Policy advisor international projects

The role includes, among other tasks, the following assignments:

• You facilitate the general coordination of the work package on ‘doctoral & postdoctoral training’ within YUFE, managed by the head of the Antwerp Doctoral School. To this end, you bring together the YUFE colleagues involved and you enthusiastically encourage them to realise the deliverables of the work package. Moreover, you are responsible for the necessary administrative follow-up and reporting concerning this work package.
• You organise the necessary meetings and events related to this work package (within YUFE, bilaterally, and at UAntwerp), prepare them and create the reports.
• You provide the necessary project documentation in function of the deliverables of the project.
• You are responsible for the internal and external communication about the work package in general and the pilot projects in particular.
• You are responsible for meticulous administrative follow-up (including registrations for training courses etc.).
• You will actively participate in all meetings (often online, but also rotating at one of the YUFE universities) related to this work package and actively seek synergies.
• You ensure the smooth further implementation of the YUFE pilot projects on doctoral & postdoctoral training at the University of Antwerp in close cooperation with the Antwerp Doctoral School and the Talent Centre and other actors involved within the Research, Innovation and Valorisation Antwerp (RIVA) department (including the YUFE4Postdocs coordinator) and more broadly within the university.
• You are committed to ad hoc tasks within the Antwerp Doctoral School and the Research, Innovation and Valorisation Antwerp (RIVA) department.

Together with other internationally oriented colleagues, you are part of the YUFE team at UAntwerp. Moreover, you work in a close team under the coordination of the head of the Antwerp Doctoral School. In achieving the objectives, you take into account the instructions and regulations provided.