Job description

The University of Bremen is characterized by its high capacity for innovation. Particularly for academics in an early career phase, this offers a versatile research and teaching environment with planned and transparently designed career paths, also besides professorships. Information on new career paths for mid-level academic staff at the University of Bremen is published at

https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/university/academic-career/senior-researcher-senior-lecturer.html.

Initially, the appointment is limited to four years (salary group 14 TV-L). The employment is regulated by the Act of Academic Fixed-Term Contract, §2 (1) (Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz – WissZeitVG). Therefore, candidates may only be considered for appointment if they still have the respective qualification periods available in accordance with § 2 (1) WissZeitVG. The permanent position of a Senior Researcher (salary group 15 TV-L) can be assigned in case of proof of outstanding aptitude, performance and competence after successful completion of an evaluation. Research and scientific teaching are carried out independently within the framework of the Bremen Higher Education Act § 24 (2). The teaching responsibilities are four teaching hours per week per semester in the position as Researcher and nine teaching hours per week as Senior Researcher.

The faculty is open to a broad range of research approaches including qualitative (e.g., grounded theory, case studies, ethnographies), quantitative (e.g., traditional inferential statistics, artificial intelligence, experimental research, meta-analyses) or mixed-methods approaches. Your teaching input will be centered around application-oriented project-based learning and research-based learning. The position offers promising career development opportunities, particularly the chance to establish an independent profile in the field of entrepreneurship. We are looking for an early-career researcher with the following profile:

Your tasks and responsibilities:

• You independently address research questions in the area of entrepreneurship that lead to high-level publications in relevant journals. A connectivity to current entrepreneurship research activities of the faculty is welcome.

• You independently teach in the area of entrepreneurship.
• You participate in the supervision of PhD students (also within the faculty’s Diginomics Graduate Group),

• You participate in the expansion of study programs of the Faculty of Business Studies and Economics, also regarding the development of new formats in
• You participate in transfer initiatives regarding research and teaching.

• You raise competitive third-party funds.
• You participate in the academic self-government.

Requirements

Your qualifications (recruitment requirements):

• University degree (diploma, master) in Business Studies or equivalent disciplines.
• Excellent and pertinent doctoral dissertation recently pubishled with a focus on this call.
• First publications published in the fields of this call and promising research projects.
• Teaching experience in the subject area of entrepreneurship with research-based and application-oriented learning in methods and theories.
• Very good English languages skills (fluently spoken and written) and ability to develop good German language skills, to be demonstrated by the time of evaluation.

Further are desirable:

• International experience and contacts to utilize for research and teaching within the faculty,
• Interest and passion for new insights, approaches and methods regarding entrepreneurship research,
• Experience in coaching and mentoring of (student) startup projects,
• Experience in organizing scientific workshops, conferences or seminars,
• Confident use of contemporary media and forms of presentation for teaching,
• Experience in the preparation of proposals for external funding.

General Information

The University of Bremen strives to increase the proportion of women in the academic field. It has received several awards in programmes to promote gender equality and is certified as a family-friendly university. Women academics are strongly encouraged to apply. Applications from persons with a migration background as well as international applications are expressly welcomed. Severely disabled applicants will be given priority if their professional and personal qualifications are essentially the same.

Questions regarding this job advertisement will be answered by Prof. Dr. Maik Eisenbeiß, dean of the faculty of Business Studies and Economics (dekanfb7@uni-bremen.de).

Submit your application citing the reference number (LK278/24) until the application deadline 2025, 31st January to the Faculty 7, Application Service, P.O. Box 330440, 28334 Bremen.

We kindly ask you to include documentation of the following

• educational background and academic career path: Curriculum vitae, diplomas, references, and, if applicable, certificates of your appointment as a professor (please attach a German or English translation if the certificate of appointment is in a language other than German or English).
• research accomplishments: list of publications, overview of acquired third-party funding, research collaborations, and ongoing research projects. We also ask for a concise research overview with plans for the next 3-5 years (not exceeding 2 pages).
• teaching philosophy and experience: teaching concept (not exceeding 2 pages). Please include teaching evaluations and evidence of your pedagogical and didactic skills, if applicable.

The application must be submitted either in writing or by unencrypted e-mail as a single pdf file to fb07bvprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de.

We ask you to only submit copies of your application documents for these will be destroyed upon completion of the application procedure.