Director General Operations

The Cluster Lead and Director General Operations (DGO) is a facilitating leader, with a strong strategic perspective, a systemic outlook and excellent leadership DNA. The DGO has broad operations related knowledge and expertise, with a focus on finance, and will be part of RSM BV’s management team. We are in the process of growing our business and impact, which means we are looking for a leader who can support us in realising growth, whilst controlling costs.

The DGO functions as the standard representative of general operations interests in strategic decision making. They facilitate the various leaders in their “cluster” of teams in realising fit-for-purpose services and facilities, and have a systemic perspective on professionalisation, collaboration and change. Where possible, they provide growth and performance opportunities to the directors and managers in their cluster. They will make sure general operations staff gets the opportunity to develop themselves and feels empowered and engaged.

In the General Operations cluster, currently the following functions are grouped together: Finance, Human Resources, IT, Hospitality, Business Consultants, Executive Office, Legal and Privacy (approx. 30 fte).

Assistant Professor in “societal transitions and behavioural change” (0,8-1fte)

As an Assistant Professor in “societal transitions and behavioural change” you will develop your own innovative research line. Your focus is on health psychology and behaviour change and you are interested in how individual and system approaches contribute to achieving tangible impact on people’s health and wellbeing. Possible themes of interest are health and sustainability behaviors, resilience and (mental/relational) health, and digital technology and interventions. You will work together with social and behavioural scientists in the interdisciplinary BRAVE (Behavioural Resilience in Action for Vital Existence) team and will also collaborate with scholars from other ESSB teams. Societal transitions and behavioral change require a transdisciplinary approach. This implies both an interdisciplinary approach of scientific disciplines and an orientation on societal collaboration and impact.

In addition to your research work (40%), you will be participating in educational activities (60%): teaching in the Bachelor’s program Psychology and/or Pedagogics and in the international Master’s degree program Health Psychology. You co-develop and teach in courses on these themes. Additionally, you will supervise bachelor and master theses and internships.

As an assistant professor you will contribute to the research and education in ESSB, and more specific in BRAVE.

The core tasks include:

• participating in teaching in one or more of our programmes at Bachelor’s and Master’s level. Teaching involves individual supervision of research internships and theses, lectures and workgroups;
• participating in the graduate school;
• publishing and presenting research findings for academic and non-academic audiences;contributing to the acquisition of external research funding.

Contractmanager

Als contractmanager ben je van A tot Z betrokken gedurende de gehele levensfase van de aan jou toegewezen facilitaire contracten van de EUR. Denk aan contracten met leveranciers van schoonmaakdiensten, meubilair, afvalverwerking, warme dranken of catering. Dat doe je als lid van het aanbestedingsteam, het implementatieteam en vervolgens gedurende de gehele looptijd van het contract. Vanuit deze rol kun je de dienstverlening continu optimaliseren, samen met de collega’s binnen de andere afdelingen van RE&F.

Je behandelt complexe contractzaken op verschillende gebieden en treedt op als intermediair tussen beherende afdelingen en de leverancier. Je adviseert en ondersteunt de contracteigenaar en de servicemanager, zowel gevraagd als ongevraagd, bij tactische en strategische overwegingen. Daarnaast bereid je tactische en strategische overleggen voor, woont deze bij en zit ze eventueel voor.

Het onderhouden van de relatie met leveranciers is een kernaspect van je functie. Activiteiten die hierbij horen zijn het bewaken van de gecontracteerde afspraken en prestaties (KPI's), deze structureel evalueren en zo nodig tijdig corrigerende maatregelen initiëren. En je verzorgt het formaliseren van opdrachten en bepaalde contractvoorwaarden en -aanpassingen, zoals addenda, verlengingen, beëindigingen, indexeringen en boetes.

Niet minder belangrijk is dat je mogelijkheden verkent om maximaal bij te dragen aan de strategische doelstellingen van de EUR. Dit doe je in gezamenlijkheid met de contracteigenaren, de servicemanagers en de leveranciers. Verder ontwikkel je relevante managementinformatie, zoals Balanced Scorecards, voortgangsrapportages contractevaluaties. En volg je de markt- en leveranciersontwikkelingen, welke je vertaalt in kansen en innovaties voor de EUR.

Als ervaren contractmanager vervul je een coachende rol richting collega contractmanagers met minder ervaring.

Temporary programme assistant MSc programmes & Exchange Office – 1.0 FTE

Your tasks include the following:

• General administrative support to MSc Programme Management & Exchange Office
• Contribute to preparation of a variety of educational activities such as course registrations and enrollments, supporting CEMS-programme, processing learning agreements for exchange and thesis co-ordination.
• Creation and preparation of student communication materials
• Handling ad hoc student and instructor email correspondence and assistance, answering e-mails from the Exchange inbox
• Organisation of student social- and orientation events and seminars
• Database entry and updates
• Data collection and preparation of reports and quality assurance material
• Creation of certificates, grade lists and transcripts
• Screening applications for in and outgoing exchange
• Processing partner school information in various platforms
• Website updates
• Support for Programme Committee activities

IT Business consultant

As part of the RDIS IT business consultant team at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM), you are the go-to partner for the digitalisation initiatives at our school. You work closely with all the departments at RSM to bridge business with IT and help innovate and digitalise both support and work processes.

Your responsibilities include the following:

• Collaborate with RSM departments to articulate demand for process improvements and IT innovations, and you create and assist in creating project plans and business cases for these innovations.
• Identify the right solutions for the innovation and digitalisation needs.
• Collaborate with information managers to complete strategic IT innovation projects.

You go the extra mile to ensure RSM is successful in these initiatives, both in the short term (delivering on projects) and in the long term (optimising business value of these innovations).