The REDRESS project offers two postdoctoral job openings. The first, is a fulltime postdoc position in the REDRESS project (1.0 fte postdoc for 4 years). The second is a fulltime position for 4 years as well, where half of your time is REDRESS research, combined with a halftime position in REDRESS-related research and teaching. Job requirements for both positions are generally alike (see below): both positions involve high-level research, involve co-organizing the consortium and perform a pivotal role between the four PhD-research projects and the wider research. The first position will have a bigger role in the research design stage, the second position in the knowledge utilization stage. While the second position might involves some teaching, the first position will involve plenty interaction with professional audiences. A description of the REDRESS project plan is available for candidates expressing an interest in one or both of these positions.

• You have a PhD in Public Administration, or in a related discipline directly relevant to the positions advertised; 
• You have a proven affinity with debates on democratic innovation, evidenced by previous projects and publications; you are willing and able to contribute to international debate in this field;
• You can engage with the four PhDs in the REDRESS project who work partly on comparative case-studies, partly on field and lab-experiments; if not already experienced in, you are committed to integrating design thinking in democratic-innovations research; 
• You can engage in interaction research with professional actors operating in Dutch (polder) democracy; you are fluent in Dutch;
• You have a talent for science communication in relation to knowledge production; o.a. via stakeholder meetings, blog post and social media outlets, besides more traditional science outlets;
• You can effectively co-organize the REDRESS network, the research cooperation and knowledge cross-fertilization taking place in and around this network;
• You are committed to be a central member of the REDRESS consortium, as well as a good citizen of the PLG department.

Tilburg University offers excellent terms of employment. We believe flexibility, development, and good employee benefits are very important. We make clear agreements on career paths and offer all kinds of facilities and schemes to maintain an optimum balance between work and private life. Tilburg University fosters diversity and inclusion; that is why we pursue an active policy for inclusive teams where diverse talents can flourish.

The starting gross salary varies between €3,746 and €5,127 per month (full time) based on scale 11 of the Collective Labor Agreement Dutch Universities. Employees recruited from abroad may be eligible for the 30% tax facility - this means that 30% of your salary will be paid as a tax-free reimbursement.

You are entitled to a holiday allowance amounting to 8% and a year-end bonus of 8.3% of your gross yearly income. If you work 40 hours per week, you receive 41 days of paid recreational leave per year.

Please visit Working at Tilburg University for more information on our employment conditions. 

Tilburg University

Under the motto of ‘Understanding society’, Tilburg University’s more than 1,500 employees develop knowledge, transfer it to others, and bring people from various disciplines and organizations together. In this way, we want to contribute to solving complex social issues. Our focus areas are economics, business and entrepreneurship, social and behavioral sciences, law and public administration, the humanities and digital sciences, and theology. Tilburg University is internationally known for its high standards in education and scientific research, as well as its good support facilities. The Tilburg University campus offers both quietness and connectivity as it is located in a wooded park, ten minutes away from the city center, main highways, and railways. A mid-sized city of 200,000 inhabitants in the South of the Netherlands, and in proximity to cities like Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, and London, Tilburg is situated at the very heart of Western Europe.

Tilburg Law School offers highly ranked national and international education and research in law and public administration. Currently, almost 4,000 students are enrolled at Tilburg Law School. Students in Tilburg can choose from five Bachelor's programs, one of which is taught in English (Bachelor Global Law) and ten Master's programs, eight of which are taught in English. The research conducted within Tilburg Law School is aimed at social relevance and provides students with the tools and skills to study and deal with current issues at an academic level. The research within Tilburg Law School is organized into five cross-departmental research programs: 1) Global Law and Governance; 2) New Modes of Lawmaking and Governance in a Multilayered Order; 3) Law and Security; 4) Sustainable Business Law and Taxation; and 5) Law and Technology.

Department of Public Law & Governance

The Department of Public Law & Governance is a unique collaboration of researchers in the field of Public Law and Public Administration, in which various disciplines work together: International Law, European law, Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Legal Philosophy, Public Administration, Political Science, Legal History and Jurisprudence. The collaboration within the department is very much inspired by a joint research interest. Whereas many scholars in the field of Public Law and Public Administration primarily focus on their internal dynamics, the Tilburg scholars are driven by a primary focus on both their context and foundations. They work together by the joint inspiration to rethink publicness in a globalized, multi-layered, and hyper-complex world, from the local to the global.