Coordinator of the designLAB department for 12 hours per week (0.3 fte)

Werken Bij Hogescholen; Amsterdam; À distance; EUR 6 700 - 11 000; Temps partiel

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Holiday allowance 8%

End-of-year bonus 8.3%

Generous holiday entitlement

Pension scheme (employer pays 70%)

Professional development opportunities

Travel expense reimbursement from 10km

Résumé du poste

The Gerrit Rietveld Academie is seeking a Coordinator of the designLAB department for 12 hours per week (0.3 FTE). You will act as the liaison among students, teachers, and the academy, handling administrative duties, inquiries, and events coordination to support teaching and research activities.

The role requires strong communication, organization, and interpersonal skills, with proficiency in both Dutch and English, and the ability to work independently in a small, diverse team.

Qualifications

• By experience, a solid understanding of management support processes, including administration, planning, logistics, financial aspects and other secretarial duties.
• A strong interest in education, preferably by job experience.
• Sociable and collaborative, you like to engage with students.
• You're adept at working independently and can discern priorities and act accordingly, while also being comfortable handling spontaneous tasks.
• You excel in organising and accurately managing various types of data. You are accustomed to working with Microsoft 365, including Excel.
• A personal interest in art education, fine arts and design.
• Proficiency in both spoken and written Dutch and English.
• You communicate in a friendly and approachable manner.

Responsabilités

• As the liaison for students, teachers, and the academy, youplay a vital role asthe intermediary between these parties and the head of department.
• Your responsibilities encompass a wide range of administrative duties, including managing declarations and various organisational tasks.
• You act as a primary point of contact for students and guest lecturers, assisting them with inquiries and providing necessary information and support.
• Furthermore, you are instrumental in implementing effective communication strategies and disseminating information for events.
• Your role extends to aiding in the planning andorganisation ofeducational activities, which involves coordinating locations and facilitating participant invitations.
• In summary, your role is essential in ensuring efficient operations within the department, fostering effective communication, and supporting the successful execution of educational initiatives and events.
• The generic job description is that of Departmental Facilitator 2. The detailed work activities are subject of the interview cycle between the Coordinator and the Head of department.
• You will be present at the academy for 12 hours weekly, by default.

Connaissances

Management support

Administration

Planning

Logistics

Secretarial duties

Interpersonal skills

Data organization

Dutch and English proficiency

Outils

Microsoft 365

Excel

Description du poste

Coordinator of the designLAB department for 12 hours per week (0.3 fte)

The Gerrit Rietveld Academie is looking for a:

Coordinator of the designLAB department for 12 hours per week (0.3 fte)

The organisation

The Gerrit Rietveld Academie is a small-scale, independent, internationally oriented university of applied arts for fine art and design. The academy is characterised by research-based and experimental art education. Heads of department, lecturers, workshop specialists, students and staff jointly shape the form and content of teaching and research.

Diversity and inclusion, accessibility, ecology and transparency are key priorities for the Academy and therefore serve as guiding principles for the actions of members of the academic community.

Students at the Rietveld Academie come from 55 different countries, making the Academy a diverse community.

The day-to-day running of the academy is in the hands of the Executive Board and the Director of Undergraduate Studies and Workshops, the Director of Postgraduate Studies and Research, and the Director of Operations. The academy has approximately 365 staff members.

As the current coordinator leaves the department, designLAB is seeking the perfect successor.

About the designLAB department

At designLAB, we take a hands-on approach to art and design. Our courses combine theory, research, concept development, and making, and are structured around assignments that gradually become more open. This supports a shift from guided experimentation toward a self-directed, critical practice, where critical thinking, experiments, failures, and detours are treated as meaningful parts of the learning process.

Feedback, dialogue, and critique are central to the department. Students learn not only how to make work, but also how to articulate, contextualise, and critically reflect on it. We foster a collaborative environment in which work is shared, discussed, and developed over time. Students are supported in developing their own practices - shaping their methodologies and artistic language - while encouraging critical engagement with cultural, social, and artistic contexts. Within this diverse environment, students become autonomous makers, able to position their work within and beyond established disciplinary boundaries.

At designLAB, we work within an open studio landscape that fosters sharing, collaboration, and a sense of community. We value spending time together beyond schoolwork, bringing students and teachers together through collective activities. Each member of the team has their own expertise, ranging from material knowledge and hands‑on skills to research, writing, and more. We make space for guest lectures, keeping the curriculum fluid, and open to input and needs from both students and the team. Each year, designLAB goes on a department trip and, connected to different courses of the department, smaller excursions and trips are organized. There is a big exhibition in March each year, alongside smaller, self‑organised exhibitions that are supported and encouraged by the department. At the forefront, we put community and connecting with the world outside the academy through regular studio, atelier, and exhibition visits.

• As the liaison for students, teachers, and the academy, youplay a vital role asthe intermediary between these parties and the head of department.Your responsibilities encompass a wide range of administrative duties, including managing declarations and various organisational tasks. You act as a primary point of contact for students and guest lecturers, assisting them with inquiries and providing necessary information and support.
• Furthermore, you are instrumental in implementing effective communication strategies and disseminating information for events. Your role extends to aiding in the planning andorganisation ofeducational activities, which involves coordinating locations and facilitating participant invitations.
• In summary, your role is essential in ensuring efficient operations within the department, fostering effective communication, and supporting the successful execution of educational initiatives and events.
• The generic job description is that of Departmental Facilitator 2. The detailed work activities are subject of the interview cycle between the Coordinator and the Head of department.
• You will be present at the academy for 12 hours weekly, by default.

What profile do you have?

• By experience, a solid understanding of management support processes, including administration, planning, logistics, financial aspects and other secretarial duties.
• A strong interest in education, preferably by job experience.
• Sociable and collaborative, you like to engage with students.
• You're adept at working independently and can discern priorities and act accordingly, while also being comfortable handling spontaneous tasks.
• You excel in organising and accurately managing various types of data. You are accustomed to working with Microsoft 365, including Excel
• A personal interest in art education, fine arts and design.
• Proficiency in both spoken and written Dutch and English.
• You communicate in a friendly and approachable manner.

Diversity

We strive for diversity and recruit colleagues from groups that are currently under-represented in our education sector. Where candidates are equally suitable, we give preference to a candidate who enhances diversity within our team.

Employment conditions

• The position is classified in job scale 8, in accordance with cao-hbo guidelines (minimum of € 477,-and maximum € 4.595,- gross per month for a full-time position) and is dependent on work experience.
• The position is for an employment contract. If you have a non-EU nationality, you must demonstrate the legal basis for you to work in the Netherlands. Depending on the individual situation, either a residence permit or a work permit 'arbeid vrij toegestaan’ is needed.
• Good fringe benefits include holiday allowance (8%), end-of-year-bonus of 8.3%, a very generous number of holiday days, a pension scheme (employer pays 70% of the premium) and professional development opportunities.
• Travel expenses are (partially) reimbursed from 10 kilometres.
• We offer a one-year contract, with the intention of converting this to a permanent position after a maximum of two years, subject to suitability.

To ensure we assess all candidates’ suitability for the role in the same way, we do not ask you to provide a CV or cover letter. Instead, we ask all candidates the same questions, which give us an insight into how well you meet the job requirements. Please take care when completing the questionnaire, this is the only information on which we will assess you at this stage.

• The response deadline closes on November 17th 2026.
• The first round of interviews will take place Thursday November 26th 2026.
• The second round of interviews – if applicable – will take place Wednesday December 2nd 2026.
• Start of contract January 1st 2027. First day at the job to be discussed.

Recruitment agencies are asked not to contact us in response to this advert.