As Receptionist, you will be an integral part of the Facilities Department and responsible for staffing and managing the Reception Desk with a variety of tasks, including but not limited to:
Accepting and transferring incoming and outgoing phone calls;

• Receiving (welcoming) and registering visitors in accordance with internal procedures;
• Processing and distributing incoming and outgoing mail (post) and goods and engaging courier services;
• Booking meetings- and/or other rooms and making reservations for catering;
• Performing some administrative work;
• Supervising / monitoring people entering the Reception desk area; and
• (Ideally able to) provide first aid and engaging emergency services when necessary.

 The preferred start date is 29 August 2022.

• has an MBO Receptionist degree or similar;
• has work experience in a similar role and affinity with working in an education environment is preferred;
• has excellent intercultural communication skills in both written and spoken English and Dutch (additional languages are an advantage);
• is representative, social and flexible;
• is proactive, independent as well as a team player, problem solving and result oriented;
• has excellent organizational skills.

UCR initially offers a contract for a year, starting preferably on August 29, 2022.

The employment contract is for 1.0 FTE (38 – 40 hours per week).

Salary will be based on CAO Dutch Universities salary scales in the range from scale 4 to scale 5 based on knowledge and experience. Commuting expenses within the Netherlands will be partly reimbursed. Furthermore, UCR offers secondary benefits according to the Collective Labor Agreement Dutch Universities, such as:

• End of Year Bonus (8.3%)

• Holiday allowance (8%)
• ABP Pension arrangement
• Multiple choices model
• Holiday leave hours of 232 per year based on fulltime employment

UCR is an English-taught Liberal Arts and Science college, located in Middelburg. We deliver an Utrecht University bachelors program and our students are also Utrecht University students. The staff and students form a vibrant academic community. Students hail from all over the globe and follow a broad and intensive study program in the historic town of Middelburg, where they live on the centrally-located city campus. Classes have an average of 22 students and include continuous assessment as well as a high level of interaction with instructors. Instructors have great freedom in designing their courses, and work within an environment that firmly has teaching as its priority, whilst also supporting undergraduate and faculty research.

In 2019 the Dutch Flemish Accreditation Organization (NVAO) has evaluated UCR’s Liberal Arts & Sciences quality of teaching as good. The NVAO has also awarded UCR the quality label of a ‘Small-Scale and Intensive’ program. After graduation, UCR’s students continue in the best master programs all over the world.