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Postdoctoral Researcher in work- and organizational psychology

Karolinska Institutet

We are looking for a post-doctoral researcher focusing on the effect of psychosocial work environment

factors, to the PROCOME research group, Medical Management Centre (MMC). The position is fixed to

one year full term employment but there can be a possibility for prolonging.

About the research group

Intervention processes and outcomes (PROCOME) research group focuses on research on effects and

implementation of innovative improvement programs in different type of organizations, with specific

focus on health and social care.

Duties

All work will take place within the boundaries of a newly started project aiming at investigating

psychosocial workplace factors at the work unit level that relate to employee health and promote the

capacity for sustainable change in health care organizations. Parts of the project will be conducted in

close collaboration with the Unit of Implementation and Evaluation, Centre for Epidemiology and

Community Medicine at Stockholm County Council.

You will conduct advanced work- and organizational research based on longitudinal multi-level

questionnaire data. One main task is to analyze the longitudinal multi-level data using different statistical

techniques to answer to the questions posed in the project. You are involved in development of study

ideas as well as writing scientific articles, and present these findings at scientific conferences. You will

also be involved in helping organizations to implement the results.

You will also establish routines related to research documentation (e.g., ELN), work with applications

for ethical approval proactively work with grant applications for ideas originating for this project etc.

Moreover, you are going to work with administrative tasks related to the research process and support

the project leader.

Entry requirements

Applications are invited from talented and enthusiastic applicants with good knowledge on psychosocial

work environment topics and organizational interventions, as well as advanced skills in statistics (i.e.

multi-level modelling and SEM).

To be eligible the applicant must:

• Have obtained a PhD in psychology or similar topics focusing on the psychosocial work

environment no more than seven years before the last date of employment as a post doc. The term can

be extended under special circumstance.

• Have a strong interest and skills in quantitative statically methods. Competence and experience of

analyzing longitudinal multi-level data is a prerequisite. It is meritorious to have a formal education in

statistics and to be able to use statistical software such as Mplus or R.

• Have excellent English skills (orally and written); Swedish is of advantage.

• Have an interest in occupation health promotion and organizational interventions, experience in

consulting/practical work related to these topics is of advantage.

Furthermore, it is required that the candidate works independently with the research work, has good

analytical skills and very good collaboration and communication skills. Moreover, scientific competency

is required, therefore documented skills of work with grant applications, scientific articles and research

related administration and communication is desired.

Application process

An employment application must contain the following documents in English or Swedish:

1. A complete curriculum vitae, including date of the thesis defence, title of the thesis, previous

academic positions, academic title, current position, academic distinctions, and committee work

2. A complete list of publications

3. A summary of current work (no more than one page)

4. Verifications for crediting of illness, military service, work for labour unions or student

organisations, parental leave or similar circumstances

The application is to be submitted through the MyNetwork recruitment system.

Type of employment: Temporary position longer than 6 months

Contract type: Full time

First day of employment January 2018 or upon agreement

Number of positions: 1

Working hours: 100%

City: Solna

County: Stockholms län

Country: Sweden

Reference number: 2-4361/2017

Contact: Anne Richter, project leader anne.richter@ki.se

Union representative Hannele Moisio, SACO 08-524 83622, hannele.moisio@ki.se

Magnus Anå, OFR 08-524 864 37, magnus.ana@ki.se

Published 2017-09-29

Last application date 2017-10-29

Link to ad http://ki.mynetworkglobal.com/what:job/jobID:170093/

Anne Richter| PhD, Associate Professor