Manager Education & Student Affairs

Does managing, shaping, and developing our team of educational professionals energize you? Would you like to contribute to the development and realization of the Bachelor’s and Master’s programs offered by the Department of Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences? Can you translate ideas about educational innovation into results? Are you able to lead effectively in a complex and fast-moving environment and can you inspire your employees? Then we are looking for you!

Information
The Manager Education & Student Affairs (ESA) reports to the Managing Director of the Department of Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences for departmental matters and to the Director of ESA-TU/e for TU/e matters in scope of Bachelor College, Graduate School and TU/e-ESA Policy.

You are part of the Educational Management of the Department of IE&IS and member of the TU/e ESA organization and community. Together with the Director of ESA and your fellow leaders of ESA in the other departments, you are responsible for improving the educational support processes at TU/e. As such you are responsible for connecting and supporting the policymaking processes at departmental and institutional level. To support the latter, you are for 0.1 fte dedicated to TU/e-ESA tasks that will be executed under the responsibility of the Director ESA.

As Manager ESA at IE&IS, you manage the team that is responsible for Education & Student Affairs. In this position, you are responsible for the organization and coordination of a range of processes and projects. You coordinate educational innovation projects and cross-disciplinary improvement projects with lecturers. You communicate with students and student-representation bodies.

What will you be doing?

• You manage the team of education support of the department (coordination, policy, teacher support, quality assurance, secretaries) and are the operational manager for the staff of the student administration, international office (who report to the central service Student & Education Affairs) and communication services.
• You are responsible for the organizational aspects of all IE&IS bachelor’s and (pre)master’s programs in the Bachelor College and Graduate School, in consultation with the IE&IS Director of Education.
• You are part of the Educational Board of the IE&IS Department and also a member of the TU/e ESA organization and community.
• You act as sparring partner for the Director of Education via the Educational Board IE&IS and advise the department board, department council, education council and exam committee on organization related education subjects. Moreover, you are the contact person for the study associations at the department.
• You are responsible for feasibility testing (impact and business case) and execution of educational policy within the department. You coordinate the formulation of assessment policy, year reports, accreditation, and education and examination regulations.
• You manage a TU/e-ESA process chain and may be part of or chairing steering committees or networks for TU/e wide education and student related subjects or projects.

Do you recognize yourself in this profile and would you like to have more information about the position, please contact Marieke van der Hoeven, Managing Director (M.v.d.Hoeven@tue.nl) or prof. dr. Tom van Woensel (T.v.Woensel@tue.nl).

For questions about the application process or the conditions of employment, please contact Najat Loiazizi, HR Cluster Lead (n.loiazizi@tue.nl).

Please note that the interviews will take place between 19 May 2025 and 30 May 2025. The start date would be ultimately 1 September 2025.

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