"ASSISTANT"

Department: Department of Chinese Studies – Faculty of Arts

Deadline: 26 Nov 2025

Start date: 1. 1. 2026 by agreement

Job type: full-time

Job field: Science and research | Education and schooling

The Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University announces an open competition for the position:

ASSISTANT

Workplace: Department of Chinese Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk university, Brno, Czech Republic

Position Type: academic position

EU Researcher Profile: R1

Amount of Working Hours: full-time 40 hours per week

Employment Contract Type: fixed term (employment contract for 3 years with the possibility of extension)

Expected Start Date: 1. 1. 2026 or by agreement

Number of Open Positions: 1

Application Deadline: 26. 11. 2025

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR

We are looking for a colleague for the Department of Chinese Studies to fill the position of assistant focusing on the study of Chinese/Sinophone literature and/or film, ideally with an overlap into modern Chinese anthropology or social issues in contemporary China.

MAIN JOB CONTENT

Pedagogical

• Participating in lecturing or other forms of teaching in Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programme. 3 courses per semester.
• Participating in the organizational provision of pedagogical activity.
• Supervising, consulting or reviewing Bachelor’s theses, in exceptional cases Master’s theses.

Research

Participation in research, development, and innovation activities, especially:

• At least one academic article per year published in WoS, Scopus, or otherwise demonstrating comparable quality.
• Participation in the investigation of grant projects.
• Participation in the organizational provision of research activity.

Other

Participation in ensuring operational and administrative activities related to the academic position according to the instructions of the department head, e.g.:

• routine administrative tasks in the administration of own courses
• participation in the promotion of the field.

WE REQUEST

Professional education, qualifications and experience

• Master’s Degree in the field of Chinese Studies (Chinese philology, Sinology) – a condition
• at least started doctoral study - a condition
• professional focus on the study of Chinese/Sinophone literature and/or film, ideally with an overlap into modern Chinese anthropology or social issues in contemporary China – a condition
• ability to conduct academic research based on Chinese sources (to be documented by a published academic article) – a condition
• existing academic publishing activity – a condition
• experience teaching Chinese at a university – a condition

Language skills

• Native speaker level proficiency in Czech or Slovak – required.
• Standard academic proficiency in English (ability to communicate fluently in English in an international academic environment – oral communication as well as writing/reading) – required.

Requirements related to job content

• presentation, organizational and didactic skills
• ability to communicate effectively with students and engage them in learning
• ability to carry out scientific research
• ability to contribute to the research projects of the department
• ability to participate in publication activities

The advantage is

• knowledge of the university environment

WE OFFER

Working environment

• employment in a prestigious institution awarded by the HR Excellence in Research
• friendly and inspiring working environment
• convenient location of the faculty in the city centre
• a friendly approach to work-life balance

Employee benefits

8 weeks of paid vacation per year, flexible working hours with the possibility to work partly from home for better work life balance, meal allowance in the salary or for meals in canteens, pension insurance contribution or nursery school/ playgroup allowance, selected vaccinations free of charge, favourable mobile tariffs Vodafone, MultiSport card, sports lessons organized by the Faculty of Sports Studies, the nursery school Elánek for children of employees near the faculty

Training and development

Opportunities for training and personal development, e.g., language and other courses provided by MU, use of MU libraries, use of placements and mobilities abroad, participation in conferences, etc.

HOW TO APPLY

Please send your application via the electronic application link by 26. 11. 2025 (please use the link in the Electronic Application section below) and please attach all required documents.

The following documents are required as a part of your application:

• cover letter specifying the area of research interest
• structured CV with an overview of previous experience
• copies of proof of education
• overview of scientific and publishing activities
• published academic article (a link to the website is sufficient if the text is publicly available)

In accordance with Section 70(5) of Act No. 111/1998 Coll., on Higher Education Institutions, as amended, the CV must include information about current employers.

Once your application has been successfully submitted, you will receive an automatic confirmation of acceptance to your e-mail address. After the e-application deadline, you will receive information about the next steps.

If you are unsure, please contact the FF MU Personnel Office: Mgr. Eva Brázdová Urbanová, email: eva.urbanova@phil.muni.cz, telephone: +420 549 49 5227

SELECTION PROCESS

Selection criteria:

• submitting of all required documents in the e-application
• compliance of the candidate's profile with the requirements for the job as stated above

Suitable candidates will be invited to a personal interview, which may also take the form of a videoconference.

Selection procedures rules at the Faculty of Arts of MU can be found on our careers page.

Thank you for your interest and we look forward to hearing from you!

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY, THE FACULTY AND THE DEPARTMENT

Masaryk University is the second largest university in the Czech Republic, with 10 faculties and a number of other specialized units, more than 6,000 employees and 32,000 students. We are a university with a wide range of research areas in the humanities and natural sciences and a strong international position. Our mission is to provide education and research of the highest quality.

The Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University is one of the four founding faculties of Masaryk University and since its foundation in 1919 it has been not only an important centre of humanities and social science education, science, research, and development, but also an institution that actively participates in shaping the cultural life of the city and the region.

Traditionally, it has been profiled as a research-oriented faculty generating approximately one fifth of MU's research volume. The faculty has more than 600 employees and by the student population of over 6,000 is the largest faculty at the university.

Since 2021, the faculty has been the proud holder of the HR Excellence in Research Award from the European Commission. You can find out more information about the faculty on the website https://www.phil.muni.cz/en/ or on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/FacultyofArtsMasarykUniversity.

For information on HR work set according to European standards, visit the HR Award faculty website: https://www.phil.muni.cz/en/about-us/hrs4r-hr-award/.

Department:

Information about the Department of Chinese Studies at the Faculty of Arts of MU can be found at: https://cinskastudia.phil.muni.cz/

Contact person at the Department for questions about the position: Mgr. et Mgr. Dušan Vávra, Ph.D. e-mail: dvavra@mail.muni.cz