At Teaching Assistant

**About this job**:
As a teaching assistant at the Academy for Tourism (AT) you will assist lecturers with executing the programme and guiding students on their educational journey. While lecturers provide the content, your mission is to ignite inspiration through creative and innovative ideas for projects, assignments and tools. Together, we aim to cultivate conscious, creative human skills, empowering today’s students to become the change
- makers of tomorrow’s dynamic tourism industry.

You will be part of the Theme Teams who are currently working on changing and reinventing our academy as a vibrant hub for experimentation, research and business development, where students and companies work together in a challenge-based learning (CBL) reality. Our new curriculum and porfolio draw from knowledge on sustainable transformation, the leisure economy, digital experiences and business model innovation. Key themes include Travel Experience Design, Destination Development, Travel Mobility, and Tourism Hospitality.

Your primary mission is to support the development of students across year 1 in our bachelor’s programme. Your multifaceted role involves coordinating with the team to monitor student progress and project groups, co-creating course content, facilitating workshops, and providing constructive feedback and feedforward to students. Additionally, you will support the lecturing team in data collection and project assessments. Your enthusiasm for personal growth and coaching shines through as you keenly observe group dynamics, address individual learning needs, and motivate students to proactively engage in, and take responsibility for, their own learning journey.

Breda University of Applied Sciences (BUas) believes in an interconnected world which is ever changing. Within this dynamic, international environment we empower young professionals on their journey to shape a better world. Students, lecturers and researchers work together in our national and international learning communities on meaningful knowledge, research and projects alongside global industry professionals. The organisation is characterised by an informal culture, and we operate on a team-based working principle where responsibilities and authority are assigned to the various teams.

**What do we offer?**:

- The salary for this position amounts to a monthly minimum of €3,609.94 and a monthly maximum of €4,909.21 (gross amounts based on full-time employment);
- This position is classified in scale 9 of the cao-hbo (collective labour agreement). Your official job title will be Instructor;
- This position involves a one-year employment contract with the possibility of conversion into an indefinite employment contract;
- Your commuting expenses will be fully reimbursed when you travel by public transport;
- You will receive a contribution towards your health insurance costs;
- You will receive an end-of-year bonus of 8.3% in December and an annual holiday allowance of 8% in May;
- You will also be awarded professional development hours every year and almost 11 weeks of holiday entitlements in a full-time position;
- You have the option to work partly from home, which can help improve your work-life balance;
- You will build an attractive pension through the ABP pension fund;
- Working at BUas means always striving for ‘the plus’. BUas aims to be more than just a university of applied sciences, continuously focusing on development and creating meaningful experiences;
- You get the chance to work with enthusiastic adolescents who are eager to learn about the tourism industry;
- You will be working at a top-ranked university of applied sciences on a green, sustainable campus near the city centre of Breda;
- You will be working in an attractive and friendly working environment together with enthusiastic colleagues from the industry and students from around the world;
- Moving from abroad to Breda in the Netherlands? We provide support and financial compensation for relocation and settling in the Netherlands. Dutch tax authorities may offer tax reductions to applicants from abroad, making tax rates comparable to those in the UK and US.

**Wat vragen wij van jou?**:

- You have a maximum of five years of working experience in the tourism industry;
- You have a completed bachelor’s degree (master’s is preferred);
- You are confident, not afraid to make mistakes and learn from them (self-learning capability);
- You have good communication skills and know how to deal with large groups of people. You are experienced in giving feedback and feedforward;
- You are flexible and able to switch back and forth between the different topics. You are able to switch between what is planned and what is necessary;
- Teaching experience is not a prerequisite as long as you are willing to take training or obtain a didactics certificate. Prior experience is a plus;
- You will be working in an international and intercultural setting. Therefore, having excellent verbal and wri