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Are you a proactive and organized junior researcher, passionate about ethnographic fieldwork and long-term care policy? Do you want to coordinate a complex project and conduct fieldwork that will help shape EU care policy? If so this position may be for you!
Researcher Officer for Horizon Funded Project
- Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
- 14802
- Master's
- €3.057 - €3.985
- Closes on23-02-2026
Are you a proactive and organized junior researcher, passionate about ethnographic fieldwork and long-term care policy? Do you want to coordinate a complex project and conduct fieldwork that will help shape EU care policy? If so this position may be for you!
Researcher Officer for Horizon Funded Project
- Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
- 14802
- Master's
- €3.057 - €3.985
- Closes on23-02-2026
Working at the UvA
Follow up
The Department of Anthropology currently has a vacancy concerning a temporary part-time research officer for the Horizon funded project: LeTs-Care – Learning from Long-Term Care practices for the EU Care strategy.
Let’s Care aims to develop new forms of policy interventions by learning from situated care solutions and practices in underprivileged regions in seven chosen European countries (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Italy (project lead), Lithuania, Spain, Portugal, The Netherlands). The project is directed by Barbara da Roit, University of Venice. It aims to contribute to solving four LTC policy challenges that European societies are facing and which are accelerated by regional inequalities: affordability and accessibility of care; quality of care; quality of care work; and financial sustainability. It has three different research legs: (1) Policy analysis, (2) ethnographic case studies of consolidated and emerging care practices, (3) and policy learning. The Amsterdam team is directed by Jeannette Pols and Kristine Krause and includes PhD researcher Sabya van Elswijk, junior researcher Siënna Hernandez and master students who are invited to join the project. The Amsterdam team is leading the second research leg on consolidated and emerging LTC practices. The ethnographic fieldwork in the Netherlands takes place in Noord Holland Noord outside of the Randstad and focus on housing and dementia/ dependent living arrangements, care in neighborhoods creative practices in institutionalized long-term care and care and technologies.
Working at the UvA
Follow up
The Department of Anthropology currently has a vacancy concerning a temporary part-time research officer for the Horizon funded project: LeTs-Care – Learning from Long-Term Care practices for the EU Care strategy.
Let’s Care aims to develop new forms of policy interventions by learning from situated care solutions and practices in underprivileged regions in seven chosen European countries (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Italy (project lead), Lithuania, Spain, Portugal, The Netherlands). The project is directed by Barbara da Roit, University of Venice. It aims to contribute to solving four LTC policy challenges that European societies are facing and which are accelerated by regional inequalities: affordability and accessibility of care; quality of care; quality of care work; and financial sustainability. It has three different research legs: (1) Policy analysis, (2) ethnographic case studies of consolidated and emerging care practices, (3) and policy learning. The Amsterdam team is directed by Jeannette Pols and Kristine Krause and includes PhD researcher Sabya van Elswijk, junior researcher Siënna Hernandez and master students who are invited to join the project. The Amsterdam team is leading the second research leg on consolidated and emerging LTC practices. The ethnographic fieldwork in the Netherlands takes place in Noord Holland Noord outside of the Randstad and focus on housing and dementia/ dependent living arrangements, care in neighborhoods creative practices in institutionalized long-term care and care and technologies.
All about this vacancy
What are you going to do
This position entails management and research related tasks. It requires a pro-active, independent attitude. We need somebody who keeps the overview in a complex project, while having fun doing it.
Organizational tasks include:
- Keeping an overview of timelines and deliverables
- Organizing data and deliverables
- Setting up and updating digital infrastructures for the team
- Taking care of communication (incl. webpage updates)
- Assisting in organizing consortium meeting in Amsterdam and attending consortium meetings online and in partner countries
Research tasks include:
- Writing up draft reports
- Searching and summarizing literature
- Assisting in completing reports and policy briefs
- Doing fieldwork in Noord Holland Noord
- Assisting team members in fieldwork and in managing data (including organizing interviews, writing up notes, organizing transcriptions)
- Organizing / taking notes of field meetings with multiple participants
- Coordinating master students who participate in the project
What do you have to offer
We ask that you have a Master degree in anthropology, sociology, geography or related social sciences. Dutch (at a level to do fieldwork in the Netherlands and read policy documents) and English are required.
Practical experience with ethnography and social science research and interest in the topics desirable.
Organizational skills, proactivity and creativity are important.
What do we offer you
The position concerns temporary employment for 30 hours per week at the Department of Anthropology. The starting date will be as soon as possible and will end 30 September 2027, the end date of the project.
The gross monthly salary, based on 38 hours per week and dependent on relevant experience, ranges between €3.057 and €3.985, in keeping with salary scale 7, as per the Collective Labour Agreement of Universities of the Netherlands. This does not include 8% holiday allowance and 8,3% year-end allowance. The UFO profile research officer is applicable.
All about this vacancy
What are you going to do
This position entails management and research related tasks. It requires a pro-active, independent attitude. We need somebody who keeps the overview in a complex project, while having fun doing it.
Organizational tasks include:
- Keeping an overview of timelines and deliverables
- Organizing data and deliverables
- Setting up and updating digital infrastructures for the team
- Taking care of communication (incl. webpage updates)
- Assisting in organizing consortium meeting in Amsterdam and attending consortium meetings online and in partner countries
Research tasks include:
- Writing up draft reports
- Searching and summarizing literature
- Assisting in completing reports and policy briefs
- Doing fieldwork in Noord Holland Noord
- Assisting team members in fieldwork and in managing data (including organizing interviews, writing up notes, organizing transcriptions)
- Organizing / taking notes of field meetings with multiple participants
- Coordinating master students who participate in the project
What do you have to offer
We ask that you have a Master degree in anthropology, sociology, geography or related social sciences. Dutch (at a level to do fieldwork in the Netherlands and read policy documents) and English are required.
Practical experience with ethnography and social science research and interest in the topics desirable.
Organizational skills, proactivity and creativity are important.
What do we offer you
The position concerns temporary employment for 30 hours per week at the Department of Anthropology. The starting date will be as soon as possible and will end 30 September 2027, the end date of the project.
The gross monthly salary, based on 38 hours per week and dependent on relevant experience, ranges between €3.057 and €3.985, in keeping with salary scale 7, as per the Collective Labour Agreement of Universities of the Netherlands. This does not include 8% holiday allowance and 8,3% year-end allowance. The UFO profile research officer is applicable.
Your place at the UvA
You will work here
To work at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam is to work in a discerning, independent, creative, innovative, and international climate characterised by an open atmosphere and a genuine engagement with academic colleagues as well as with the communities we study.
You will be based within the programme group Health Care and the Body. The Health, Care and the Body program group is a centre of excellence for research and teaching in medical anthropology, a hub for collaboration and methodological innovation on health-related topics germane to science and society. We are a close-knit community that values social interaction and peer support as much as academic performance.
About the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Your place at the UvA
This is where you will be working
You will work here
To work at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam is to work in a discerning, independent, creative, innovative, and international climate characterised by an open atmosphere and a genuine engagement with academic colleagues as well as with the communities we study.
You will be based within the programme group Health Care and the Body. The Health, Care and the Body program group is a centre of excellence for research and teaching in medical anthropology, a hub for collaboration and methodological innovation on health-related topics germane to science and society. We are a close-knit community that values social interaction and peer support as much as academic performance.
About the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Important to know
Your application & contact
If this vacancy speaks to you, but you are uncertain whether you meet all requirements, please do get in touch with us or apply. In light of our department’s commitment to a diverse and inclusive working environment, we strongly encourage applications from qualified candidates who come from groups historically disenfranchised by and underrepresented in Dutch academia.
If you recognize yourself in this profile and are interested in the role, Then we look forward to receiving your motivation letter and resume combined in one .pdf no later than 23 February 2026. You can apply via the red button.
Interviews will take place on Tuesday 3 March between 11:30 and 15:00. In case of equal qualifications, internal candidates will be given preference over external candidates.
Questions?
For questions about the vacancy, you can contact:
- Prof Jeannette Pols, [email protected]
No agencies please
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Important to know
Your application & contact
If this vacancy speaks to you, but you are uncertain whether you meet all requirements, please do get in touch with us or apply. In light of our department’s commitment to a diverse and inclusive working environment, we strongly encourage applications from qualified candidates who come from groups historically disenfranchised by and underrepresented in Dutch academia.
If you recognize yourself in this profile and are interested in the role, Then we look forward to receiving your motivation letter and resume combined in one .pdf no later than 23 February 2026. You can apply via the red button.
Interviews will take place on Tuesday 3 March between 11:30 and 15:00. In case of equal qualifications, internal candidates will be given preference over external candidates.
Questions?
For questions about the vacancy, you can contact:
- Prof Jeannette Pols, [email protected]
No agencies please
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