The Anton Bruckner Private University is a public corporation and is funded by the State of Upper Austria. It was accredited as a private university in 2004. We offer our approximately 850 students artistic, artistic-pedagogical and artistic-scientific degree programmes in the fields of music, drama and dance. With around 50% international students, we are the most international university in Linz, and our strong regional ties with local cultural and educational institutions make us an attractive and diverse place to work.

• Scope of employment: 40 hours per week, including 22 hours of teaching per week (100% of full employment)
• Duration of employment: initially limited to three years; in case of positive evaluation permanent employment
• Classification: Salary group C+ (LD 9 of the Upper Austrian Salary Act 2001)
• Remuneration: gross monthly salary from EUR 4,837.10 (depending on creditable previous service)
• End of application period: January 29th, 2025
• Selection procedure:
  • Preselection by appointment committee;
  • Hearing incl. teaching sample expected on March 21st, 2025
• Planned start of employment: October 1st, 2025
• Organizational unit: Institute of Dance Arts (IDA)

We are looking for a person with proven qualifications in the teaching of contemporary dance techniques in both the artistic and artistic-pedagogical fields. The Institute of Dance Arts (IDA) represents a specific profiling of these areas, which supports the diversity existing in this field and a differentiated and reflected craftsmanship in teaching.
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Requirements

1. Employment requirements:

• International performance experience as a contemporary dancer, performer
• Many years of teaching experience specifically for contemporary dancers, various professional fields of practice as well as in the university/college sector
• Willingness to work in close team-orientated collaboration with colleagues
• Availability of international networks
• A domestic or equivalent foreign higher education qualification or equivalent artistic or artistic-scientific aptitude appropriate to the role
• Good knowledge of English (teaching language English)
• Regular attendance at the Anton Bruckner Private University and participation in academic self-administration are part of the duty.

2. Desired qualifications:

• Organisational competence
• Gender and diversity competence
• Willingness to cooperate and ability to work in a team

Role & Responsibilities

• Contemporary dance technique training in the central artistic subject for all years of the BA Contemporary Dance, Stage Dance, Performance, Pedagogy programme
• Teaching in the Master's degree programmes
• Analysing movement and promoting physically differentiated movement qualities
• Promotion of perceptual processes
• Teaching pedagogical reflection
• Teaching and mentoring in the pedagogical / didactic courses in the BA and MA programmes
• Transfer between artistic and pedagogical processes
• In addition to teaching courses, the activities of teaching staff include the necessary preparation and follow-up activities, event and examination activities, research and administrative activities associated with teaching, participation in committees and the supervision and assessment of final theses.

Documents to be submitted by applicant:

• CV (in tabular form)
• Certificates, diplomas and documents on a qualification corresponding to the application
• Documentation of previous pedagogical, artistic and scientific activities
• List of publications / links
• Letter of motivation
• Pedagogical concept

Contact & general information

If you have any questions, please contact the Human Resources and Legal Department (personal@bruckneruni.at).

Unfortunately, costs incurred in connection with an application to the Bruckner University cannot be reimbursed. Your application documents will be destroyed at the end of the appointment procedure.

Diversity and equality are of great importance to the Bruckner University in accordance with its mission statement. In line with the gender equality intentions of the Province of Upper Austria, we welcome applications from people of all gender identities equally.
This job advertisement is not intended to exclude any group of people from applying and is aimed at people in all their diversity, in particular people with disabilities whose impairment is compatible with the advertised position. Only the personal and professional suitability for the advertised position is decisive for a successful application.
Bruckner University strives for a diverse, socially representative staff structure and therefore particularly welcomes applications from people with a history of migration, people who have faced socio-economic barriers, people of colour (BPoC) and/or people from other underrepresented groups.

Please send your detailed application documents by 29 January 2025 at the latest exclusively by electronic means to our applicant portal https://jobs.bruckneruni.at.

Information about your rights as a data subject according to Article 13 of the General Data Protection Regulation as well as the privacy policy of Anton Bruckner Private University can be found at https://www.bruckneruni.at/datenschutz/.