Working for the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) means being part of a prestigious school that consistently ranks among the top 20 universities worldwide. As a public university dedicated to improving the world around us, we have three missions: training, research and technology transfer. We boast one of the most dynamic university campuses in Europe and employ more than 6,000 people. Our employees perform high-value-added work in teaching and research and in the school’s administrative and technical services. Between our main campus in Lausanne and our satellite campuses in Geneva, Neuchâtel, Fribourg and Sion, our workforce is composed of more than one hundred different professions.

At EPFL, we foster a culture of respect and inclusion in the workplace. We promote a healthy work-life balance through flexible working hours and on-campus daycare and sports facilities. Our employees also benefit from belonging to a diverse community of 16,000 people – including over 10,000 students and 3,500 researchers – from 120 different countries.

BBP – HR Assistant/People Operations Assistant

The EPFL Blue Brain Project (BBP), situated on the Campus Biotech in Geneva, Switzerland, applies advanced neuroinformatics, data analytics, high-performance computing and simulation-based approaches to the challenge of understanding the structure and function of the mammalian brain in health and disease. The BBP provides the community with regular releases of data, models and tools to accelerate neuroscience discovery and clinical translation through open science and global collaboration. Within the Operations Division, we are currently looking for an
HR Assistant/
P
eople operations assistant



Main duties and responsibilities include :

• Provide administrative support to the People Operations Manager in all people operations’ matters


• Handle the administrative process for entries and departures


• Update and maintain the employee’s files and database


• Update and maintain the recruitment database


• Liaise with candidates and organize job interviews


• Support the recruitment process working closely with Blue Brain People Operations Manger 


• Display the job offers on the different portals


• Follow up the candidate applications


• Follow, support and inform employees during their whole stay at Blue Brain


• Be a point of contact for workplace/employees questions

Your profile :

• University degree or equivalent


• Previous experience in Human Resources


• Certificat d'assistant-e en gestion du personnel


• English and French written and spoken


• Excellent communications skills


• Effective organizational skills


• Integrity, fair, respectful


• Knowledge of the MS Office environment.

We offer :

• A prestigious project of global prominence in simulation-based neuroscience research.


• A young, dynamic, interdisciplinary, and international team


• A modern working environment based at the Biotech Campus in Geneva Secheron

Start date :

May 2018
Term of employment :

Fixed-term (CDD)
Work rate :

100%
Duration :

1 year, renewableContact :

Applicants should submit a cover letter and a detailed CV in PDF format only, in English,

with file name “Surname_positon applied_Cover letter” and “Surname_positon applied_CV” electronically to Aleksandra Doray, jobs.bbp@epfl.ch.




Reference : HR003



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