📍 Location: Campus Charité Mitte, Berlin, Germany
⏰ Start Date: As soon as possible
🕒 Working Hours: Part-time (24 hours/week)
💰 Salary: E14 TVöD-VKA / Ä2 TV-Ärzte (depending on qualification)
📄 Contract: Fixed-term until 30 April 2028 (project-based)

Charité is seeking an experienced Postdoctoral Researcher to co-lead a research team focused on promoting healthy child development through early childhood education interventions.

🔍 Key Responsibilities:
• Co-lead a small research team focused on children's healthy development
• Coordinate and represent the project externally in partnership with a non-profit foundation in early childhood education
• Design and implement a population-based intervention in daycare centres and kindergartens to strengthen children's self-regulation skills
• Develop assessment tools to evaluate kindergarten environments related to self-regulation
• Manage project administration and funding processes in collaboration with grants management teams
• Lead and supervise international scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals
• Present research findings at national and international conferences
• Opportunity to teach and pursue a habilitation at Charité

✅ Required Profile:
• PhD (or equivalent) in Public Health, Health Sciences, Health Services Research, Epidemiology, Social Sciences, Medicine, or a related discipline
OR
• Degree in Psychology plus completed psychotherapist training
• Several years of experience in qualitative and quantitative health or developmental research
• Strong expertise in child and adolescent health, development, or healthcare research
• Proficiency with relevant research and statistical software
• Excellent analytical, strategic, organisational, and communication skills
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively
• Excellent written and spoken German and English

⭐ Desirable:
• Experience designing, implementing, and evaluating complex interventions
• Experience supervising research assistants or junior researchers

🎁 What Charité Offers:
• Work within a highly motivated interdisciplinary research team
• High level of autonomy and responsibility
• Opportunities for scientific career development and habilitation
• Structured onboarding and intercultural team events
• Employee discounts for shopping, travel, and sports
• 30 days annual leave
• Dedicated time during working hours for academic career development

📅 Application Deadline: 08 June 2026
📌 Reference Number: 7305

🌍 Charité welcomes applications from all qualified candidates regardless of age, gender, nationality, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or social background and is committed to diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunities.