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JOB DESCRIPTION

Do your words inspire readers in print and on the web? Can you seamlessly adjust your tone of voice to address high school pupils, bachelor’s graduates, parents and professors alike? Are you a seasoned proofreader, quick to spot typos and common misspellings? Wonderful – then we would love to meet you. Maastricht University’s Faculty of Science and Engineering (FSE) is the youngest and most international STEM faculty in the Netherlands. In addition to our well-established study programmes in STEM and Liberal Arts, we are rapidly expanding our education portfolio to include topics like computer science, circular engineering, and biotechnology. We are looking for a content creator who can help prospective students discover these programmes through effectively written recruitment materials, such as web texts, brochures, online campaigns, video scripts, and newsletters.

Your responsibilities

As copy writer, you become part of our faculty’s central marketing & communications team. You mainly focus on creating, editing, and updating (written) content for our bachelor’s and master’s programmes within STEM and the Liberal Arts. You work closely with our student recruiters, who plot a course for the profiling of these programmes, and with our web and multimedia team. The demand for study-related content fluctuates throughout the year. Depending on your workload, you also contribute to written internal communication within the faculty, and we may ask you to write or proofread press releases and news articles. Your tasks vary on a day-to-day basis, and include the following:

• Writing, editing and updating recruitment materials for FSE study programmes;
• Advising and writing for internal faculty communications;
• Proofreading and revising texts written by colleagues and third parties;
• Coordination and management of student assistants who support internal/external communications activities

REQUIREMENTS

Our new content writer has:

• You have an academic or HVE educational level (equivalent to Dutch HBO), with a relevant educational background in for example Marketing and/or Communications and/or Journalism;
• You have strong communicative skills and sound proficiency in oral and written language, both in Dutch and English (native or near native)
• Excellent writing and proofreading skills;
• Affinity with science, technology, engineering and mathematics;
• You write well and can translate complex subject matter into easily comprehensible texts.

Your profile/competences:

• Organisational sensitivity;
• Initiative;
• Accuracy;
• Team player, enthusiastic and energetic.

We consider it a plus if you:

• Have experience with content management systems (Drupal and/or Wordpress);
• Have experience with creating digital newsletters;
• Are familiar with SEO/SEA;
• Have experience with other types of content creation tools (e.g. Adobe CS).

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

Fixed-term contract: 1 year, with opportunity to extend. We offer a position for 1.0 fte starting as soon as possible. You will initially be employed on a temporary contract for the duration of one year. Beyond that, we offer excellent possibilities for a contract extension and the prospect of a permanent position in case of a mutually positive assessment. The salary is stipulated in the Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities: a minimum of € 2.979,- and a maximum of € 4.093,- gross per month, depending on experience, for a full-time position of 38 hours a week (scale 9 cao-NU). On top of this, there is an annual holiday allowance (8% of annual income) and an annual end-of-year bonus (8.3% of annual income).

The position comes with a number of additional benefits, including:

• Partially paid parental leave;
• A pension scheme;
• The option to participate in collective healthcare insurance;
• A welcoming and open work environment with a high degree of flexibility.

Full conditions of employment are laid out in the Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities, supplemented with local UM provisions.

EMPLOYER

Maastricht University

Maastricht University is renowned for its unique, innovative, problem-based learning system, which is characterized by a small-scale and student-oriented approach. Research at UM is characterized by a multidisciplinary and thematic approach, and is concentrated in research institutes and schools. Maastricht University has around 20,000 students and 4,700 employees. Reflecting the university's strong international profile, a fair amount of both students and staff are from abroad. The university hosts 6 faculties: Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Faculty of Law, School of Business and Economics, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience. For more information, visit www.maastrichtuniversity.nl

DEPARTMENT

STEM research in Maastricht

The Faculty of Science and Engineering (FSE) is home to several outstanding departments and institutions covering education and research in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) as well as the liberal arts and sciences. We are a young and rapidly growing faculty, which currently offers both bachelor’s and master’s programmes. https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/fse Living and working in Maastricht | Situated in the heart of Europe and within 30 kilometers from the German and Belgian borders, Maastricht and its 120,000 inhabitants have a strong international character. It is a safe and family-friendly city with a history spanning more than 2,000 years. The city’s rich past is reflected everywhere in the streets: the ratio of monuments-to-inhabitants is roughly 1:73.