Diversity Officer: Project Management at the University of Mannheim (m/w/d)

The University of Mannheim is one of the leading universities in Germany with currently around 12,000 students at five faculties. In particular, economic and social sciences belong to the top group nationally and internationally. The University of Mannheim offers its more than 2,600 employees an exciting working environment with numerous benefits. With this new position, we want to intensify the process into a diversity-promoting university and seek a person who “lives” diversity, brings a lot of experience in project management/organisational development and is familiar with life and work in the scientific environment. At the Equality and Diversity Staff Office, a part-time job is at the earliest possible date than Projektmanagement at the University of Mannheim (m/w/d) to occupy. The Equality and Diversity Staff Office at the University of Mannheim is a central function that advocates the equality of opportunity in studies and occupation and takes on a central interface and coordination function. It is responsible for the design, strategic anchoring and sustainable development of appropriate structures. The tasks in diversity management have recently been explicitly supplementing the portfolio of the staff, and here we are looking for reinforcement. Key data Start: at the next possible time Duration: limited until 30.09.2027 Grouping: E 13 TV-L BW Hours/week: 19.75 hours Place of work: Mannheim, Downtown Application deadline: 25.04.2025 Reference number: SGuD - diversity

Their tasks essentially include project management for organizational development tasks for the transformation of the university on their way to an organization that promotes diversity. You work closely with the job owner who is your counterpart. Specifically, this is about the analysis of the status quo, the formulation of the objectives and the identification of the most important fields of action. These include both the mindset of university members and possible improvements in processes and structures. For your work, you use the data from a survey “Diversity Climate” which is currently being prepared. Your tasks include: Developing the overall process and implementing the individual steps towards a diversity-promoting culture in science, teaching and administration. You create a project plan and take over the project management in consultation with your counterpart. This includes the derivation of fields of action, including the concept of communication in coordination with internal bodies. Planning and conducting workshops controlling the process for the development of a diversity strategy, Designing and implementing measures, e.g. creating training concepts, carrying out training and consulting for different target groups Networking with stakeholders, process owners and target groups. Exchange with other universities and universities to best practice Integrate current research results into the process Evaluation of changes

You have a completed degree (Master/Diplom) in a relevant degree course, proven experience and knowledge in project management, ideally within the framework of organisational development and very good knowledge about diversity and the theoretical approaches. They are familiar with the university world of work. You know methods and tools for controlling and mooring groups and have gained a lot of experience here. Creating training concepts, e.g. to raise certain target groups for the topic, is familiar to you as well as performing such trainings. Conceptual and analytical thinking, communication skills and ambiguity tolerance complete your profile. Their knowledge of English is not only excellent in theory, but also convincing in practice. Finally, keep the eye for the feasible and bring along a large portion of intrinsic motivation for the task.

Innovative, university working environment Family friendly university Flexible working time and work place models (lead time, teleworking) Applications for severely disabled persons are preferably taken into account with appropriate suitability. The University of Mannheim strives to increase the proportion of women and therefore expressly requests qualified women to apply. JOBV1_EN