Teaching assistent Department of Cognitive Neuroscience

We are looking for a motivated teaching assistant to support ongoing teaching and projects within our Department of Cognitive Neuroscience. You will provide general support to the teachers of the CNS department. Will you join our ambitious team?

Specific tasks for the teaching assistent encompass support in course coordination and on-site technical support. Furthermore, the department is developing Virtual Reality integration into teaching and the you will support in this development, as well as administrate the existing VR systems in the department.

Tasks and responsibilities

• Support in drafting of documents, procedures and concepts.
• Contact and communication to teacher, students and stakeholders.
• Administration of VR equipment (preparation for teaching, status check after teaching).
• Support in course administration and eventually teaching.

We are looking for a candidate with at least a Master’s degree in Cognitive Neuroscience, Biomedical Sciences, Psychology, Computer science or related fields. Good grasp of the Dutch language (>B2) is required.

At Radboud university medical center, you build on your future. We are committed to providing the best care, education, and research. And we are true to our word, because we help you develop and seize opportunities and give you the room to grow. As an employer, we believe that employees should feel vital and happy at work in all stages of life. We are also committed to creating a healthy and safe working environment. Our employment conditions contribute to that. What we offer:

• A gross monthly salary between € 2.932 and € 3.923 (scale 7) for full-time employment (36 hours per week). You will also receive an 8% holiday allowance, an 8.3% end-of-year bonus, and a 47% to 72% bonus for working unsocial hours.
• 172 vacation hours per year based on a 36-hour working week. (As of 1 January 2025, you will receive 176 vacation hours.)
• An Employment Conditions Selection Model, allowing you to use part of your employment conditions to your choosing. For example, you can use your gross salary to purchase additional vacation hours or hours for providing informal caregiving. Or, for example, you can use your gross end-of-year bonus to purchase a bicycle, so you pay less tax.
• Plenty of opportunities for personal development. You can take a variety of courses in our online learning environment.
• Your well-being and vitality are a priority. For example:
  
  • Save time for work-life balance leave.
  • A 40% discount on a sports membership of the Radboud Sports Center.
  • Healthy Professionals program to help you manage your energy.
  • Company Support Team and a personal coach if you are going through a life-changing event.
  • Financially beneficial working less through a Generation Scheme as you approach state pension age.
• Support in achieving a good work-life balance at every stage of your life. Examples:
  
  • Advice and courses on, for example, 'Millennial dilemmas' and 'Your Career After 57'.
  • Activities at our own mindfulness center.
  • Informal caregiving consultations if you have questions about juggling work and caregiving responsibilities at home.
• In addition to statutory pregnancy and maternity leave, Radboud university medical center offers 26 weeks of parental leave, nine of which are paid. In addition, as a partner you can take a maximum of five weeks of supplementary partner leave. During supplementary partner leave and parental leave, we supplement the UWV benefit up to 100% of your salary.
• Pension accrual at the ABP Pension Fund. Radboud university medical center pays 70% of the pension premium.
• Discounts on supplementary packages of two group health insurances and ten other types of insurance, from home insurance to legal assistance.
• As of 1 October 2024: an allowance for your commuting costs of € 0.18 per km up to a maximum of 40 km one way. If you use public transport to commute, we will fully reimburse the public transport costs (2nd class). If you regularly work from home, you will receive a working from home allowance of € 2.35 per day.

The Department of Cognitive Neuroscience (CNS) of the Radboudumc is dedicated to molecular, behavioural and cognitive neuroscience research. The CNS department is involved in teaching for different master and bachelor programmes at the Radboud University and Radboud University Medical Center. The CNS department’s teaching is coordinated and supervised by the Teaching Committee of the department to which the teaching assistant will be allocated.

Radboudumc
Radboud university medical center is a university medical center for patient care, scientific research, and education in Nijmegen. Radboud university medical center strives to be at the forefront of shaping the healthcare of the future. We do this in a person-centered and innovative way, and in close collaboration with our network. We want to have a significant impact on health and healthcare. We want to improve with each passing day, continuously working towards better healthcare, research, and education. And gaining a better understanding of how diseases arise and how we can prevent, treat, and cure them, day in and day out. This way, every patient always receives the best healthcare, now and in the future. Because that is why we do what we do.