Tenure-Track Professorship in German as a Foreign language

The University of Vienna is internationally renowned for its excellence in teaching and research, and counts more than 7,500 academics from all disciplines. This breadth of expertise offers unique opportunities to address the complex challenges of modern society, to develop comprehensive new approaches, and educate the problem-solvers of tomorrow from a multidisciplinary perspective.

At the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna seeks to appoint a

Tenure-Track Professorship in German as a Foreign language

The position

The successful candidate is an outstanding researcher with an excellent reputation in the field of German as a foreign and second language, a focus on didactic and methodological aspects, and a specialization on teaching GFL at schools worldwide. Expected criteria are empirical research on GFL classrooms in European and non-European contexts. Desirable criteria are experience in both GFL teaching and GFL professional development. We are looking for a committed academic teacher who can teach a wide range of topics in the field of GFL didactics/methodology and is willing to serve as advisor at the bachelor’s, master’s and PhD levels.

The tenure track position is based at the Department of German Studies and is therefore involved not only in research at the department but also in German Studies teaching, with a focus on teacher training and in the area of language education. Successful candidates will be part of the team that supervises and develops the Master’s degree programme ‘German as a Foreign and Second Language’ and are therefore also involved in the supervision of master’s theses and the development of young academics in this field. In research, they will cooperate with ongoing projects both at the department and at the Centre for Teacher Education, to develop a visible focus in the field of German as a foreign language. This focus facilitates cooperation with a wide range of language acquisition research at the University of Vienna, especially psycholinguistic research as conducted in the language acquisition laboratory Babelfish, but also including renowned language acquisition research in other philologies, especially in English and American Studies, Romance Studies, and Slavonic Studies.

Your academic profile:

Doctoral degree/Ph

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Two years of international research experience during or after doctoral studie
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Outstanding research achievements, excellent publication and funding record, international reputatio
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Gender and diversity competenc
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Experience in designing of and participating in research projects, ability to lead research groups and acquire third-party fundin
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Enthusiasm for excellent teaching and supervision at the bachelor's, master's, and doctoral leve
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We expect the successful candidate to acquire, within three years, proficiency in German sufficient for teaching in bachelor's programmes and for participation in university committees.

We offer:

the opportunity to obtain a permanent position and eventual promotion to full professor; the initial contract as Assistant Professor is limited to six years, after positive evaluation of a qualification agreement the contract becomes permanent as Associate Professor; Associate Professors can be promoted to Full Professor through an internal competitive procedure

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a dynamic research environmen
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a wide range of research and teaching support service
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attractive working conditions in a city with a high quality of lif
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an attractive salary according to the Collective Bargaining Agreement for University Staff (level A2) and an organisational retirement pla
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Application documents (in English):

If you have any questions, please contact:

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We look forward to new personalities in our team!
The University of Vienna has an anti-discriminatory employment policy and attaches great importance to equal opportunities, the advancement of women and diversity. We lay special emphasis on increasing the number of women in senior and in academic positions among the academic and general university staff and therefore expressly encourage qualified women to apply. Given equal qualifications, preference will be given to female candidates.

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Application deadline: 09/17/2025
Reference no.: 4421