The University of Mannheim is one of the leading universities in Germany with currently around 12,000 students at five faculties. In particular, the economic and social sciences belong to the top group nationally and internationally. The University of Mannheim offers its over 2,600 employees an exciting working environment with numerous benefits. The Faculty of Social Sciences is proud of a long tradition of academic excellence. The three key areas of political science, psychology and sociology are among the best in Germany and Europe due to their first-class research, degree programs and outstanding infrastructure. The aim of the faculty is to provide students and researchers with an academic environment in which You can develop and develop their full potential. That is why we invest our resources in the continuous improvement of study and research opportunities. At the Faculty of Social Sciences, a part-time job is at the closest possible time Coordinator of Academic Affairs (m/w/d) to occupy. Faculty management is the administrative service unit of the Faculty of Social Sciences. We support excellent research, continuously improve study conditions and create an inspiring working environment. As a coordinator in the field of academic affairs, you take on three essential tasks for vocation and committee management and you make an important contribution to the development of the faculty. First of all, together with the dean of the faculty, you are responsible for the smooth running of the appeal procedures and the stay negotiations. In doing so, you will be responsible for the entire appeal procedure from the draft application for the establishment of a professorship, through their invitation to tender until the new professions are accepted. On behalf of the Chairman of the Appeals Commission, you shall ensure that the proceedings are conducted correctly. Among other things, you will obtain comparative opinions and opinions on a timely basis, prepare submissions and commission meetings. We are entitled to carry out rapid, fair and international procedures to win the best professors for the faculty. Secondly, as part of the faculty's body management, you will take over the preparation and follow-up of regular committee meetings (Faculty Council, Deanate, Promotional and Habilitation Committee). You have a competent way of working so that you can independently design understandable decision-making, comply with (higher education) legal requirements and vote in exchange with the university departments. In addition, create German and/or English-language protocols to support the decisions of dean and management. You have an affinity for digitally supported solutions and keep an overview under time pressure. Thirdly, take care of the area of “Akademic Affairs”. You will be happy to advise and provide the faculty's scientific staff with information on how applications for a free-of-research semester are possible, for example, so that You can be treated in time in the committees or processed by the staff department. In this position, you clarify basic questions that arise during the doctoral and habilitation procedures, giving impetus to the improvement of the procedure and to the revision of the doctoral and habilitation regulations. Key data Start: at the next possible time, no later than 01. October 2026 Duration: unlimited Grouping: E 13 TV-L BW Hours/week: 19.75 hours Place of work: Mannheim, Downtown (A5.6) Application deadline: 07.08.2026 Reference number: SoWi 2026-1

organisational support and (in content) coordination of the individual sections of the vocation procedures of the Faculty of Social Sciences by preparing, inter alia, decisions of the faculty bodies before and after meetings Board management as a department of the Faculty Council, Doctoral and Habilitation Committee as well as implementation of the faculty elections Conception of the area of academic affairs of the faculty and its content coordination

Completed academic studies (master or equivalent), preferably with legal, administrative or social science background or completed Diplom-Studium as an administrator or completed further education for the management specialist and at least 3-year professional experience following the further training at a university very good knowledge of German and English (C1) deepened knowledge of the legal framework of higher education, in particular appeal procedures strong service awareness, high communication skills and reliability, confidentiality, team skills and organisational ability Advantages of personnel management competence

We offer you a varied and responsible activity that makes you different. We are a professional and friendly team of 15 people. In addition, you can benefit from the benefits of an unlimited employment in the public service: Germany ticket Flexible working time and work place models (lead time, teleworking) Occupational pension provision for public service Applications for severely disabled persons are preferably taken into account with appropriate suitability. The University of Mannheim seeks to increase the proportion of women in areas where women are underrepresented and therefore expressly requests qualified women to apply. .