Choosing a degree can be both life changing and difficult. In today’s information culture, students are bombarded with facts, figures, rankings and other narratives. The sky is the literal limit: worldwide searches for the perfect programme are not uncommon. How can our master’s programmes achieve and maintain visibility in the midst of this? How can we best show prospective students the quality of our programmes? And, importantly, how do we ensure that the programme and the student are indeed a good match? As master student recruiter, you will lay out an evidence-based strategy to help our faculty answer these questions.

Master’s programmes at the Faculty of Science and Engineering
We are the Faculty of Science and Engineering (FSE), the youngest of six faculties at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. Our faculty is home to several outstanding departments and institutions covering education and research in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) as well as the liberal arts and sciences. FSE is also the home base faculty for the University Campus in the city of Venlo.

As student recruiter, you will focus on two master’s programmes at the Venlo campus: 1) Health Food Innovation Management (HFIM), 2) Global Supply Chain Management and Change e (GSCMaC). At the moment, the aforementioned programmes attract an international group of students and have approximately 130 students enrolled.

Your responsibilities
As master student recruiter, you are responsible for hands on student recruitment, organizing open day’s on campus and facilitating all recruitment related activities on the campus.
You will be embedded in campus Venlo’s central marketing & communications team, where you will work alongside (and coordinate the efforts of) your bachelor recruitment colleague to implement and execute your plans. You realize that your responsibility does not end with the admission procedure, but that you are working to help students make an honest and informed decision about their future.

Your tasks vary on a day-to-day basis, and include the following:

• On-/offline studentrecruitment for both master’s programmes
• Organizing and hosting student recruitment events in Venlo and Maastricht like the masters open day, campus open day, GSCMaC/HFIM experience and graduations.
• Coordination of the master’s student ambassador teams (HFIM, GSCMC)
• Actively managing the master’s Social Media (with student ambassadors)
• Keeping programme content up to date
• Communicating with prospective students and providing them with programme and venue related information.

Our new master student recruiter has:

• A degree in, or proven experience with, marketing (including quantitative and qualitative research methods);
• At least two years of experience in a (junior) marketing role;
• Fluent mastery of the English language, both in spoken and written form;
• A vision on national and international student recruitment, and the leadership skills to implement it;
• No qualms about combining strategic and operational work;
• A creative and strategic personality, laced with team spirit and a hint of well-dosed rebellion.

We offer a part-time (0.6) position to cover a colleague on pregnancy leave. You are able to start March 1st on a temporary contract up to October 1st.

The salary is stipulated in the Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities: a minimum of €2.979 and a maximum of €4.093 per month, depending on experience, for a full-time position of 38 hours a week (CAO scale 9). On top of this, there is an annual holiday allowance (8% of annual income) and an annual end-of-year bonus (8.3% of annual income).

The position comes with a number of additional benefits, including:

• Partially paid parental leave;
• A pension scheme;
• The option to participate in collective healthcare insurance;
• A welcoming and open work environment with a high degree of flexibility.

Full conditions of employment are laid out in the Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities, supplemented with local UM provisions. 

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.

Campus Venlo

Campus Venlo | The Faculty of Science and Engineering (FSE) is also the home base faculty for the University Campus in the city of Venlo.

Campus Venlo is the home of one Bachelor's programme (University College Venlo) and two Master's programmes; Health Food and Innovation Management & Global Supply Chain Management and Change. With all courses taught in English and attracting a wide range of nationalities, studying at Campus Venlo is studying in a small-scale academic community. In an international setting you will be in close contact with staff and fellow students where academic and practical perspectives are being combined. Research at Campus Venlo is done in an interdisciplinary fashion within three research lines. Health, nutrition and business are the three main focus points at Campus Venlo.

The Master’s programmes | Are you interested in developing new food and nutrition solutions to optimise health and prevent and treat disease? Would you like to know how a health food product goes from being just an idea to being launched in the market? And would you like to be involved in creating commercially viable foods that are both tasty and healthy? Then Health Food Innovation Management could be just the programme for you.

Are you a creative thinker who can innovate to achieve a competitive edge? Are you interested in supply chain management processes and how they can be improved? And would you like to make a real difference to a company that wants to compete in a dynamic, international marketplace? If so, the master’s programme in Global Supply Chain Management and Change may be the perfect way to start your career.

https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/campusvenlo