Human Resources Service, Professorship Service, Legal Office and Data Protection Management

The Legal Office and Data Protection Management were already previously united with the Professorship Service under one roof. "The fact that the separate HR departments have been united makes sense for many reasons," explains Verbeet, "it generates synergies, gives us the opportunity to question and rethink processes, and it is clearer to act as one HR department to the outside world."  This allows the department to more effectively address the upcoming challenges of HR, especially the introduction of the e-file and the general move away from paper in applications, procedures as well as filing.

Stephanie Verbeet, who spent her childhood in Lüneburg, studied in Munich at the Ludwig Maximilian University. For her second state examination, she went to Düsseldorf. As a fully qualified lawyer, she worked at the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in Berlin, among other places, before moving to Leuphana in 2009. "I always wanted to work in the cultural or educational sector - somewhere where the trappings are also exciting and it's not just about legal processing as an end in itself. That's why I like being at the university. Right now, the campus is unfortunately still so empty, but otherwise I like to go out of the building in the afternoon or evening and see students sitting, discussing and reading - then you know why you are doing the work and it gives you strength."

"I am a true North German at heart," says Verbeet, aptly describing her resilient and reliable nature as well as her Hanseatic open-mindedness for new things. "Within the new large department, I want my team to know that I am always there for them, that I put myself before them in every way and still create room for independence and development." She is also particularly concerned about open communication between "Human Resources and Law" and the rest of the university. "I want people who depend on our department, who need something from us, to see us as partners. We all have the same goal and always achieve it together. Human Resources and Law is service-oriented and we have fantastic department heads and staff. If a request is somehow feasible, we make it happen. Sometimes things can't be implemented exactly as requested, but then we work out a proposal on how it could be adapted and realised. However, service orientation sometimes also means, especially in the legal field, that we have to say 'no, unfortunately that's not possible'. Before we say 'no', however, we always examine all conceivable possibilities and never say 'we've never done it that way'. Here it is often a question of tone: A friendly way of approaching each other is the door opener."