For the project “Lake Issyk-Kul Environmental Laboratory” (LILA) we are inviting applications for a part-time project coordinator starting as of 1-March-2023 with a duration of 12 months. The person will coordinate the project and will develop the concept, ensure dependable planning of the laboratory and setting up a limnological monitoring program, will coordinate purchasing the required equipment and training of the local lab executive in performing a state-of-the-art lab management. The proposed project aims at establishing a jointly maintained Kyrgyz-German environmental research and education laboratory at the shore of one of the world’s largest alpine clear-water lake, i.e. Issyk-Kul, as a basis for: (i) continuous monitoring of selected water quality and ecological parameters, (ii) education and training of under- and postgraduates in environmental research, (iii) performing international research on climate change, high-altitude hydrology, limnology, and ecology of alpine aquatic systems, (iv) providing a urgently needed research station as a platform for future national and international research projects of Issyk-Kul. In the long-term run, the laboratory should act as a permanently functioning research and education centre resulting in knowledge exchange on environmental sciences between Germany and Central Asian countries; providing ecological expertise and dissemination of information on anthropogenic impact (i.e. growing tourism, agriculture and gold mining) and climate-driven variability of Issyk-Kul and the surrounding alpine region of Tian-Shan; creating a link between scientists and local governmental agencies aimed to ensure coordinated elaboration and implementation of adaptation measures and environmental strategies to better guide future development of land use at the shore and in the watershed areas of the lake.