Junior Professorship

(Fulltime, Salary level W 1 non tenured)
Reference No. 2024/235. The Department of Politics and Public Administration in the Faculty of Politics - Law - Economics seeks to fill this position by the 1st of October 2025
The University of Konstanz is one of eleven Universities of Excellence in Germany. Since 2007 it has been successful in the German Excellence Initiative and its follow-up program, the Excellence Strategy.
The Department of Politics and Public Administration conducts research and teaching at the highest level in the areas of (i) democracy and public policy, (ii) international politics, (iii) management and public administration, and (iv) data and methods.
The position requires an excellent doctoral degree in one of the social sciences, computer science, or statistics with an evident interdisciplinary inclination. Applicants should have a promising research record, substantiated through publications in high-ranking journals, as well as relevant teaching experience in the above-mentioned field. We place great emphasis on gender and diversity competence, reflected in teaching and research. The ability to teach in German is an advantage but not a requirement.
In all other respects, the hiring requirements for junior professorships follow from -51 paragraph 2,3 of the Landeshochschulgesetz. The details of junior professorships at the University of Konstanz, particularly the interim and final evaluation, are governed by -51 paragraph 7 of the Landeshochschulgesetz and the procedural regulations for junior professorships and junior lectureships without tenure track (--51,51a LHG), available online.
The University of Konstanz strives to increase the number of women working in research and teaching. The University commits itself to gender equality and family-friendliness as well as to creating an inclusive diversity culture in all areas and on all levels. Measures reach from childcare in the university’s own Kinderhaus (childcare centre) to support for working couples through a dual career program. ().
Applications with the usual documents (curriculum vitae, publication list, a list of grants and awards, details of teaching experience, statements on current research topics, future research directions and interests) can be submitted until 7th of January 2025, via our.