Vacancy: Coordinator of Valorisation

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Your profile

• Advanced degree in an artistic or culture-related field;
• Practical knowledge of the inner workings of the music sector;
• Show communication and organisational skills;
• Fluent and creative writer in English;
• Open to explore new and collaborative methods;
• Independent in the planning and execution of the work;
• Be ready to live within commuting distance from the Orpheus Institute.

Your job

• Facilitate and coordinate valorisation activities;
• Work closely with Orpheus researchers and staff to develop valorisation initiatives;
• Further the discourse on and develop new modes of valorisation;
• Negotiate collaborations with external partners;
• Seek out external funding opportunities;
• (Co-)organize events such as study days, seminars, etc.;
• Foster convergence of the different research interests in the institute.

Our offer

• Gross annual salary: € 40,000 or more, depending on experience;
• A stimulating environment at a world-leading institute for research, study, and dialogue;
• The role of coordinator of valorisation is foreseen as a full-time position (100% FTE). However, in particular circumstances (e.g. an ongoing research project), a fractional contract (>60%) may be negotiable.

The starting date could be set by negotiation but should be early 2022. Renewal of the contract as a permanent position will be subject to a mutually satisfactory evaluation at the end of the first year.

Application process

The interested candidate should submit:

• A cover letter, containing a self-introduction and motivation;
• A full CV;
• A brief outline of your ideas for the innovative potential of valorisation at the Orpheus Institute (max. 2 pages); thinking out of the box is encouraged;
• Three names and contact information of possible referees (only names, no letters at this point).

The complete application should be uploaded at airtable.com/shrSt70JV09JJFF8k by January 10^th, 2022 (23:59 CET). Shortlisted candidates will be invited for an interview at the Orpheus Institute. The Orpheus Institute embraces diversity and strives to be an inclusive environment.

More info & questions

Questions may be addressed to Ms. Heike Vermeire at info@orpheusinstituut.be.

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Orpheus Institute

With its primary focus on artistic research in music, the Orpheus Institute is an international centre of excellence. The institute’s workings are structured on two pillars: the research clusters and the doctoral curriculum (docARTES). Research clusters are headed by Principal Investigators; along with their respective teams, they work out and realize long-term artistic-research projects involving classical as well as experimental new music, historical instruments as well as digital technology.

Valorisation

Valorisation can be understood as the process of creating added value to knowledge and expertise gained through research, both within and beyond the field of research itself. This broad concept is traditionally known to aim at economic marketing (patents, licenses and spin-offs). Valorisation at the Orpheus Institute is set to explore and develop the less quantifiable "soft" forms of social and artistic value creation, reaching out to and interacting with both peers (higher education in music, relevant institutions and academic bodies, artistic researchers) and non-academic stakeholder communities (the “general public”, or musicians who do not necessarily wish to become artistic researchers themselves).

Valorisation activities will transfer knowledge from research carried out at the Institute and disseminate acquired competencies in artistic research, all the while taking advantage of the newest digital circumstances.

While such valorisation already permeates activities at the Institute (e.g. through researchers’ roles in international funding bodies, collaborations with instrument makers, the production of new scores that are used in schools), there is a growing need for a more structured way of approaching this task. The expectation, furthermore, is that new valorisation strategies will also open new paths for the field of artistic research.

Valorisation will work bottom-up, by responding to and developing ideas and possibilities emerging from the Institute’s research clusters. It will also work top-down, by proactively proposing and designing new initiatives. It will act as an antenna that feeds knowledge back to researchers, informing them about questions and opportunities from societal-economic and educational-professional perspectives. Valorisation will thus be fully integrated into work at Orpheus, promoting dissemination while informing research.

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