Master in Law and Finance (MLF) and Amsterdam Center for Law and Economics (ACLE) are joint initiatives of the Economics (FEB) and Amsterdam Law School (FdR) of the University of Amsterdam, housed on the modern Roeterseiland Campus (REC) in the centre of Amsterdam.

The Master in Law and Finance (MLF) is a one-year selective programme, taught in English and open to both Dutch and international students. It culminates in an LLM issued by the Amsterdam Law School. The Master was launched in September 2018 and is offered jointly by the Amsterdam Law School and the Amsterdam Business School. From September 2019, the Master has entered its second edition, with about 60 students enrolled. The main objective of the programme is to provide students with interdisciplinary education at the intersection between law and finance, which is highly regarded by the labour market, particularly by international consultancies, law firms, and policymakers.

What are you going to do?

Execution of coordination tasks in support of the MLF as well as in support of the ACLE.

For the MLF, the coordinator will support the programme director in leading the Master in Law & Finance. This support includes the following tasks:

• coordination of teaching within the Master including: quality assurance of the programme, creation of the teaching guides, arranging meetings for all lecturers and coordinators to align their courses, submitting the list of examiners to the head of the examinations board;
• establishing a student board at the beginning of every academic year;
• marketing tasks including updates of the website, posting on social media and working with google adworks as well as organising the opening event, the Masters day, mini-lectures and speed-dates with MA students;
• providing adequate and timely information to prospective students;
• coordinating the selection process of applicants;
• supporting the organisation of extra-curricular and social events;
• liaising with the faculty’s and the university’s administration to perform the above tasks.

For the ACLE, the coordinator will support the director in leading the Center. In particular, this support includes the following tasks:

• collecting and reporting the scientific/professional output of ACLE members;
• drafting interim reports on the Center’s activities and future planning;
• drafting yearly budgets and financial reports of the Center;
• collecting internal and external feedback on the Center’s performance, and formulating recommendations on how to improve it;
• organizing events such as conferences and seminars for the Center;
• assisting foreign scholars in arranging short visits to the Center;
• assisting junior and senior scholars in the preparation of research grants;
• creating and maintaining a mailing list of members of and affiliates to the Center;
• establishing and maintaining a working paper series;
• drafting and circulating a quarterly newsletter;
• designing and maintaining the ACLE website;
• assisting the director in the governance of the centre;
• assisting the director in branding and marketing the ACLE worldwide.

The candidate:

• is capable of thinking and operating as a professional (level: higher education, preferably university level);
• has experience with coordination tasks, preferably within a university;
• has a talent for managing and navigating organisations;
• is well-organized, flexible, takes pride in accuracy, and is capable of dealing with stress and peak loads;
• has excellent communication skills, likes to deal with international students and academics, and in general with people having an international and multicultural background;
• is proactive and service oriented and has a great sense of responsibility and integrity;
• is capable of functioning independently and within a team;
• has excellent command of Dutch and of English, both written and spoken;
• understanding of and experience with interdisciplinary education and research is preferable.

Fixed-term contract: One year.

The appointment will be for 1 year starting as soon as possible; subject to a positive evaluation and the success of the LLM and the ACLE, the appointment will be extended for 1 year. The salary will be in accordance with the salary scale for ‘onderwijscoordinator’ at Dutch universities, i.e. salary scale 10, ranging from €2,709 to €4,274 gross per month, based on 38 hours per week. Secondary benefits at Dutch universities are attractive and include 8 % holiday allowance and an 8.3 % end-of-year allowance. The Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities is applicable.

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.

Amsterdam Law School - Amsterdam Center for Law and Economics

The Amsterdam Law School prides itself on its international orientation and strong social commitment. This is reflected by both its research and educational activities. The Amsterdam Law School offers three Bachelor’s programmes, including the interdisciplinary English-language Bachelor Politics, Psychology, Law and Economics (PPLE) in cooperation with two other Faculties, as well as a variety of Master's programmes, several of which are taught exclusively in English (i.e. International and European Law, European Private Law, International Criminal Law, and Law & Finance). The Amsterdam Law School prepares students for a wide variety of legal careers including law firms, government, business and industry, the national and international judiciary, public service, human rights advocacy, and academia. With 3,700 students and over 400 staff members, it is one of the largest law faculties in the Netherlands.

The Amsterdam Center for Law and Economics (ACLE) is an interdisciplinary platform meant to attract world-class research in the field of law and economics. The goal of the ACLE is to promote top-quality research at the intersection between law and economics. This center of excellence hosts a variety of activities such as international conferences, exchange of scholars, interfaculty and interuniversity projects, all of which result in publications with significant scientific and societal impact. The overarching goal of the ACLE is to encourage co-operation of scientists at the University of Amsterdam with the international academia on relevant law and economics topics such as competition policy, law and finance, economics of property rights, and the legal implications of new technologies, among others.

On this perspective, there are important synergies between the ACLE and the Master in Law and Finance (MLF).