Responsibilities

Team members have different responsibilities, as summarized below.

This page is the authoritative overview of operational responsibilities. Professional-development objectives belong in the Assistant Development Pathway and the individual’s private agenda; they are not duplicated here.

All

• Review security
• Familiarize with and consider our standard operating principles (SOP) (Using issues for tasks, along with the overview of GitHub Issues)
• Meet with Gerit on a regular basis, every 1-2 weeks. Create a recurring calendar item.
• To set a meeting, check the other’s calendar and send a calendar invitation via email
• Use the planning sessions to discuss and document objectives and key results (OKR) in your agenda repository

ResourceResource

Our agenda repositories on GitHub are here.

• Familiarize with the relevant handbook sections:

  • Goals
  • Standard operating procedures
  • Systems
  • Resources
  • Vacation
  • Development

Team assistant

Our team assistant coordinates the administrative processes described in the management section, maintains relevant deadlines and calendar information, and supports teaching and examination administration. The team assistant raises unclear ownership, missing information, or deadline risks early rather than silently taking on responsibilities assigned to another role.

Notes:

• Monitoring of deadlines:

  • Frankfurt School teaching, grading, module-planning, and examination deadlines in the applicable institutional systems
  • List of current and upcoming courses

• Updating our calendar.

• Preparation and postprocessing of examinations: coordinate registrations and printing, provide the required documents to exam supervisors, check corrected examinations for complete point allocations, arrange second correction when required, enter grades in the applicable Frankfurt School system, and return records according to the examination office’s process

NoteOptional future tasks

• Reimbursement of expenses (e.g. licenses, case studies, which were paid with own credit card)
• External lectureship management (application at deanery, arrangement of lecture dates, room booking, transponder organizing, support with remuneration)
• Support with organising excursions
• Appointment management for professor
• Application for and settlement of study grants
• Recording of publications in FIS

Useful links

• Use the current Frankfurt School staff portals and examination-office guidance; keep access-controlled operational links in the relevant private repository.

Student assistants

• Confirm assigned work, expected outcomes, deadlines, and issue ownership with the supervisor; raise blockers early.

• Document working hours according to the applicable Frankfurt School procedure; see Compliance.

• Disclose potential conflicts of interest early. In particular, if your brother or sister is studying in one of our programs, inform the professor and team assistant immediately so tasks can be assigned accordingly.

• Upon completing the Bachelor or Master: notify our team assistant to prepare a new contract.

• Use the research-hub for knowledge management

• Teaching: Contribute to evaluations, improvements and pedagogy (e.g., by contributing to teaching materials, writing teaching cases/tips).

• Familiarize with the relevant handbook sections:

  • Research
  • Teaching