Strategic Advisor Sustainability

At Erasmus University Rotterdam we are raising the bar of our sustainability ambitions. We are looking for a dynamic colleague with drive and expertise to co-develop our strategy and support decisionmaking for the sustainability program and support its implementation. Would you like to work on our sustainability plans? Are you flexible and do you enjoy being part of decision making with your expert advice while having an eye for stakeholders interests? Are you knowledgeable and passionate about sustainability? Then this might be your opportunity!

Job description
The position focuses on

• Strategic and policy advice to the program manager and executive board (CvB)
• Development of strategic and programmatic proposals
• Representation of the sustainability program
• Stakeholder management
• Function as the right hand of the program manager sustainability

You will work together with the Sustainability Program team, supervised by the Program Manager Sustainability.

We ask

• Working experience in the required fields of at least 5-7 years
• Deep knowledge of sustainability
• Experience with developing long term strategy (preferably on sustainability)
• Experience in giving high level strategic and policy advice
• Experience in supporting complex decision making processes
• Good networking and representation skills
• Experience with working in an academic environment is a plus
• Self-starter/pro-active and team player
• Fluent in both English and Dutch (passive and active)

We offer

• The possibility to work directly on the EUR’s sustainability ambitions
• A role where making impact is at the centre of your responsibilities
• Starting date a.s.a.p.
• Guidance by the Program Manager Sustainability
• You become part of the Sustainability Program Team

We offer you an internationally oriented and varied job in an enthusiastic team, with excellent working conditions in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities (CAO-NU).

The start date of this position is a.s.a.p. aftter the recruitment & hring process, and will end 31-12-2024. You will be based at Campus Woudenstein of Erasmus University Rotterdam in the General Management Directorate (ABD). This position is for 0.7 fte - 0.85 fte. The salary is dependent on your experience and knowledge and ranges from a minimum of € 5.247 to a maximum of € 6.737 gross per month Scale 12 on a fulltime basis (38 hours), in accordance with the CAO-NU.

Everything else we offer you, you can find below!

• Everything you need for a good work-life balance: the option to work from home in consultation with your manager, 41 days of paid leave with a 40 hour contract, 8% holiday pay and an 8.3% end-of-year bonus, and a significant discount on a subscription for our on-campus sports centre!
• Sustainable, inclusive and diverse work environment with an open culture, where you can be yourself and we pay attention to each other and to the world around us. Make the most of our bicycle budget, or join networks such as Young@EUR, FAME or QuEUR.
• Time and space for your development in the broadest sense: development days and a personal career budget, foreign exchange opportunities with most costs paid by EUR, and free access to our university library.
• Good pension with ABP that EUR contributes 2/3rds towards, discounts on various collective insurances with Zilveren Kruis Achmea, Loyalis, and Allianz, and compensation for travel, working from home and home internet use.
• Are you currently combining your job with parenthood, or do you want to do so in the future? EUR offers partially paid parental leave and fully paid additional birth leave for partners, and our campus features a daycare.
• Moving to the Netherlands for your job with EUR? Then you may be eligible for the 30%-ruling if you meet the requirements of the Belastingdienst (Dutch tax agency), and with our Dual Career Programme we will also help your partner find the right job for them.

Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) is an internationally oriented university with a strong social orientation in its education and research, as expressed in our mission ‘Creating positive societal impact’. EUR is home to 3.700 academics and professionals and almost 33.000 students from more than 140 countries. Everything we do, we do under the credo The Erasmian Way – Making Minds Matter. We’re global citizens, connecting, entrepreneurial, open-minded, and socially involved. These Erasmian Values function as our internal compass and create EUR’s distinctive and recognizable profile. From these values, with a broad perspective and with an eye for diversity, different backgrounds and opinions, our employees work closely together to solve societal challenges from the dynamic and cosmopolitan city of Rotterdam. Thanks to the high quality and positive societal impact of our research and education, EUR can compete with the top European universities. www.eur.nl.

The General Management Directorate

The General Management Directorate (Algemene Bestuursdienst, ABD) is the central staff organisation responsible for the organisation and support of EUR’s policy and administration at the institutional level. ABD supports the Executive Board in fulfilling its responsibilities with regard to the quality, accessibility and financing of EUR’s education and research programmes. ABD handles the joint design of integrated policy, ensures the timely submission of policy within decision-making procedures and the implementation of the adopted policy measures and constantly monitors and evaluates developments in the interest of further improvement. ABD comprises the departments of Academic Affairs (AZ), Corporate Planning & Control (CPC), Administrative Affairs (BZ), Legal Affairs (JZ) and Strategy Office (SO). The independent university publication Erasmus Magazine also falls under ABD in organisational terms.

The management directorate is headed by the Director of the General Management Directorate, who also serves as Secretary of the Executive Board.

The Sustainability Program resorts under the Strategy Office (SO), that supports the EUR in its transition to an impact-oriented university and works together with the entire organization to achieve the strategic objectives. The Strategy Office is a policy department that, on the one hand, is concerned with (supporting) the integral implementation of the strategy and, on the other hand, provides capacity to provide the board and the organization with strategic advice on a variety of dossiers. This happens in close collaboration with other central policy departments, the faculties and institutes and support services (which anchor and implement the EUR strategy) and the project leaders and academic leads, who lead the strategic projects. The SO functions as a spider in the web to realize the strategic ambitions in collaboration with the entire community.

Department
The Sustainability Program currently consists of three persons, the Program Manager, the Program Offcer and a student assistant. Our team is connected to vital functions within the various departments and schools.