Job description

The History Department at the University of Amsterdam is seeking candidates for a regular position of Assistant professor in Later Medieval History, 1000-1500. Given the department’s desire to expand beyond its current geographical coverage, applicants with a research and teaching focus outside the Low Countries and Italy are strongly encouraged to apply, especially those interested in social, cultural and urban history. Command of the Dutch and English language or a strong indication of being able to hone them in the near future is essential.

The appointment will be temporary for two years. Positive assessment and evaluation can be expected to lead to a permanent appointment of 0,8 fte. In the first two years at least the appointment will be extended to 1,0 fte.

New staff members follow a full programme of professional integration and can expect significant feedback on their work. Additional didactical training is also part of the appointment. Based on the candidate’s educational portfolio, previously acquired competences will be taken into consideration. The introductory programme includes earning the ‘basic teaching qualification’.

Tasks

Pursuing external funding for research, notably funding from research councils;
supervising BA and MA theses;
active contribution to the development and improvement of the broader teaching programmes, regarding didactics and the contents of the programmes, and their evaluation;
supervising and training students;
taking part in committees and working groups, and carrying out administrative tasks.

Requirements

Eligible candidates will have earned their PhDs in History (or a field directly relevant to the advertised position) by the date of the appointment;
a research network, preferably international, in the research area concerned;
demonstrated teaching experience in higher education;
Dutch Basic Teaching Qualification (BKO), or willingness to acquire this within a relatively short time-frame;
experience of digital and audiovisual teaching facilitie;
a good team worker, capable of multidisciplinary co-operation;
proven organizational experience and skills.

Conditions of employment

The appointment will be temporary for two years. Positive assessment and evaluation can be expected to lead to a permanent appointment. The appointment will commence on 1 August 2016 or as soon as possible thereafter.
The gross monthly salary will range from €3,399 (scale 11) to €5,288 (scale 12), based on 38 hours a week and depends on relevant experience in teaching and research. The Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities is applicable.

Organisation

University of Amsterdam

With over 5,000 employees, 30,000 students and a budget of more than 600 million euros, the University of Amsterdam (UvA) is an intellectual hub within the Netherlands. Teaching and research at the UvA are conducted within seven faculties: Humanities, Social and Behavioural Sciences, Economics and Business, Law, Science, Medicine and Dentistry. Housed on four city campuses in or near the heart of Amsterdam, where disciplines come together and interact, the faculties have close links with thousands of researchers and hundreds of institutions at home and abroad.

The UvA’s students and employees are independent thinkers, competent rebels who dare to question dogmas and aren’t satisfied with easy answers and standard solutions. To work at the UvA is to work in an independent, creative, innovative and international climate characterised by an open atmosphere and a genuine engagement with the city of Amsterdam and society.

Department

Faculty of Humanities

In the Department of History, European Studies and Religious Studies, the History section is responsible for the BA and MA programmes in History. The History section is made up of six ‘chair-groups’: Ancient History, Medieval History, Early Modern History, Modern History, Dutch History and American Studies. There are about 1,000 students following History programmes.

The Medieval History group within the History Department contributes to all aspects of the program’s teaching at the BA and MA levels. At the BA level you will be expected to teach, develop and help administer the general survey in medieval history (c.500-1500), general sources and methods classes and electives that may be broadly thematic or period-specific. At the MA level you will be required to contribute to the taught and research programs through offering elective courses and tutorials to advanced students. Both programs have set as their goal a continuous reflection on the study of the past as a gateway to conceptualizing present-day circumstances.

The Amsterdam School of History (ASH) is the research home of all historians at the University of Amsterdam. You will be expected to participate fully in its intellectual life, including but not limited to the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Amsterdam (CMRSA) and the History Research Seminar. The School is seeking to further its particular strengths in social, cultural and urban history, from Antiquity to the present, by attracting scholars working beyond the Low Countries and Italy. Ample opportunities for cross-disciplinary research exist and are strongly encouraged within and beyond the Humanities Faculty.

The Faculty of Humanities offers assistant professors the opportunity to collaborate with leading researchers at research institutes that – partly as a result of their multidisciplinary approach – are world-renowned. Moreover, you will be teaching in a dynamic context in which new educational methods are being developed.
Additional information

For further information you can contact:

Prof. Guy Geltner, Chair of Medieval History

Source : Academic Transfer