reference number 21/2025

At the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Erfurt, the following position in the team of the professor of “Language and its Structure” with 20 working hours per week is open as of 1st May 2025:

Junior Researcher and Lecturer (f/m/x)
Pay category E 13 TV-L (50 %)

Re-founded in 1994 as a reform university, the University of Erfurt considers itself as a research-oriented university that is highly committed to international cooperation as well as innovation in teaching and learning, with a special focus on teacher-training programs. With its strong profile in the humanities, cultural studies as well as social sciences and education, it is a cosmopolitan place for academic debate on key social and cultural challenges.

Area of Responsibility
The successful applicant will

• pursue his/her own further qualification (leading to a doctoral degree) in English linguistics or applied linguistics
• contribute to the teaching done by the linguistics department (esp. the unit “Language and its Structure”) for the B.A. English/American Studies amounting to two weekly teaching hours per semester
• support the research of this unit, especially with respect to the preparation of applications for external funding (of research projects, conferences, etc.) as well the organisation of academic events at the unit (workshops, conferences, etc.)
• participate in the administrative processes at the unit “Language and its Structure”, including the maintenance of the website of the unit (in German and English)

What we expect

• excellent or very good M.A. degree in Linguistics (with a profile in the linguistics of English), English/American Studies (with a linguistic profile) or Applied Linguistics
• excellent command of both German and English (level C1 or higher)
• knowledge of and experience with corpus-linguistic, computational or other empirical methods of linguistic research, including language-related statistics
• communicative skills as well as organisational skills more broadly

Some expertise in language-related programming, knowledge of further languages, first publications or conference presentations in linguistics present an advantage.

What we offer
The University of Erfurt promotes the compatibility of career and family/private life and supports flexible working hours. For academic staff, it offers a wide range of further training opportunities as well as coaching and mentoring as part of academic staff development (www.uni-erfurt.de/go/akademische-pke). In addition, there are a number of health and prevention offers as part of the company health management program.

Comments/Remarks
The German version of this job advertisement alone shall be legally binding.

The position is initially limited to a four-year period, depending on the legal and personal requirements.

The advertisement is addressed to applicants who fulfill the requirements of the German Act on Temporary Scientific Contracts (Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz). The general requirements for employment according to § 91 section 5 Thuringian Higher Education Act (Thüringer Hochschulgesetz) apply.

If you have a foreign university degree, it is necessary that you apply for a certificate application at the Central Office for Foreign Education (Zentralstelle für ausländisches Bildungswesen, ZAB). We recommend that you attach the corresponding certificate to your application documents, but you can also provide this certificate at a later stage of the process. Please note that this is a chargeable service provided by the ZAB. For more information, please visit https://zab.kmk.org/de/zeugnisbewertung.

The University of Erfurt sees itself as an open-minded employer that values diversity. It is committed to diversity and gender equality and welcomes applications that contribute to this. The University of Erfurt has successfully passed the "shaping diversity" audit, has been audited as a "family-friendly university" and has received the rating "equality excellent" in the female professor programme III of the federal and state governments. One of the university's strategic goals is increasing the proportion of women in re-search and teaching. Severely handicapped persons and those with equal status are given preference in the case of equal suitability, professional performance, and ability.

For questions regarding the content of this job advertisement, please contact Prof. Dr.
Beate Hampe (Phone: +49-361-737-4341, e-mail: beate.hampe@uni-erfurt.de).

Application and Deadline
Please send your application with informative documents (cover letter, curriculum vitae, copies of certificates, first brief outline of a potential doctoral project as well as, if applicable, list of publications or conference presentations and list of university courses previously taught) exclusively online by 27th March 2025 via the application management system of the University of Erfurt.

Reimbursement of Expenses
The University of Erfurt does not refund any costs incurred in the application process.