Last Date: 15th February 2024.
Job offer
The research team of Prof. Dr Sonja Grimm, Chair of International Relations and European Studies, Institute
of Political Science and Sociology, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg, Germany seeks to hire starting
from 15 April 2024 for the duration of 3 years (with an option of prolongation of 3 years within the
Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz)
a postdoctoral researcher (m/f/x)
(salary scale TV-L 13, 100% employment)
We seek to hire a researcher at the postdoc level for the team of the Chair of International Relations and
European Studies. The hired candidate will work on an individual research project within the expertise of the
chair, teach in the Department’s Bachelor and Master programs, collaborate to acquire third-party funded
research projects, and complete a habilitation thesis within the duration of the employment. The planned
habilitation thesis project should be an innovative individual research project that is well connected to the
Chair’s main foci of research that include:
- Multilevel governance and global democracy
- Global North-South and South-South relations
- European integration and the foreign affairs of the European Union
- Statebuilding, democracy promotion, development cooperation
- Causes and Consequences of conflict and international crisis management
- Autocracies in international relations
More about the Chair can be found here: go.uniwue.de/ir
We are looking for a highly reliable young scholar with interest in one or more of the above-mentioned topics.
Job profile: What you will do - Conduct your own research project(s) up to a (cumulative) habilitation thesis
- Writing single authored and co-authored academic publications
- Teaching in the study programs of the department (equivalent of 6 SWS per term, for students in the
BA, and MA programs and future teachers) - Project management, academic self-administration
- Collaborating in acquiring third-party funded research projects
Your profile and essential qualifications; What you offer - You have recently completed your PhD degree in political science, sociology, economics or a related
discipline that fits to the Chair’s areas of expertise (or you are very close to completion). - You have experience in quantitative and/or qualitative research methods including data collection,
analysis, management and publication. - You have experience in teaching.
- You can work academically in English; proficiency in German is an asset.
- You are a reliable and independently working team player.
- You plan an academic career, and you are willing to further develop your capacities and skills in
academic working in the social sciences.
The Chair and the Project: What we offer - Integration into an international, dynamic and highly motivated Chair team that is well integrated into
and develops further national and international academic research projects and networks (for
example the Horizon-Europe funded research project EMBRACE or the German Research Network
External Democracy Promotion). - Continuous and encouraging supervision of your research project(s) and your habilitation thesis.
- Support in academic networking and presenting at (inter)national conferences.
- Support in getting published.
- Teaching experience allowing you to further expand your teaching portfolio.
- Research and management experience in Chair and research project work.
- Methodological training and practice.
- Flexible work arrangements alternating between presence work and mobile work.
Application
Your application should include a cover letter explaining how you fulfil the above criteria, a CV, certificates,
a list of publications, a description of your planned research project (max. 4 pages) to be conducted in the
next three to five years, up to two references (no letters please, contact details are sufficient), and your
PhD thesis. Please make sure that your referees can be contacted shortly after the submission deadline.
Please hand in your complete application latest by 15th February 2024 to Prof. Dr Sonja Grimm via Email
([email protected]).
Please hand in all documents in exactly two files: one includes the PhD thesis, the other one all your other
documents in the indicated order (both files please sized no more than 10 MB).
Questions as regards the position can be addressed to Sonja Grimm via the same email address. Job
interviews will be scheduled shortly after the submission deadline for late February/early March.
Alternatively, application documents may be sent as hard copies to:
Prof. Dr Sonja Grimm
Chair of International Relations and European Studies
Institute for Political Science and Sociology
Wittelsbacherplatz 1
97074 Würzburg
Germany
The University of Würzburg is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for
employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin,
disability, or age. The JMU aims to reduce the underrepresentation of women and therefore explicitly
encourages qualified women to apply. Severely handicapped applicants will be given preferential
consideration in the case of broadly equal suitability, ability and professional achievements.
