Erasmus School of Philosophy is looking for a student assistant to assist Prof. Liesbeth Noordegraaf-Eelens and Reindert Engwerda in setting up an internship-minor for full time students as well as a Ba2-elective ‘From Theory to Impact’. Both are part of a project supported by the EUR-wide ‘Impact at the Core’ initiative. In addition to this, you could be asked to assist both in a variety of their (executive or administrative) tasks.
Tasks:
- Support in seeking and reaching out to potential internship partners (search sites, email and call) and ESPhil-alumni;
- Taking over other executive and administrative tasks (planning and organizing events and appointments, handling emails, maintaining Canvas, etc.);
- Support in gathering the initial preferences of students for these kinds of courses;
- Support in organizing pilot-courses and course evaluations;
- Support in keeping contact with and reporting to Education Committee and Faculty Council;
- Incidentally, support in educational research (e.g., pulling relevant passages out of books and articles) to support educational choices for designing these courses;
- Other to be determined according to the applicant’s abilities and initiatives.
Expectations and Profile:
- You are at least a second year Bachelor student;
- Pro-active and enterprising attitude: you independently diagnose where more work could and should be done, and act on it;
- Organized and professional; able to coordinate projects across many participants and to manage working hours effectively;
- Having some knowledge on related Bachelor-courses (Loopbaantraject, Filosofen aan het Werk) is a plus;
- Acquaintance with internships and project-courses at other faculties is a plus;
- Basic academic research skills and interest to learn more;
- Interest in interdisciplinary/transdisciplinary research and public impact;
- Fluency in Dutch and English;
- We are looking for someone who would like to think along and contribute to achieve excellence in these new courses; someone who wants to get something done and is not afraid of doing some leg-work to get it done.
Terms and conditions
The successful candidate is expected to start in November or December 2020. You will receive a contract for 8 hours a week. Your working hours are flexible and your lectures and tutorials will be taken into account.
Additional information can be received by contacting both Prof. Liesbeth Noordegraaf-Eelens and Reindert Engwerda via e-mail: noordegraaf@esphil.eur.nl and engwerda@esphil.eur.nl respectively.
Applications
Please submit your application, including a CV and a (short) motivation letter (max. 500 words) by e-mail to the email-addresses above no later than October 17th. Please state clearly in the e-mail subject line that you are applying for the job as Student Assistant Project Impact at the Core.