In addition to excellent management skills, we will welcome a new colleague who can work with a diverse range of people and help us navigate future challenges.

As Managing Director of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS) you are responsible for effective and efficient operations that support the delivery of education and research within an interdisciplinary and international faculty. This includes healthy financial management, and you are thus able to oversee the financial implications and consequences of decisions.

You contribute to guiding the faculty in times of change and transformation, e.g. to shaping the Faculty’s stance on the debate on internationalisation within Dutch academia. You are an important sparring partner for the dean and other board members. You also advise the board on policy development and implementation, especially in areas that are directly part of your duties, such as personnel, ARBO, organization, housing, IT and finance.

You manage the faculty office and its associated departments and faculty services, namely the Educational Development and Policy Office (EDaP), Office of Student Affairs (Bureau Onderwijs), Marketing and Communication, Research Support and ICT. Together with these teams and supported by the Finance and Human Resource department, you ensure a pleasant, stimulating and inspiring working environment and you facilitate the work of our colleagues in education and research.

You represent our faculty both within Maastricht University (UM) and beyond. Within UM, you contribute to the development of FASoS in close collaboration with other faculty directors and other facilities/services, for example by participating in cross-faculty working groups. You also represent FASoS at meetings with directors from other Universities and with other stakeholders.

Who are you?

You are a leader who can enthuse, coach and inspire others. You are a bridge builder both within and beyond our faculty. You care about the (continuous) development of employees and you have an interest in HR topics. You are able to think strategically. You are entrepreneurial and are able to take difficult decisions.

You subscribe to the values of academic citizenship by your willingness to engage in the activities and roles that are characteristic of our academic environment. You are sensitive to the specificities of interdisciplinary research in the humanities and the social sciences.

Furthermore you have:

• The capacity to work and operate within an academic environment that is organizationally complex.
• Knowledge of and experience with financial management, budget processes and financial reporting.
• Ample experience in strategic management in business organizations, preferably in education or other public sector institutions.
• Excellent communication skills (both oral and written), and a good command of the Dutch and English languages.

We encourage you to apply for this position regardless of your background or identity.

What we offer

As Managing Director at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, you will be employed by the most international university in the Netherlands, located in the beautiful city of Maastricht. In addition, we offer you:

• Good employment conditions. The position is graded in scale 15 according to UFO profile Operations Director (2), with corresponding salary based on experience ranging from € 6,836 and € 8,815 gross per month (based on a full-time employment of 38 hours per week). In addition to the monthly salary, an 8.0% holiday allowance and an 8.3% year-end bonus apply.
• An employment contract for a period of 12 months with a scope of 1.0 FTE. Upon proven suitability, the employment contract will be converted to an indefinite contract.
• At Maastricht University, the well-being of our employees is of utmost importance, we offer flexible working hours and the possibility to work partly from home if the nature of your position allows it. You will receive a monthly commuting and internet allowance for this. If you work full-time, you will be entitled to 29 vacation days and 4 additional public holidays per year, namely carnival Monday, carnival Tuesday, Good Friday, and Liberation Day. If you choose to accumulate compensation hours, an additional 12 days will be added. Furthermore, you can personalize your employment conditions through a collective labor agreement (CAO) choice model.
• As Maastricht University, we offer various other excellent secondary employment conditions. These include a good pension scheme with the ABP and the opportunity for UM employees to participate in company fitness and make use of the extensive sports facilities that we also offer to our students.
• Last but not least, the space and facilities to develop yourself: personally and in your field. We facilitate this by offering a wide range of training courses and supporting various widely supported initiatives such as 'recognition and rewards'.

Maastricht University’s Terms of Employment are laid down in the Collective Labor Agreement of Dutch Universities. In addition, local university provisions apply. For more information, please, see the website: Working at UM - About UM - Maastricht University

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Why work at Maastricht University?

UM is a European university with an international orientation, operating at the heart of society and firmly rooted in the region. Ever since it was founded in 1976, the university has worked across borders, with a particular focus on the Euregion. Here, we connect education and research internationally, analyze societal issues in their full breadth and reinforce the labor market through the triple-helix collaboration. We have an open and inclusive academic culture, an international community and a strong focus on innovative and interdisciplinary education and research. Our community is composed of students, lecturers, researchers, support staff, and alumni.

As THE European university in the Netherlands, our core values are diversity and inclusion, sustainability, mutual respect, integrity, democratic principles, and transparency. We take our social responsibility seriously by forging links between the university and society, from the local to the global level. Moreover, as a solid and resilient international community, we hold ourselves accountable for the future of our world. This entails paying special attention to the urgent challenges of the 21st century, such as securing a sustainable future for our society.

UM is committed to promoting and nurturing a diverse and inclusive community. We believe that diversity in our staff and student population contributes to the quality of research and education at UM and strive to enable this through inclusive policies and innovative projects led by teams of staff and students. We encourage you to apply for this position regardless of your background or identity.

More on the mission and strategy of UM can be found here.

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
In the teaching and research at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS), we highlight major developments in societies and cultures as they have unfolded during the modern and contemporary eras. We seek to gain understanding of the interrelationships of Europeanization, globalization, scientific and technological development, political change, and cultural innovation. We are interested in how today’s societies cope with these challenges through, amongst others, practices of remembrance, governance techniques, strategies for managing knowledge, technologies, and risks and ways of dealing with diversity and inequality.

FASoS has approximately 250 staff members and 1,730 students. More than 77% of the students are non-Dutch (65 different nationalities) and 42% of our staff comes from abroad. All programs are offered in English. FASoS offers four 3-year BA programs: Arts and Culture, European Studies, Digital Society, and Global Studies (the latter is a joint programme offered by all six UM faculties). It also offers eight different 1-year MA programs and two 2-year Research Master programs. Research is organized around four programs: Arts, Media, and Culture; Globalization, Transnationalism, and Development; Politics and Culture in Europe; and Science, Technology and Society Studies. The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences is housed in the historic city center of Maastricht.