Background

This vacancy falls within the new interdisciplinary EUR-broad SSH-program “The influence of digitalization on work, prosperity and entrepreneurship”. For this program, a new Assistant Professor is recruited at the Department of Psychology, Education and Child Studies, to connect with the theme “Digitalization, new ways of working and the new employee”.

Position

As an Assistant Professor you will be joining our Work and Organizational Psychology team. You develop your own innovative research line “Digitalization, new ways of working and the new employee”, which also fits one or more of the main research lines in our team: employee well-being, selection and assessment, work engagement, team processes, and leadership.

You will be participating in teaching in the Bachelor’s degree program in Psychology in the domains relevant to Work and Organizational Psychology and the international Master’s degree programs of Work and Organizational Psychology. Teaching involves lectures, (small-scale) workgroups, practicals, workshops, and individual supervision of practical internships and research theses, along with more general tasks of coordination and administration.

The core tasks include:

• participating in teaching at a Bachelor’s and Master’s level;
• developing or continuing an own research line that fits within the broader topic of the aforementioned SSH-program;
• participating in one or more of the other research lines of the Work and Organizational Psychology team;
• publishing research findings in international scientific journals;
• contributing to the acquisition of external research funding for the benefit of the research programmes;
• contributing to the team goals on generating societal impact and entrepreneurship.

Our group is committed to team science, practices Open Science, and aspires to have a diverse body of staff.

We are looking for an enthusiastic colleague who:

• has a PhD in a relevant discipline (Psychology, HRM or related) with knowledge in the field of work, organization, management and digitalization or technology;
• has scientific productivity, as shown by recent peer-reviewed publications etc.;
• has creative and innovative research ideas (fitting the general research lines of the W&O team and SSH-program);
• has experience with working in an interdisciplinary environment and with stakeholder involvement;
• has experience with quantitative research methods;
• has experience with and commitment to engaged, impact-driven research;
• has an eye for innovations in teaching methods and is committed to contributing to the optimization of the quality of teaching;
• has experience in academic teaching in the social or behavioural sciences and the ability to contribute to various educational programmes (broad employability);
• embraces the principles of open science;
• is a team scientist;
• has excellent proficiency in Dutch and English (both at least at level C1 of the Common European Framework), or is prepared to learn Dutch

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 preferably per 31/12/2023, or another starting date in mutual agreement, and you will be based at ESSB on the Woudestein Campus, Rotterdam. The successful candidate will be offered a 0.8-1.0 FTE one-year contract with Erasmus University Rotterdam. This contract can, in case of positive assessment and unchanged organizational circumstances, be turned into a fixed employment contract. In accordance with the conditions applied at Erasmus University Rotterdam as indicated in the Collective Labour Agreement (CAO NU) of the Dutch universities, the salary is dependent on the candidate’s experience and is set at a maximum of CAO NU scale 11 with a minimum of € 4.332 and a maximum of € 5.929 gross per month, on a fulltime basis. In addition, EUR pays an 8% holiday allowance and an end-of-year payment of 8.3% and offers excellent secondary benefits, and a very generous 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 education budget, work-life balance coaches and more. Employees can also use EUR facilities, such as the Erasmus sports center and the University library.

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 (EUR)

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.  

Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences (ESSB)

The Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences is home to a vast diversity of scientific disciplines: public administration, pedagogical sciences, psychology and sociology (www.eur.nl/essb). Our activities are always focused on people and society. At the ESSB, fundamental and internationally oriented research is of paramount importance. In addition, social research for professionals, policy makers, and the society is part of our research activities. ESSB offers a stimulating research environment where major national and international research grants are received. Appealing guest researchers and ambitious PhD candidates come along to conduct their research. Both the Dutch and English education programs are highly ranked by students and alumni. ESSB is home to over 4000 students and more than 400 staff-members. More information about the research at ESSB can be found here: https://www.eur.nl/en/essb/information/researchers/research-themes More information about the education at ESSB can be found here: https://www.eur.nl/en/essb/education/find-your-study

Department of Psychology, Education & Child Studies (DPECS)

More information about the education of DPECS can be found here: https://www.eur.nl/en/essb/education/find-your-study

Team Work and Organizational Psychology

As a team, we aim to leverage and unite all members' unique strengths in our teaching, research, and wider impact to contribute to a world of work that fosters the potential and well-being of all employees to create healthy productive organizations. We are a diverse and multi-disciplinary team, where each member brings a unique set of skills, expertise, and academic interests. This key strength allows our team to approach tasks and challenges in a multifaceted way and cover the full breadth and complexity of the work and organizational psychology domain in our teaching, research, and impact.

We are united in our striving to collectively provide high quality contributions to our field across all three pillars of work and organizational psychology: work psychology, organizational psychology, and personnel psychology. We do this from a positive psychology perspective: Using a psychological lens focused on the employee, we aim to leverage the strengths of individual employees to foster employee well-being and performance.