Student Assistant – Communications

The Aurora Central Office is seeking an enthusiastic student assistant to support its communications tasks. You will work together with colleagues from nine universities across Europe, thereby enhancing your intercultural communication skills.

Your function

• Help in writing newsletters
• Support preparing flyers, presentations and other communications resources
• Support creating social media posts
• Support the communications plans for the Aurora events
• Publishing articles and pages on the Aurora website
• Other tasks

Your profile

• Strong communication skills in English (other European languages are a plus)
• Creativity in ideas, writing, and visuals. Experience in design and editing is a plus.
• Flexibility in both time and mindset
• Ability to work independently while being a great team player
• A hands-on approach

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 € 3.084,00 (SA) gross per month, on a full-time basis. This is based on UFO profile Student assistant step 2, Student assistant step 3, Student assistant step 4. The exact salary depends on your education and experience.

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
• a wide range of sports facilities which staff may use at a modest charge
• optional model for designing a personalized benefits package
• group insured for partial disability with employer contribution of 50% of the premium

About us

Aurora

Aurora is a network of research-intensive universities in Europe committed to matching academic excellence with societal relevance. Aurora serves as a high-trust platform in which university leaders, academics, students and administrators learn from and with each other how to make their universities more successful in achieving their shared mission. Only one university per HE system can be member; other membership criteria address research excellence, demonstrable societal engagement and comprehensiveness of education and research.

Aurora is part of the European Universities initiative funded by the European Commission under the Erasmus+ programme.

Department of University Relations & Fundraising

Strengthening and expanding the ties of the VU Amsterdam community – that’s the goal of the Department of University Relations & Fundraising (DURF) at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. We are the prime location for external relations, external partnerships and philanthropic fundraising. Four departments make up the service: Social Engagement, Fundraising, VU Association and Relations Management. We maintain relations with donors, stakeholders and VU Amsterdam alumni, and we coordinate all the activities of the VU Association. We organise university-wide events and raise funding for teaching and research.

Are you interested in joining the Department of University Relations and Fundraising? You will work alongside 20 active, enthusiastic colleagues. Professionals in the areas of fundraising, communications, event management, relationship management, administrative support, finance and human resource management make up our multifaceted team.

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.