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    Grants Advisor - Amsterdam, Nederland - VU Amsterdam

    VU Amsterdam
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    Temporary with prospects of permanent employment
    Beschrijving
    Are you a versatile professional ready to bridge the worlds of grants advising and project management? We have an exceptional opportunity within the Faculty of Social Sciences' Research Office. This role is tailored for individuals with grants expertise aspiring to develop project management skills, or for seasoned project managers looking to contribute to acquire grants for cutting-edge research.

    Location: AMSTERDAM
    FTE:

    Job description

    To strengthen our support to researchers we are creating a new role in our office that combines grants advice with project management. If you are passionate about securing funding for research and have experience in either project management or grants acquisition, we invite you to apply. This role offers a unique opportunity for professional growth, allowing you to combine grants advising with project management responsibilities. You will be part of and supported by a small team of experienced grants advisors and project manager.

    Your duties
  • Support and coordination of Research Proposal Development: recognize and communicate grant and valorization opportunities for individual researchers, research groups, and departments ensuring comprehensive awareness assist researchers in navigating the application process and internal support procedures, providing guidance and clarity every step of the way ensuring a streamlined and efficient collaboration among all stakeholders provide advice and constructive feedback on research proposals, addressing structure, readability, planning, organization, budgeting, risk management, and impact
  • Strengthen the Faculty's Project Management Team: Provide support for ongoing faculty projects. Contribute to developing and maintaining a professional project management support structure to facilitate high-performance research. Collaborate with the project management community, refining processes and methods with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Management of Research Projects: for a couple specific projects you act as the scientific project leader's right hand in managing relationships, organizational and financial aspects, and project delivery oversee all organizational, contractual, and financial/administrative processes related to research projects handle internal and external communications, ensuring effective information flow
  • Requirements

  • university degree or equivalent working and thinking level
  • affinity and/or experience with social sciences or scientific research is an advantage.
  • experience in either planning, managing, and delivering successful projects or grant writing processes
  • self-organizing, independent professional with strong people skills and a solution-oriented approach. In your work, you are accurate and solution oriented. You are also eager to work within a team and handle each other's work where necessary
  • excellent communication skills in English.
  • What are we offering?

    A challenging position in a socially involved organization. On full-time basis the remuneration amounts to a minimum gross monthly salary of €3,226 (scale 10)
    and a maximum €5,929 (scale 11), depending on your education and experience. The job profile: is based on the university job ranking system and is vacant for at least 0.8 FTE.

    The initial employment contract will affect a period of 1 year with thereafter the prospects of a permanent empolyment.
    Additionally, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam offers excellent fringe benefits and various schemes and regulations to promote a good work/life balance, such as:
  • a maximum of 41 days of annual leave based on full-time employment,
  • 8% holiday allowance and 8.3% end-of-year bonus,
  • solid pension scheme (ABP),
  • hybrid working enables a good work-life balance
  • About Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

    The ambition of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is clear: to contribute to a better world through outstanding education and ground-breaking research. We strive to be a university where personal development and commitment to society play a leading role. A university where people from different disciplines and backgrounds collaborate to achieve innovations and to generate new knowledge. Our teaching and research encompass the entire spectrum of academic endeavor – from the humanities, the social sciences and the natural sciences through to the life sciences and the medical sciences.

    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is home to more than 31,000 students. We employ over 5,000 individuals. The VU campus is easily accessible and located in the heart of Amsterdam's Zuidas district, a truly inspiring environment for teaching and research.

    Diversity
    We are an inclusive university community. Diversity is one of our most important values. We believe that engaging in international activities and welcoming students and staff from a wide variety of backgrounds enhances the quality of our education and research. We are always looking for people who can enrich our world with their own unique perspectives and experiences.

    Faculty of Social Sciences
    The Faculty of Social Sciences examines the major social problems of our time from multiple perspectives. From bullying at school to dealing with transnational immigration, from the rise of populist politicians to creating a self-reliant society. Only at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam you will find all the academic disciplines needed to understand these 'wicked problems': alongside the traditional disciplines such as sociology, anthropology and politics, we also research and teach the new social sciences such as communication science and management & organization science. We do not settle for easy answers in our teaching and research. Our researchers and students are critical thinkers and doers who work together to devise surprising solutions to the problems of today.

    Working at the Faculty of Social Sciences means working with colleagues from a range of academic disciplines in an inspiring and personal work and study environment with excellent research facilities. We employ more than 350 staff members, and we are home to around 3,000 students.

    Research Office
    Het Research Office van de Faculteit Sociale Wetenschappen is het eerste aanspreekpunt voor onderzoekers en management voor onderzoeksgerelateerde zaken zoals datamanagement, onderzoeksregistratie, onderzoeksfinanciering, etc


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