Our Job Offers

Depending on the financial situation and the amount of projects, it is possible for us to adequately pay people for working on "core" tasks of the portal (at 36 CHF per hour, not counting coordination and communication efforts). "Core" tasks are those that are necessary for unpaid staff (who may be identical to paid staff) to be able to use the basic functions of the portal:

• to publish articles and to comment;
• to curate focus areas (LINK) and procure new articles;
• to create user profiles and to subscribe to the newsletter;
• to announce events and to publish job offers (LINK);
• to stay informed and inform other sabout Philosophy in Switzerland 

Unfortunately, we are not

• a newspaper: the production and procurement of articles is generally not paid for
• an university: individual research projects or research is generally not paid for (with some exceptions)
• event organizers: the organization of philosophical events is not one of the core tasks of the portal. However, we invite organizers to use the portal for advertising.
• a charity: there are many fantastic and interesting projects that we cannot fund due to limited financal ressources. 

We are looking for independent, creative, conscientious, interested and interesting people to help us unfold the potential of this portal. 

Normally we start with an assignment: 32 (= 10% for 2 months) or 64 hours (= 20% for 2 months), with relatively clearly described and small tasks (2-3 hours), which have one or more portal pages as a result.

Besides, documentation is key. The philosophical microcosm of Switzerland is relatively small (<3000 people, according to our latest estimations). We deal with many people in different roles, relationships and constellations. Transparency about other's work is therefore important. Every member of the team is required to participate in the transparent documentation process. 

There is no such thing. The aim and main task of this philosophy portal is to bring together the philosophy made, learned, taught and researched at the universities with the public potentially interested in it. 

However, we value diversity in terms of age, background, occupation, network, interests in philosophy, talents etc. Feel free to tell us about yourself and your motivation when applying.

IT-affinity is a plus, as we are an online-portal. However, special IT knowledge is by no means a prerequisite.

Nevertheless: we are especially happy about applications of people who have skills in:

• Ruby on Rails
• Javascript / jQuery
• SQL (PostgreSQL)
• Web design and HTML5
• Ubuntu / Nginx
• markdown / pandoc / lula / OJS

Write us an email with a short description of yourself,  your interests and a sketch of some ideas what you think the portal could or should do.

Then we'll arrange a zoom-meeting and discuss further steps.