Postdoc On Governance and Politics of The
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**Your function**:
**Your duties**
- you conduct research on stakeholder perceptions about the issues to be addressed and measures to be taken within the Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems nexus
- you organise dialogues and workshops with stakeholders in the region
- you publish research results in international peer-reviewed journals and impact oriented journals
- you engage in the educational programmes at IVM, such as the supervision of Bachelor and Master students
- you contribute to the administrative responsibilities of the EPA department and to IVM-wide tasks
**Your profile**:
- you have a PhD in political science, public administration, governance studies or a related socio-environmental discipline, specialising in water, energy, climate, food, agriculture, and/or biodiversity policies in a national or local context, preferably from a nexus perspective
- you are a team-worker, proactive, and have the ability to handle various types of stakeholders
- your experience in survey, stakeholder analysis and interview methods is an advantage
- your experience with other qualitative research approaches, such as document and content analysis is an advantage
- you have a proven interest in interdisciplinary work
- your understanding of and experience with Dutch national, regional, and local politics is an advantage
- you have excellent proficiency and communication skills in both Dutch and English
We realise that each individual brings a unique set of skills, expertise and mindset. Therefore we are happy to invite anyone who recognises themselves in the profile to apply, even if you do not (fully) meet all the requirements.
**What do we offer?**:
An exciting postdoc position in a socially engaged organisation with a supportive project team and an active early-career scientist community. At VU Amsterdam, you contribute to education, research and service for a better world. And that is valuable. So in return for your efforts, we offer you:
- a salary of minimum € 3.345,00 (Scale 10.0) and maximum € 5.278,00 (Scale 10.12) gross per month, on a full-time basis. This is based on UFO profile Researcher 4. The exact salary depends on your education and experience.
- a position for 0.8 FTE. Your employment contract will initially start with a 1-year contract with the possibility to extend with another 12-24 months, depending on available external funding. The expected start date is 1 February 2025
We also offer you attractive fringe benefits and regulations. Some examples:
- A full-time 38-hour working week comes with a holiday leave entitlement of 232 hours per year. If you choose to work 40 hours, you have 96 extra holiday leave hours on an annual basis. For part-timers, this is calculated pro rata.
- 8% holiday allowance and 8.3% end-of-year bonus
- solid pension scheme (ABP)
- contribution to commuting expenses
- optional model for designing a personalised benefits package
**About us**:
**Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM)**
Established in 1971, IVM is a leading environmental research institute that is internationally recognised for its high quality research output in a range of environmental disciplines, as well as for its interdisciplinary work. The mission of the institute is to contribute to sustainable development and care for the environment through scientific research and teaching. IVM aims to do excellent problem-oriented research that is useful to a wide range of stakeholders in the Netherlands and internationally. A unique strength of our research is to understand sustainability problems in their social and economic context. IVM’s research community works within four departments: Environmental Economics; Environmental Geography, Environmental Policy Analysis; and Water and Climate Risk. Since 2001 IVM has been part of the Faculty of Science at VU Amsterdam (legal name Stichting VU).
The department of **Environmental Policy Analysis (EPA)** at IVM is a team of more than 30 researchers that was evaluated in the most recent international research quality review as “world leading” and as being “one of the highest profile academic research groups involved with sustainability governance from around the world”. We address questions related to institutional effectiveness and change, governance innovation and complexity as well as learning and adaptation. Empirically, we have a strong focus on water, climate change and biodiversity.
**Faculty of Science**
Researchers and students at VU Amsterdam’s Faculty of Science tackle fundamental and complex scientific problems to help pave the way for a sustainable and healthy future. From forest fires to big data, from obesity to malnutrition, and from molecules to the moon: we cover the full spectrum of the natural sciences. Our teaching and research have a strong experimentally technical, computational and interdisciplinary nature.
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