Science Management
Follow your love for organisation.
Science management is a professional field of the future. There is currently a great need for qualified personnel.
Tasks
- Researching facts and backgrounds
- Analysing and preparing data
- Writing texts and reports
- Coordination of projects
- Making presentations
- Moderating working meetings
Important competences
- Science management
- Communication and conflict management
- Science law
- Project management
- Team building
- Budget and finances
- Personnel management
- Quality assurance
- Teaching = Adult education
- Publication experiences = Proof reading for textbook publishers
- Science editing
- Close to academia = scientific officer, scientific assistant, scientific consultant (Personal assistant of a minister, head of authorities, party...)
- Project management = Science management
- Close to academia = Public relations, press officer
Alternatives
- Teaching = Adult education
- Publication experiences = Proof reading for textbook publishers
- Science editing
- Close to academia = scientific officer, scientific assistant, scientific consultant (Personal assistant of a minister, head of authorities, party...)
- Project management = Science management
- Close to academia = Public relations, press officer
Disadvantages
There are no clear career paths, no classic paths as in other professions. Some say that science managers are "in-between". They no longer really belong to science, but neither do they belong to the classic university administration. Some also call this the "third space".