About the position

We are seeking a candidate for a one-year temporary position as research coordinator at NORA.ai. The temporary position carries the position code “senior advisor”. NORA is a national network but hosted at the University of Oslo (UiO). The person appointed will be employed by the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences but will report to the NORA CEO. 

The main responsibility involves overseeing NORA's Nordic initiatives and Nordic collaborations. This includes managing the newly established NORDIC AIR – a partnership between leading academic AI centers and networks across the Nordic region (CADIA, FCAI, NORA.ai, the Pioneer Centre, and WASP). The coordination efforts are primarily delivered through two key platforms: Nordic AI Meet, a conference designed for early-career researchers in artificial intelligence, and Nordic Machine Intelligence, a peer-reviewed, diamond open-access journal that publishes a broad range of scholarly work in AI.

Additional responsibilities, beyond the Nordic collaborations, may be assigned to the position.

Information about NORA

NORA – the Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Research Consortium – is a national collaboration between 8 universities, 5 university colleges, and 4 research institutes within artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics. Our goal is to strengthen Norwegian research, education, and innovation in AI, machine learning, and robotics, as well as other relevant fields within artificial intelligence. Learn more about NORA here.

The NORA Secretariat consists of seven dedicated staff members with diverse cultural and academic backgrounds. In addition, we currently have three temporary employees in various part-time roles. The University of Oslo, through the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and dScience – Centre for Computational and Data Science – hosts NORA. We are located at Blindern and share offices with dScience.

Your main tasks will be

The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to:

• Manage the Nordic Machine Intelligence Journal
• Responsible for the submission process at NORAs scientific conferences, when relevant.
• Horizon scanning, proposal development/ writing for relevant calls
• Assist the secretariat as needed

Qualifications 

Qualification requirements:

• Master’s degree in artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, or other closely related fields. Documented and relevant professional experience may compensate for the formal education requirement.
• Excellent oral and written proficiency in English is a prerequisite for the position.
• Familiarity with scientific journals and the publishing process

Desirable qualifications:

• A Ph.D. degree is an advantage.
• Experience within the field of AI is an advantage
• Good oral and written skills in Norwegian are desirable.
• Experience from international academic collaboration and administrative tasks.
• Experience with Research Schools.
• Experience with organizing scientific conferences. 

Personal skills

• Independent, proactive, and solution-oriented
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment and can handle various tasks.
• Ability to work in an interdisciplinary environment. 
• Service-minded.
• Analytical and systematic
• Personal suitability and motivation for the position will be given significant weight.

We offer 

• Exciting and meaningful tasks in an organization with an important societal mission, contributing to knowledge development, education, and enlightenment that promote sustainable, fair, and knowledge-based societal development.
• Committed colleagues in a good working environment. A pleasant and stimulating work environment. 
• Good welfare schemes.
• Opportunity of up to 1.5 hours a week of exercise during working hours.
• A workplace with good development and career opportunities. 
• Membership in the Statens Pensjonskasse, which is one of Norway's best pension schemes with beneficial mortgages and good insurance schemes.
• Salary in position as Senior Adviser, position code 1364 in salary range NOK from 720 000 to 770 000, depending on competence and experience. From the salary, 2 percent is deducted in statutory contributions to the State Pension Fund.

Read more about the benefits of working in the public sector at Employer Portal.

Inclusive worklife and diversity at UiO

Inclusion and diversity are a strength. The University of Oslo has a personnel policy objective of achieving a balanced gender composition. Furthermore, we want employees with diverse professional expertise, life experience and perspectives.

If there are qualified applicants with disabilities, employment gaps or immigrant background, we will invite at least one applicant from each of these categories to an interview.

We hope that you will apply for the position. 

Application

Your application should include:

• Application letter.
• CV.
• Transcripts and certificates.
• Contact information for 2-3 references.

Application with attachments must be submitted via our recruitment system Jobbnorge, click "Apply for the position".

When applying for the position, we ask you to retrieve your education results from Vitnemålsportalen.no. If your education results are not available through Vitnemålsportalen, we ask you to upload copies of your transcripts or grades. Please note that all documentation must be in English or a Scandinavian language.

General information

The best qualified candidates will invited for interviews.

Applicant lists can be published in accordance with Norwegian Freedom of Information Act § 25. When you apply for a position with us, your name will appear on the public applicant list. It is possible to request to be excluded from this list. You must justify why you want an exemption from publication and we will then decide whether we can grant your request. If we cannot, you will hear from us.

Apply for the position

Questions about the position

• Michael Solvang (Acting CEO NORA), +47 93410934, michael.solvang@nora.no

For technical questions regarding the recruitment system, please contact:

• Torunn Standal Guttormsen (HR senior advisor), +47 22854272, t.s.guttormsen@mn.uio.no