Within this versatile job with room for your interpretation and creativity, you will work in an inspiring environment with enthusiastic colleagues who are committed to the development of responsible AI. Our office is located at the Science Park in Amsterdam (location), but you will also regularly visit our partners.

What are you going to do?

Your tasks and responsibilities are:

• Event Management: Your creativity and organizational talent come to life when planning and executing various events, from intimate gatherings to large-scale conferences. You ensure flawless execution and coordination with internal and external parties, while ensuring that every event becomes an unforgettable experience. You offer advice and support to colleagues who want to organize events.
• Communication: You are a key figure in the communication surrounding our events, where you provide advice and take care of the implementation to effectively convey the message. Together with the communications team, you will work to increase the visibility of Amsterdam AI through various channels.
• Networking and Vision Development: You build a network of event locations and suppliers in Amsterdam and contribute to the development of a vision for organizing events within Amsterdam AI.

Your profile

You are/have: a coordinating team player with HBO or WO working and thinking level; customer-oriented, hospitable, and a problem solver with a healthy dose of passion for your work who is willing to work outside office hours occasionally; a hands-on mentality with excellent administrative skills and familiarity with online communication platforms; an excellent command of both the Dutch and English language; (work) experience in (international) higher education;
proactive and flexible, and able to give and receive feedback. Affinity with AI is an advantage.

Our offer

We offer a temporary employment contract for 30.4 hours per week for a period of 12 months to assess suitability for the position. If we assess your performance positively, an employment contract for an indefinite period will follow. The desired start date is September 1, 2024.

The gross monthly salary, based on a 38-hour working week and depending on relevant work experience for the position, varies from € 3,072 to € 4,640. This excludes 8% holiday allowance and 8.3% end-of-year bonus. The UFO Communications Officer profile applies. The Collective Labor Agreement for Universities of the Netherlands applies.

In addition to the salary and the inspiring environment at Science Park, we offer a varied package of secondary employment conditions:

• 232 holiday hours per year (based on full-time)
• various courses that can be followed through the Teaching and Learning Center;
• 7 weeks maternity leave with 100% salary retention;
• partially paid parental leave;
• a pension with ABP, to which the UvA contributes two-thirds.
• Secondary employment conditions such as holiday allowance, end-of-year bonus, flexible working hours, and the possibility of hybrid working within the Netherlands within frameworks and after consultation with your manager.
• Home work allowance, laptop and mobile phone (on loan from) the university.

About us

Amsterdam AI, technology for people, is a unique partnership between Amsterdam knowledge institutions, research and medical centers, the municipality of Amsterdam and the Amsterdam Economic Board. This collaboration focuses on the development and application of responsible AI by combining the power of AI with a human-centered approach.

The partnership is organizationally housed at the Faculty of Science, Mathematics and Computer Science (FNWI). Faculty of Science employees are driven by a shared passion to find out how the world works. Our eight research institutes cover the entire spectrum of science: from astronomy and physics, to life and earth sciences, molecular sciences, mathematics and information sciences. Whether we are unraveling the origins and building blocks of life or are at the basis of the technology for the future, we find each other in an unlimited curiosity. With around 1,800 employees, we work every day to transfer our knowledge and curiosity to the more than 8,000 students in the bachelor’s and master’s programs that we offer on our Amsterdam Science Park campus. In this way we train the next generation of scientists and inspire them at the start of their own journey of discovery.

The University of Amsterdam is the largest university in the Netherlands, with the widest range of courses. An intellectual hub with 30,000 students, 6,000 employees and 3,000 PhDs, connected by a culture of curiosity.

To ask?

If you have any questions about this vacancy, please contact: Erik van Zwol, strategic communications advisor, [email protected] and 06-18031814

Application

If you recognize yourself in the profile and are interested in the position, we look forward to receiving your application. You can apply online via the link below. We would like to receive all documents in addition to your CV in one .pdf file before July 15, 2024.

• A CV showing months (not just years) regarding education and experience;
• motivation letter;
• requesting references can be part of the procedure.

The job interviews will be held during the week of July 15 to 19, 2024.

The University of Amsterdam is, under the Foreign Nationals Employment Act, required to recruit within the EU for non-academic positions. If you are not from one of the EU countries (including Norway and Switzerland), it is not possible to apply.

Only complete applications will be considered.