Are you the coordinating talent that the Donders Institute is looking for? As a Management Assistant, you will support the management team and scientists of this world-class research institution so they can be the best they can be.

You will work closely with the Chair and the Management Director of the Institute and will act as a central point of contact for queries from staff, students and external parties. You will work closely within a team of management assistants, each with their own responsibilities. Your duties will include preparing and taking minutes of meetings, preparing the weekly newsletters, keeping the website up to date, doing administrative work, and organising and supervising events and various meetings. Lastly, you will handle telephone calls and emails and manage (complex) agendas.

• Fluency in spoken and written English and Dutch.
• Above average office ICT skills.
• Proactive, accurate, balanced and result-oriented approach.
• Well organised, resourceful and able to keep an overview while being flexible to meet all task related goals.
• Preferably, you are used to working in a science environment with academic staff or have experience working in a large organisation.

Fixed-term contract: 1 year, with a view to a permanent position.

• Employment: 0.8 -1.0 FTE.
• The gross monthly salary amounts to a minimum of € 2,367 and a maximum of € 3,196 based on a 38-hour working week, depending on previous education and number of years of relevant work experience (salary scale 7).
• In addition to the salary: an 8% holiday allowance and an 8.3% end-of-year bonus.
• Duration of the contract: 1 year, with a view to a permanent position.
• The intended start date is 15 October 2021.
• You will be able to use our Dual Career and Family Care Services. Our Dual Career and Family Care Officer can assist you with family-related support, help your partner or spouse prepare for the local labour market, provide customized support in their search for employment  and help your family settle in Nijmegen.

Additional employment conditions
Work and science require good employment practices. This is reflected in Radboud University's primary and secondary employment conditions. You can make arrangements for the best possible work-life balance with flexible working hours, various leave arrangements and working from home. You are also able to compose part of your employment conditions yourself, for example, exchange income for extra leave days and receive a reimbursement for your sports subscription. And of course, we offer a good pension plan. You are given plenty of room and responsibility to develop your talents and realise your ambitions. Therefore, we provide various training and development schemes.

The Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour is a world-class interfaculty research centre housing more than 800 researchers devoted to understanding the mechanistic underpinnings of the human mind. Research at the Donders Institute is focused around four themes: 1. Language and communication, 2. Perception, action and decision-making, 3. Plasticity and lifelong learning, 4. Natural Computing and neurotechnology.

Excellent, state-of-the-art research facilities are available for the broad range of neuroscience research that is being conducted at the Donders Institute. The Donders Institute has been assessed by an international evaluation committee as 'excellent' and recognised as a 'very stimulating environment for top researchers, as well as for young talent'. The Donders Institute fosters a collaborative, multidisciplinary, supportive research environment with a diverse international staff. English is the lingua franca at the Institute.

The Donders Institute is an equal opportunity employer, committed to building a culturally diverse intellectual community, and as such encourages applications from women and minorities.