Coordinator Interaction Station (interactive media)

Are you ready to lead innovation in interactive media and shape the future of creative education? Join us as Station Coordinator at the Willem de Kooning Academy and turn vision into impact.

What are you going to do?

As a Station Coordinator, you are responsible for the day-to-day coordination, quality, and development of the Interaction Station. You act as the primary point of contact for the station and work closely with your team, other station coordinators, course leaders, and management. Over time, your role expands to include coordination across multiple stations.

You lead and support a team of instructors and lecturers who are responsible for support and education regarding technical skills and creative research in the field of interactive media. You ensure a high-quality, coherent educational program and contribute actively to curriculum development and improvement.

You are responsible for translating a shared, future-oriented vision on interactive digital technologies into higher arts education. You ensure that research and emerging technologies are embedded within the station and motivate your team to critically and actively engage with these developments.

In addition, you are responsible for the overall organisation of the station. This includes planning schedules, coordinating teaching and instruction hours, managing the use of workspaces, and ensuring that facilities operate smoothly. You manage inventory, maintenance, and orders within the station’s allocated budget, including management and depreciation costs.

In this role, you identify opportunities, propose practical solutions, and connect management, administration, your team, and available resources. You provide structure and oversight within the station and create the conditions that enable your team to perform their work effectively.

You also build and maintain a relevant external network of partners, suppliers, and innovative companies, strengthening the station’s connection to current professional practices.

About the Willem de Kooning Academie

The Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences (WdKA/RUAS), offers a variety of bachelor and master’s programs in the field of visual culture, art, design, education in arts, and leisure management. The curriculum of the Willem de Kooning Academy is founded on an interdisciplinary ethos. The Majors are the entry point of study for all Bachelor students; in the second half of the Bachelor programs, students collaborate with their peers in interdisciplinary projects; and the highly unique Stations (advanced workshops focused on Research through Making) complete the three pillars of the institute.

The Stations

The stations are centres of knowledge and expertise. They are both physical and non-physical locations that cover both traditional as well as innovative technologies. The stations are at the vanguard of the developments within the professional field and the processes of production that are relevant for the art and design practice. Stations are not only a space of execution and production, but also a space in which tutors, instructors and students question why we make, how we make and for whom we make. Stations are part of a collaborative effort (an educational instrument) to develop a student-driven curriculum that supports self-directed learning.

About the Interaction Station

In the Interaction Station we focus on a broad array of creative (digital) technologies, from programming, machine learning, and AI to augmented and virtual reality, electronics, and real-time 3D.

We take an open and experimental approach to technology, acknowledging that the definition of interaction is constantly shifting. We like to experiment with new tools, technologies and hardware, and take a critical eye to developing technologies and how they can be appropriated for creative uses. We’re equally interested in how older technologies can be re-evaluated in contemporary contexts.

The instructors and teachers in the Interaction Station come from a variety of backgrounds, with diverse sets of expertise. We’re here to help students develop their ideas into working projects, providing individual consultation, instructions and lessons.

Are you the one we’re looking for?

You also bring:

• Leadership: a people person who is experienced in leading teams and/or projects
• Organizational skills; analytical & structural thinking, experience with planning (software) and other relevant administration tools
• Attitude; problem solving attitude, a connector, open to collaboration and ideas from others.
• Excellent communicative skills; oral and in writing. You are decisive and able to bring clarity to a dynamic environment.
• Professional experience, knowledge in the broad field of interactive media art/design
• You have knowledge of the latest developments in interactive media art/design;
• We prefer someone with demonstrable experience in art education
• You are proactive, innovative, collaborative, and responsible.
• You have an education of at least HBO or Master level;
• You are fluent in English and Dutch, both written and spoken;
• EU/ECC work authorization.

What do we offer?

• A one-year contract upon starting employment (D4 CAO HBO)
• 8% holiday allowance + 8,3% year-end bonus
• Up to 9 weeks of vacation (based on full-time)
• 45 sustainable employability hours (for your personal development and work-life balance)
• Possibility of paid parental leave and hybrid working
• Excellent pension scheme (ABP)
• Bicycle scheme with tax benefits
• Compensation for internet, commuting, and working from home
• Laptop, phone, and home office facilities
• Extensive training and development opportunities

Application deadline: January 10, 2026

Please note: Being able to provide a Certificate of Good Conduct (Verklaring Omtrent het Gedrag (VOG)) is a condition of employment as well as a valid EU work permit if you are from outside the EU.