Associate Professor of Educational Testing (F3-070006)

at  Universit du Luxembourg EschsurAlzette L

CONTRACT TYPE:ACADEMIC - PERMANENT

The University of Luxembourg (https://www.uni.lu/en/) is an international research university with a distinctly multilingual and interdisciplinary character.
The Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) brings together expertise from the humanities, linguistics, cognitive sciences, social sciences and educational sciences. Scholars from across 20 disciplines are working within the Faculty. Along with disciplinary approaches, a very ambitious interdisciplinary research culture has been developed.
The Faculty’s research and teaching focuses on social, economic, political and educational issues with the common goal of contributing to an inclusive, open and resourceful society. The FHSE offers seven Bachelor’s and twenty Master’s degrees and hosts a doctoral school providing students with the necessary knowledge and high-qualified skills to succeed in their future careers.
The Department of Education & Social Work within the Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Science is seeking a leading academic to join its team as Associate Professor of Educational Testing.

LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS

The University of Luxembourg is set in a multilingual context. The person hired on this position must be proficient in German, French and English. For this position, knowledge of Luxembourgish is highly desirable. The University encourages its staff to learn languages and provides access to language courses to this end.

The successful candidate will develop and maintain research and transfer activities—with national embedding and of (inter)national relevance—explicitly focusing on educational testing and large-scale assessment in technology-rich multilingual learning environments.
Responsibilities include leading the Luxembourg Centre for Educational Testing (LUCET) and its structural research and transfer projects, including the Luxembourg school monitoring programme (Épreuves Standardisées; ÉpStan) and the related longitudinal database.
The role involves promoting scientific outreach and transfer activities and evidence-based decision-making in the Luxembourg education system, exercising leadership internally and externally both in their field of knowledge and, as a leading educationist, apply their general knowledge and skills as a researcher and scholar, and enhancing the Faculty’s teaching and learning programmes in Education.
The holder of the position will also supervise and mentor Bachelor and Master students as well as, doctoral, and post-doctoral researchers, contributing to the development of doctoral education and training, and undertake leadership roles to strengthen the Faculty’s position as a leading European multicultural and multilingual site of research and teaching in the field of educational and social sciences.