W2 Professorship in Religious Education with a Focus on Interreligious and Ethical Learning

Technische Universität Braunschweig

Technische Universität Braunschweig is one of Germany’s leading institutes of technology and offers an inspiring work environment with a wide range of research and teaching opportunities in state-of-the-art facilities. The 3,800 members of our academic, technical and administrative staff – including more than 400 international scientific staff – work together to ensure that our university successfully fulfils its mission of providing excellent teaching for our approximately 16,000 students and 100 trainees. We focus our research on mobility, metrology, engineering for health, and the future city. Our core disciplines include a comprehensive engineering division and a strong natural sciences division, closely linked with business sciences, social sciences, educational sciences, and the humanities. Our university is located at the heart of one of Europe’s most research-intensive regions. We cooperate closely with the more than 20 internationally renowned research institutions in our vicinity and our network extends to our partner universities in Germany and all over the world, with whom we maintain strong relationships.

Faculty of Humanities and Education
Protestant Theology and Religious Education

We offer a

W2 Professorship in Religious Education with a Focus on Interreligious and Ethical Learning

The appointment is for the earliest possible date.

Your responsibilities

We are looking for a committed and distinguished personality who will place particular emphasis on researching and developing interreligious and ethical competences. The advertised job profile responds to the challenges arising from the increasing religious and ideological plurality of our society as well as developments in school policy. The focus is on the innovative combination of religious and ethical education in the field of tension between positionality and dialogue. The future holder of the post will have a decisive influence on the content of religious didactics and shape it in the sense of cooperative further development. One focus of the teaching activities will be the teaching and consolidation of basic religious didactic skills – in particular through the integration of interreligious and ethical topics in the Bachelor's degree programme in Protestant Theology and Religious Education as well as in the Master's degree programme in Protestant Theology for the teaching profession at primary, secondary and intermediate schools. Due to the structure of the institute, it is expected that the subject area of religious didactics can be represented in its entire breadth in research and teaching. The successful candidate (f/m/d) is expected to be committed to the university’s strategic goals and to actively shape its holistic development (https://www.tu-braunschweig.de/hochschulentwicklung). In addition to the classic service areas of a university (research, teaching and studies, transfer, governance and administration), this applies in particular to digitalisation, internationalisation, equality and diversity, as well as knowledge exchange

Our expectations

• Willingness to engage in interdisciplinary collaboration in research and teaching within the institute, with the faculty, the university as a whole and non-university research institutions as well as to participate in national and international research projects
• Experience with and willingness to acquire third‑party funding
• Collaboration in academic self‑administration and scientific organisation
• Promotion of employees in the qualification phase
• Willingness to contribute to the internationalisation of the university in research, teaching and transfer

Individual career decisions and career breaks due to parental/​family care leave affecting research output will be taken into account by the appointment committ

Requirements, § 25 NHG

• A degree in a relevant field
• Pedagogical aptitude
• Special qualification for in-depth independent scientific work, as a rule proven by an above-average doctorate
• Additional academic achievements, usually within the framework of a junior professorship, a postdoctoral degree (Habilitation) or achievements equivalent to a Habilitation
• At least three years of practical school experience or suitable pedagogical experience or experience in empirical research appropriate to the tasks.
• Membership of a member church of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD)

Notes

Technische Universität Braunschweig makes personnel decisions on the basis of suitability, ability and professional performance. Our aim is to increase the share of women in academic positions. Therefore, we particularly welcome applications from women and will give preference to female candidates with equivalent qualifications. People with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply and, if equally qualified, will be given preference in the appointment process. Technische Universität Braunschweig is certified as a family‑friendly university. We are committed to facilitating a healthy and productive work-life balance and offer a dual career service as well as support for newly appointed staff. Our Family Office provides advice on all issues relating to family, childcare, and caring for relatives. Our "Prof.-Programm" offers exclusive status-related exchange and consulting formats, in particular to newly appointed professors. Professional and Personnel Development promotes the professional development of all employees through a wide range of courses and activities. The university actively endorses equal opportunities and diversity and promotes diverse perspectives as essential in contributing to the university’s success in research, teaching, transfer and administration. We particularly invite applications from international candidates (f/m/d). German language skills are not a prerequisite. However, the successful candidate is expected to acquire sufficient language skills to perform teaching and administrative duties in German within two years of appointment. Even though this is a permanent full-time position, a part-time appointment may be possible upon request. Applicants (f/m/d) who are 50 years or older at the time the appointment commences and who have not acquired permanent civil servant status (Beamten­verhältnis auf Lebenszeit) will be employed with employee status (Angestellten­verhältnis).