Grants Advisor / Project Manager

To strengthen our support to researchers, we are creating a new role in our office that combines grants advice with project management. If you are passionate about securing funding for research and have experience in either project management or grants acquisition, we invite you to apply. This role offers a unique opportunity for professional growth, allowing you to combine grants advising with project management responsibilities. You will be part of and supported by a small team of experienced grants advisors and project manager.

Your duties

• Support and coordination of Research Proposal Development: recognize and communicate grant and valorization opportunities for individual researchers, research groups, and departments ensuring comprehensive awareness, assist researchers in navigating the application process and internal support procedures, providing guidance and clarity every step of the way ensuring a streamlined and efficient collaboration among all stakeholders, provide advice and constructive feedback on research proposals, addressing structure, readability, planning, organization, budgeting, risk management, and impact.
• Strengthen the Faculty’s Project Management Team: Provide support for ongoing faculty projects. Contribute to developing and maintaining a professional project management support structure to facilitate high-performance research. Collaborate with the project management community, refining processes and methods with internal and external stakeholders.
• Management of Research Projects: for a couple specific projects you act as the scientific project leader’s right hand in managing relationships, organizational and financial aspects, and project delivery. Oversee all organizational, contractual, and financial/administrative processes related to research projects and handle internal and external communications, ensuring effective information flow.

Your profile

• University degree or equivalent working and thinking level.
• Affinity and/or experience with social sciences or scientific research is an advantage.
• Experience in either planning, managing, and delivering successful projects or grant writing processes.
• Self-organizing, independent professional with strong people skills and a solution-oriented approach. In your work, you are accurate and solution oriented. You are also eager to work within a team and handle each other’s work where necessary.
• Excellent communication skills in English.

As a university, we strive for equal opportunities for all, recognising that diversity takes many forms. We believe that diversity in all its complexity is invaluable for the quality of our teaching, research, and service. We are always looking for talent with diverse backgrounds and experiences. This also means that we are committed to creating an inclusive community so that we can use diversity as an asset.

We realise that each individual brings a unique set of skills, expertise, and mindset. Therefore we are happy to invite anyone who recognises themselves in the profile to apply, even if you do not meet all the requirements.

What do we offer?

A challenging position in a socially engaged organisation. At VU Amsterdam, you contribute to education, research, and service for a better world. And that is valuable. So in return for your efforts, we offer you:

• A salary of minimum € 3.345,00 (Scale 10) and maximum € 6.148,00 (Scale 11) gross per month, on a full-time basis. This is based on UFO profile Knowledge Valorisation Officer 3, Knowledge Valorisation Officer 1. The exact salary depends on your education and experience.
• A position for at least 0.8 FTE. Your employment contract will initially last 9 months.

We also offer you attractive fringe benefits and regulations. Some examples:

• A full-time 38-hour working week comes with a holiday leave entitlement of 232 hours per year. If you choose to work 40 hours, you have 96 extra holiday leave hours on an annual basis. For part-timers, this is calculated pro rata.
• 8% holiday allowance and 8.3% end-of-year bonus.
• Solid pension scheme (ABP).
• Hybrid working enables a good work-life balance.
• Contribution to commuting expenses.

About us

Faculty of Social Sciences
At the Faculty of Social Sciences, we examine the major social issues facing us today from a variety of critical perspectives. We combine sociology, anthropology, political science, communication science, administration, and organisation. Because there aren’t any ready-made solutions to the complex social issues of today, they demand a multidisciplinary approach. Working together with others helps you expand your mind, come to new ways of understanding, and devise creative solutions.

Are you interested in joining Social Sciences? That means working with a team of colleagues from different disciplines in an inspiring work and study climate. Enjoy working in a professional organisation with an informal atmosphere, where we give you space for personal development. FSS employs over 350 staff members and enrolls around 3,000 students.

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam stands for values-driven education and research. We are open-minded experts with the ability to think freely - a broader mind. Maintaining an entrepreneurial perspective and concentrating on diversity, significance, and humanity, we work on sustainable solutions with social impact. By joining forces, across the boundaries of disciplines, we work towards a better world for people and planet. Together we create a safe and respectful working and study climate, and an inspiring environment for education and research.

We are located on one physical campus, in the heart of Amsterdam's Zuidas business district, with excellent location and accessibility. Over 6,150 staff work at the VU, and over 31,000 students attend academic education.

Diversity

Diversity is the driving force of the VU. The VU wants to be accessible and receptive to diversity in disciplines, cultures, ideas, nationalities, beliefs, preferences, and worldviews. We believe that trust, respect, interest, and differences lead to new insights and innovation, to sharpness and clarity, to excellence, and a broader understanding.

We stand for an inclusive community and believe that diversity and internationalisation contribute to the quality of education, research, and our services.

Therefore, we are always searching for people whose backgrounds and experience contribute to the diversity of the VU community.

Interested

Are you interested in this position and do you believe that your experience will contribute to the excellence of our services? In that case, we encourage you to submit your application, even if you don't meet all requirements.

Submitting a diploma and a reference check are part of the application process.

Applications received by e-mail will not be considered.