Lecturer 4 Connecting Science & Society (6,5 months)

VU Amsterdam

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Full-time
Posted June 09, 2026

Job Description

Your function

As a lecturer 4, you will contribute to the education provided by Athena within the exact sciences, health, and life sciences. In addition to various courses in the bachelor's program, we coordinate the studypath ‘Science, Society & Communication’, and we offer the 2-year master's program 'Management, Policy Analysis and Entrepreneurship in the Health and Life Sciences' and the research master's 'Global Health'. In many of our courses, we introduce students to the practical implications of scientific thinking about the interaction between science and society. Your main task will be to coach working groups and possibly provide practical support to the course coordinator.

To support the coaching of the working groups, you will start the first week of your appointment with a module from the Universal Teaching Qualification, for which you will attend a monthly group meeting and complete with a certificate by the end of the contract period. In addi...