Assistant professor in educational leadership in higher education institutions

at  Aarhus Universitet

The Centre for Educational Development (CED) at Aarhus University invites applications for a position as assistant professor. The position is full-time (37 hours per week) for three years from 1 December 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter. The place of employment is Aarhus University, Denmark.

ABOUT YOUR QUALIFICATIONS AND COMPETENCE

You have

• a PhD degree in a relevant field
• two to three years of postdoc work experience
• developed a research profile relevant to educational leadership in higher education institutions
• teaching experience, including experience of teaching university faculty/staff
• project team leadership experience.

You can

• collaborate in an interdisciplinary research-group
• contribute to an interdisciplinary higher education teaching-learning centre
• co-create respectfully and professionally with university staff and colleagues
• lead well-defined development projects within your profile area.

You are a person who

• thrives on complex processes with multiple agendas and stakeholders
• keeps a cool head and high spirits when things are not going as planned
• would like to learn Danish (if you are not already speaking a Scandinavian language).

ABOUT THE CENTRE FOR EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (CED) AT AARHUS UNIVERSITY

The mission of CED is to inspire engaging teaching and excellent educations at Aarhus University. We offer teachers, academic staff, coordinators, directors, and executives at Aarhus University practical partnership, collaboration, and help concerning their ongoing teaching tasks and competencies.
Furthermore, we ambitiously strive for the highest international level through applied research in university teaching and learning. We contribute to development projects and experiments in the fields of digitalization and learning technologies in higher education, university teaching, and program development.
CED employs almost 60 colleagues organized into three departments specialized in digital development, teaching development, and program development, respectively, plus a small administration. We have a good collegial atmosphere characterized by a high degree of collaboration and continuous professional development. We value inquiry, co-creation, empowerment and expertise.
The research group at CED works within and across the three departments. The group comprises five associate professors, three postdocs, three PhD-students, and two research assistants. The group has ongoing research on topics that include student learning, transitions and career, teacher development and educational leadership, health sciences education, and the uses of learning technology in higher education. We come from a wide range of research methods and theoretical frameworks, but all focus on practical and applied higher education research of high quality.
For further information about CED, please visit our website.

CONDITIONS AND PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT

The assistant professorship is a full-time (37 hours) position limited to a 3-year period starting from the date of employment.
Expected start date is 1 December 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter.
You will be placed in the Department of Teaching Development with a reference to the department manager. Regarding the research tasks, there is daily close collaboration with the research group at CED, led by the center director.
Place of employment is Trøjborgvej 82-84, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
Further information on the appointment procedure can be found in the Ministerial Order on the Appointment of Academic Staff at Universities.
The appointment is in accordance with the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (Akademikerne).
Further information on qualification requirements and job description can be found in
the Ministerial Order on Job Structure for Academic Staff at Universities.

Your primary tasks are to

• conduct applied research and publish at an international level about educational leadership
• support and co-supervise younger research colleagues in the CED research group
• fundraise externally for research activities
• teach selected topics at CEDs courses and workshops for university staff / faculty
• participate in relevant development projects with colleagues and university staff.