Vacancy for student assessor 2026-2027

Vacancy for a student assessor 2026-2027

The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FSBS) seeks a passionate student who wishes to serve on the Faculty Board in the 2026-2027 academic year. Would you like to try and improve your degree programme and promote the interests of 6.600 of your fellow students? Do you like the idea of attending meetings with the Faculty’s key figures and defending your fellow students’ interests at the faculty level? If you do, please consider applying for this position!

What will you be doing?

As the student assessor, you will serve on the Faculty Board in an advisory capacity and promote the education and policy-related interests of all students attending our Faculty. You will form an important link between students, study associations, representative advisory councils and the Faculty Board. You will assist the dean and keep in close contact with students and representative advisory councils. In addition, you will collaborate with a diverse group of lecturers, professors, education policy staff and other support staff in projects, meetings and representative advisory councils. Not only will you have a say in the Faculty’s policy-making, you will also be able to carry out your own projects and thus bring about changes in the Faculty.

• In particular, you will promote students’ interests and education interests. To this end, you must have a good sense of the things that matter to the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences’ students.
• You will attend meetings of the Faculty Board, as well as other relevant types of meetings;
• You will be responsible (jointly with the participation coordinators and the chairperson of the student representatives on the Faculty Council) for the continued organisation of meetings, during which you will consult with students serving on and active in the representative advisory council.
• You will maintain contacts with the student members of the programme advisory committees of both the Undergraduate School and the Graduate School, the student representatives on the Faculty Council and the student members of programme (advisory) committees (or their representatives).
• You will serve as the Faculty’s contact person to the study associations of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences.
• You will be actively involved in various activities and projects, including:
  o You participate in faculty committees;
  o You ensure the connection between students and Research & Impact (you are
  involved with the Discovery Nights);
  o You will assist with career events (such as CareerNight);
  o Personal key objectives (in consultation with the Faculty Board).
• You keep in touch with other faculty student assessors and contribute to university projects and committees. You also interact with other Social and Behavioural Sciences-assessors from other universities.

What do we ask from you?

• You must be enrolled as a student in a degree programme taught by the Faculty of Social at Utrecht University and Behavioural Sciences, know what issues matter to your fellow students and be able to issue the Faculty Board with advice on these.
• You must have a critical attitude and be highly motivated to help improve the Faculty in terms of teaching, research and operational management, offering a student’s point of view.
• You have a good head for administrative relations and an insight into the context in which
  the faculties and the University operate.
• You can master complicated issues and are interested in new developments;
• Obviously, you must have good communication skills (in both Dutch and English) and be able to maintain a network of contacts.
• Since you will be exposed to confidential information, we need to know that you are able to handle confidential information with integrity.
• You must be a good team worker, but also be good at working independently.
• You must be assertive and able to work under pressure;

Time required and financial allowance

The completion of your duties will require 20 to 24 hours per week. Student assessors at UU are appointed as student assistants and thus receive the salary that a student assistant also receives (CAO UNL). To do so, student assessors must be registered as students at UU and pay tuition fees. However, student assessors are not called student assistants, this is only about the way they are remunerated. The appointment runs from 1 September 2026 to 1 September 2027.

Induction programme and special provisions

The induction and handover period will start in June and will partly cover the summer holiday period, during which you will be trained on the job by the current student assessor. Work hours are flexible and not tied to fixed days of the week, except for fixed meetings. You will be allowed to use an office space (room F3.02 in LVG, which you will share with the participation coordinators (MeCo’s) and student members of the participation), as well as any workstations/flexible workspaces available at the Faculty Office. You will be provided with your own laptop and a campus card (which you can use to print documents, access to meeting rooms and parking). All the members of the Faculty Board, including the executive secretaries to the Board, will serve as a point of contact for you if you have any questions related to the position. You will mainly be guided in matters of procedure and the subject matter under discussion by the support units/service departments, and particularly by the executive secretaries to the Board and the dean.

About the FSBS Faculty Board

The Faculty Board is made up of the dean, three vice deans, the director and the student assessor. The vice deans also serve as directors of the Undergraduate School (all Bachelor’s programmes) and the PhD programmes, the Graduate School (all Master’s programmes), and the Research Institute ( Research and Impact). The director is responsible for the operational management; the student member (assessor) represents their fellow students. The dean has final responsibility. The board makes essential policy-related decisions and also decides on the Faculty’s opportunities and strategy, based on trends observed in the degree programmes and in research projects. The board members reflect and decide on the Faculty’s education and research policy, financial matters, communication, operational management and the market positioning of degree programmes and research projects. In the coming academic year, the focus will mainly be on aspects specified in the new Strategic Plan, such as Recognition and Rewards, Diversity & Inclusion, Open Science and how multi-disciplinary and other education fits in with the Strategic Themes (https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/strategic-plan-2030). The implementation of the new education model will also be a central theme.

If you are interested, please contact us!

Everyone deserves to feel at home at our university. We welcome employees from a wide variety of backgrounds and perspectives. A request for a certificate of conduct may be part of the procedure. If you can relate to this profile and wish to serve as the voice of our students, please send your letter of motivation and curriculum vitae until Sunday 5 April 2026 to the Faculty Board, att. Hylko Tas via e-mail to DeansOfficeFSBS@uu.nl. The first round interviews will take place in the week of 20 april.

For more information and answers to any questions you may have, please contact the current student assessor, Maes Offergelt, at assessor.fsw@uu.nl.