AI Project Coordinator for Strategic University Development

Project overview

THE DUAL UNIVERSITY DEGREE

WITH A FUTURE.

The Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg (DHBW) is the largest university in Baden-Württemberg, with approximately 33,000 students across nine study academies and three campuses, as well as the Center for Advanced Studies. Together with 9,000 selected companies and social and health-related institutions, the DHBW ensures a supply of excellently qualified specialists and managers in the fields of economics, technology, social work, and health, both in theory and practice.

Since January 1, 2023, it has been part of the dual European University EU4Dual.

The Center for University Didactics and Lifelong Learning (ZHL) offers versatile, contemporary, and innovative continuing education formats as well as study aptitude tests. The target groups of the ZHL are lecturers, doctoral students, staff, and future students of the Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg (DHBW).

With its departments of University Didactics, Continuing Education for Young Academics, Staff Development, and the Test Center, it belongs to the DHBW Center for Advanced Studies (DHBW CAS), which offers career-integrated master's degree programs and seminars in the field of academic continuing education. Both are part of the DHBW and thus the largest university in Baden-Württemberg. The ZHL is located on the Bildungscampus in Heilbronn in a modern and very well-equipped environment.

The following position is to be filled:

AI Project Coordinator for Strategic University Development

in the field of study and teaching

Start date: 01.01.2027

Workplace: Heilbronn

Scope of employment: 100% (39.5 hours per week)

Responsibilities

Artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing study, teaching, continuing education, administration, and scientific collaboration. At the DHBW, various initiatives, projects, experimental spaces, and qualification offers have been emerging for some time around the reflective, responsible, and practical use of AI in teaching and study. The aim of this position is to coordinate these activities across the university, make them visible, strategically develop them further, and, together with relevant stakeholders, design concepts for the sustainable implementation of AI in university teaching.

• You will be responsible for establishing and testing university-wide coordination structures for networking and the structured further development of existing AI projects, AI initiatives, and other undertakings in the field of innovative teaching.
• You will identify, consolidate, and document existing AI activities at the DHBW with the aim of developing an AI strategy in study and teaching for the DHBW.
• You will initiate and support a network with relevant stakeholders. This includes, in particular, central institutions such as the Education Support Center, teaching-related departments, AI projects, and faculties.
• You will design and moderate networking, exchange, and participation formats, for example, workshops, strategy rounds, barcamps, community meetings, or transfer events.
• You will prepare project results, good practices, experience reports, and strategic developments together with internal actors and strengthen the external visibility of these activities.
• You will monitor relevant developments in the field of AI, university teaching, and digital transformation and prepare them for strategic work within the project.

Requirements

Our offer:

The position is generally divisible. It is intended to be filled by a full-time employee or by part-time employees. Please indicate your possible scope of work.

Online application

We look forward to receiving your online application via our application portal by November 15, 2026!

Do you have questions?

Contact person (technical):

Name: Dr. Carsten Schnekenburger

Email:

Contact person (HR):

Name: Gudrun Kraus

The DHBW's commitment to diversity and inclusion is central to our success. As a university with worldwide university partnerships and internationally active dual partners, we know that our students and employees can only fully realize their potential if they have the freedom to be themselves.

People with severe disabilities and those treated as equal will be given preferential consideration if they have the same professional qualifications. The principles of the AGG will be observed.

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• You have a completed university degree at master's level, preferably in educational science, university didactics, media, social science, media education, organizational development, digital transformation, or a comparable field.
• You have experience in project management, in coordinating complex projects, or in the strategic development of educational, digitalization, or innovation projects.
• You have a strong interest in artificial intelligence and its significance for teaching and university development. Practical experience with AI applications is desirable. Furthermore, you are interested in innovation, change processes, and responsible technology design.
• Through your own experience in university teaching, you can anticipate the needs of lecturers, quickly grasp complex topics, structure them, and communicate them in a target-group-oriented manner. Knowledge of the German university system, the DHBW structure, or university didactic issues is desirable.
• You impress with a confident, professional demeanor in dealing with various interest groups and can mediate between strategic, scientific, didactic, and organizational perspectives.
• You have experience in the conception, moderation, and documentation of workshops, exchange formats, or committee processes – both in person and virtually.
• High team and communication skills, as well as independent, reliable, and careful action, are prerequisites; initiative and a desire to shape are natural for you.
• You have very good knowledge of IT and MS Office and can quickly familiarize yourself with new programs. Confident use of virtual collaboration tools and digital communication formats is natural for you.
• Very good German and English language skills and excellent written and verbal expression are required.
• You can handle flexible working arrangements (mobile working) in a task-oriented manner.
• You are willing to travel occasionally.
• Values that characterize DHBW CAS – namely reliability, togetherness, appreciation, and learning – are important to you both privately and professionally.
• We offer a modern working environment on the Bildungscampus Heilbronn with flexible working hours and the possibility of mobile working.
• With an interesting and varied continuing education program, we promote your professional and personal development. Our health management also offers you a comprehensive range of services.
• As a family-friendly university, we support you in reconciling family and career.
• You will receive remuneration according to the collective agreement for the public service of the federal states (TV-L) with the usual company supplementary pension in the public service.
• We are well connected to public transport and support your mobility with the JobTicket BW.

Project details

31.12.2030

Remuneration: EG 13, TV-L

Procedure number: 2621

• Start: flexible
• Location: Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, DE
• Languages: German