The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS) is currently recruiting an Editor/Marketing & Communications Internal & External Adviser. If the job description fits your profile and gets you motivated even more than you already are, please send in an application!

Job description

FASoS is a colourful and creative community.
The position of Editor/Marketing & Communications Internal & External Adviser, will give you the opportunity to serve as a bridge builder in this community in providing an internal and external communications structure, with means like the FASoS website and news sections, the FASoS Weekly, the FASoS intranet and others yet to be created by you. You will provide advice in the areas of website, text, image and video.

The main tasks of this position:

• You are responsible for the development and successful execution and evaluation of communication plans, and activities that contribute to the faculties’ strategic goals and targets related to internal and external communication.

• You development internal and external communications-related content (text, photos, video, etc.) for mainly online materials.

• Your focus lies on research communications; you will acquaint yourself with the research developed at FASoS and you will develop ways to communicate this research in an accessible way to the FASoS community and the public at large. You work closely together with the FASoS’ Research Support Office.

• You provide advice to academic staff on how they can best present their work, and in this context you also write and edit (web)texts. You update the website’s research structure, content and relevant social media. This also includes monitoring response and adjusting efforts whenever needed.

• You closely collaborate with the university’s central press department and editorial team.

• You participate actively as a member of UM-wide tactical corporate communication groups (e.g. internal communications, newsroom).

Starting date: 1 October 2019 or as soon as possible thereafter.

What do we expect from you?

• You thrive in an international work environment in a dynamic role with many responsibilities.

• You have the flexibility to balance between the needs of students, academic staff and the support staff. You are not afraid to challenge the process and relevant stakeholders.

• You have an academic or HBO education level with an educational background in Marketing and/or Communications.

• You have a minimum of two years of relevant work experience.

• You write well and can translate complex subject matter into easily comprehensible texts.

• You like to create closer ties within the FASoS’ organisation and have an interest in arts and social sciences.

• You have strong communicative skills, and sound proficiency in oral and written language, both in Dutch and in English (C1 level).

• You have a proactive, result-oriented professional attitude.

In terms of competences, you are:

• Sensitive to what happens in an organisation

• Full of initiative

• Accurate

• A team player, who is enthusiastic and energetic

Maastricht University provides an attractive, internationally-oriented academic environment where young people receive an advanced education and scholars conduct first-rate research.

The appointment (0,8 fte) will be for the period of one year. In case of good performance and equal prospects for the faculty, extension of the appointment can be offered.

Salary scale: the position of Editor/Marketing & Communications Internal & External Adviser is ranked as Editor, level 4 (UFO profile), salary scale 9.

The terms of employment of Maastricht University are set out in the Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities (CAO). Furthermore, local UM provisions also apply. For more information look at the website http://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl > Support > UM employees.

Maastricht University

Maastricht University is renowned for its unique, innovative, problem-based learning system, which is characterized by a small-scale and student-oriented approach. Research at UM is characterized by a multidisciplinary and thematic approach, and is concentrated in research institutes and schools. Maastricht University has around 18,000 students and 4,300 employees. Reflecting the university's strong international profile, a fair amount of both students and staff are from abroad. The university hosts 6 faculties: Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Faculty of Law, School of Business and Economics, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience.

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS) has about 250 staff members, and about 1,600 students. More than 76% of the students are non-Dutch (64 different nationalities). All programmes are offered in English and some are also offered in Dutch. FASoS offers three 3-year bachelor’s programmes: Arts and Culture, European Studies and a new 3rd bachelor’s programme ‘Digital Society’. It also offers eight different 1-year Master’s programmes and two 2-year research master’s programmes.

Research is organised around four programmes: Politics and Culture in Europe; Science, Technology and Society Studies; Arts, Media and Culture; and Globalisation, Transnationalism and Development. The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences is housed in the historic city centre of Maastricht.

The FASoS’ Marketing & Communications (M&C) team is looking for an enthusiastic colleague to strengthen the team. The M&C team consists of six persons, of which one is the editor/adviser internal and external communications. The M&C team closely cooperates with the shared Marketing & Communications department and other clusters within the faculty.

The M&C department develops and carries out M&C activities in line with the objectives formulated for undergraduate and graduate education as well as research conducted under the auspices of the various departments and institutes, the Research Institute for Arts and Social Sciences and the Graduate School at FASoS. Strategic spearheads include ensuring quality and innovation in the primary processes of education and research as well as developing and maintaining relations with relevant external stakeholders.

Information on the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences is available on our website: www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/fasos