The Informatics Institute is looking for a coordinator graduation projects and educational planning.

As a coordinator graduation projects and educational planning, you will help in the coordination of the graduation projects for several BSc and MSc programs in the Information Sciences domain. The BSc and MSc programs regard these graduation projects, which can be performed internally in one of the Informatics Institute’s research groups or externally in e.g. a company, as an essential phase in the preparation for a career in academia or industry. In addition, the coordinator will also have an active role as educational planner within the Informatics Institute. This implies that he/she will help in and facilitate the staffing of individual courses in our BSc and MSc programs.  In a more general sense, the coordinator will also advice the management of the Informatics Institute about how to efficiently and effectively organize its education.

The duties of the coordinator consist of:

• facilitating the organisation of graduation projects for a number of BSc and MSc programs;
• reorganizing existing processes to accommodate the growing number of students;
• coordination of thesis fairs;
• maintaining a network of researchers within and outside the university;
• maintaining a network of research-oriented companies;
• coordination of presentations and facilitating the grading process of BSc and MSc theses;
• organisation of extracurricular activities, such as ad-hoc workshops;
• providing insight in and planning of teaching duties of staff;
• providing advice about the operational organization of education.

As a coordinator graduation projects and educational planning, you have:

• a Master of Science degree or, preferably, a PhD degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, information science, or a related discipline;
• good didactical, organisational and communication skills;
• a fluency in oral and written English;
• a proactive, enterprising, and flexible attitude;
• the ability to work independently as well as in a team.

The appointment of the Coordinator Graduation Projects and Educational Planning – Information Sciences will be on temporary basis for three years. Initial employment is one year and after a positive evaluation, the appointment will be extended further with two years. The gross monthly salary will be in accordance with the university regulations for academic personnel, and will range from €2,640 up to a maximum of €4,852 (scale 10/11) based on a full-time appointment (38 hours per week). The salary will be determined depending on qualifications, expertise and based on number of years of relevant experience.

The Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities is applicable. There are also secondary benefits, such as 8% holiday allowance per year and the end of year allowance of 8.3%.

Starting date is flexible, preferably as soon as possible.

For international candidates, you need to be eligible to work in The Netherlands, we cannot sponsor candidates for this position.

University of Amsterdam

With over 5,000 employees, 30,000 students and a budget of more than 600 million euros, the University of Amsterdam (UvA) is an intellectual hub within the Netherlands. Teaching and research at the UvA are conducted within seven faculties: Humanities, Social and Behavioural Sciences, Economics and Business, Law, Science, Medicine and Dentistry. Housed on four city campuses in or near the heart of Amsterdam, where disciplines come together and interact, the faculties have close links with thousands of researchers and hundreds of institutions at home and abroad.  

The UvA’s students and employees are independent thinkers, competent rebels who dare to question dogmas and aren’t satisfied with easy answers and standard solutions. To work at the UvA is to work in an independent, creative, innovative and international climate characterised by an open atmosphere and a genuine engagement with the city of Amsterdam and society.

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Informatics Institute

The Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) occupies a leading position internationally in its fields of research and participates in a large number of cooperative programmes with universities, research institutes and businesses. The Faculty has a student body of around 7,000 students and 1,500 members of staff, spread over eight research institutes and a number of faculty-wide support services. A considerable part of the research is made possible by external funding from Dutch and international organisations and the private sector. The Faculty of Science offers 11 Bachelor's (BSc) degree programmes and 18 Master’s (MSc) degree programmes in the fields of the exact sciences, computer science and information studies, and life and earth sciences.

Within the Information Sciences domain of the Faculty of Science, the Informatics Institute  organizes three Bachelor programs (Informatica, Kunstmatige Intelligentie, and Informatiekunde) and six Master programs: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Computational Science, Software Engineering, Security & Network Engineering, and Information Studies. 

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