As Assistant Professor of Public Administration you will have teaching and research duties. You will develop and teach high-quality courses in the Bachelor's and Masters' programmes and supervise Bachelor's and Master's theses. If you do not yet hold a basic teaching qualification, you will be expected to obtain such a qualification as soon as possible. You will conduct high-quality individual/collaborative research in the field of public administration, preferably in the area of policy analysis, and publish the findings in high-standing journals in the realm of public administration or adjacent fields. You will actively engage in individual grant writing, and/or play a role in collaborative acquisition. You will develop a position in national and international networks in your subfield and engage with societal or governmental stakeholders in your field of study. In doing so, you will further expand our research profile, enhance our portfolio of research projects, and strengthen our dissemination practices. You will be expected to engage in multidisciplinary collaboration at the Nijmegen School of Management, through one of the Faculty's multidisciplinary research groups, preferably EUROPAL or GAINS.

The applicant should meet the following criteria:

• You have, or are close to completion of, a PhD degree in the field of Public Administration or a closely related discipline.
• You have excellent proficiency in spoken and written English and preferably also in Dutch; non-native speakers should be willing and able to develop their Dutch-language skills in a relatively short period.
• You have experience with thesis supervision, the teaching of small groups, and preferably lecturing.
• Your teaching activities have received good teaching evaluations.
• You have a demonstrated ability to provide methods training, or the willingness to develop this ability.
• You have obtained a basic teaching qualification, or are willing to obtain this qualification during the period of your appointment at Radboud University.
• You have a good track record in a subfield of Public Administration, preferably in the field of policy analysis at the European, national or subnational level.
• You have excellent knowledge of quantitative and/or qualitative research techniques.
• You have a strong research output, evidenced by several publications in international high-quality journals, and a well-filled 'pipeline' for the coming years.
• You have an interest in and preferably some experience with the dissemination of research results to practitioners or societal stakeholders.
• You have the ambition to attract research funding and/or commissioned research and a reasonably clear idea of how to do so, as evidenced by a clear grant-writing strategy for the coming five years.
• You have experience with or an interest in multidisciplinary research cooperation.
• You are a results-oriented scholar who can work independently, while being a collegial team member.
• You have some international experience and a nascent international academic network.

Radboud University has a track record in promoting excellent female scholars to leadership positions and we therefore especially welcome applications from women who fit the above profile.

Fixed-term contract: 2 years.

• Employment: 32 - 40 hours per week.
• A maximum gross monthly salary of € 5.127 based on a 38-hour working week (salary scale 11).
• The exact salary depends on the candidate's qualifications and amount of relevant professional experience.
• In addition to the salary: an 8% holiday allowance and an 8.3% end-of-year bonus.
• Duration of the contract: 2 years.
• The intended start date is 1 September 2020.
• You will be able to make use of our Dual Career Service: our Dual Career Officer will assist with family-related support, such as child care, and help your partner prepare for the local labour market and with finding an occupation.
• Are you interested in our excellent employment conditions?

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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen

The Nijmegen School of Management (NSM) is an academic centre of research and higher education, focusing on institutional and managerial issues within complex organisations in both the public and private domains. There are seven disciplines within the NSM: Business Administration, Public Administration, Political Science, Economics and Business Economics, Social and Political Sciences of the Environment, Human Geography, and Spatial Planning. The NSM strives for a multidisciplinary approach whenever possible. Altogether, the NSM employs 280 FTEs, 75% of whom are academics.

Both Bachelor's and Master's degrees are organised in the NSM's educational institute. The educational programme is characterised by small-scale teaching and provides a stimulating learning environment with an emphasis on the development of academic skills. The NSM has about 4,800 students. The NSM's research activities fall under the responsibility of the interdisciplinary Institute for Management Research (IMR). Under the motto 'Responsible governance for sustainable societies', the IMR focuses on academic research into the development, design and effectiveness of the public and private structures that regulate, govern or manage human interactions.

The Public Administration programs at the NSM offers programmes with a classic, generalist public administration core. They challenge students to analyse problems and issues concerning government and governance, public policy and public sector management in an academically responsible manner. The programmes recognise the Dutch public sector's need for generalists with a thorough training in academic skills, and aim to meet this need by training multidisciplinary, academic professionals. The Department is responsible for the development and quality of the Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes in Public Administration, as well as for the courses in the other educational programmes within the Faculty. What distinguishes the Nijmegen curriculum is that students learn to draw on theory and knowledge from constituent disciplines, and to apply these to problem solving in the public interest. This multidisciplinary expertise is integrated with a focus on ethics and values in order to be able to act in the general interest in an increasingly complex world. Students are also extensively trained in research skills in order to be able to describe and explain developments in the field of public administration. Theories are offered within a comparative perspective.

The Chair of Public Administration covers the broad field of public administration, with an emphasis on governance, accountability and control in the setting of inter-organisational and intergovernmental relations and networks. There is a strong focus on theory-driven research using a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods. Specific research themes of the Chair include: policy analysis, comparative public governance, dynamics in public governance, Europeanisation, public service provision, intergovernmental cooperation, and good governance at the local, regional and national levels.