Call for Position of Director of the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences
Candidates are invited to apply for the position of director of the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences. Documents can be submitted no later than 14 December 2024 (inclusive).
The new leader is expected to strengthen the position of the LCSS in the international academic community and promote closer and more active cooperation of its units among them and with stakeholders, in order to creatively, innovatively and effectively, with the help of scientific knowledge, deal with the problems relevant to the country and the society and to adequately prepare for the social challenges that may arise in the future.
The LCSS employs 141 people, most of whom are high-level researchers engaged in research and development activities. In 2023, the LCSS had a budget of nearly €5 million.
Why stand as a candidate?
- You will have the opportunity to lead an institute that is aiming at and is already gaining more and more international recognition, to make a significant contribution to the implementation of high-level, competitive research, and to expand the LCSS’s links with the international and national academic community.
- Your leadership of the LCSS will provide you with a unique opportunity to coordinate the creation and application of scientific knowledge, thus contributing to the development of Lithuania’s social policy, sustainable regional development, improvement of the legal system and protection of human rights, also, dealing with the challenges of the future and helping to implement the country’s strategic goals.
- You will work with highly competent researchers whose experience in the cooperation with public authorities, social partners and NGOs span many years. As head of the LCSS, you will have the opportunity to pool human resources, attract more international researchers, young scientists and PhD students, and draw on their potential at the maximum, with a view of higher performance of the LCSS.
- Using your professional experience and leadership skills, you will have the exceptional opportunity to create and drive the LCSS’s internal culture of collaboration, which will be based on inclusiveness, creativity, initiative, democracy and interdisciplinarity.
The director's salary is €6,900.00 before tax. Financial incentives are available depending on performance.
The Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences is a public research institute. Its mission is to create and disseminate scientific knowledge in the fields of economics, sociology and law in order to implement public policy solutions and innovations based on them, by strengthening the cohesion of science, business and society, and the well-being of people.
More information here. The qualification requirements are here.
Last updated: 14-11-2024
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