The International Office (IO) is part of the Academic Services Division. Its main task is to provide services in the area of (international) student and staff mobility, international admissions, immigration support, accommodation issues, scholarship programs, and the Tilburg University Summer School. In addition, the IO supports other divisions and Schools with their international activities and advises them in their international strategic goals and mission.
Within the International Office, the International Admissions team (IA) is responsible for facilitating and executing the admission processes for students with a non-Dutch diploma.
Together with your fellow International Admission Coordinators, you are responsible for processing and evaluating applications of students with a non-Dutch diploma who wish to be admitted into one of our Bachelor programs. You ensure that the process from applying to admitting is done in a timely and efficient way. Assessing the previous education of our applicants is an important aspect within this procedure. Furthermore, you provide information to applicants about the status of their application, answer questions that are related to admissions by phone and e-mail, and ensure that our (online) communication is up-to-date and correct.
Within the University you maintain good relationships with our internal partners, e.g. Student Administration, Student Desk, Marketing & Communication, and colleagues from the International Office and Educational Support Teams. You provide information about the admission process as well as the assessment of (international) diploma’s to our partners and you are attentive to the fact that we are part of a process chain together with our partners.
As a team member we expect that you actively contribute to the development and description of our admissions procedures and work instructions, and build / expand your knowledge about international educational systems.
Your qualifications
We are looking for the following skills/qualities in the successful candidate:
Your talents
This is a position for 1.0 FTE (40 hours per week) and the starting date of this position is 2 January 2025.
The salary amounts to a minimum of € 3.186 and a maximum of € 4.255 gross per month for full time employment contract, based on UFO profile ‘Employee Student Affairs/ Medewerker Studentenzaken 2’ and salary scale 8 of the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities. Tilburg University uses a neutral salary system for scaling that is based on relevant education and work experience.
This is a vacancy for a structural position in accordance with Article 2.3, paragraph 1 of the CLA for Dutch Universities. You will be given a temporary employment contract for the duration of 12 months. After this period, if your suitability has been proven and you continue in the same position, and sufficient financial funding, you will receive an employment contract for an indefinite period.
You are entitled to a vacation allowance of 8% and a year-end bonus of 8.3% of your gross annual income. If you work 40 hours per week, you will receive 41 paid days of leave per year.
Tilburg University offers excellent employment conditions. We think flexibility, professional and personal development, and good employee benefits are important. We make clear agreements about career paths and offer all kinds of facilities and schemes to maintain an optimal balance between work and private life. You can also take numerous training courses, for example in the areas of leadership skills, personal effectiveness, and career development.
Tilburg University values an open and inclusive culture. We embrace diversity and encourage the mutual integration of groups of employees and students. We focus on creating equal opportunities for all our employees and students, so that everyone feels at home in our university community.
Tilburg University has a lively campus in beautiful green surroundings that is easily accessible by public transport. We are committed to a sustainable society and challenge you to make an active contribution.
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Service society and making it better for its citizens. That is what drives us. Tilburg University's founder, Martinus Cobbenhagen, believed that anyone who wants to understand society must be actively and consciously involved in it. These ideas still form the basis of our university.
Under the motto Understanding society, our more than 2,800 employees develop and transfer knowledge and bring people from different disciplines and organizations together. In this way, we want to contribute to solving complex social issues. In doing so, we work from the fields of economics, business and entrepeneurship, social and behavioral sciences, law and administration, humanities and digital sciences, and theology.
We educate our 20,000 students of 132 nationalities to become Tilburg University Shaped Professionals: responsible and entrepeneurial thinkers, driven by solidarity, a sense of responsibility and empathy, who are able to influence and give direction to a rapidly changing society in an innovative way.
More information about the vacancy can be obtained from Azra Sertovic at +31 466 3752 or a.sertovic@tilburguniversity.edu.
We invite you to apply for this position before October 14th, 2024; this can only be done online. Please note that the first round of interviews will take place on Tuesday 15 October 2024 and the second round will take place on Friday 18 October 2024. Please address your (English) motivation letter to Azra Sertovic (Team Lead International Admissions) and attach a CV.
This application process is managed by the employer (Tilburg University). Please contact the employer for questions regarding your application.
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Letter selection will take place during the application period. Once you applied for the position, you will hear from the selection as soon as possible.
You will ideally start working for Tilburg University from January 2025.
This vacancy has been published internally and externally simultaneously. In case of equal suitability, our preference will go to an internal candidate.
Letter selection will take place during the application period. Once you applied for the position, you will hear from the selection as soon as possible.
You will ideally start working for Tilburg University from January 2025.
This vacancy has been published internally and externally simultaneously. In case of equal suitability, our preference will go to an internal candidate.
Make sure to apply no later than 13 Oct 2024 23:59 (Europe/Amsterdam).
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