If your idea of a perfect day is:
You meet one of your managers and together walk through their team; who is up for promotion? Who needs some extra attention or care? Getting a coffee and hurry to the meet up with a colleague dealing with a collaboration problem within a team. Then meeting with the recruiter to discuss how to effectively deal with the challenge to find new staff. You go back to your workstation and prepare a difficult job offer for a new international hire. Luckily you can call your expert colleagues to think along with you. You continue at your workstation to handle some emails and are touched by a message from an employee thanking you for your help during his re-integration process. And then you see an invite of a HR colleague requesting your participation in a process optimalization project. But before you can answer, you have your meeting with a new manager who you have to inform their enthusiastic idea isn't legally possible and convince them to explore together what could be possible.

Then you are the new colleague we seek. Working as HR advisor means no day is the same.

We are

The HRM service department of TU/e. Consisting of approximately 100 enthusiastic colleagues. You are part of a team of 30 HR Advisors and also work closely with the HRM colleagues of HR Services, recruitment, policy, development and other colleagues. We achieve results together, we engage others, we have a drive for quality and a culture of learning and we are adaptive to change.

We offer

A challenging job in the academic heart of the top technology region of Brainport. On an inspiring campus with an international vibe. As colleague within the Human Resources department, you will have the opportunity to thrive in this future-oriented environment.

You are seconded to work within the faculty of Applied Physics and Science Education (500 fte). The faculty is dedicated to shaping the engineers of tomorrow through inclusive education and conducting cutting-edge fundamental and applied research with a large societal impact. You will be part of a team of three HR Advisors and work closely with the HR Services team of the faculty. You are responsible for your own research groups but also work together on projects and policy development. HR challenges the department is facing include improving the departmental governance, recruitment of new academic staff and developing leadership.

Job description
In this all-round position, you deal with all aspects of the HR-field. About you:

• You thrive on finding ways to support managers whose main focus is not on management but on research and education.
• You can build a relationship with our (academic) managers where you develop from HR advisor to trusted HR partner. You support the manager in keeping an overview, supported by HR data and understanding the business needs. Your unsolicited advice is heard and taken seriously.
• You really want to know the faculty you work for inside out. This knowledge enables you to advise colleagues of HRM policy or development on trends or recurring issues surpassing an individual faculty.
• You balance the business approach with a warm understanding of people. Enabling you to coach management and employees in a respectful way, contributing to a smoothly running team or de-escalating complex cases.
• You understand HR is a balance act between the advisory role and an operational role when you ensure the processes are correctly set up. You acknowledge the importance of performing your administrative tasks correct and on time. TU/e works with AFAS Insite.
• You can keep your focus, decide what to prioritize and what not, keep an overview of what needs to be done, when and how.
• And you are a colleague that contributes to the success of our team. By sharing ideas and contributing to university-wide projects. And as a bonus we value your humor, we work hard but it is ok to also have fun working together.
• You understand HR is a balance act between the advisory role and an operational role when you ensure the processes are correctly set up. You acknowledge the importance of performing your administrative tasks correct and on time. TU/e works with AFAS Insite.
• You can keep your focus, decide what to prioritize and what not, keep an overview of what needs to be done, when and how.
• And you are a colleague that contributes to the success of our team. By sharing ideas and contributing to university-wide projects. And as a bonus we value your humor, we work hard but it is ok to also have fun working together.

As a candidate

• You have a Bachelor's or Master's degree in HRM or in a relevant field.
• You have multiple years of HR work experience at advising level within a complex (and preferably similar) organization.
• You have an excellent oral and written command of the Dutch and English languages.
• You can maintain overview and your workstyle is people-, process- and project-oriented. You have a high degree of independence and flexibility as an HR professional. In doing so, you show persuasiveness and connect with people.
• You are result-oriented and make a professional contribution to the development of HRM and the HR advisory role within it.
• You want to be part of and contribute to a team.

• A contract for 28 to 32 hours a week.
• An environment where you are encouraged to develop yourself in the field of HR.
• Depending on knowledge and experience, the salary will amount to a minimum of € 3.345- and a maximum of € 5.278,- (salary scale 10) gross per month under the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities.
• We offer a one-year contract.
• We believe it is important that our employees continue to develop themselves and offer various facilities to do so.
• We also offer attractive secondary benefits, such as 41 days of vacation for a 40-hour week, 8% holiday allowance, 8.3% year-end bonus, a generous employer's contribution to the ABP pension plan, a selection model for conditions of employment, childcare on the campus and excellent sports facilities.
• We support hybrid working; you work mostly on campus and also partly at home by arrangement.
• And most important, you will be working within a team of incredibly nice, helpful, inspiring, and motivated colleagues.

Depending on your CV and work experience, you will be appointed directly at the TU/e.

More information about TU/e

We believe that people are the heart and soul of our University. With excellent research and education programs, we are part of national and international academic networks, we participate in collaborations with industry and social organizations. TU/e is an important hub in a world-class high-tech ecosystem. We are internationally renowned for our expertise in basic scientific and technological disciplines.

TU/e has the ambition to be one of the leading universities in the field of science and technology. In the coming years we will strengthen our base in fundamental research, invest in individual research talent and develop leadership in interdisciplinary research themes: Smart materials & processes, Complex high-tech systems, Bioengineering Health, Renewable energy, Human-centered systems and environments and Data-driven intelligent systems. Three challenges are fundamental to our vision for 2030: a sustainable world, the technological revolution and the impact of technology on society. TU/e is a people-oriented employer that offers opportunities for talent - both for scientific and professional staff - for personal development and to meet the challenges of tomorrow together.

Take a look at this video for an impression of TU/e.

Information and application

If you recognize yourself in this profile and would you like more information about the position, then please contact Marjolein von Reth, clusterlead, m.w.v.reth@tue.nl or Rob van der Linden, recruiter,  r.m.e.v.d.linden@tue.nl .

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