What we offer

As an employee at Saarland University, you can usually arrange your weekly working hours to suit your individual needs. By offering flexible working hours as well as near-full-time and part-time employment models, we're helping our staff to plan their working days so that they can better balance the demands of their professional and private lives. Saarland University operates an electronic time-tracking system and a trust-based approach to time management that (following consultation and agreement with their line manager or group leader) give staff greater autonomy in organizing their working hours and workloads.  

The university has also put in place an arrangement for hybrid working. If the type of work you do is compatible with home working and you have been employed at the university for more than six months, you have the option of spending part of your week working from home or working remotely. 

No matter whether you are a public sector employee or you have civil servant status (Beamter/Beamtin), at Saarland University you will be working under a clearly defined employment framework that, for example, sets out clearly defined salary progression rates. At Saarland University, you will be entitled to up to 30 days of paid leave per year depending on the number of hours worked and you'll be working for a stable employer with an exciting future. 

To help you find the right balance between your work and personal commitments, Saarland University offers you access to a range of services tailored to meet the needs of your individual circumstances. Working parents can make use of the child day-care facility on the Saarbrücken campus or the FlexiMedKids programme that provides short-term or short-notice childcare at the Homburg campus. The university also offers childcare services during the school holidays. And we can help if you have caring responsibilities. You might like to talk to our team at the university's Family Office or explore the options available through our cooperation with AWO, an unaffiliated non-profit welfare organization. 

Are you interested in learning a new language, developing your core competencies or perhaps enhancing your management and leadership skills? Saarland University offers its employees a rich programme of professional development opportunities, most of which are available free of charge. In addition to the large programme of professional development courses offered in-house, you can also take part in events and courses provided by our numerous cooperation partners, such as the Saarland Higher Education and Training College of Public Administration (Fachhochschule für Verwaltung) or the Saarland School of Public Administration (Saarländische Verwaltungsschule). 

We take the physical and mental well-being of our staff very seriously. That’s why the university offers a large range of courses and activities designed to foster the health and well-being of our staff. Services offered include various advisory and counselling services, attractive options within the university’s occupational health management model and a broad range of sporting activities. And if you join one of the many courses in the university sports programme, the university allows you to use up to one working hour a week for sport and fitness activities. 

We are a campus university in the heart of Saarland and our two main university sites in Saarbrücken and Homburg are surrounded by lush woodland. If you were born in Saarland or you moved here later in life you'll probably know its unofficial motto 'Hauptsach gudd gess', which can be roughly translated as 'All's well if you eat well' – something the university takes seriously by offering a broad range of culinary options that satisfy all tastes. Saarland University's location close to Germany’s borders with France, Luxembourg and Belgium gives us our distinctly European identity and underscores the importance we attach to multilingual communication. Through our Trilingual Campus initiative, we are actively engaged in removing existing language barriers making it easier for international students, researchers, scholars and staff to participate in university life.