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Career opportunities at the University of Münster

The University of Münster owes its success in research and teaching to its committed, experienced staff. In this section, we provide extensive information about work placements, training programmes and employment opportunities for staff and students of the University of Münster. Here you will find general information, job advertisements, work placement announcements, training programme openings and administrative services. We hope you choose the University of Münster!

  • Healthy balance

    The University of Münster knows that balancing one's career and private life is key to enjoying a good quality of life. As a cooperative employer, we strive to cultivate a wholesome working environment which makes for a well-balanced, satisfied and motivated staff.  To this end, we apply a comprehensive approach of working time models, personnel development measures and workplace health promotion programmes.

    All management-level staff at the University of Münster are committed to achieving this goal by engaging in constructive dialogue and working to ensure that health promotion is established in all areas of the University.

    The health of our staff is the basis for a long-term productive career. Consequently, the University of Münster offers an extensive range of health promotion and maintenance services, e.g. the multifaceted and needs-oriented sports and preventive exercise courses in the University Sports programme, the health promotion programme "Nutrition - Movement - Relaxation" by the In-house Medical Service of the University Hospital Münster (UKM), and many other health-related support services offered in various facilities.

  • Time for flexibility

    As your employer, the University of Münster supports you during important phases of your life and career. It provides options for individual flexibility so that you can adequately manage and meet your professional and private obligations.

    Depending on one’s department or field of activity, the University offers various working models, such as flexitime, part-time working arrangements and life-phase-oriented solutions.

    In November 2021 the University of Münster established a new flexible workplace model which enables employees to perform their tasks off campus, e.g. from a home office, provided certain conditions are met.

  • Mobility

    The Bike Station at the Münster main train station ensures mobility at all times and provides a safe place to store one's bike.

    University bicycles are available if you need a pair of wheels to reach a meeting or appointment during your work day.

    You will find that most facilities on campus offer a sufficient number of parking spaces for bikes and cars.

  • Vocational training

    Get ready for vocational training in an exciting and diversified working environment! With some 43,000 students and 8,000 employees, the University of Münster is one of Germany's largest universities. Together with the University Hospital Münster (UKM), the Universitäy of Münster is the largest employer in Münsterland. Not only can you study at the University of Münster, but also gain vocational training which can lead to promising career opportunities.

    The University of Münster is renowned for its cutting-edge research and high-quality teaching in an extremely pleasant working and living environment. What many do not know, however, is that aside from researchers and academics, there are 1,800 other employees from a wide range of professional groups – computer experts, businesspeople, craftsmen and lab technicians – who all work behind the scenes to ensure that research activities and academic operations run smoothly.

  • Personnel development

    Personnel development at the University of Münster is the responsibility and obligation of all supervisory staff in the administrative units, faculties and central facilities.

    The University’s personnel development activities:

    1. ...are needs-oriented, targeted and systematic.
    2. …support employees who assume personal responsibility for their own continuing education and professional development, and who actively shape their career path.
    3. …always take the individual and professional life phases of its employees into consideration.
    4. …focus on the current and future fields of action and strategic goals of the entire University.
    5. ...promote equal opportunity, diversity and gender equality at all levels and tap their respective potentials.
    6. …promote a culture of mutual support and networking throughout the University.
    7. ... assess and continually optimise all offered activities and measures.
    8. …ensure the effectiveness and sustainability of specific courses and measures.
    9. …promote a culture that invites feedback and evaluation of its professional training measures in order to improve them.
    10. …strengthen employees’ overall identification with the University of Münster as an employer.

    Interested in learning more about the personnel development opportunities at the University of Münster?

    For more details and descriptions, read our Personnel Development Concept [de].

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The University of Münster - A family-friendly university

The University of Münster has held the "audit family-friendly university" certificate since 2008. During the certification process, all University groups were involved in implementing many small and larger changes which improved the compatibility of career/study and family life for all staff and students of the University of Münster.

As part of the re-certification process, the University has now assumed lasting responsibility as a family-friendly university. Rejecting the notion of working and studying despite having children with the more positive idea of working and studying while raising children, the University has explicitly demonstrated its desire to anchor and continue developing family-friendly working, research and study conditions.

More on family support services at the University of Münster

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Programmes for early-career women researchers

With its mentoring programme "Erstklassig!" (First Class!), the University of Münster offers female junior researchers and post-docs a career path to professorship. The qualification programme "Women in University Management" prepares women for their future responsibilities in university management.

More information about programmes for early-career women researchers