German Language Teacher (0.65 FTE)

The University of Groningen has an international reputation as a dynamic and innovative centre of higher education offering high-quality teaching and research. Balanced study and career paths in a wide variety of disciplines encourage the 31,000 students and researchers to develop their own individual talents. Belonging to the best research universities in Europe and joining forces with prestigious partner universities and networks, the University of Groningen is truly an international place of knowledge.



Faculty and Program

The Faculty of Arts is built on a long-standing tradition of four centuries. Our mission is to be a top-ranking faculty with both an excellent education and world-quality research, with a strong international orientation, firmly rooted in the North of the Netherlands. We build and share knowledge benefits to society. We work at a modern, broad and international institution, educating over 5.000 Dutch and international students to become forward-looking, articulate and independent academics. We are a diverse team of 700 staff members.



Program

Students of the BA European Languages and Cultures (ELC) choose a main profile (Language and Society, Culture and Literature, Politics and Society) in combination with one of eight languages. In addition to German, these include NT2, English, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish and Swedish. The language programs build on the expertise of a motivated international team of language teachers, which ensures that language learning is fully integrated with learning about the target language and culture. At ELC, we use effective research-based teaching methods and the latest technological innovations to support language learning and raise the profile of our students as future language ambassadors and cultural mediators for Europe.



You will prepare, oversee, organize and teach German language courses following the method developed by the Language Learning Team of the ELC as described in our mission statement. In addition, you will closely work together with other colleagues within the programme of European Languages and Cultures, on further developing our approach. See here for more information on the program.

Requirements:

- You have C2 level proficiency in German.

- You have relevant teaching qualifications such as a Master of Education, Applied Linguistics, DaF etc.



- You have relevant experience in academic DaF contexts:

- teaching courses up to C1/C2 level

- teaching through tasks, following usage based and CLIL principles

- creating evidence-based and research led teaching materials guided by the CEFR

- using digital tools to enhance your face-to-face teaching

- organizing virtual exchanges.



- You like to work both independently and in a team, producing high quality work.

- Your strengths are didactic creativity, team spirit, autonomy, entrepreneurship, communication and efficient organization.

- You master at least one of the other languages taught in our bachelor programme (Dutch, 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).

- Qualifications in teaching any other language within ELC (e.g., Dutch) are a plus.

Salary Benefits:

We offer in accordance with the collective bargaining agreement for Dutch universities



- Your appointment will be on a temporary basis for 36 months (3 year(s)) which will end by operation of law after this period.

- a salary, depending on qualifications and work experience, with a minimum of € 3,345 to a maximum of € 5,278 (salary scale 10) gross per month for a full-time position.

- An appointment for 0.65 FTE.

- 8% holiday allowance and 8,3% end-of-year bonus.

- Participation in a pension scheme for employees.

- Favourable tax agreements for non-Dutch applicants may be applicable.

- 232 holidays per calendar by full-time employment.

25 hours per week

Broerstraat 5