Advisor & Coordinator for Educational Excellence

Are you passionate about high-quality education and eager to make a tangible difference for students and teachers? Do you enjoy shaping long-term strategy while also making sure day-to-day educational processes run smoothly? Are you a natural bridge-builder between policy and practice? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!

Information
You will play a key role in shaping our education policy and ensuring the smooth coordination of our bachelor’s and master’s programs. You combine strategic thinking with hands-on organization, translating departmental ambitions into concrete actions that benefit both staff and students.

Your challenges

• Play a key role in developing, aligning, and implementing our departmental education policy in line with TU/e’s strategic framework.
• Translate strategic ambitions into concrete proposals, plans, and projects.
• Advise the program directors, ESA manager, and committees on regulations, quality assurance, and curriculum developments.
• Lead and coordinate our upcoming program (re)accreditations, aligning regulations, quality assurance, and curriculum development with national and TU/e standards.
• Streamline program processes and decision-making, ensuring that all stakeholders — from program directors to student advisors — are informed, engaged, and working towards the same goals.
• Represent the department in TU/e-wide policy projects and be an active member of the policy chain. Work closely with program directors, teachers, and student advisors to ensure smooth curriculum planning and execution.
• Act as a point of contact for both staff and students regarding program-related questions.

Where you’ll work
You will join the Education and Student Affairs (ESA) team at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry. We are a small, dedicated group that supports students, advises teachers, ensures quality, and implements educational strategy. As one colleague puts it: “Switching between projects, structuring processes, and keeping an overview — that’s what makes this role exciting every single day.”

• A Master’s degree in a relevant field.
• Demonstrable affinity with educational management and program organization.
• Experience in an academic environment.
• Proven knowledge of policymaking, with experience in translating strategy into practice and guiding accreditation processes.
• Strong organizational skills, able to manage multiple dossiers and deadlines simultaneously.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, able to navigate different interests and build consensus.
• Proficiency in both English and Dutch at C1 level.

If you are concerned that you don’t meet all the requirements sufficiently, but the job does excite you, then be sure to respond, we would love to look at your profile.

An exciting position within an international yet personal university. You are right in the middle of the students, on a green campus within walking distance of the central station. Besides beautiful architecture, you will find varied workplaces and excellent sports facilities. We also offer you:

• A monthly salary of minimum € 3,546 to maximum € 6,433 for full-time employment, depending on your knowledge and experience (scale 10 or 11 collective labour agreement for Dutch Universities).
• In addition to vacation pay, a structural end-of-year bonus of 8.3%.
• A favorable arrangement for more holidays or a sabbatical.
• A selection model for additional fringe benefits.
• Working hours in consultation for an optimal work-life balance.
• Scope for your talent with advancement prospects and excellent development opportunities such as mentoring, workshops and coaching.
• Partially paid parental leave and reimbursement for commuting expenses, working from home and the internet.
• A generous employer contribution to the favorable ABP pension plan.

Here you can discover even more information about our conditions of employment. Build on your career at TU/e!