Job description

We are looking for an early-career academic who is interested to start a tenure-track that focuses on education and who can strengthen our teaching and research in the field of interprofessional education. The discipline of interprofessional education in pharmacy aims to prepare students to enter the health workforce with the essential competences of teamwork and collaboration. This is needed in an increasingly complex healthcare system of an ageing society with limited financial resources where health professionals need to collaborate with each other to accomplish good patient care. A focus of teaching will be strengthening interprofessional education in the internships in the master of pharmacy. Interprofessional education also needs to be incorporated throughout the curriculum of the Master and the Bachelor of pharmacy. This means that interprofessional education with medical students should be strengthened, and collaboration with allied health professionals such as nurses, nurse-specialists, physiotherapists, dieticians, as well as others should be established. The candidate will join the research group PharmacoTherapy, -Epidemiology & -Economics (PTEE) and is expected to contribute to existing research lines with a strong emphasis on pharmacotherapy, pharmacy health services research and clinical pharmacy, focusing on the interprofessional aspects in health care.

As Assistant Professor with an education profile you will:

• teach in the Bachelor and Master degree programmes of Pharmacy
• play a significant role in the development of education at FSE, both at the course and the programme level
• contribute to research lines in the research group PharmacoTherapy, -Epidemiology and –Economics, or develop your own research in line with the strategy of the research group
• contribute to the supervision of PhD students in the research group
• contribute to the organization of the faculty, for example by participating in working groups and committees, especially in the domain of education.

At the stage of Assistant Professor 60% of your time is for teaching and education development, 30% for research and 10% for organizational tasks. After five years you will be assessed for tenure and promotion to the level of Associate Professor (see Conditions of employment).

Qualifications

We offer you the opportunity to start a career path that focuses on education and to become an educational leader in time. We encourage you to apply if you have:

• a passion for teaching and education development
• demonstrably excellent teaching qualities
• a PhD degree in education in health care, clinical pharmacy, pharmacotherapy, health services research, health care communication or a related field
• a good track record in research, as shown by publications in international peer-reviewed journals and proceedings of renowned conferences
• preferably between 2-6 years of relevant work experience after your PhD (at the time of appointment); demonstrable organizational competences
• good command of spoken and written English.

And you are:

• willing to obtain a University Teaching Qualification (Dutch: BKO) within three years and a Senior Teaching Qualification (Dutch: SKO) within five years
• able to work well in an international, culturally diverse, environment
• a team player with good communication skills who is able to inspire students and colleagues
• able to speak the Dutch language or motivated to speak it within two years (B2 level).

Organisation

The University of G

Conditions of employment

We offer you in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities a full-time tenure track position as Assistant Professor with an education profile and:

• a salary, depending on qualifications, work experience and on your career stage, from € 3,974 up to a maximum of € 5,439 gross per month (salary scale 11) for a full-time position
• a starting package of k€ 40 to travel, organize workshops, etc., as well as access to additional resources for education development projects
• holiday allowance and end-of-year bonus of respectively 8% and 8.3% of your yearly salary
• a pension scheme
• maternity and parental leave
• the possibility to work part-time (0.9 FTE or 0.8 FTE)
• a personal development trajectory and a mentor program
• dual career support for partners of new faculty members moving to Groningen.

Consider our website for more information about the working conditions at the University of Groningen: https://www.rug.nl/(...)with-us/that-is-why/

In case of a full-time contract, you will initially be appointed for 7 years and your performance will be assessed after 5 years. This moment may be extended with at most one year in case of a life event (e.g. prolonged illness or maternity leave). If your assessment is positive, you will get a tenured appointment as Associate Professor with an education profile. Please consider the following link for more details on the criteria for promotion: https://www.rug.nl/(...)tion-profile-def.pdf

The continuation of the career path after the level of Associate Professor with an education profile is currently being developed. It will include the possibility of applying for promotion to the position of Full Professor with an education profile.

Application

We invite you to submit a complete application including:

• a cover letter in which you describe your motivation and qualifications for the position
• a curriculum vitae, including a description of your teaching experience, a list of your publications and a list with names of references
• a statement of your vision on teaching, in particular pertaining to developments in your field, and what you would like to accomplish in our degree programmes
• a description of your scientific interest and plans.

You may apply for this position until 19 January 11:59pm / before 20 January 2023 Dutch local time (CET) by means of the application form (click on "Apply" below on the advertisement on the university website).

The selection interviews will take place from 6-10 February 2023.

The University of Groningen strives to be a university in which students and staff are respected and feel at home, regardless of differences in background, experiences, perspectives, and identities. We believe that working on our core values of inclusion and equality are a joint responsibility and we are constructively working on creating a socially safe environment. Diversity among students and staff members enriches academic debate and contributes to the quality of our teaching and research. We therefore invite applicants from underrepresented groups in particular to apply. For more information, see also our diversity policy webpage: https://www.rug.nl/(...)rsity-and-inclusion/

Our selection procedure follows the guidelines of the Recruitment code (NVP): https://www.nvp-hrnetwerk.nl/nl/sollicitatiecode and European Commission's European Code of Conduct for recruitment of researchers: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/charter/code

We provide career services for partners of new faculty members moving to Groningen.

Unsolicited marketing is not appreciated.

Information

For information you can contact:

Prof. Katja Taxis, +31 5 03637576 (secretary), k.taxis@rug.nl

Please do not use the e-mail address(es) above for applications.