General aspects

The Education and Student Affairs service (ESA) is the central service point for teachers and (prospective) students at Eindhoven University of Technology and provides a range of services both centrally and from the departments in the field of educational support, educational logistics, study skills, career guidance, use of ICT resources in education, professional skills and language teaching. ESA also supports the Executive Board, the Deans of the Bachelor College and the Graduate School, and the departments in the fields of education policy, legislation and regulations, quality assurance, education and institution accreditation, educational innovation and internationalization.

The Teacher Support & Quality Assurance department consists of two main areas of attention: 1. Teacher Support with a focus on educational technology and innovation and 2. Quality Assurance, which includes TU/e wide support on educational evaluations, annual quality assurance processes, and accreditations. All within the scope of the TU/e vision 2030. The central quality assurance team is looking for a new colleague who will work together with us on enabling excellent education for our students.

On the topics of Quality Assurance and Assessment, the team closely cooperates with partners in other services and departments. At TU/e, these partnerships on specific themes are successfully managed in TU/e-wide collaborative chains.

Job description

In this position you are, together with the senior policy officer, the proactive internal liaison in the field of educational quality assurance and testing. You drive the Quality Assurance and Assessment related policies in the organization, and you coordinate that process from paper (e.g., regulation) to practice (e.g., implementation). Therefore, you are pro-active in initiating and managing projects from your innovative assessment and quality assurance expertise and you take ownership of improving policies, processes, and products. You always align and closely cooperate with stakeholders including the departments via the ESA collaborative chains.  

Examples of topics include: providing support in further development of departmental quality assurance plans, translating quality management needs to necessary BI data, updating testing & fraud prevention policy, and training and advising examination committees.   

You are the right hand of the two chain managers in assessment & fraud prevention and quality assurance. In that role, you chair the university quality assurance chain meetings.

Above all, you keep an overview of the relevant regulations in the field of quality assurance and testing (for example, regulation for central examinations, PER texts on quality assurance and fraud prevention).

Profile

Are you a proactive person who is passionate about high-quality education?
Do you work in a structured way and are you result driven?
Do you tackle projects successfully and only let go when they are completed?
Do you automatically look for connections with other stakeholders, even if this makes your task more complex?
Are you service-minded without losing sight of the interests of the institution as a whole and the student in particular?
Do you like to share your knowledge in trainings and workshops?
Do you manage to always keep an eye on the feasibility of policy?
Do you like pioneering and sharing experiences with the community?

Then we look forward to receiving your application! Particularly if you possess the following:

• MSc degree in Educational Sciences, MSc Assessment Expertise, or comparable and willing to professionalize in this direction.
• Expertise in project management within a complex organization with a hands-on mentality.
• Team player, coordinator, and process thinker.
• Minimum of 2 years of relevant professional experience in (preferably the Dutch) higher education quality assurance system.
• Strong affinity with assessment, and with technical and scientific subjects.
• You familiarize yourself quickly with new tasks and are independent.
• Good command of English, both spoken and written.

We are offering a 0.8 - 1.0 FTE appointment. Depending on experience and education, the salary for a full-time contract ranges between € 3.821,00 and € 5.230,00 gross per month (salary scale 11 CAO Dutch Universities). The TU/e offers a broad package of fringe benefits, for instance a year-end bonus of 8.3%, holiday allowance of 8% and excellent sport facilities.

We are offering a temporary appointment for a period of one year. The employment contract may be extended in the event of good performance and if the financial conditions remain the same.

Depending on the CV and work experience, an appointment via EUFLEX (TU/e secondment agency) is possible.

ESA is an inclusive working environment and emphasizes the importance of personal development and facilitates employees to work on it.