We are looking for a Student Admission Officer interested in setting up a student administration for YUFE at Maastricht University. Are you an excellent administrator, effective communicator and able to adapt to changing priorities? Do you enjoy pioneering and working in a dynamic, international team? Then you might be exactly who we need to join the YUFE team at Maastricht University (UM) to successfully set up the YUFE student administration.

YUFE admission officer

The YUFE Admission Officer works on administrative tasks related to incoming and outgoing YUFE students. The YUFE Admission Officer is responsible for setting up a structured and sound administration and registration process regarding YUFE students in close cooperation with all involved colleagues, both within Maastricht University and at the other YUFE partners.

Specifically, the YUFE Admission Officer works on:

• Registration and admission process of students enrolling onto YUFE student Journey
• Providing information to incoming and outgoing exchange students
• UM registration of incoming YUFE students in SAP
• Communication with UM faculties (front officers, IRO’s) regarding enrolment of YUFE student onto UM courses
• Monitoring and updating the YUFE course catalogue
• Optimizing processes regarding registration, monitoring and archiving of registrations and questions of YUFE students
• Co-organisation and support of various (information) meetings for YUFE students
• Communication with admission officers at the 10 universities in the YUFE Alliance and with enrolled YUFE Students on behalf of the whole Alliance
• Preparing management updates about the YUFE Student Journey
• Reporting to YUFE Student Journey Work Package leader          
• Possibly from 2022 onwards: preparation and administration for YUFE students’ physical exchange via Erasmus.

The Candidate

The ideal candidate is a true team player and pioneer, experienced or interested in working in a pilot phase, driven by a desire to contribute to collective success as a member of the YUFE community. He/she/they is/are a motivated administrator equipped with excellent communication skills, able to effectively carry out tasks assigned to them. The successful candidate has:

• A teamplayer mentality with excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to work with a multicultural and multi-disciplinary team.
• Qualifications at MBO+/HBO level
• Pioneering spirit, enthusiastic about setting up a new administration
• Experienced in student administration, preferably experienced with SAP registrations
• Excellent oral and written command of the English language
• Experience with computer programs such as Outlook, Excel, Access, Canvas, Corsa and SAP.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• The ability to work with great accuracy and to handle stress and deadlines.
• Excellent command in spoken and written English
• Relevant previous work experience.

Conditions of employment

• 0.6 FTE
• UFO function profile student affairs officer (Medewerker studentzaken), salary scale 8 CAO-NU (€ 2.700 to max. € 3.606 gross)
• A dynamic and motivating workplace with possibilities to further develop on a professional and personal level
• The post entails work in Maastricht
• A temporary appointment for 1 year until 1 December 2022.
• Starting date: as soon as possible.

The terms of employment of Maastricht University are set out in the Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities (CAO). Furthermore, local UM provisions also apply. For more information look at the website www.maastrichtuniversity.nl > About UM > Working at UM.

Maastricht University

Maastricht University is renowned for its unique, innovative, problem-based learning system, which is characterized by a small-scale and student-oriented approach. Research at UM is characterized by a multidisciplinary and thematic approach, and is concentrated in research institutes and schools. Maastricht University has around 20,000 students and 4,700 employees. Reflecting the university's strong international profile, a fair amount of both students and staff are from abroad. The university hosts 6 faculties: Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Faculty of Law, School of Business and Economics, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience.

YUFE

The YUFE Alliance (https://yufe.eu)

The Young Universities for the Future of Europe (YUFE) is the top-scoring European University alliance, selected in 2019 by the European Commission to develop and implement one of the first models of a European University. The YUFE Alliance is bringing a radical change by becoming the leading model of a student-centered, non-elitist, open and inclusive European University based on the cooperation between higher education institutions, public and private sector, and citizens.

In the past two years, the YUFE Alliance has started to build the foundations for its European University, and has developed pilots of truly European study programmes, enhancing European career perspectives for staff, and contributing to solving important European regional challenges. In doing so, the YUFE European University is pursuing its vision of strengthening European collective identity and contributing to a more cohesive European society.