Education Grants Officer

Grant Support at Tilburg University is looking for a grants officer with a focus on education grants. You will support and advise lecturers at Tilburg University in the process of applying for funding for their innovative education projects. This support includes providing up-to-date information both on education innovation developments and on education grant calls, organizing training sessions and offering detailed feedback on grant proposals. Do you enjoy keeping up with education innovation developments, can you keep track of multiple deadlines at the same time and like reading varied proposals, and would you take pleasure in motivating lecturers to bring their education idea to life? Then this could be the job for you.

The Grant Support team is composed of 10 colleagues. All colleagues have their own specific focus, be it research or education grants, individual or collaborative grants, specific funding schemes, specific faculties or research communities. Your focus would be on education grants, both individual and collaborative. Grant Support is part of a larger support network and we work closely together with other units like Project Control and Education Support Teams. If you enjoy working in a team, you could be a good match to join our team and our support network.  

Your tasks:

• Keep up to date with changes in education innovation.
• Make relevant national and European funding schemes accessible, with a specific focus on education grants from NRO, Erasmus+, and MSCA Doctoral Networks.
• Ensure a structured, adequate, and timely supply of information to lecturers of relevant grants. 
• Organize and provide information meetings and training on the various grant schemes.
• Monitor eligibility of lecturers for specific grants, actively identify individually tailored opportunities and encourage lecturers to acquire education grants. 
• Work together with other support units like Teaching & Learning Center to identify new funding opportunities and reach new lecturers.
• Offer advice to departments, faculties, and even the university as a whole on grant opportunities and grant developments. 
• Act as contact person for the main funding agencies and attend externally organized workshops and information meetings.
• Read and provide detailed feedback on grant proposals. Efficiently and effectively translate the funding conditions of the specific scheme into concrete tips & tricks for lecturers to improve their proposal. Check the proposals for formal criteria that apply to the funding scheme in question. 
• Strengthen collaborative grant proposals by advising on what a strong consortium would look like, partly inspired by the specific grant for which the proposal is intended. 
• Bring together and manage the consortium, make mutual agreements and proactively keep track of the partners’ activity. 
• Offer procedural support for grant applications, monitor applicable deadlines and assist with administrative details of application forms. Connect to other support units like Project Control and Contract Management when other expertise is required. 

Your qualifications and talents:

• Excellent written and oral skills both in Dutch and English.
• Completed Master degree.  
• Experience and/or demonstrable affinity with education innovation.
• Experience and/or demonstrable affinity with applying for or supporting grants. 
• Excellent social and communication skills.
• A proactive, stimulating attitude; you form a team with the lecturers and the colleagues from Grant Support and the wider support network.
• Stress-resistance; you are able to work under time pressure. 
• Analytical and critical thinking; keeping a helicopter view.
• Organizational skills; you work effectively and efficiently and aligned with your colleagues.

This is a position for 0.6 FTE (24 hours per week) of the full-time working week. The salary amounts to a minimum of €3226 and a maximum of €5090 gross per month for full time employment contract, based on UFO position: Policy Officer, level 4 / scale 10 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, 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 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 follow 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. Please visit working at Tilburg University for more information on our terms of employment. 

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.

University support is invested in University Services, organized into seven divisions:

1. Academic Services
2. Marketing & Communication
3. Human Resources
4. Finance & Control
5. Library & IT Services
6. Facility Services
7. Executive Services