Management assistent

Kom bij ons werken!
Bij afdeling Integrale Veiligheid zoeken we een enthousiaste en gemotiveerde Managementassistent. Als managementassistent hou je je bezig met het ondersteunen van het afdelingshoofd en regel en coördineer je zaken.

Dit ga je doen
Als managementassistent ben je een belangrijke schakel binnen de UvA. Je ondersteunt het hoofd van de afdeling bij de uitvoering van allerlei dagelijkse werkzaamheden, zoals:

• actieve deelname aan belangrijke vergaderingen (waarbij je verantwoordelijk bent voor leesbare notulen);
• administratieve ondersteuning (je houdt overzicht over de planning en agenda’s, regelt en organiseert zaken rondom afspraken) en zorgt ervoor dat afspraken tijdig worden ingepland;
• daarnaast ben je verantwoordelijk voor het opstellen van rapportages en presentaties en bewaak je de voortgang van eventuele projecten.

Maar dat is nog niet alles:

• ook het beheer van de mail, het op peil houden van de voorraden en het regelen van bijeenkomsten en evenementen kan tot jouw takenpakket behoren.
• Je biedt, waar nodig, ondersteuning aan andere afdelingen. Je bent daarmee een flexibele achtervang binnen de organisatie, waardoor je werkzaamheden en werkplek kunnen variëren.
• Kortom, je bent de drijvende kracht binnen een van onze afdelingen!

Dit vragen we

• Je hebt een afgeronde MBO/HBO-opleiding in de richting van secretarieel management of een vergelijkbare studie.
• Je hebt enige ervaring als management/office assistent.
• Je hebt uitstekende communicatieve vaardigheden en een goede beheersing van de Nederlandse en Engelse taal.
• Je hebt ervaring met Microsoft Office-programma's (met een bijzondere nadruk op Word, Teams en Outlook).
• Je bent stressbestendig, proactief en in staat om prioriteiten te stellen.
• Je hebt een scherp gevoel voor verhoudingen en organisatiesensitiviteit.
• Je weet met vertrouwelijkheid en gevoeligheid om te gaan

Dit bieden we jou
Wij bieden tijdelijke arbeidsovereenkomsten van 20 tot 38 uur voor een periode van 12 maanden. Bij gebleken geschiktheid en financiële middelen, volgt een vast contract. Het bruto maandsalaris, gebaseerd op een 38-urige werkweek en afhankelijk van relevante werkervaring, varieert van € 3,537 tot € 4.673 (schaal 8). Dit is exclusief 8% vakantietoeslag en 8,3% eindejaarsuitkering. Het UFO-profiel Management-/Office assistent 1 is van toepassing. De cao Universiteiten van Nederland is van toepassing.

Naast het salaris en de inspirerende omgeving op één van onze locaties in Amsterdam bieden we een gevarieerd pakket aan secundaire arbeidsvoorwaarden:

• 232 vakantie-uren per jaar (gebaseerd op fulltime) en extra vakantiedagen tussen kerst en 1 januari;
• verschillende cursussen, bijvoorbeeld op het gebied van tijdsmanagement, werkdruk en Engels en een online cursusplatform met meer dan 100 verschillende cursussen;
• 7 weken geboorteverlof met 100% salarisbehoud;
• gedeeltelijk doorbetaald ouderschapsverlof;
• een pensioen bij ABP, waar de UvA voor twee derde aan bijdraagt.
• En last but not least bieden we:
• Een uitdagende functie met veel verantwoordelijkheid en ruimte voor ontwikkeling.
• Een inspirerende werkomgeving met een enthousiast en professioneel team.

Hier ga je werken
Je wordt onderdeel van de universitaire bestuursstaf, die onder leiding staat van de Secretaris van de Universiteit. De bestuursstaf ondersteunt het college van bestuur en de faculteiten bij het formuleren van universitair strategisch beleid op het gebied van onderwijs, onderzoek en impact, financiën en huisvesting, informatietechnologie en HR. Stafafdelingen zorgen voor kaderstelling en tweedelijns control op hun domein. Stafdirecteuren dragen zorg voor de functionele coördinatie binnen een ondersteuningsdomein.

De afdeling Integrale Veiligheid is onderdeel van de bestuursstaf en houdt zich bezig met fysieke, sociale en informatieveiligheid; hieronder vallen bijvoorbeeld Kennisveiligheid, Privacy, Digitale Veiligheid en natuurlijk ook de algemene veiligheidsvraagstukken voor mensen en middelen. Het werkgebied van Integrale Veiligheid bepertkt zich niet tot de bestuursstaf maar wordt uitgevoerd voor alle faculteiten en diensten van de UvA.

Als managementassistent ondersteun je primair de afdeling Integrale Veiligheid. Waar nodig bied je daarnaast tijdelijke of aanvullende ondersteuning aan andere afdelingen binnen de bestuursstaf. Je bent daarmee een flexibele achtervang binnen de organisatie, waardoor je werkzaamheden en werkplek kunnen variëren.

PhD Candidate in Access, Actors and Accountability: The Role of Researchers in AI Governance

Join Us!
Access, Actors and Accountability: The Role of Researchers in AI Governance
Governing AI systems and digital platforms, identifying systemic risks and developing adequate policy responses is complex and requires research and expertise. In the new European Digital Framework, researchers are central stakeholder ins AI and platform governance, and regulations like the DSA and the AI Act, define prominent roles for them to produce evidence, audit big tech companies and public bodies, monitor the way AI technology impacts society and help to ensure transparency and accountability. At the same time, this role comes with new challenges for academic freedom, navigating dependencies on regulators and large technology companies, being meaningfully involved and heard, and sometimes even having to navigate issues around safety against personal attacks and threats to their safety. At the same time, the ability of independent researchers to study platforms and AI systems often depends on research exemptions and access rights, and so does the evidence base available to regulators.

This is what you will do
This doctoral project examines the legal position of researchers under the DSA and AI Act, and the research exemptions, safeguards and policy processes needed to allow independent researchers to generate evidence for regulatory learning and anticipatory governance without eroding legality or academic freedom. This research combines doctrinal, normative and comparative research with interviews (with academics, policy makers, civil society and other societal stakeholders) and participatory research to co-design how research exemptions and researcher-regulator feedback loops can be designed and operationalised. The work will build an evaluative analysis of exemption scope and adequacy, a typology of enablers and obstacles to researcher–policy engagement, and concrete proposals how to enable policy research while protecting academic freedom.

You will work on a legal PhD thesis at the Institute for Information Law (IViR), Amsterdam Law School, University of Amsterdam, as part of the REGULAIRE project. The PhD will provide the opportunity to contribute to the activities of the DSA Observatory, the AI, Media & Democracy Lab and the Amsterdam Law School Sectorplan initiative Democratic Digital Transformation (2026-2031) and offers a focused route into information law, platform and AI regulation.

About REGULAIRE
REGULAIRE (Regulatory Learning for the Governance of Transformative Technologies) is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network bringing together 15 doctoral candidates at ten European universities to study how regulation can learn to govern transformative technologies such as AI, quantum computing and neurotechnology. Its projects examine how regulators sense emerging problems early, how balanced interventions encourage learning without overcorrection or underreaction, how such interventions alter institutional capacities, and how feedback can be institutionalised so that insights travel across organisations and jurisdictions. Across the network, regulatory learning means treating regulation as a learning architecture that generates, tests and refines knowledge about what works, rather than as one-off rulemaking. Each researcher joins an international cohort, receives supervision across institutions and takes part in three residential summer schools, methods workshops, monthly paper development seminars and joint work with regulators, standardisation bodies and international organisations. Every project includes a planned three-month intersectoral secondment. The network is coordinated by Prof. Urs Gasser at the Technical University of Munich (TUM).

More specifically, you are expected to:

• Refine the research questions and design with the supervision team, and prepare ethics, data-management and open-science materials.
• Collect, manage and analyse research data using the approved project-specific methods.
• Complete a doctoral thesis and related research outputs under the doctoral programme and the REGULAIRE plan.
• Take part in local and network-wide training, cohort activities, network reviews, dissemination and practitioner engagement, including three residential summer schools and monthly paper development seminars.
• Undertake the planned three-month intersectoral secondment with EDMO – The European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO), Florence, Italy.
• Contribute to the research and activities of the AI, Media & Democracy Lab and the DSA Observatory.
• Contribute to research integrity, equality and diversity, open science and FAIR data practices.

What we ask of you

• A Master's degree (or an equivalent qualification giving access to doctoral studies) in law, political science, media and communication studies, or related legal, social science and interdisciplinary fields, completed by the start date.
• A demonstrable interest in studying the relationship of law to digital technologies and services;
• Skills or a demonstrable interest in qualitative research, such as interviews and participatory design.
• Excellent command of written and spoken English.
• Willingness to engage in international mobility, including the planned secondment and network-wide activities.
• Fulfilment of the MSCA eligibility conditions listed below.
• A creative mind and strong critical and analytical skills;
• Collegial attitude and capacity to work not only independently but also in teams;
• Ability and willingness to organize workshops, lectures, and similar events (demonstrable experience with these activities a plus).

If the vacancy appeals to you, but you are doubting whether you might be THE person we are looking for, please do apply? We encourage all qualified applicants, including minorities, women, people with disabilities, and members of other groups underrepresented in academia. We wish to create a research group that consists of persons who each contribute in their unique way to the team. Complementarity and not homogeneity is what we are looking for.

Supervision, training and mobility
Your supervision team will consist of Supervision team: Prof. Natali Helberger (University of Amsterdam), Prof. Joris van Hoboken (University of Amsterdam), an external supervisor from the REGULAIRE project network, and a sectoral mentor at the anticipated secondment host.

The secondment enables the candidate to observe how a research-based civil society organisation engages in policy research, challenges involved and possible best practices. The candidate will be part of a supervisory team consisting of the primary supervisor at the host institution, an academic co-supervisor at a partner institution in another country, and a sectoral mentor at the secondment host. Candidates meet the primary supervisor at least monthly and the full team at least four times per year; progress and training are recorded in a personal Career Development Plan. Network-wide training includes three residential summer schools (regulatory learning and foresight at TUM; methods and analytics at BI Norwegian Business School; academic writing and impact at the University of St. Gallen), monthly paper development seminars, and annual network reviews aligned with major community events. Candidates obtain a minimum of twenty ECTS through local and network-wide training, of which at least ten from network-wide provision.

This is what we offer you
A temporary contract for 38 hours per week for the duration of 4 years (the initial contract will be for a period of 12 months and after satisfactory evaluation it will be extended for a total duration of 4 years). The preferred starting date is January 1st 2027. This should lead to a dissertation (PhD thesis). We will draft an educational plan that includes attendance of courses and (international) meetings. We also expect you to assist in teaching undergraduates and master students.

The gross monthly salary, based on 38 hours per week and dependent on relevant experience, ranges between € 3.204 to € 4.051 (scale P). This does not include 8% holiday allowance and 8,3% year-end allowance. The UFO profile 'PhD student' is applicable. The Collective Labour Agreement of Universities of the Netherlands is applicable. The UvA offers excellent possibilities for further professional development and education.

What else do we offer

• a position where own initiative and input are highly valued;
• an enthusiastic and dynamic team that is open to new colleagues;
• an inspiring academic and international working environment in the heart of Amsterdam.

You will work in this team
The University of Amsterdam is the largest university in the Netherlands, with the broadest spectrum of degree programmes. It is an intellectual hub with 39,000 students, 6,000 employees and 3,000 doctoral students who are all committed to a culture of inquiring minds.

With over 5,000 students and more than 500 staff members, the Amsterdam Law School is one of the larger law faculties in the Netherlands. We educate lawyers who know how to apply the law effectively with the aim of making a real contribution to solving social problems. The Amsterdam Law School stands for progressive and trail-blazing education and research, for stronger legal institutions, solutions to social problems and a better and juster society.

The Institute for Information Law (IViR), officially established in 1989, is one of the largest research centers in the field of information law in Europe, and one of the largest of its kind in the world.

The Institute engages in cutting-edge research into fundamental and topical aspects of information law, and provides a forum for critical debate about the social, cultural and political aspects of regulating information markets.

Want to know more about our organisation? Read more about working at the University of Amsterdam

PhD Candidate in Systemic Actors and the Enforcement of Digital Rules

Join Us!
How can regulation and enforcement take account of systemic actors in the digital economy
Enforcing digital rules against very large platforms large tech companies is a moving target. This PhD project will look at the existence of systemic actors in the digital economy and their implications for enforcement dynamics. The digital economy is characterized by the emergence of actors that have a significantly broader systemic impact on the way in which compliance with digital rules is organized and enforced than just their own operations. Examples from the literature include smartphone ecosystems, and infrastructural cloud services. This project will study the extent to which the systemic influence of these actors is recognized in and how the enforcement of digital rules can optimally approach these actors, considering broader impacts on compliance and enforcement.

This is what you will do
The doctoral project will examine how regulators adapt enforcement strategies in response to systemic actors under the DSA, DMA, AI Act and GDPR, studying how initial enforcement attempts evolve as regulators learn from complex platform ecosystems. You will trace enforcement processes across cases and jurisdictions and interview those involved. The work will build a typology of regulatory learning patterns concerning systemic actors, best-practice enforcement learning cycles and a framework for adaptive enforcement.

You will work on a legal PhD thesis at the Institute for Information Law (IViR), Amsterdam Law School, University of Amsterdam, as part of the REGULAIRE project. The PhD will provide the opportunity to contribute to the activities of the DSA Observatory and the Amsterdam Law School Sectorplan initiative Democratic Digital Transformation (2026-2031) and offers a focused route into information law, platform regulation and enforcement research.

About REGULAIRE
REGULAIRE (Regulatory Learning for the Governance of Transformative Technologies) is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network bringing together 15 doctoral candidates at ten European universities to study how regulation can learn to govern transformative technologies such as AI, quantum computing and neurotechnology. Its projects examine how regulators sense emerging problems early, how balanced interventions encourage learning without overcorrection or underreaction, how such interventions alter institutional capacities, and how feedback can be institutionalised so that insights travel across organisations and jurisdictions. Across the network, regulatory learning means treating regulation as a learning architecture that generates, tests and refines knowledge about what works, rather than as one-off rulemaking. Each researcher joins an international cohort, receives supervision across institutions and takes part in three residential summer schools, methods workshops, monthly paper development seminars and joint work with regulators, standardisation bodies and international organisations. Every project includes a planned three-month intersectoral secondment. The network is coordinated by Prof. Urs Gasser at the Technical University of Munich (TUM).

More specifically, you are expected to:

• Refine the research questions and design with the supervision team, and prepare ethics, data-management and open-science materials.
• Collect, manage and analyse research data using the approved project-specific methods.
• Complete a doctoral thesis and related research outputs under the doctoral programme and the REGULAIRE plan.
• Take part in local and network-wide training, cohort activities, network reviews, dissemination and practitioner engagement, including three residential summer schools and monthly paper development seminars.
• Undertake the planned three-month intersectoral secondment;.
• Contribute to the research and activities of the DSA Observatory;
• Contribute to research integrity, equality and diversity, open science and FAIR data practices.

What we ask of you

• A Master's degree (or an equivalent qualification giving access to doctoral studies) in law, political science, media and communication studies, or related legal, social science and interdisciplinary fields, completed by the start date.
• A demonstrable interest in studying the relationship of law to digital technologies and services;
• Skills or a demonstrable interest in qualitative regulatory process tracing and interviews.
• Excellent command of written and spoken English.
• Willingness to engage in international mobility, including the planned secondment and network-wide activities.
• Fulfilment of the MSCA eligibility conditions listed below.
• A creative mind and strong critical and analytical skills;
• Collegial attitude and capacity to work not only independently but also in teams;
• Ability and willingness to organize workshops, lectures, and similar events (demonstrable experience with these activities a plus).

If the vacancy appeals to you, but you are doubting whether you might be THE person we are looking for, please do apply? We encourage all qualified applicants, including minorities, women, people with disabilities, and members of other groups underrepresented in academia. We wish to create a research group that consists of persons who each contribute in their unique way to the team. Complementarity and not homogeneity is what we are looking for.

Supervision, training and mobility
Your supervision team will consist of Supervision team: Prof. Joris van Hoboken (University of Amsterdam), Prof. Natali Helberger (University of Amsterdam), an external supervisor from the REGULAIRE project network, and a sectoral mentor at the anticipated secondment host.

The secondment enables the candidate to observe how a leading digital regulator engages with systemic actors, providing insight into adaptive enforcement cycles, learning barriers and evolving supervisory strategies.

The candidate will be part of a supervisory team consisting of the primary supervisor at the host institution, an academic co-supervisor at a partner institution in another country, and a sectoral mentor at the secondment host. Candidates meet the primary supervisor at least monthly and the full team at least four times per year; progress and training are recorded in a personal Career Development Plan. Network-wide training includes three residential summer schools (regulatory learning and foresight at TUM; methods and analytics at BI Norwegian Business School; academic writing and impact at the University of St. Gallen), monthly paper development seminars, and annual network reviews aligned with major community events. Candidates obtain a minimum of twenty ECTS through local and network-wide training, of which at least ten from network-wide provision.

This is what we offer you
A temporary contract for 38 hours per week for the duration of 4 years (the initial contract will be for a period of 12 months and after satisfactory evaluation it will be extended for a total duration of 4 years). The preferred starting date is January 1st 2027. This should lead to a dissertation (PhD thesis). We will draft an educational plan that includes attendance of courses and (international) meetings. We also expect you to assist in teaching undergraduates and master students.

The gross monthly salary, based on 38 hours per week and dependent on relevant experience, ranges between € 3.204 to € 4.051 (scale P). This does not include 8% holiday allowance and 8,3% year-end allowance. The UFO profile 'PhD student' is applicable. The Collective Labour Agreement of Universities of the Netherlands is applicable. The UvA offers excellent possibilities for further professional development and education.

What else do we offer

• a position where own initiative and input are highly valued;
• an enthusiastic and dynamic team that is open to new colleagues;
• an inspiring academic and international working environment in the heart of Amsterdam.

You will work in this team
The University of Amsterdam is the largest university in the Netherlands, with the broadest spectrum of degree programmes. It is an intellectual hub with 39,000 students, 6,000 employees and 3,000 doctoral students who are all committed to a culture of inquiring minds.

With over 5,000 students and more than 500 staff members, the Amsterdam Law School is one of the larger law faculties in the Netherlands. We educate lawyers who know how to apply the law effectively with the aim of making a real contribution to solving social problems. The Amsterdam Law School stands for progressive and trail-blazing education and research, for stronger legal institutions, solutions to social problems and a better and juster society.

The Institute for Information Law (IViR), officially established in 1989, is one of the largest research centers in the field of information law in Europe, and one of the largest of its kind in the world.

The Institute engages in cutting-edge research into fundamental and topical aspects of information law, and provides a forum for critical debate about the social, cultural and political aspects of regulating information markets.

Want to know more about our organisation? Read more about working at the University of Amsterdam.

PhD Position on Biophysical Origins of RNA Toxicity in Huntington’s Disease

As a PhD candidate in this project, you will design, execute, and analyze single-molecule experiments using optical tweezers and confocal fluorescence imaging, building on previous work (O’Brien et al., Nat Comm 2024). Together with our collaborators, you will produce materials for these experiments and develop novel approaches for protein and RNA labeling. Working at the interface of biophysics and biochemistry, you will establish new paradigms that explain why some repeat RNAs are toxic while others are not.

Your responsibilities include:

• Independently conducting experimental work and performing data analysis;
• Presenting your progress in regular team meetings;
• Publishing your findings in peer-reviewed journals;
• Participating in scientific conferences;
• Supporting teaching and mentoring undergraduate and master's students.

Under the mentorship of Prof. Christian Kaiser, you will have the freedom to explore your own ideas within the project goals. You will work closely with junior investigators in the group as well as with our local and international collaborators, and engage with the broader research community at the Bijvoet Centre and the Faculty of Science. Visit the Kaiser Lab and the Bijvoet Centre websites for more information.

Onderzoeksassistent

Als onderzoeksassistent draai je mee in verschillende klinische studies.

Je ondersteunt het zorgproces en patiëntgebonden wetenschappelijk onderzoek op administratief gebied. Hierbij zorg je voor effectieve communicatie en correspondentie tussen de patiënt en de organisatie en voor een volledige en correcte registratie van gegevens. Daarnaast plan, bereid en rond je patiëntbezoeken af en zorg je voor de verdeling van de werkzaamheden.

Ook voer je diverse onderzoeksgerelateerde handelingen uit volgens de richtlijnen van Good Clinical Practice (GCP). Denk bijvoorbeeld aan het informeren van de patiënt over de studie, het uitgeven van informed consent en het invoeren van gegevens in het elektronisch patiëntendossier (EPD).

Met je ondersteunende functie speel je een belangrijke rol in de continuïteit van de lopende trials. Je werkt hierbij direct samen met researchverpleegkundigen, arts-onderzoekers en medisch specialisten.