Call for applications: Piano professor in Austria

KUG is an international university with about 2 300 students. It offers a wide range of courses in music and the performing arts. The successful candidate will resume duties on a permanent bases in winter semester of 2022-23.

Task areas

• Teaching particularly in the main artistic subject piano.
• Responsible representation and promotion of the field in its entirety, in particular in the arts-based research.
• 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 KUG.
• Participation in organisational, administrative and evaluation duties.

Employment requirements

• A degree from an Austrian or comparable foreign educational institute that suits the position, or an equivalent artistic aptitude.
• Outstanding personality with the highest artistic qualification for the position to be filled.
• Outstanding pedagogical and didactic competency.
• Internationally outstanding artistic career.
• Extensive artistic experience in the field of contemporary music.
• Competence and/or experience in the areas of gender and diversity.
• If German is not the native language, it is assumed that there is the willingness to learn German with the aim of reaching at least level B2 within a fixed period of time.

Note: A prerequisite for the acceptance as an employee at KUG is the proof of a valid vaccination status against COVID-19 in the sense of the COVID-19 Vaccination Obligation Act, unless an exception as defined in the aforementioned law applies. If this proof cannot be provided on the day of the beginning of the employment relationship, no employment relationship will be established.

Interested applicants should submit their applications via email at bewerbung-uprof@kug.ac.at before 31 March with ‘90/21’ in the subject line.

Applicants should submit a written application together with documents proving the above-mentioned employment requirements.

Contract: Indefinite employment contract according to the collective agreement for university employees.

Salary: Collective agreement minimum monthly salary currently €4 078.28 (about $4 500) gross per month (14 x annually) and any higher salary can be made subject to appointment negotiations.

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 KUG, which interprets all aspects of special requirements, persons with special needs will be given preference in the case of equal qualification.

“We engage with international developments in the arts, pedagogy and research and enquire the significance of art and culture in society,” the university said. “It is in a cooperative way that teachers and students work in the joint knowledge process. We see the potential of gender, diversity and sustainability as an opportunity in the transformation of the artistic and cultural sector and for the further development of our institution. The university is striving to increase the proportion of women in its artistic staff and therefore strongly encourages qualified women to apply. Women will be given preference in the case of equal qualification.”

View the original call here.