f/d) Part-time (50%)
Infections and their sequelae continue to account for one in five deaths worldwide. In this context, emerging and recurrent pathogens, chronic infections, as well as increasing resistance to approved drugs, continue to pose new challenges to physicians.
The CiiM was founded 2015 as a joint venture of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) and Hannover Medical School (MHH) and is the first research institute explicitly dedicated to develop personalized medicine for infections. The departments and groups of the CiiM are working towards the vision of treating infectious patients in an adapted and optimized way according to the specific needs and requirements of each individual. To achieve this, CiiM is dedicated to researching individual characteristics and their impact on susceptibility to infection or treatment success with available therapies.
The position is within the BIIM department. Our aim is to elucidate the genetic risk factors for susceptibility toinfection and the subsequent molecular processes. This is crucial for making progress in understanding andproviding personalised treatment for infectious diseases, and for improving the identification of patients at risk.As a department of the HZI, we are part of the Centre for Individualised Infectious Medicine and are currentlybased at TWINCORE in Hannover.
Responsibilities:
- Business travel planning, scheduling and coordination, filing, hotel reservations, and preparation of travelexpense reports
- Preparation of human resources matters
- Management of the institutional budget and third-party funding (budget monitoring)
- Processing incoming invoices
- Ordering office supplies or HZI warehouse materials using the ARIBA program
- Mail processing
- Booking meeting rooms
- Organizing meetings and guest lectures
Requirements:
- Completed vocational training in administration or business, or comparable professional experience
- Excellent knowledge of office management
- Computer skills, particularly MS Office
- Very good written and spoken German and English
- Efficient and well-organized work style
- Able to work as part of a team
Advantageous for this position:
- Scientific background
We offer you:
- An attractive and varied job in a future-oriented research institute
- A state-of-the-art infrastructure and the latest technologies
- Flexible working hours, part-time models as well as home office
- A corporate culture of appreciation and promotion of equal opportunities
- Extensive training and continuing education opportunities to develop professional knowledge and personal skills
- A family office to support family and career as well as childcare offers
- Interesting additional public service benefits
- Possibility of an employer subsidy for the job ticket
People with severe disabilities and equivalent professional qualifications who are suitable for the position are given preference. In order to protect your rights, we ask you to provide us with a clearly recognizable reference to the existence of a degree of severe disability in your cover letter or resume.
The position is held at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research GmbH (HZI) in Braunschweig. The place of employment is Hannover.
The HZI is actively committed to equality, diversity and integration. For this reason, the HZI pursues the goal of professional equality between women and men. The position is suitable for part-time work.
For further information please contact Yang Li, phone 0511 2200 2702, email: yang.li@helmholtz-hzi.de.
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We look forward to receiving your application!