Human Resources
The Human Resources Department of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy is made up of the following sections:
- Employee management and budget
- Consulting and support of employees and the Institute management
- Personnel administration
- Travel expense processing
- Recruitment
- Training and cooperation with the Duale Hochschule
- Compatibility of career, science and family, work-life balance, dual career
The work focuses mainly on administrative support of the scientists, the technical department staff, the administrative-technical staff, as well as the young scientists and the foreign guest scientists. The Human Resources Department supports the Institute's management in the implementation of its administrative duties. The HR sector is continuously evolving to meet changing scientific requirements.
Head of human resources
- Counselling and support of employees and Institute management in fundamental issues to do with human resources
- Staffing plan and management of personnel resources
- Job evaluations
- Recruitment
- Administration of contracts that resemble civil service contracts and service contracts outside the TVöD
- Consulting on personnel planning for third-party funding applications
- Compatibility of career and family, work-life balance, dual career
- External representation of the Institute in personnel law matters and in personnel-related networks
- Organization and coordination of training and support of Duale Hochschule students.
Human resources administration
- Deputy personnel manager
- Administration of TVöD employees
- Processing of junior researcher contracts for doctoral candidates
- Postdocs, scientific, technical and administrative staff
- Recruitment measures and employment contracts
- Social insurance and VBL
- Parental leave, parental allowance
- Compensation benefits
- Job evaluations for postdocs
- Providing information and maintaining data Absences (vacation, special leave, leave of absence, illness)
- Settlement of travel expenses
- Job ticket, travel expenses
- Student Assistants
- Interns
- Master- and Bachelor Agreements
- Trainees
- Scholarshipholders
- Guest Agreements
- Secondment certificates for trips abroad
- Reimbursement pf vistors
- Administration of TVöD employees
- Processing of junior researcher contracts for doctoral candidates
- Postdocs, scientific, technical and administrative staff
- Recruitment measures and employment contracts
- Social insurance and VBL
- Parental leave, parental allowance
- Compensation benefits
- Job evaluations for postdocs
- Providing information and maintaining data Absences (vacation, special leave, leave of absence, illness)
On parental leave:
Human resources administration/travel expense administration
- Guest arrangements
- Master/Bachelor arrangements
- Travel expense administration
- Processing of business travel requests
- Travel expense accounting/settlement
- Guest travel accounting/settlement
- Business travel reservations
International Office
- Support of employees with entry formalities
- visa matters
- Support with necessary applications to local authorities
- Support of new employees in finding accommodation, schools, childcare facilities
- Administration of the MPIA guest apartments
- Settlement of travel
Additional staff
Temporarily in the Human Resources Department:
Trainee