You are part of the small but growing EE team and report to the CEO of EE. You work closely together with the Head of Business Development, Event Manager (direct report), Marketing Manager and Controller, thus forming the management team. You find it a challenge to be the link between the university, the business world and community members, whereby you identify opportunities in the market to further expand the position of the community, for example in the form of housing and events. You find it a challenge to go to the next level and help set up structural processes and partnerships.

You are able to carry out the wishes of the community, this can be in knowledge but also in the organization of a lunch, events, programmes or the setting up of rent and connection possibilities. You are aware of the role of the university in the region and see opportunities to expand this.

Job profile

• Enlarging, structurally setting up and maintaining the Community. With existing community members (Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship, ERBS, Yes!Delft, PortXL, Graduate Entrepreneur). 
• Aligning contracts (the content and thereby the communication to the various community members).
• Helping to set up rent and event administration.
• Being a project manager (scripts) in the setting up and continuation of events.
• Being a good programme manager for all events: setting up and thus being present at events with inspiring content fitting the needs of the community members. Contacting speakers, coordinating programmes, etc.
• Commercializing the community in the region and strengthening ties with Erasmus University Rotterdam.

You are a proactive, flexible personality and enjoy the challenge of improving processes in a dynamic environment, but also of implementing and independently setting up processes. You work in a project-based manner, and you are familiar with the principle of stakeholder management. Besides a modern and dynamic work environment, we offer a high degree of independence with plenty of room for personal growth and professional development.
 

Job requirements

• Academic-staffing level, with a master's degree from the faculty of Economics.
• Minimum 8 years relevant work experience in complex and dynamic commercial environment, preferably with managerial and event experience.
• Connecting and entrepreneurial, with the ability to switch easily between different environments.
• Commercially strong and good statistical insight.
• Enjoys working in a process-oriented and accurate way.
• Hands-on mentality.
• Working independently, but also within a team.
• Good oral and written command in Dutch and English.
• You are an EU citizen (i.e. not only an EU resident) or you already have a residence and work permit. You live and continue to live in the Netherlands.

Fixed-term contract: one year, with the possibility of a longer-term contract if you show that you are a good match for us.

Do you meet the above profile? Then we would like to offer you a dynamic working environment with a close team of enthusiastic colleagues. We attach great importance to sharing inspiration and pleasure in our work and enjoy tackling new challenges together.

Your salary depends on your work experience and expertise and is at least scale 10 cao-NU and a maximum of scale 11 cao-NU (ca € 5000, - gross per month).

Erasmus University Rotterdam - Erasmus Enterprise

The Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) is an internationally oriented university with a social orientation in its education and research. Our academics and students work together with internal and external parties to solve global social challenges, inspired by the always dynamic Rotterdam. Our mission statement is 'Creating positive social impact'. Our academic education is intensive and application oriented. Our research often takes place in multidisciplinary international teams. With our research impact and high quality of education, EUR can compete with the top European universities. The Erasmian values function as our internal compass and make Erasmus University recognizable to the outside world: enterprising, socially involved, world citizen, broad-minded and connecting.

Erasmus Enterprise
Erasmus Enterprise (EE) is a start-up within the Erasmus University Rotterdam. In a short time, this young and ambitious enterprise has made a name for itself in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation. It operates at the intersection of education and business. The entrepreneurial community is located at the Woudestein Campus of the EUR. The community offers all possibilities for answering all questions related to entrepreneurship for students, employees and (potential) entrepreneurs. Think of housing, where there is the possibility to rent office space and event space, access to funding opportunities at our funding partners Graduate Entrepreneur and UNIIQ and of course the knowledge that Erasmus University Rotterdam has on entrepreneurship at the subsidiaries Erasmus Research and Business Support (ERBS), Erasmus Center for Entrepreneurship (ECE) or YES! Delft. Through an active community approach, including events, we want to connect students, employees, and others as much as possible and encourage them to seek entrepreneurship, in line with our Erasmian values.