Our curriculum contains a significant amount of group work and take-home individual assignments. As a TA, you will be assigned to a fixed group of 20 students for the duration of 20 weeks (i.e. one semester) and support them as they develop these projects and assignments. You will be asked to provide feedback on (draft versions of) individual and group assignments that our students submit. Our first-year TAs also teach practical sessions on programming and statistics, which take place at Roeterseiland Campus. Occasionally, TAs also help lecturers prepare workshop materials.

Exact hours and days to offer student guidance on-site or online are to be determined by mutual agreement. Teaching activities for our first-year course are scheduled for Mondays, Wednesdays and Friday mornings. Teaching activities for our second-year course are offered on Tuesdays and Thursdays. 

The number of hours per week for which you will be hired can be aligned with your availability. In general, 8-12 hours per week are required. 

We are looking for friendly, approachable and enthusiastic students who are willing and able to engage with undergraduate students. You will need to know how to recognise and hold the line between guiding students’ independent learning and doing students’ work for them. Experience in teaching or group facilitation would be an asset. You must have an excellent command of English (spoken and written). 

Computational Social Science draws from Political Science, Social Science and social theory, primary social science research skills, as well as practical skills in communication and stakeholder outreach. We do not expect you to have expertise in all these areas, but you must be willing to learn and keep up with the basics of our students’ curriculum.

 In particular, experience in two or more of the following areas is preferred: 

• Levels of analysis 
• Systems Thinking
• Social Practice Theories
• Structure/agency debate 
• Wicked problems, especially climate change or digital surveillance
• Theories of behavioural change 
• Writing executive summaries 
• Creating infographics 
• Survey design 
• In-depth interviewing 
• Ethnography
• Statistics 
• Stakeholder outreach and management 
• Design thinking 
• ATLAS.ti 
• Qualtrics 

Additionally, to join the first-year team, you must also possess some foundational statistics and digital skills. Specifically, you must have completed courses that included a minimum of 12EC in programming (preferably in Python), statistics, data cleaning, and data visualisation (e.g. pandas, seaborn). If you also have experience in web development (HTML/CSS, Flask, or other web app tech) and relational databases (SQL), you will have the possibility to continue in this TA position during the Spring semester.

We offer a temporary contract for 8-12 hours per week at the Education Office Social Sciences. The starting date will be at the end of August 2026. Employment will initially be for a semester. Upon positive evaluation and satisfactory performance, your contract may be extended. The UFO profile of student assistant employee applies. The salary is €3084 to €3141 gross per month based on full-time employment (38 hours per week). This excludes 8% holiday and 8.3% end-of-year bonus. The starting salary will be based on the number of ECTS gained as a student.