Great Job
We are looking for an experienced educator in the English language with a keen interest in developing students’ skills required to properly communicate their thoughts, plans and actions while conducting business in an international context.
If this description applies to you, please let us know and apply for the job!
- You are an experienced and enthusiastic educator, and you know how to convey your passion and knowledge to young International Business professionals.
- Your expertise is in business writing, CV writing, cover letters, presentation skills, and thesis writing as well as consulting, negotiating, involvement in guiding the research process and conveying results clearly.
- You have an active interest in issues surrounding sustainability and an eye for detail.
- You will have affinity with the business world and you have substantial teaching experience within higher education.
- You have the ability and ambition to also fulfil roles that revolve around our curriculum including: designing new curriculum components for business English and related subjects and for the development of professional skills.
- You want to take on coordinator roles and you have a hands-on mentality.
- You want to take on non-educational roles such as curriculum developer, member of the Education Committee, member of the Assessment Committee, or the Consultative Council.
- You have the determination to provide top level work even during peak times of the school year.
- You like to mentor students during their internships and enjoy acting as a coach for students during their four years in our programme.
- You have great people skills and understand that being an educator involves much more than just teaching.
Your role as Educator within Avans
International Business has built a sound reputation in higher education, which is rooted in a committed and highly international staff, with a personal and small-scale approach to education, an internationally and interculturally diverse student population and a strong network of international partner institutions.
International Business offers you a challenging work environment within a culturally diverse team of Business professionals. The team comprises of 45 enthusiastic professionals. We offer our study programs to approximately 900 students. Self-management and personal responsibility are highly valued within both our programs and our students graduate as excellent young professionals.
What we offer you
An environment where you have the freedom to discover and improve things: this is how we get the best out of you. We’ll help you to continue developing, enabling you to contribute to the ongoing professionalisation of our organisation. We’ll also offer you:
- A monthly salary of at least € 3,881 up to a maximum of € 5,332 gross, based on a fulltime position (scale 11 in the collective labour agreement for Higher Professional Education).
- A year-end bonus, which is approximately equal to a 13th month.
- We offer a contract for 1 year, with the possibility of extension depending on performance
- Plenty of freedom in your work, with the option of working partly from home.
You fit right in
You enjoy inspiring your students with your knowledge and enthusiasm. You are a flexible team player, you have strong interpersonal and organisational skills and you are able to motivate your colleagues. You have an entrepreneurial attitude and are efficient in your time. Additionally:
- You hold, at minimum, a relevant Master’s degree and have relevant (international) work experience in business and in Higher Education.
- You have experience in teaching business English related subjects and the ability to develop and assess such subjects;
- You have experience with teaching professional skills and the ability to develop and assess these;
- You have experience with guiding students during internships and the ability to assess their work;
- You have a Basic Qualification in Didactic Competence (BDB) certificate or you are willing to attain this through Avans.
- You possess excellent communication skills in English C1 level.
- You have basic ICT skills to work (collaboratively) using Microsoft 365 and you are able to use core applications for the teaching and learning process.
- You show initiative and ownership in learning about blended learning, technological developments, and the use of data within education and the economic domain.
- You are able to promote students’ digital literacy through working methods that are both activating and creative.
Innovative Avans
Big ambitions, human scale. Committed, personal – that’s Avans. A place where you can be yourself. With your unique ideas and insights. That’s part of our learning and entrepreneurial character. We offer optimum flexible education, in co-creation with the professional field. And we are always changing, and moving with the world around us. Our aim is to offer ever more personalisation, so that our students can choose part of their own learning pathways. That’s our Ambition for 2025.
Contribute to our Ambition
Do you see a rewarding role for yourself as we continue to professionalise our education? Then apply no later than May 29th, 2023 by clicking ‘apply’. Provide us with a clear motivation letter in which you explain why you feel that this is the right challenge for you and why you wish you to work in the IB programme.
Please note the following 2 points carefully:
- Only CVs that are joined with a well-founded motivation letter and references will be considered.
- If you reside outside the Netherlands clearly state how you aim to relocate before August this year.
If you have any questions, please contact Jonathan van Melle, jh.vanmelle@avans.nl. We will do our best to provide you with an update about your application within 2 weeks after the vacancy closes.
We find our own candidates, so we are not interested in unsolicited services or offers.
