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The University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Institute of Music Education, is offering a position beginning with the winter semester 2021/22 for a
University Professorship for Music Education – Voice and Instruments
based on § 98 of the Universities Act and § 25 of the collective agreement for university employees, in the form of a full-time contractual position. It is possible to agree to an overpayment of the minimum monthly salary, which has been determined by the collective agreement and which at present is 5,130.20 € gross (14 payments annually).
Music Education – Voice and Instruments at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz is characterised by a wide range of tasks and a large field of activities in theory and practice of music education. Practice fields, instrumental didactics and scientific research approaches as well as research and teaching are always interlinked and part of the process of further development. The variety, which exists in all areas, offers students the possibility to create individual profiles with regard to the complex professional field.
For the position of a university professor, we are looking for a personality who can build on this existing variety of research approaches in the subject of Music Education – Voice and Instruments and enriches it with his/her own focuses. His/her tasks also include supporting the existing internal university collaborations and projects as well as the local and international ones and developing them further by new impulses. Applicants are expected to have extensive methodological research skills in Music Education – Voice and Instruments.
Task areas
- independent research and publication activity in Music Education – Voice and Instruments
- independent teaching, supervision and examination activity in the field of Music Education – Voice and Instruments as well as in the PhD area
- conception, acquisition and implementation of third-party funded research projects
- active participation in the internationalisation and further development of the curricula for Bachelor and Master studies in the field of Music Education – Voice and Instruments in the current area of classical music, jazz and folk music
- intensive networking with the music school scene of the province of Styria and with the Johann-Joseph-Fux Conservatory of the province of Styria in the areas of teaching practice as well as cross-institutional support of young talents, among others
- internal university collaborations with other fields of study and institutes of the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, especially in the artistic field
- participation in the development of offers for further education and training in Music Education – Voice and Instruments
- active participation in the further development of the university’s teaching environment and its artistic and scholarly life, as well as helping shape the academic autonomy of the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz
- participation in organisational, administrative and evaluation duties
I. Basic Employment Requirements
- college or university degree in Music Education – Voice and Instruments
- a degree at the doctoral level from an Austrian or comparable foreign university or other institution of tertiary education relevant to the position as well as a qualification equal to the Habilitation in the subject area to be filled
- gender competence
II. Specific Employment Requirements
- outstanding international scientific publications in the field of Music Education – Voice and Instruments
- pedagogical and didactic aptitude for university teaching at an excellent level
- several years of relevant research and teaching activity at a tertiary educational institution
- experience with different contextual aspects of music education
- ability to work in a team and to take on academic management roles
From the applicant is expected
- willingness to participate in academic didactic qualification measures
- several years of teaching, preferably at music schools or in freelance music education practice
- intercultural competences
- knowledge of current developments in the music school system seen in an international comparison
- experience in conception, acquisition and management of externally funded research projects
The application documents will be kept by the university.
Interested candidates with the appropriate qualifications are invited to submit their written application with the usual documentation before the
30 April 2020
in a PDF-file by e-mail to: bewerbung-UProf@kug.ac.at using the identification number 94/19. If necessary, sound recordings or DVDs can be sent by regular post.
The university aims to increase the proportion of women in its academic staff and therefore strongly encourages qualified women to apply. Women will be given preference in the case of equal qualification.
Applicants are not entitled to compensation for the travel and lodging expenses that arise during the application procedure.
Following the concept of social sustainability at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, which interprets all aspects of special requirements, persons with special needs will be given preference in the case of equal qualification.
On behalf of the rectorate
Eike Straub
