Tilburg Law School seeks applications for a full-time lecturer position in the Department of Public Law and Governance, effective 15 August 2021. The candidate selected will join a well-established department with faculty members who teach a variety of residential and online courses on topics related to Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Environmental Law, European Law, Global Law, Human Rights Law, International Law, International Relations, Political Science, Public Administration and Public Governance at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Lecturers have teaching and service responsibilities. We would be pleased to hear from applicants who are willing to pursue a PhD in the area of Global Governance, Global Law, Human Rights, International Law, Environmental Law, EU Law.
 
The candidate selected will provide mostly teaching support to instructors in our Global Law Bachelors program and Dutch Law Bachelor program (Rechtsgeleerdheid). Specifically, the candidate will support lecturers in courses in the field of international law, and potentially also in the field of EU law. Teaching support consists of teaching working groups, grading exams and papers, supervising Bachelor thesis and mentoring and advising students.  

Qualifications and personal qualities
Tilburg University believes that academic excellence is achieved through the combination of outstanding research and education, in which social impact is made by sharing knowledge. In doing so, we recognize that excellence is not only achieved through individual performance, but mostly through team effort in which each team member acts as a leader connecting people. 

To be qualified:

• A lecturer must have an LLM degree (or equivalent qualification) and must demonstrate the potential to be an outstanding teacher.
• We value applicants who have a broad range of interests and experience, and a commitment to teaching and teaching support involving high-caliber international students in our Global Law Bachelors program.
• You are fluent in Dutch and English, at a high and international level.
• You are able to work independently as well as in a team.
• You are committed to understanding and advancing our Global Law and Dutch Law Bachelors Programs.
• You exercise savvy communications with students, and have the teaching and social skills to inspire and motivate undergraduate students.
• Your work ethic is driven by quality, flexibility, and a strong belief in team-play.
• You provide flexible and very reliable support to course instructors, based on anticipated needs and instructions. This includes grading and assessment work.
• You are responsive and adaptive to the needs of your colleagues and/or tasks assigned. 
• You possess creative savvy with ideas on how to better deliver e-learning in our programs (e.g. live video, virtual classrooms, mobile apps experience).
• You are committed to integrating in the social culture and norms of the department. 

Tilburg University offers excellent terms of employment. We believe flexibility, development, and good employee benefits are very important. We make clear agreements on career paths and offer all kinds of facilities and schemes to maintain an optimum balance between work and private life. Tilburg University fosters diversity and inclusion; that is why we pursue an active policy for inclusive teams where diverse talents can flourish.
 
The starting gross salary varies between €2,790 and €4,402 per month (full time) based on scale 10 of the Collective Labour Agreement Universities (vsnu.nl). Tilburg University actively promotes equal and transparent salary between men and women by strictly applying predetermined parameters based on the candidate’s experience. Employees recruited from abroad may be eligible for the 30% tax facility- this means that 30% of your salary will be paid as a tax-free reimbursement.
 
Tilburg University offers you an employment agreement for a period of 1 year, 1.0 fte with possibility of extension.
 
You are entitled to a holiday allowance amounting to 8% and a year-end bonus of 8.3% of your gross yearly income. If you work 40 hours per week, you receive 41 days of paid recreational leave per year.
 
Please visit Working at Tilburg University for more information on our employment conditions.

Tilburg University

Under the motto of ‘Understanding society’, Tilburg University’s more than 1,500 employees develop knowledge, transfer it to over 19.000 students, from 110 nationalities, and bring people from various disciplines and organizations together. In this way, we want to contribute to solving complex social issues. Our focus areas are economics, business and entrepreneurship, social and behavioral sciences, law and public administration, the humanities and digital sciences, and theology. We seek the connection between different disciplines in order to find solutions to the major issues we face as a society. Our students are trained to be responsible and entrepreneurial thinkers, driven by solidarity, a sense of responsibility and empathy, who are able to influence and give direction to a rapidly changing society in an innovative way. Tilburg University has a culture of collaboration and co-creation, at local, regional, national and international levels.

Since its founding in 1963, Tilburg Law School has become one of the leading law schools in Europe. Through top research and the provision of high-quality university education, the faculty contributes to society. Tilburg Law School is organized into five departments: Public Law and Governance; Law, Technology, Markets and Society; Private, Business and Labour Law; the Fiscal Institute Tilburg; and Criminal Law. The mission of the faculty is to understand and improve the role of law and public administration in addressing the social problems of today and tomorrow. Through research and teaching, our scholars contribute to that mission. 

More than 4,000 students pursue a bachelor's, premaster's or master's degree at Tilburg Law School. Through this education, we train students in law, public administration and data science. The Tilburg Education Profile (TEP) is unique in the Netherlands. Central to it are three core concepts: knowledge, skill and character. A university education teaches students the latest substantive knowledge, trains them to be critical thinkers, and also resilient professionals. In addition, the faculty is committed to innovative educational concepts and, partly in response to the corona crisis, has invested heavily in the quality of online education and in renewing didactic tools to make and keep students inquisitive. 

Tilburg Law School's research is highly regarded nationally and internationally. The departments of Tilburg Law School work closely together in their research in four signature research programs: 1) Global Law and Governance; 2) Law and Security; 3) Connecting Organizations; and 4) Regulating Socio-Technical Change. 

The Department of Public Law & Governance is a unique collaboration of researchers in the fields of: International Law, European law, Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Public Administration, Legal Philosophy, Political Science, Legal History and Jurisprudence. Collaboration within the department is very much inspired by joint research interests.