28.5095, Jobs: Translation: Full Professor, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck

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Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2017 13:21:26
From: Pius ten Hacken [pius.ten-hacken at uibk.ac.at]
Subject: Translation: Full Professor, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Austria

 
University or Organization: Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck 
Department: Translationswissenschaft
Job Location: Innsbruck, Austria 
Job Title: University Professor
Job Rank: Full Professor

Specialty Areas: Translation; Interpreting

Required Language(s): English (eng)
                      French (fra) 
                      German (deu) 
                      Italian (ita) 
                      Russian (rus) 
                      Spanish (spa) 

Description:

The University of Innsbruck invites applications for the position of
University Professor of Translation Studies with a focus on Interpreting at
the Department of Translation Studies of the Faculty of Humanities 2 (Language
and Literature).

The position will be based on a permanent civil-law employment contract with
the University.

Responsibilities: 
- Representing the subject of “Translation Studies” both in research and
teaching. 
- A main research focus in the area of interpreting studies, a further
research focus in translation theory.
- Collaboration with the other research and teaching areas in the department
and across the university is expected. For the latter, the research centres
“Cultures in Contact”, “Dimensions of Transfer” and “Digital Humanities” and
the university-wide Research Area “Cultural Encounters – Cultural Conflicts”
are particularly relevant.
- Teaching involves courses as foreseen in the BA and MA curriculums,
supervision of MA dissertations and examination in the entire domain of
Translation Studies.
- Participation in the academic self-administration is expected.

Eligibility requirements: 
- a pertinent degree in higher education;
- a pertinent habilitation of equivalent qualification;
- relevant publications;
- competence in interpreting studies and translation theory;
- excellent command of German and full professional competence in at least one
other language that is taught at the department (English, French, Italian,
Spanish, Russian);
- involvement in international research; 
- excellent didactic skills;
- experience in the procurement of research funding;
- social competence and ability to act as a leader;

Further desirable qualifications:
- competence in another language taught at the department;
- experience in interdisciplinary collaboration;
- relevant professional experience outside the university;
- relevant professional experience abroad.

The University of Innsbruck is committed to increasing the percentage of
female employees, especially in leading positions and therefore explicitly
invites women to apply. In the case of equivalent qualifications, women will
be given preference.

Applications must reach us at the latest by 10 January 2018 and should include
the usual documentation (esp. curriculum vitae, publications list, description
of current and intended research, samples of the 5 most important works). All
documents have to be submitted in digital form. Hardcopy (paper) is optional. 

Please send the documents to the application address / email address below.

The basic salary is set down in the collective bargaining agreement for
university employees. Professors are in the remuneration group A 1. For the
position the monthly salary is 4.891,10 Euro (14 x). Depending on
qualification and experience a higher salary can be a topic in the
negotiations with the rector. Beyond that the university offers attractive
additional benefits (http://www.uibk.ac.at/universitaet/zusatzleistungen/).

The full, authoritative text in German (published in the official bulletin of
the University of 8 November 2017) as well as additional information on the
current status of the application process may be found at: 

http://www.uibk.ac.at/fakultaeten-servicestelle/standorte/innrain52f/berufunge
n_habilitationen/berufungen_index_2010.html



Application Deadline: 10-Jan-2018 
Mailing Address for Applications: 
	Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck 
	Fakultäten Servicestelle 
	Standort Innrain 52f 
	A-6020 
	Innsbruck  
	Austria  
Email Address for Applications: fss-innrain52f at uibk.ac.at 
Contact Information:
	Univ.-Prof. Dr. Pius ten Hacken 
	Email: pius.ten-hacken at uibk.ac.at 


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