Duration of employment: 4 years
Extent of Employment: 30 hours/week
Job grading in accordance with collective bargaining agreement: §48 VwGr. B1 Grundstufe (praedoc) with relevant work experience determining the assignment to a particular salary grade.

Job Description:
- Participation in research, teaching and administration:
- We expect the successful candidate to sign a doctoral thesis agreement within 12-18 months.
- Writing a dissertation with a topic on rural areas in a transregional perspective
- Participation in teaching and independent teaching of courses as defined by the collective agreement

Profile:
- Completed master's (diploma) degree in history or in a cultural studies course
- Ability to work independently
- Good knowledge of spoken and written English
- Good knowledge of German is an advantage, at least basic knowledge of the German language and the willingness to further develop it are expected
- Ability to work in a team

Desirable qualifications are
- Knowledge of other languages according to the regional focus
- teamwork
- teaching experience
- experience with research projects - international experience

Application documents
- Letter of motivation (max. 2 pages)
- Curriculum vitae
- list of publications and lectures,
- outline of ideas for a doctoral project (max. 5 pages) from the thematic area outlined above
- Degree certificates

Applications including a letter of motivation (German or English) should be submitted via the Job Center to the University of Vienna (http://jobcenter.univie.ac.at) no later than 06.09.2020, mentioning reference number 11138.

For further information please contact Kamleitner, Herbert +43-1-4277-40002, Hüchtker, Dietlind, dietlind.huechtker@univie.ac.at.
The University pursues a non-discriminatory employment policy and values equal opportunities, as well as diversity (http://diversity.univie.ac.at/). The University lays special emphasis on increasing the number of women in senior and in academic positions. Given equal qualifications, preference will be given to female applicants.
Human Resources and Gender Equality of the University of Vienna
Reference number: 11138
E-Mail: jobcenter@univie.ac.at

Contact
Kamleitner, Herbert +43-1-4277-40002, Hüchtker, Dietlind, dietlind.huechtker@univie.ac.at
http://jobcenter.univie.ac.at/

A new faculty center for transdisciplinary historical and cultural studies with a chair for historical trans-regional studies has been set up at the Faculty of History and Cultural Studies. The chair is devoted to cultural studies and spatial concepts and aims at a transdisciplinary research and teaching to connect the institutes of the faculty. One of the fields that will be developed in the next years is a transregional history of science/of knowledge with a focus in the 20th century. The university assistant (post doc) is to contribute to the new Centre with independent work on this field.
Duration of employment: 6 years
Extent of Employment: 40 hours/week
Job grading in accordance with collective bargaining agreement: §48 VwGr. B1 lit. b (postdoc) with relevant work experience determining the assignment to a particular salary grade.
Job Description:
The position includes the development of an independent research profile, participation in the development of the research field of a transregional history of science / science in the 20th century. As part of the research activities, international publication and lecturing activities as well as participation in third-party funding and cross-faculty cooperation are expected. The preparation or completion of a habilitation is supported. The tasks also include holding courses to the extent of the collective agreement provisions and looking after the students. Participation in institute administration and in evaluation measures as well as in quality assurance are also part of the position.
Profile:
Your profile:
- Completed dissertation / PhD in history, history of science or cultural studies - Profound knowledge in the history of science
- Knowledge in the field of cultural and spatial concepts
- Good knowledge of spoken and written English language
- Good knowledge of German language is an advantage, at least basic knowledge is expected and the willingness to develop ist.
In addition, we expect the successful candidate to have
- Experience in university teaching
- Willingness to interdisciplinary teaching or team teaching
- Experience in the development of new research projects and third-party funding
- (International) publication and lecturing activity
- Participation and organization of scientific events
- Team skills
- Very good knowledge of English spoken and written
- knowledge of the language(s) of the regional context of the research fields
- knowledge of university processes and structures
- student support
- experience abroad
Application documents
Letter of motivation (max. 2 pages), curriculum vitae, list of publications and lectures, copies of diplomas, outline of ideas for a research project (max. 5 pages) from the thematic area outlined above
Applications including a letter of motivation (German or English) should be submitted via the Job Center to the University of Vienna (http://jobcenter.univie.ac.at) no later than 06.09.2020, mentioning reference number 11139.
For further information please contact Kamleitner, Herbert +43-1-4277-40002, Hüchtker, Dietlind .
The University pursues a non-discriminatory employment policy and values equal opportunities, as well as diversity (http://diversity.univie.ac.at/). The University lays special emphasis on increasing the number of women in senior and in academic positions. Given equal qualifications, preference will be given to female applicants.
Human Resources and Gender Equality of the University of Vienna
Reference number: 11139
E-Mail: jobcenter@univie.ac.at