Job offer

Professors' Appointment Consulting Service

Organisation/Company University of Vienna Department Professors' Appointment Consulting Service Research Field Other Researcher Profile Leading Researcher (R4) Positions Other Positions Country Austria Application Deadline 14 Jul 2025 - 23:59 (Europe/Vienna) Type of Contract Temporary Job Status Part-time Offer Starting Date 1 Oct 2025 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Reference Number 5/2025 Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

Offer Description

The University of Vienna is internationally renowned for its excellence in teaching and research and counts more than 7,500 academics from all disciplines. This breadth of expertise offers unique opportunities to address the complex challenges of modern society, to develop comprehensive new approaches, and educate the problem-solvers of tomorrow from a multidisciplinary perspective.

At the Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics, the University of Vienna seeks to appoint a

Visiting Professor

of

(50%, for the period of 1 October 2025 – 28 February 2027)

The position:

The successful candidate should specialize in the context of Small, Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) and larger firms . The main purpose of this professorship is to support International Business Administration Master students in finishing their master studies. This includes esp. the supervision of the Master thesis. The teaching obligation includes 4 semester hours per week. In line with Master thesis supervision, the courses are mainly related to the final phase at the master studies, e.g., delivery of the Master conversatory and participation in oral master theses examination as examiner or chair.

Your academic profile:

• Outstanding research achievements, excellent publication and funding record, international reputation
• Gender and diversity competence
• Experience in designing and managing large research projects
• Enthusiasm for excellent teaching and supervision at the bachelor's, master's, and doctoral level
• Willingness to take on organisational and administrative responsibilities within the Faculty and/or the University

We offer:

• a dynamic research environment
• a wide range of research and teaching support services
• attractive working conditions in a city with a high quality of life
• Please submit a single PDF file (LastName_FirstName.pdf) containing the following information in English via e-mail to the Dean of the Faculty Business, Economics and Statistics of the University of Vienna, Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Karl Franz Dörner ( dekanat.wiwi@univie.ac.at )
• Letter of motivation
• education and training
• positions held to date
• career breaks (e.g. parental, family or other care periods)
• awards and honors
• commissions of trust
• previous and current cooperation partners
• list of most important acquired third-party funding as principal investigator, and, if applicable, of inventions/patents
• list of most important scientific talks (max. 10)
• teaching and mentoring
• supervision experience (Master and PhD)
• List of publications and a link to your ORCID record
• most important research achievements (max. 2 pages) and planned future research activities (max. 4 pages)
• synopsis of five key publications with relevance to the position advertised
• Teaching and supervision statement
  • teaching and supervision concept, including a description of the previous and planned priorities in academic teaching and supervision (max. 2 pages)

Appendices to application document:

• Five key publications as electronic full text version
• Teaching evaluations (if available, compiled into a single PDF file)
• Copies of certificates of academic degrees(mandatory, compiled into a single PDF file)

The University of Vienna has an anti-discriminatory employment policy and attaches great importance to equal opportunities, the advancement of women and diversity . We lay special emphasis on increasing the number of women in senior and in academic positions among the academic and general university staff and therefore expressly encourage qualified women to apply. Given equal qualifications, preference will be given to female candidates.

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