Maximum salary: € 4,691 gross/month
Application deadline: 23 February 2017

Responsibilities

We invite applications for an Assistant Professor position for a five-year period in the field of Gender and Diversity in the Social Sciences. You will teach and develop innovative and high-quality courses on Gender, Diversity and Intersectionality in the Bachelor’s programmes of Sociology, Anthropology and Development Studies, in the Research Master’s programme of Social and Cultural Science, and in the interdisciplinary minor ‘Gender, Culture and Society’. You will initiate, conduct and supervise interdisciplinary research in the field of Gender and Diversity studies, which will preferably tie in with one of the chair group’s research interests: inequalities in organisations and society, diversity and inclusion policies and practices, and dealing with diversities in health and other care. You will be expected to regularly apply for, and obtain, external grant-based funding.

Work environment

You will be part of the chair group of Gender and Diversity of Radboud Social and Cultural Research, headed by Prof. Marieke van den Brink. The chair group is part of Radboud Social and Cultural Research, in which the disciplines of sociology, anthropology and development studies collaborate. RSCR’s mission statement highlights three research themes: inequality, cohesion and modernisation. This institute is also involved in the highly reputed interdisciplinary Research Master’s programme in Social and Cultural Science. Furthermore Gender and Diversity is part of the School of Socio-Cultural Sciences at Radboud University, which offers the study programmes Communication Science, Anthropology and Development Studies, and Sociology to over one thousand students.

What we expect from you

• As an applicant you should:
• have a PhD in Gender Studies, or a Social Science discipline such as Sociology, Anthropology or Organisation Studies;
• hold thorough knowledge of theories and a wide variety of research methods relevant to the field of Gender and Diversity;
• have the ability to think and work beyond disciplinary boundaries;
• have good social skills and be able to collaborate with colleagues from different disciplines;
• have a track record of international publications in peer-reviewed journals;
• be an enthusiastic teacher and have experience with teaching and supervising students;
• have a university teaching qualification (BKO) or the willingness to acquire such a certificate;
• have the potential to generate research funds from national and international funding agencies;
• have an excellent command of written and spoken English;
• have a very good command of Dutch or the willingness to learn Dutch in two years.

What we have to offer

• employment: 1.0 FTE;
• a maximum gross monthly salary of € 4,691 based on a 38-hour working week (salary scale 11);
• in addition to the salary: an 8% holiday allowance and an 8.3% end-of-year bonus;
• duration of the contract: 5-year temporary contract;
• you will be classified as an Assistant Professor, Level 2 (Universitair docent, niveau 2) in the Dutch university job-ranking system (UFO).

For more information about this position, please visit: http://www.ru.nl/werken/details/details_vacature_0/?recid=593639