Responsibilities

As a member of the Welcome Center team at TU Graz, you serve as the primary point of contact for international students and staff. You offer comprehensive support throughout their stay, from arrival to departure, addressing a wide range of non-academic matters such as entry and residency requirements, housing, networking, and social integration. Your role plays a key part in fostering the welcoming culture and advancing the internationalisation of TU Graz, contributing to a positive and enriching experience for all international students and staff.

Areas of responsibilities

• Advising international employees and students on visas, entry and residence formalities, accommodation, living in Graz, networking and integration
• Providing guidance to TU Graz institutes
• Offering on-site support for international employees and students
• Facilitating communication and cooperation with internal and external bodies (e.g., authorities).
• Promoting social integration through the planning and implementation of events and activities
• Preparing information materials (presentations, flyers, etc.) and maintaining websites and social media channels
• Reporting, budget responsibility, development of new projects

Admission Requirements

• completed Master's degree or diploma (e.g. linguistics, education, sociology, intercultural communication, communication sciences, human resources, global studies, international management or similar)
• Excellent German and English language skills
• Comprehensive MS Office skills

Desired Qualification

• experience in higher education an advantage
• first professional experience in an international environment desirable
• sensitivity to intercultural diversity
• strong communication skills and proactive approach to communication
• international experience or longer stay abroad

What is particularly important to us:

• You are interested in and enjoy working with people from different cultural backgrounds.
• You are a dynamic, committed and communicative personality with organizational skills.
• You possess strong problem-solving skills.
• You bring in new ideas and are interested in developing your work area.
• You enjoy working independently and as part of a team.

We Offer

We offer an annual gross salary of at least € 47,464.20 for a fulltime position. An overpayment based on qualification and experience is possible.

Graz University of Technology aims to increase the proportion of women, in particular in management and academic staff, and therefore qualified female applicants are explicitly encouraged to apply. Preference will be given to women if applicants are equally qualified.

Graz University of Technology actively promotes diversity and equal opportunities. Applicants are not to be discriminated against in personnel selection procedures on the grounds of gender, ethnicity, religion or ideology, age, sexual orientation (Anti-discrimination).

People with disabilities and who have the relevant qualifications are expressly invited to apply.

About us

Graz University of Technology is the longest-established university of technology in Austria. Here, successful teams of students, talented up-and-coming scientists, ambitious researchers and a lively start-up scene enjoy an inspirational environment as well as access to top-quality equipment. And all this in one of the most innovative and livable regions in Europe. TU Graz offers an inspiring working environment with outstanding infrastructure and service-oriented university management.

In this video, we give you an insight into the working environment at TU Graz: HERE

Organisational Unit

The International Office - Welcome Center service department is the information platform for all questions and matters regarding internationalisation for all members of TU Graz. It provides support for exchange students who are studying at TU Graz for a limited period of time, strengthens existing collaborations and forms collaborations with new partner institutions, runs exchange programmes for TU Graz students, teachers and researchers, ensures that the TU Graz has strong international networks and that all levels of the university benefit from the international cooperation and runs the Welcome Center which offers support specifically for international students completing their full degree at TU Graz as well as international employees of TU Graz.

Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Horst Bischof
Rechbauerstraße 12