Job offer

Have you always thrived in a classroom, being close to students? Do you enjoy hands-on lab sessions? Do you want to be part of a top Security and Network Engineering master program? Do you want to work closely with world-class researchers and support them in connecting to our students? We are looking for a Junior Teacher to actively support the education, technical labs, coordination and infrastructure of our security and network engineering studies.

Join us! The Junior Teacher would contribute to the teaching team in actively supporting delivery of teaching material and activities. The teaching team mostly consists of academic staff members embedded in the Informatics Institute, that bring their research and state-of-the-art knowledge to the labs, in a hands-on manner, from laying down cables to forensic analysis of various devices.

You will actively work with course coordinators and lecturers in developing their research-based material and labs for security and network engineering courses. This includes deployment of material and labs, as well as helping students in relevant technologies (e.g. installing network setups/configurations, using software/hardware hacking equipment, setting up servers, repositories. development environments and containers, etc.).

This is what you will do Tasks and responsibilities:

• Development and deployment of security and network engineering material and labs;
• Assisting, monitoring progress and grading of student projects;
• Coordination of Master theses projects, tracking and supporting student success;
• Helping manage the community around the Master’s programme.

• MSc in Computer Science or equivalent;
• Technical experience in Computer Networks and/or Cybersecurity;
• Be a motivated teacher, with a thorough and encouraging teaching style;
• Experience in supporting tasks and the willingness to take the responsibility for administrative tasks, such as organisation and coordination of university education and research;
• Professional command of English.

We offer a temporary employment contract for 38 hours per week for a period of 12 months. The preferred starting date is as soon as possible.

The gross monthly salary, based on 38 hours per week and dependent on relevant experience, ranges between € 3,706 to € 5,760 (scale 10). This does not include 8% holiday allowance and 8,3% year-end allowance. The UFO profile Docent 4 is applicable. Select situation depending on WP/OBP position. The Collective Labour Agreement of Universities of the Netherlands is applicable.

The Faculty of Science has a student body of around 8,000, as well as 1,800 members of staff working in education, research or support services. Researchers and students at the Faculty of Science are fascinated by every aspect of how the world works, be it elementary particles, the birth of the universe or the functioning of the brain.

The Informatics Institute is one of the seven educational institutes of the Faculty of Science (FNWI) and is responsible for the master’s programmes in Artificial Intelligence, Computational Science, Computer Science, Information Studies, Software Engineering en System and Network Engineering in which currently at around 1400 students are enrolled. The education is provided by lecturers and researchers working within the GSI itself or at various research institutes, including the Instituut voor Informatica (IvI), the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) and the Korteweg-de Vries Instituut voor Wiskunde (KDV).

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