The team of the Centre for Personnel and Higher Education Development accompanies and supports the employees and the university itself in its continuous development. Together with the Rectorate, it promotes the strategic positioning of the University College of Teacher Education Styria as a tertiary education, research and counselling institution in the field of teacher education. The team of the Centre counsels and supports in the conception and implementation of a professional communication and information culture as well as in modern personnel, organisational and university development. The Centre for Personnel and Higher Education Development acts as an impulse generator and internal service centre on a personnel and institutional level throughout the entire University College of Teacher Education Styria.

Core tasks of the Centre are the conception, coordination, implementation and evaluation of

• counselling and support for university college teachers in achieving their goals in their own professionalization and (academic) higher qualification, among other things through a demand-oriented internal Continuous Professional Development programme
• the process design for personnel recruiting for the targeted selection of lecturers from the University College and training schools
• the Continuing Professional Development, implementation and evaluation of mission statements, strategies, concepts and measures for the optimal achievement of objectives at personnel and institutional level
• the coordination of the target and benefit plan as an important strategic control mechanism
• support for the Rectorate in managing change processes
• the implementation of research projects to develop evidence-based personnel and organisational development concepts and measures