Flexible and family-friendly
As an employer, we place great importance on achieving a healthy work-life balance. We offer flexible working hours and the option of working remotely, such as from home. This allows you to optimally combine your professional and private commitments.
For recreational purposes and your personal and professional development, we offer you 30 days of annual leave (full-time employment) and 5 days of educational leave for public employees covered by the collective agreement.
TU Darmstadt has made a name for itself as a family-friendly university. It offers a variety of options to combine family responsibilities with work and studies successfully. Our Family Service is committed to developing and managing a range of supportive options and services to help you balance family responsibilities with an academic and/or professional career.
You can benefit from childcare facilities, a child allowance in accordance with collective agreement regulations and a wide range of options during school holidays.
As part of the Housing Service, TU Darmstadt provides assistance to international employees in finding suitable accommodation. This support has been designed to help make your transition to university life as smooth as possible.
With us, you will not only find a job, but a professional environment that fosters your well-being and quality of life.
Healthy and sustainable travelling
Employment at TU Darmstadt offers you numerous advantages and benefits that will enrich your life both professionally and privately. You are entitled to a LandesTicket Hessen (Hesse StateTicket) offering free travel on all local and regional public transport within Hesse. You can also lease a bicycle. This means that you can make a contribution to sustainability and promote your health while getting to your destination conveniently and cost-effectively.
We also take care of your well-being with free medical preventive check-ups and an extensive, discounted sports programme at our University Sports Centre. Our BGM (Betriebliches Gesundheitsmanagement – University Health Management) offers a variety of programmes designed to maintain and improve your health, and to encourage mindful practices in your daily working life.
Benefit from a professional environment that focusses on sustainability and your health!
Supportive and connected
We offer you a wide range of training opportunities to support your personal and professional development. With our comprehensive internal further training programme and individual options for further qualification, you can expand your skills and competencies, and further your career at TU Darmstadt.
Since 2015, we have been working in partnership with Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz as part of the strategic alliance of the Rhine-Main Universities (RMU). This partnership offers you additional opportunities for academic and professional development. In addition, our joint Unite! alliance offers you the opportunity to join forces with eight other leading European universities to solve global challenges and promote innovation and cooperation in Europe.
Darmstadt, our university’s location, is known as the Wissenschaftsstadt (city of science) and is a centre for pioneering research and development, thanks to its renowned institutions of academic research and research organisations in the fields of technology, biotechnology and aerospace. Darmstadt is home to more than 30 research institutions, including Technical University of Darmstadt, the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung (centre for heavy ion research), the European Space Operations Centre (ESA/ESOC), and three institutes of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, a leading organisation for applied research.
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Diverse and open
TU Darmstadt is strongly committed to equal opportunities, diversity, and inclusion. It places great importance on fostering a positive and supportive working environment. As part of an increasingly diverse society, the university considers the promotion of diversity and personal fulfilment to be integral to its identity and statutory mandate as an institution of higher education. Our university’s diversity strategy aims to promote social justice, foster a culture within the university that challenges discrimination, and to harness diversity to drive innovation.
Our Gender Equality Office is particularly dedicated to promoting equal opportunities and mitigating inequalities within our university. TU Darmstadt aims to further increase the number of female researchers and professors, and we therefore strongly encourage interested female researchers and professors to apply!
The representative body for people with special needs offers advice on various topics. We are happy to support you, be it during the application process itself or as an employee at TU Darmstadt. In the event of equal qualifications, persons with special needs or with equivalent status will be given preference in the application process.
TU Darmstadt welcomes applications from all qualified persons, regardless of ethnic and social origin, age, gender, religion, ideology, disability or sexual identity.