Together with your colleagues in the Marketing team, you will be responsible for the successful preparation, execution and evaluation of various activities concerning student recruitment for the university’s bachelor’s and master’s programmes. You are part of the marketing and recruitment department and you will work closely with the recruitment adviser responsible for the international student inflow as well as colleagues in the M&C departments of the university’s six faculties.

Main responsibilities:

• Preparing and coordinating the daily operations of various (inter)national student recruitment activities, online and on campus. For example: e-newsletters, virtual fairs and open days, coordinate online events, visits and presentations to and from secondary schools or fairs;
• Participating in university-wide workgroups related to student recruitment and coordinating activities with faculty student recruiters;
• Managing suppliers such as creative agencies, copywriters, video producers, etc.;
• Managing student assistants (selection, training/mentoring, administration, scheduling);
• Administrative tasks such as the management of mail inboxes, event materials, organising meetings, taking notes and distributing minutes;
• Some marketing related tasks like market research or focus groups.

• HBO/bachelor’s degree within a relevant field of study;
• Preferably 1-2 years relevant work/internship experience, including experience in event organisation and online marketing;
• Good IT/online know-how like working with Microsoft Office, especially Excel. Experience with lead management/CRM systems, basic HTML and CMS are a plus;
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, in both English and Dutch (written and spoken), other languages are a plus;
• Time-management and organisational skills are crucial, able to work independently and manage priorities, eye for detail;
• Enthusiastic about working in an international environment;
• Eager to learn new things, open-minded, proactive, flexible and hands-on mentality, willingness to work some weekends and evening.

Fixed-term contract: 1 year.

The salary will be set in salary scale 8 of the collective labour agreement of the Dutch Universities, minimum gross month salary € 2.818,00 and maximum € 3.764,00 (based on a fulltime employment). On top of this there will be an 8% holiday and an 8,3% year-end allowance.

The terms of employment of Maastricht University are set out in the Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities (CAO). Furthermore, local UM provisions also apply. For more information look at the website www.maastrichtuniversity.nl > About UM > Working at UM.

Maastricht University

Maastricht University is renowned for its unique, innovative, problem-based learning system, which is characterized by a small-scale and student-oriented approach. Research at UM is characterized by a multidisciplinary and thematic approach, and is concentrated in research institutes and schools. Maastricht University has around 22,000 students and about 5,000 employees. Reflecting the university's strong international profile, a fair amount of both students and staff are from abroad. The university hosts 6 faculties: Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Faculty of Law, School of Business and Economics, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience. For more information, visit www.maastrichtuniversity.nl.