PhD Museums, Cultural Policy, and Institutional Change

As a PhD candidate, you will conduct independent research within the project while contributing to its comparative and collaborative structure. You will:

• Conduct fieldwork and interviews with museum professionals, policymakers, and community stakeholders
• Collect and analyze archival, policy, and institutional data
• Contribute to the development of original research databases (e.g., partnerships, funding, governance structures)
• Apply mixed methods, including qualitative analysis and structured comparative approaches
• Present findings at international academic conferences
• Publish research in peer-reviewed academic journals
• Write and defend a PhD dissertation within four years

You will also contribute to collaborative outputs, including workshops and reports for museum partners. PhDs are required to contribute 15% teaching time per year at the Department of Arts and Culture.

What You Will Gain
This PhD offers strong academic and professional development opportunities, including:

• Advanced training in mixed methods research (qualitative, comparative, and structured data analysis)
• Experience with international fieldwork in the Netherlands and the UK
• A publication-oriented PhD trajectory (article-based dissertation)
• Engagement with cultural institutions, policymakers, and museum professionals
• Opportunities to present at leading international conferences
• Integration into an active research environment within cultural sociology and cultural policy

What We Offer
We offer a fully funded four-year PhD position at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

• A full-time position (1.0 FTE)
• A salary in accordance with the Dutch Collective Labour Agreement (CAO) for Universities (P-scale), including holiday allowance (8%) and end-of-year bonus (8.3%)
• A dynamic and international research environment
• Funding for fieldwork, conferences, and training
• Participation in the Graduate School's doctoral training program

Secretaris Examencommissie 0,4 fte

Als Secretaris van de Examencommissie Erasmus School of Law vervul je een belangrijke ondersteunende en inhoudelijke rol binnen de examencommissie van alle opleidingen van de faculteit. De examencommissie is wettelijk verantwoordelijk voor de borging van de kwaliteit van toetsing en examinering.

In deze functie is sprake van een voortdurende afweging tussen zorgvuldige, juridisch zuivere besluitvorming en aandacht voor de individuele positie van studenten. Je verdiept je in de onderwijsprogramma’s en de facultaire regelingen over de rechten en plichten van studenten, zodat je helder en zorgvuldig over verzoeken (bijvoorbeeld verzoeken om speciale tentamenfaciliteiten vanwege een functiebeperking) en vragen kunt communiceren.

Je stelt namens de voorzitter besluiten op, behandelt fraude- en beroepszaken en draagt bij aan het beleid van de examencommissie. Daarnaast controleer je masterscripties op plagiaat, ben je betrokken bij het bindend studieadvies en werk je mee aan de jaarlijkse actualisering van de Regels en Richtlijnen van de examencommissie. Je werkt hierbij nauw samen met de vicevoorzitter en de andere secretarissen.

Immigration Officer (0,8 - 1,0 fte)

Als Immigration Officer ben je volop bezig met het beoordelen en verwerken van visumaanvragen van studenten met een non-EU/EER nationaliteit. Je dient verblijfsaanvragen in bij de Immigratie- en Naturalisatiedienst (IND) en beantwoordt vragen van studenten via diverse kanalen. Daarnaast zorg je samen met je collega’s voor het updaten van processen op basis van nieuwe (wettelijke) regelingen, zodat de universiteit blijft voldoen aan de eisen die horen bij het erkend referentschap. Je signaleert knelpunten, denkt actief mee over verbeteringen, analyseert data, ziet trends en rapporteert je bevindingen. Ook richt je processen in en beheer je deze binnen het studenteninformatiesysteem (Osiris).
Ook verzorg je samen met je team voorlichting over het immigratieproces, bijvoorbeeld het door geven van presentaties en webinars. Tenslotte pak je diverse administratieve taken op, zoals facturatie, postverwerking en terugbetalingen. Waar nodig ondersteun je andere teams binnen het International Office, bijvoorbeeld tijdens open dagen en evenementen.

Career Development Manager (temporary assignment)

As Career Development Manager you are responsible for the support of our full-time MBA students in the preparation to find the best suitable job, as soon as possible. With your excellent networking skills and commercial drive you build a professional network and connect our MBA students with their potential employers. You will work alongside our employer relations manager, office management team and other career development managers in order to support our MBA students.

How will you do this?
You will:

• Design and deliver career related workshops to 100+ participants.
• Provide 1-on-1 career coaching on career planning, job search strategy, cv and cover letters, mock interviews group coaching, development and delivery of workshops and support of (online) career tools.
• Maintain and expand contacts and build a network with corporate relations and RSM alumni.
• Collaborate and synergise with internal stakeholders.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, focusing on process optimization and more efficient ways of working

You will be part of a close, dynamic team on a vibrant university campus. You can work independently but enjoy a strong team environment, where you are encouraged to share open feedback and have a good laugh. You get energy from facilitating workshops for experienced professionals, (7-10 years of experience) and enjoy individual sessions for in depth career advice and coaching.

Integration Process Lead (temporary role/assignment)

In this role, your primary objective is to lead the transition to the next integration phase. You will design, coordinate, and safeguard the overall process architecture. The purpose of this phase is to work towards a well-structured and substantiated proposal for the Executive Board, seeking approval to proceed to the formal organizational change. This includes helping ensure that the process produces a sufficiently coherent, coordinated, and decision-ready basis for Executive Board consideration.

This assignment should be understood as a leadership role for the next stage of the integration: building on earlier exploratory work, this role carries a specific mandate to steer the process towards a decision-ready proposal. This proposal will include an assessment of the strategic case for integration (including its contribution to EUR Strategy 2030), alongside a careful review of, inter alia, the academic, legal, business, financial, and HR dimensions of the integration.

You are therefore intended to provide structure, coherence, and pacing, ensuring robust governance coordination so that the process leads in a careful and credible way towards a final decision by the Executive Board and other key stakeholders.

Assignment Nature
This is a temporary, focused interim assignment specifically for the current integration phase (following the initial feasibility exploration). The role is intended to support a careful, credible, and well-paced process that enables both institutes to work through the next stage in a structured and transparent way.

• Approximately 3-4 days per week
• For approximately 6 months
• The role may be filled through different arrangements, including internal secondment, temporary appointment, or an external assignment. We explicitly welcome applications from experienced external professionals with relevant expertise in complex institutional change processes.

Responsibilities
The Interim Integration Process Lead will:

• with the support of the ISS Rector and IHS General Director, and drawing on the work already undertaken in the preliminary phase, design and establish the governance structure for the next phase, including working groups, decision-making lines, escalation routes and coordination mechanisms
• drive the process towards an integrated and decision-ready proposal for the Executive Board, ensuring that relevant inputs are brought together in a coherent and timely way
• translate the integration objectives into a realistic roadmap, sequence, and planning logic
• ensure that each workstream has a clear mandate, expected outputs and place within the wider process
• safeguard alignment and interdependence across the different lines of work, including strategic, organisational, HR, legal, financial and communications dimensions
• provide process-level oversight to ensure the project remains on track, while the ultimate institutional responsibility remains with the Rector of ISS and the General Director of IHS
• shape a credible consultation and communication approach across the relevant stakeholder groups
• monitor overall progress and identify risks, bottlenecks, overlaps, delays or ambiguities in a timely manner
• support leadership in maintaining an appropriate pace: fast enough to preserve momentum, and careful enough to allow for trust, ownership and meaningful engagement.

Reporting lines
The Interim Integration Process Lead will report to the Rector of ISS and the General Director of IHS and will be an integral part of a steering group that also includes the Institute Director of ISS, the Head of HR of IHS, and another member of professional services of ISS.

The Process Lead will facilitate and coordinate the overall process on behalf of this steering group, ensuring that the agreed roadmap, workstreams and consultation processes are implemented effectively. The steering group will provide strategic guidance, monitor progress and serve as the main forum for escalation and decision preparation prior to Executive Board consideration.