Professional Impact
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Checklist for taking up office
We are delighted that you are actively involved in shaping equal opportunities work at our university and would like to contribute your commitment and experience to a common cause. Come to us with your questions.
We have compiled some important information below to make it easier for you to get started.
Introduction
Introduce yourself to your area of responsibility (Dean's Office and Faculty Board / Departmental Administration / Central Units).
Familiarization and documents
Find out who has held this office before you.
Arrange a meeting and ask for current documents on current processes and access to the function e-mail address.
You can find equality-related texts and downloads.
Public relations
Arrange for the information on the Equal Opportunities Officers in your department, faculty or Central Academic Unit to be updated on your organizational unit's website.
Discharge
All Equal Opportunities Officers and their deputies are entitled to be relieved of official duties. The situation is currently dynamic - we will keep you up to date.
Work organization
Familiarize yourself with the equality policy measures already initiated in your department / faculty / ZWE. Be aware of the current equality-related tasks in your organizational unit and take these into account when planning your work (office hours, availability, time and space for discussions, etc.).
Appointment procedure
Clarify whether further appointment procedures are pending and coordinate participation with your representative if necessary.
Networking
Look for allies and like-minded people. Take advantage of the exchange of information and experience with other colleagues, e.g. the "Café Equality" offered by the Central Equal Opportunities Officer. Here you have the opportunity to discuss cases with colleagues in a small group (digitally).
Further training
The Equal Opportunities Office provides information on opportunities for further education and training.
In the "PIA - Professionell im Amt" series, basic training courses are offered on request.
Contacts
Contact persons in the departments, faculties and Central Academic Units.
Formats
In order to support colleagues in their tasks and to promote exchange, the Equal Opportunities Office advises, for example, on the implementation of appropriate working conditions (equipment/relief) and has continuously offered the following formats for several years:
Equal Opportunities Officer Working Group
The quarterly meetings of the Equal Opportunities Officer Working Group serve as an opportunity to meet in person and exchange a wide range of information from the work in the various organizational units. Needs and developments are discussed in the context of the joint implementation of the gender equality mandate. The feasibility of new ideas and projects is discussed.
Café Equality
Where possible, the café invites people to meet every four weeks to develop solutions to current problems together in a collegial case consultation format.
Worth knowing - "Worth a look here"
Current information from our networks that may be of interest to equal opportunities officers
Further training for equal opportunities officers
PIA is an in-house continuing education series for equal opportunities officers to impart theoretical and practical basic knowledge after taking office and to deepen certain issues, for which external experts are also invited.
PIA takes place in coordination with the Continuing Education Steering Committee at TU Dresden and is documented in the annual continuing education report of the Center for Continuing Education (ZfW).
The following topics are part of the regular canon:
- Gender equality aspects in appointment procedures
Among other things, the training provides information on legal principles, the phenomenon of "unconcious bias", the formal course of a procedure, the participation rights and obligations of equal opportunities officers and the design of the final vote.
Guide to gender-sensitive appointment procedures
- Standards of advice
The training provides information on the website for advisory services, among other things,
minimum standards, legal and ethical standards,
discussion situations,
Referral counseling and methodology of collegial case counseling
- Gender competence in the university context
- Questions and answers on the Academic Fixed-Term Contract Act (in cooperation with the TU Dresden Human Resources Department)
- Data protection in question and answer (in cooperation with the Data Protection Officer of TU Dresden)
- Development and application of qualitative indicators
Equality Officers are involved in the updating and implementation of TU Dresden's Equality Concept. They are involved in the implementation of measures in the areas of activity of equality in the target agreements and work strategically and conceptually in the departments and faculties as well as across departments and faculties on the development and implementation of measures and projects, also in the context of acquiring third-party funding. Continuing education supports the formulation of realistic objectives and their implementation with realistic measures for predominantly qualitative concerns.