Student Assistant for the LVR Archaeological Park

Project overview

Student Assistant for the LVR Archaeological Park Xanten with Roman Museum (m/f/d) Location: Xanten

Placement: LVR Archaeological Park Xanten with Roman Museum

Remuneration: E4 TVoD

Working hours: Part-time up to 11.50 hours/week

Fixed term for 2 years

Start date: as soon as possible

Application deadline: 29.11.2026

These are your tasks The LVR Archaeological Park Xanten with Roman Museum brings the history of the Roman city of Colonia Ulpia Traiana to life and provides exciting insights into the lives of people around 2,000 years ago. As an important archaeological site, it combines scientific research, the preservation of historical evidence, and the communication of Roman history.

As a student assistant, you will support the team of the LVR Archaeological Park Xanten with Roman Museum in the development and maintenance of archaeological documentation holdings and gain exciting insights into scientific work as well as the handling of historical sources and materials.

Responsibilities

By working in a scientific environment, you will gain valuable practical experience and can combine your studies with insights into archaeological documentation and archive work.

Do you feel addressed? Then we look forward to your application!

What we offer you

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So that you have enough time for family, friendships, and hobbies alongside your work, you can arrange your working hours flexibly with us.

By agreement, you can work from home or remotely from another location within Germany on a daily basis.

Let yourself be inspired by our historic surroundings and enjoy the opportunity to spend your breaks and evenings in one of the World Heritage Sites of the Roman Limes.

We are colorful! As a modern and cosmopolitan employer, we welcome every perspective and individual personality.

Sufficient free parking is available at our location for our employees.

We offer you structured onboarding where you will get to know your team, the LVR, the department, and the workflows. In addition, a dedicated contact person will accompany you during your initial period.

Equal opportunities at LVR

The LVR is committed to an organizational culture characterized by mutual respect. Every individual should experience appreciation, regardless of gender and gender identity, sexual orientation and identity, age, disability, ethnic origin and nationality, religion and worldview, or other characteristics that constitute social diversity.

As a public employer, the LVR promotes the actual achievement of gender equality and works to eliminate existing disadvantages. The LVR has been pursuing this mission for 40 years with measures for a balanced employment structure, with targeted promotion of women, e.g. for leadership positions, and networking and training opportunities for women, with the effort to support the compatibility of work and care responsibilities as a family-friendly employer, or also in its professional tasks for greater gender sensitivity.

People with severe disabilities will be given preferential consideration if they have equal aptitude.

Corporate Benefits

Flexible working hours

Mobile working by arrangement

Scenic work environment

Equal opportunities and diversity

Parking spaces

Onboarding

What you bring with you enrollment in history, preferably with a specialization in archaeology

What else is important to us

You are a good fit for us if

You are looking for a meaningful activity

We are the driving force in the Rhineland for a diverse and inclusive society. We promote and shape a coexistence based on equality, tolerance, and humanity. By working for the LVR, you demonstrate your commitment to a diverse society.

You see diversity as an opportunity

Enabling and realizing diversity in society means for us: recognizing and acknowledging each person with their individual strengths and supporting them according to their needs.

You want to develop professionally and personally

As an employer, we see ourselves as pioneers, supporters, and enablers for our employees. Your individual development opportunities and the unfolding of your potential are particularly important to us.

Who we are The Landschaftsverband Rheinland (LVR) is a municipal association with around 22,000 employees working for the 9.8 million people in the Rhineland. With its 41 schools, ten clinics, 20 museums and cultural institutions, four youth welfare facilities, the State Youth Welfare Office, and the Verbund für WohnenPlusLeben, it fulfills tasks that are carried out throughout the Rhineland. The LVR is Germany's largest provider of services for people with disabilities and is committed to inclusion in all areas of life. "Quality for People" is its guiding principle.

The 13 independent cities and the twelve districts in the Rhineland, as well as the StädteRegion Aachen, are the member corporations of the LVR. In the Landschaftsversammlung Rheinland, elected members from the Rhineland municipalities shape the work of the association.

More information about the LVR can be found at .

• Transcription of historical documents: You will transfer handwritten scientific diaries, making an important contribution to the development of historical records.
• Assistance in the document archives: You will support the review, sorting, and maintenance of analog and digital excavation, photo, and plan archives.
• Recording and digitization of holdings: You will create inventory lists and participate in scanning work to improve the documentation and accessibility of archive materials.
• Corporate Benefits
• Flexible working hours
• Mobile working by arrangement
• Scenic work environment
• Equal opportunities and diversity
• Parking spaces
• Onboarding
• You have good IT skills in MS Office.
• You are familiar with setting up and maintaining databases, and you work carefully and systematically when recording and managing information.
• You have good German language skills, both written and spoken, enabling you to process and transcribe historical documents accurately and to record and document archive holdings meticulously.
• You convince with your team spirit as well as your cooperative and communicative nature, thus contributing to good collaboration.
• A reliable and conscientious way of working characterizes you, especially when processing and sorting documents and archive materials.
• Your flexibility allows you to adapt to changing tasks and requirements and to support the team of the LVR Archaeological Park Xanten with Roman Museum with commitment.
• Location: Xanten
• Placement: LVR Archaeological Park Xanten with Roman Museum
• Remuneration: E4 TVoD . click apply for full job details

Project details

• Start: flexible
• Location: Xanten, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, DE
• Languages: German