Educational Coordinator for the Department of Finance

We are looking for enthusiastic, forward-thinking and support-driven candidates who can support the teachers of the Department of Finance in their activities.

As educational coordinator for the Department of Finance you support the teaching faculty members in all of the programmes and courses offered by this academic department, and act as the link between teaching faculty and programme management. The educational coordinator has frequent contact with teaching faculty, education services teams, and students. The educational coordinator is a member of Education Services and seconded to the Department of Finance.

Your main tasks

• Supporting the preparation of the academic year
  • Collecting and providing information and updates about the Department’s curricula, courses, electives, instructors, credits, and student eligibility criteria
  • Ensuring the timely delivery of complete and accurate entries in the course catalogue for all courses of the programme
  • Actively communicating any ad-hoc changes related to courses, instructors, assessment, or student enrolment numbers to education services.
  • Supporting the Academic Directors (ADs) of the Department in the preparation and conduct of the programme kick-off activities.
  • Supporting the coordinator of the Honours Programme
  • Supporting the Department’s elective information sessions
  • Ensuring timely and complete delivery of scheduling requests to the schedulers and keeping track of the timetables of the Department’s courses.
• Supporting education delivery
  • Organising alignment and best-practice sharing between the programme’ s instructors
  • Ensuring timely delivery of syllabi for all courses
  • Ensuring that course-level support is provided.
  • Ensuring that all Canvas pages are of good quality and accessible for students on time
  • Supporting instructors in the creation and management of student groups
• Supporting assessment
  • Supporting the creating and documentation of the programme assessment plan
  • Ensuring that assessment policies and guidelines are observed.
• Supporting Thesis Coordinator
  • Supporting the Thesis Coordinator in the daily activities related to the thesis trajectory
  • Helping with the allocation of thesis coaches and co-readers
  • Developing the thesis trajectory from a student perspective (e.g., identifying development needs and developing resources for Canvas).
• Resource coordination
  • Tracking and planning teaching and teaching support to identify resource needs, and creating a longer-term resource plan together with the AD.
  • Working with ADs to ensure that teaching resource needs are met
  • Working with ADs and head of department to create long-term resource plans for the Department.
• Support ADs with quality assurance
  • Regularly hosting student feedback meetings
  • Maintaining an overview of the quality of the courses, the programme, and the thesis trajectory, and supporting the Department and instructors in quality improvement activities
  • Exchanging best practices with education coordinators of other departments and contribute to the community
  • Working to align the education to vision(s) for programme(s)
  • Creating reports for accreditations and rankings.

We’re interested in you if you:

• Hold a higher education degree, preferably university (Dutch, wo) or at least university of applied science (Dutch, hbo).
• Have excellent command of English (minimum CEFR level 1, speaking and writing)
• Possess advanced knowledge of and experience with the MS Office suite (especially Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and ideally Teams and SharePoint)
• Are comfortable handling multiple stakeholders, processes and projects in parallel
• Are able to work independently and take initiatives
• Have a customer-friendly, optimistic, and strong problem-solving attitude
• Have affinity with international higher education.

Your required competencies

• Accuracy
• Planning and organising
• Monitoring
• Commitment to the client

The conditions of employment comply with the collective labour agreement for Dutch Universities (CAO NU). We offer a temporary contract of 30.4 – 38 hours per week (32 – 40 working hours).

Salary is subject to training and experience and may vary from a minimum of € 3226 up to a maximum of € 5090 gross per month (scale 10 CAO NU), based on a full-time contract of 38 hours per week.

Erasmus University has attractive employment conditions, which include a holiday allowance of 8 per cent, an end-of-year-bonus of 8.3 per cent, and a generous number of vacation days.

Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) is an internationally oriented university with a strong social orientation in its education and research, as expressed in our mission ‘Creating positive societal impact’. EUR is home to 3.700 academics and professionals and almost 33.000 students from more than 140 countries. Everything we do, we do under the credo The Erasmian Way – Making Minds Matter. We’re global citizens, connecting, entrepreneurial, open-minded, and socially involved. These Erasmian Values function as our internal compass and create EUR’s distinctive and recognizable profile. From these values, with a broad perspective and with an eye for diversity, different backgrounds and opinions, our employees work closely together to solve societal challenges from the dynamic and cosmopolitan city of Rotterdam. Thanks to the high quality and positive societal impact of our research and education, EUR can compete with the top European universities. www.eur.nl.

Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) is one of Europe’s top-ranked business schools. RSM provides ground-breaking research and education furthering excellence in all aspects of management and is based in the international port city of Rotterdam – a vital nexus of business, logistics and trade. RSM’s primary focus is on developing business leaders with international careers who can become a force for positive change by carrying their innovative mindset into a sustainable future. Our first-class range of bachelor, master, MBA, PhD and executive programmes encourage them to become critical, creative, caring and collaborative thinkers and doers.
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RSM is an equal opportunity employer and explicitly encourages applications from candidates of all genders, ethnicities, and nationalities.

The Department of Finance at RSM has a large number of international faculty members who have been educated at renowned institutions in Europe, the USA, and Asia. The Department has a strong research tradition evidenced by publications in top journals, an active PhD programme, and takes part in research visits to leading schools in the USA.

The Department contributes to the curriculum of both the BSc in International Business Administration and the BSc in Business Administration, as well as a demanding MSc in Finance and Investments that prepares future leaders in business and finance and which is one of RSM's largest master programmes. 

The Education Services department is headed by three cluster managers and consists of several teams, such as programme management, schedulers, recruitment and admissions, study advice, business intelligence, international office, examination board support, and a career centre.

Together with your MSc programme management team members, you support the educational processes of around 3,000 international and Dutch students in 15 MSc programmes. As part of an international, diverse team, you have around nine direct colleagues. You also have frequent online and face-to-face contact with students, teaching faculty, neighbouring teams and, occasionally, external parties.

If you are interested in this position, please upload your application, including your CV and motivation letter (both in English).

Please note that we will not accept applications without a letter of motivation, nor without the required level of language skills in English (C1).

The closing date for applications is 7 June, after which interviews will take place in the week of 10 June. The preferred starting date is as soon as possible.

For questions about the position, please contact Professor Marno Verbeek (mverbeek@rsm.nl) or Myra Lissenberg (mlissenberg@rsm.nl).