The Erasmian Leadership Development programme team is a part of the Learning and Career Centre (LCC) at HR. Our vision is: To develop Erasmian leaders who create a great place to work for their employees. We do this by embedding the Erasmian Leadership framework in the DNA of the organization, building an engaged and sustainable community of Erasmian leaders, and developing inspiring trainings and tools to help leaders develop further.

An important part of the leadership development programme is building and maintaining communities of leaders who will actively learn together, challenge one another, and continuously work to improve their leadership.

As the community & events manager for leadership development, you will join this team and help further develop the team culture along the following principles:

• Authenticity: our professional-selves equal our home-selves, we are not shy to share our vulnerabilities, to have a bad day in front of colleagues, or to share jokes together.
• Teamwork makes the dream work: to us teamwork is essential for success. We look beyond the borders of our own unit to nourish fruitful collaborations in the pursuit of our vision. When another succeeds, we all succeed and share in the joy together.
• Bold with ideas, kind and respectful to people: we believe to shake things up, we need to think big and differently. Regardless of others not liking our ideas, we remain respectful and kind to the people we engage with.
• Growth mindset: failures are opportunities to learn and grow, we believe that through hard work and dedication, we can overcome any challenge.

Are you excited yet?

Job description
We are looking for a community & events manager for leadership development who builds upon the existing foundation of the communities of leaders, grows engagement, and ensures active participation through organizing inspiring activities and events. You are passionate about building better leaders and high performing organizations. You are easily able to engage with different stakeholders and naturally like to connect and bring people together. You are detail-oriented, structured, strong in planning and organising. You are able to manage multiple events and projects at the same time. Written communication and event management is a core strength of yours and you are not afraid to innovate. If this sounds like you, read on.

As a Leadership Development Community & Event Manager, you will:

• Translate the vision of community building for leadership development into tangible, high-quality events for leaders to connect and learn together. Examples: leadership conference, leadership inspiration days, lunch and leadership sessions
• Connect with and generate buy-in with the different faculties and service departments at EUR regarding leadership development
• Manage multiple events/projects simultaneously and ensure that the events are well linked and logically presented to the relevant stakeholders.
• Take the lead in event planning, event management and event execution, including event design (curation of interesting speakers/workshops), event planning, event communication, registration, evaluation.
• Take the lead in the general communication of the Erasmus Leadership Development Programme
• Develop ideas on how to scale and sustain the communities for the long-term in a lean manner

You will work from the office and from home and have a lot of autonomy in the execution and planning of your work.

To further strengthen our team, you have:

• Completed a bachelor’s degree in the field of (project)management, human resources, marketing, communication, or similar.
• At least 2 years of relevant work experience in a complex (political-administrative) organization.
• Experience with event planning and event management.
• An eye for detail, you are structured, able to plan ahead and easily able to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in Dutch and/or English (level C1).

Nice to have:

• Experience working with, and or a keen interest in the topics of leadership and management.
• Networking and relationship building experience.
• Experience in working in communication function.

We offer you an internationally oriented and varied job in an enthusiastic team, with excellent working conditions in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities (CAO-NU).

The start date of this position is to be agreed upon with the chosen candidate, preferably as soon as possible. This position is for 0,8 fte. The salary is dependent on your experience and knowledge and ranges from a minimum of € 3.226 to a maximum of € 5.090 gross per month Scale 10 on a fulltime basis (38 hours), in accordance with the CAO-NU. The contract is entered into for the duration of 12 months and can be converted into a permanent contract if performance is good and the organizational circumstances remain unchanged.

Everything else we offer you, you can find below!

• Everything you need for a good work-life balance: the option to work from home in consultation with your manager, 41 days of paid leave with a 40 hour contract, 8% holiday pay and an 8.3% end-of-year bonus, and a significant discount on a subscription for our on-campus sports centre!
• Sustainable, inclusive and diverse work environment with an open culture, where you can be yourself and we pay attention to each other and to the world around us. Make the most of our bicycle budget, or join networks such as Young@EUR, FAME or QuEUR.
• Time and space for your development in the broadest sense: development days and a personal career budget and free access to our university library.
• Good pension with ABP that EUR contributes 2/3rds towards, discounts on various collective insurances with Zilveren Kruis Achmea, Loyalis, and Allianz, and compensation for travel, working from home and home internet use.
• Are you currently combining your job with parenthood, or do you want to do so in the future? EUR offers partially paid parental leave and fully paid additional birth leave for partners, and our campus features a daycare (daycare not paid for by EUR).
• Moving to the Netherlands for your job with EUR? Then you may be eligible for the 30%-ruling if you meet the requirements of the Belastingdienst (Dutch tax agency), and with our Dual Career Programme we will also help your partner find the right job for them.

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 4.100 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
You are part of the Human Resources (HR) department, which has about 90 employees. The HR department consists of the following teams: Advice, Services, Learning & Career Center, Health Safety & Wellbeing, and a small staff (Secretariat, Strategy, and Legal).

The Learning & Career Centre (LCC) is the hub within the Human Resources (HR) department where expertise in learning & development, mobility, and recruitment & selection converge. We believe in the importance of investing in the growth of employees at Erasmus University Rotterdam, creating an organization with sustainably employable staff prepared for internal and external changes, now and in the future. With an enthusiastic team of over 20 employees, we support both staff and managers to be and remain 'fit for the future'