Director of the Communication, Information and Media Center (KIM) (f/m/d)

Director of the Communication, Information and Media Center (KIM) (f/m/d)

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(full-time, E 15 TV-L if the personal and civil service requirements are met up to A 16)

Reference number 2025/163 The position is to be filled on January 1, 2026 or by agreement for an indefinite period.

The Communication, Information and Media Center (KIM) is the University of Konstanz's central service provider for IT and library services. It offers services for research, teaching and studies from a single source and operates the administrative IT. The office reports directly to the Rectorate.

The KIM is one of the most innovative, award-winning institutions in the field of literature and information provision in the German university landscape. With around 200 employees including around 30 project staff and a budget of around 8 million euros plus project funds, KIM is a high-performance service center that is constantly expanding its services and adapting them to current requirements.

Your tasks

• Strategic and organizational management incl. personnel and budget responsibility
• Active role in the further development of KIM into an integrated information and IT service provider for the university
• Active personnel and organizational development
• Supporting the Rectorate, science and university administration in all relevant matters, particularly in the areas of science support, research data management, open science, digital forms of teaching and learning and the digitalization of university administrative processes
• Acquisition of projects, second and third-party funding
• Representation of the KIM as an institution of the University of Konstanz in committees (regional, national and international) and in public
  
  

Your profile

• Completed scientific university degree
• Management and leadership experience in an integrated information center or a comparable institution of the science-supporting information infrastructure (e.g. library or computer center)
• Proven management qualification or additional qualification for the higher civil service
• Very good knowledge of national and international developments in the field of IT and/or library services at universities
• High level of leadership and interpersonal skills, cooperation and communication skills, negotiation skills and strategic thinking
• Working language is German, very good knowledge of English is required
  
  

We offer you

• An interesting and meaningful task in a dynamic central institution of the University of Konstanz
• A pleasant and stimulating environment in a friendly team that enables a good work-life balance
• Home office, mobile working, an annual time account and flexible working hours
• Wide range of family support offers
• Opportunities for educational leave or exchanges with European partners (Erasmus)
• Numerous training opportunities
• Company health management
• Sports activities offered by the university sports department
• Access to corporate benefits and a membership with Hansefit
• JobRad
• Subsidy for the JobTicket BW, Deutschlandticket
• Company pension scheme (VBL)
• Recruitment as an employee with classification according to the collective bargaining provisions of the TV-L (depending on personal requirements up to E 15 TV-L) or recruitment as a civil servant according to LBesGBW (depending on personal and civil service requirements up to A 16)
  
  

For further information, please contact Prof. Dr. Christine Peter, Tel. no. +49 7531 88-3948, cio@uni-konstanz.de.

We look forward to receiving your application with the usual documents by October 5, 2025 via our online application portal.

The University of Konstanz is committed to gender equality, diversity and work-life balance. It also supports dual-career couples (uni.kn/dcc). It strives to increase the proportion of women in advertised positions (uni.kn/chancengleichheit). People with a severe disability are given priority for employment if they are suitable (sbv@uni-konstanz.de, +49 7531 88-4016).

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Executive

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Research Services

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