German Language Teacher (0.75 FTE)

German Language Teacher (0.75 FTE) (222362)

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Job description

Are you interested in joining our team? We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced German language teacher. You will prepare, oversee, organise and teach German language courses following the method developed by the ELC Language Learning Team as described in its mission statement (https://drive.google.com/(...)YKHf7aDUHda1BPr/view ).
You will work, together with colleagues from the German team and with other colleagues within the programme of European Languages and Cultures, on further developing and innovating the curriculum. See here for more information on the program (https://www.rug.nl/(...)guages-and-cultures/ ).

Qualifications

• you have C2 level proficiency in German
• you have relevant teaching qualifications (such as Master of Education, Applied Linguistics, DaF etc.)
• you have relevant teaching experience in academic DaF contexts:

● teaching courses up to C2 level
● teaching through tasks, following usage-based and CLIL principles
● creating evidence-based and research-led teaching materials guided by the CEFR
● using CIT to enhance your teaching
● organising (virtual) exchanges

• you like to work both independently and in a team, producing high quality work
• your strengths are didactic creativity, autonomy, organisation, communication and meeting deadlines
• you master one of the other languages taught in our bachelor programme (Dutch, English, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish)
• you have the ability to communicate and take active part in meetings in English (CEFR C1 level for reading, listening, writing, speaking)
• you have gained the Dutch University Teaching Qualification (BKO) or are prepared to do so within 2 years
• you are expected to have or gain understanding of the Dutch language (CEFR B2 for reading and listening, and CEFR B1 for writing and speaking) within two years.

Organisation

The Faculty of Arts is building on a longstanding tradition of four centuries. Its mission is to be an ambitious top-ranking faculty in terms of both education and high-quality research, with a strong international orientation, firmly rooted in the North of the Netherlands. The Faculty creates and shares knowledge through outstanding education and high-quality research, beneficial to society. The Faculty educates more than 5000 students, both Dutch and international, in a modern, broad and international institution, producing forward-looking, articulate and intellectually independent graduates.
Students of the BA European Languages and Cultures (ELC) choose a major profile (Language and Society, Culture and Literature, Politics and Society) in combination with one of eight languages. Next to German we offer Dutch as a second language, English, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish and Swedish. The Language Learning (https://etc-languagelearning.web.rug.nl/ ) chair group builds on the expertise of a motivated international team of language teaching staff, who ensure learning the language is fully integrated with learning about the target language and culture. At ELC, we use effective research-led teaching techniques and cutting-edge technology to support language learning and to strengthen our students' profiles as future language ambassadors and cultural mediators for Europe.

Conditions of employment

We offer in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities (CAO Nederlandse Universiteiten (https://www.universiteitenvannederland.nl/cao-universiteiten.html )):

• a salary, depending on qualifications and work experience, with a minimum of € 2,846 (salary scale 10) to a maximum of € 5,230 (salary scale 11) gross per month for a full-time position
• 8% holiday allowance and 8.3% year-end bonus
• participation in a pension scheme for employees
• favourable tax agreements for non-Dutch applicants may be applicable
• 232 holidays hours per calendar by full-time employment
• temporary contract for 12 months with the possibility for a permanent appointment upon

positive evaluation.

The University of Groningen is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to building a diverse faculty. All qualified applicants will receive our full consideration.

Application

You may apply for this position until 12 June 11:59pm / before 13 June 2022 Dutch local time (CEST) by means of the application form (click on ‘Apply’ below on the advertisement on the University website).

You can fill in the application form and upload 3 PDF files:

• a letter of motivation in German and English
• a CV in English with the names and contact details of three referees
• a statement on your own teaching goals and experience (maximum two pages in total), taking into account our mission statement. You can upload this under “extra document” on the website in English.

Only complete applications submitted by the deadline will be taken into consideration.

The selection interviews will take place on 23 June 2022 in the morning.

The University of Groningen strives to be a university in which students and staff are respected and feel at home, regardless of differences in background, experiences, perspectives, and identities. We believe that working on our core values of inclusion and equality are a joint responsibility and we are constructively working on creating a socially safe environment. Diversity among students and staff members enriches academic debate and contributes to the quality of our teaching and research. We therefore invite applicants from underrepresented groups in particular to apply. For more information, see also our diversity policy webpage: https://www.rug.nl/(...)rsity-and-inclusion/

Our selection procedure follows the guidelines of the Recruitment code (NVP): https://www.nvp-hrnetwerk.nl/sollicitatiecode/ and European Commission's European Code of Conduct for recruitment of researchers: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/charter/code

Unsolicited marketing is not appreciated.

Information

For information you can contact:

• Iryna Menke-Bazhutkina, [email protected]

Please do not use the e-mail address(es) above for applications.

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