As a Junior Tutor Academy Teacher at Erasmus School of Economics, you will make an active contribution to the small-scale teaching, by guiding and supervising teaching assistants across all four departments of ESE (0,6 FTE). This position can optionally be extended to a full-time position through participation in our Learning and Innovation (LI) team (0,4 FTE); the focus of the LI team is improvement and innovation of our education. The contract length is for one year with a possibility to extend.

The Junior Tutor Academy Teacher position (0.6 fte)

ESE offers small-scale teaching for bachelor 1 and bachelor 2 courses in the form of tutorials. Tutorials are practice sessions, where the students can practice with certain aspects of a particular course, in groups of at most thirty students, under the supervision of a teaching assistant (TA). Senior students (bachelor 2 and higher) who have successfully completed the respective course(s) themselves, can apply to become a TA. To ensure good-quality small-scale bachelor education, the Tutor Academy arranges recruitment and hiring of TAs for all four departments within Erasmus School of Economics. Our Tutor Academy Teachers also provide training, coaching and supervision for the TAs. Since the bachelor 1 and bachelor 2 courses at ESE have a large student population, there are many tutorial groups, hence also many tutors are active simultaneously. Your main duty will be to help with the guidance of the TAs.

Your main duties in outline:

• Visiting tutorials and giving feedback on the teaching of the TAs.
• Coaching the TAs where needed.
• Ensuring additional support to the Tutor Academy teachers where needed.

As a junior Tutor Academy teacher, you will be involved in the guidance of TAs across all four departments of ESE: the Department of Economics, the Department of Business Economics, the Department of Applied Economics, and the Department of Econometrics.

The academic year in split into five blocks of eight weeks each, at ESE. In each block we have some large courses, employing a large number of TAs. The sooner the TAs can get feedback on their teaching, the sooner they can adjust their teaching, hence the higher the quality of the teaching will get. You will work closely together with the Tutor Academy teachers who are responsible for the tutorials of these large courses throughout the different blocks. You will visit the tutorials and will give constructive feedback to the TAs, and where needed you will also return to see whether and how the required changes are implemented. You can help with further coaching of the TAs and with the various tasks at the Tutor Academy.

In your role as a Junior Teacher of the Tutor Academy, you will get to know and work together, not only with the Tutor Academy teachers, but also together with the academic staff of all four ESE departments, who are coordinating the respective courses.

The Junior Learning Innovation consultant position (optional 0.4 fte)

As a Learning Innovation consultant, you support the lecturers in their stride to improve their courses, by helping them find and/or apply innovative education tools, or innovative didactical methods. It is also important to help them tailor the tools to the need of their audience, to familiarize them with tools or systems, or make them accessible providing a simple manual or adequate explanation. The tools and systems in use also need maintenance, licenses need to be renewed or acquired for new users, or you need to mediate between lecturers and technical departments. You act as advisor, support, and contact person for the lecturers.

Your main duties in outline:

• Advising and supporting the individual lecturers and/or course coordinators on the realization of innovation in their courses.
• Participate in innovation projects in education.
• Enable and ensure up-to-date instruction material, manuals for tools in education, and didactical methods.
• Maintenance of contracts, systems, tools, and contacts.

• You have a completed academic education in economics, accounting, econometrics, or a related field.
• You have strong affinity with education and educational organizations.
• You have teaching experience, preferably in an academic environment.
• You have good didactical skills, and oral and written communication and negotiation skills.
• You have an excellent command of the English and/or Dutch language in word and writing (C1 level, CEFR); a basic command of the Dutch language is required (B1 level, CEFR).

An internationally oriented and varied job in an enthusiastic team, with good working conditions in accordance with the Collective Labor Agreement for Dutch Universities (CAO NU).

The start date of this position is 01-SEP-2023 and you will be based at the Campus Woudestein - Rotterdam, located at Erasmus School of Economics (ESE). The position is for 0,6 fte - 1 fte. The salary is dependent on your experience and knowledge and ranges from a minimum of € 2.960 to a maximum of € 4.670 gross per month on a fulltime basis, in accordance with Scale 10 of the CAO-NU. In addition, we offer an 8% holiday allowance, an end-of-year payment of 8.3%, and a very generous paid leave scheme. Furthermore, EUR is affiliated with ABP for the pension provision, and we offer partially paid parental leave, fully paid extended birth leave for partners, a personal career budget, work-life balance coaches, discounted collective health insurance, and more. As an employee, you can also use EUR facilities such as the University library and receive a discount on subscriptions for the Erasmus sports center.

Erasmus University Rotterdam offers a Dual Career Programme (DCP) to assist the life partners of new academic staff (on payroll) in finding employment in The Netherlands. The programme is offered in close cooperation with the nearby universities of Delft and Leiden.

Erasmus University Rotterdam aspires to be an equitable and inclusive community. We nurture an open culture, where everyone is supported to fulfill their full potential. We see inclusivity of talent as the basis of our successes, and the diversity of perspectives and people as a highly valued outcome. EUR provides equal opportunities to all employees and applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, functional impairment, citizenship, or any other aspect which makes them unique. We look forward to welcoming you to our community.

Erasmus University Rotterdam

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.

Faculty / Institute / Central service
ESE is the Economics faculty of EUR. Within the faculty there are four different Departments (Business Economics, General Economics, Applied Economics and Econometrics). The Tutor Academy is not a separate department, but a team working across all four departments. The vacancy is within the Tutor Academy. ESE is one of the largest and most successful economics schools in Europe and offers excellent research facilities to its faculty. ESE faculty members actively participate in the teaching and research activities of the Tinbergen Institute and the Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM). There is also close cooperation with other schools of the university, such as RSM (through the research institute ERIM).