The office manager:

• Organizes events, varying from workshops to lectures and from public dialogues to design sessions, for researchers, external partners and the public at large and provides practical support for  these occasions;
• Assists in promoting and facilitating various projects arising within the RPA and supports in organizing calls for funding and fellowships and supporting procedures, in close collaboration with faculty support staff.
• Maintains the RPA’s website, draft and circulate the RPA newsletter, as well as the social media accounts and help to further develop the media presence of the RPA.
• Assists with overviewing the budget and preparing periodic evaluation and supervision meetings.
• Guides the work of the RPA directorate and ensures that the directorate is provided with information about relevant developments.
• Helps build and expand the network of UvA scientists specialising in methodology, science in society, professional science, citizen science, and scientific policy advice.
• Helps buils an external network for the RPA 'Shaping Interfaces Between Science and the Public'. To this end, the office manager interconnects with interested persons and institutions outside the UvA – governmental and private – and facilitates their interaction with UvA partners in the RPA.

• You have experience of, and enthusiasm for, proactively setting up and supervising an inter/transdisciplinary community within a complex organization.
• You have an affinity with Science in Society issues, as evidenced by a degree or experience in this field.
• You have good social and communication skills.
• You have a good command of written and spoken Dutch and English.
• You are a good organizer.
• You are independent but also work well within a team.
• You are flexible, results-oriented and service-minded.

Knowledge of the work areas of the various faculties of the University of Amsterdam would be an advantage for this position.

This parttime position is offered for an initial 12 months, with the option to extend for up to 24 months subject to satisfactory performance and mutual agreement. The UFO profile management/office-assistant 1 (scale 8) applies to this position. This means a gross monthly salary between € 3.382 and € 4.484 for full-time employment (38 hours per week), excluding holiday allowance (8%) and year-end bonus (8.3%).

Furthermore we offer:

• Excellent possibilities for further professional development and education;
• The opportunity to collaborate with leading researchers at research institutes that - partly as a result of their interdisciplinary approach - are world renowned;
• The opportunity to grow your national and international network over a wide range of fields and organizations.