Student Assistant for Sector Plan Sustainable Global Economic Law Project

At Sustainable Global Economic Law, we believe that you can’t address climate change without also examining inequalities. We are a group of law researchers who focusing on financial systems, economic structures, trade, climate litigation, gender inequalities and more. We need your help to translate the work we’re doing into understandable, engaging information for our website and social media. So, if you’re excited to bring these issues to the public by co-designing, testing and delivering a communication strategy– what we do, our impact, events and publications – then we want to work with you!

Do you enjoy:

• Making complex information understandable and accessible;
• Designing a communication style which matches an audience;
• Getting creative with design to build a visual identity;

• Thinking up fun dissemination strategies and testing if they are successful.
  

Then the job of Student assistant for the Sectorplan Sustainable Global Economic Law (SGEL) project at the University of Amsterdam is perfect for you. SGEL is part of the Transformative Effects on Globalization (TEGL) research project on law and sustainable globalization, bringing together UvA, Tilburg University, Maastricht University and Open University.

What does this job entail?

The goal is to work together (with the support of a marketing expert at the Amsterdam Law Hub) to design, test and deliver a new communication strategy for SGEL and TEGL. To explain what that looks like, we have broken this up into smaller objectives:

• Help us define our communications strategy: including our goals, audience and key messages
• Create impact stories: Design and create stories which can be used to report on partners and researchers which highlight the impact of our work in an engaging way
• Bring us up to date: On the basis of our new plan and the testing of our channels/dissemination strategies – update our website/socials/linkedin so everything matches!
• Visual design & channel testing: Identify what are the best channels and what designs or formats work the best

You will be working on digital communication and content creation together with the team leading the Sustainable Global Economic Law project (SGEL) focusing on climate change and equality issues.

What do you have to offer?

• Marketing/branding focus;
• Experience in digital marketing and content creation (with design experience a plus!);
• Experience with X, Canva and Word Press;
• Fluency in English (Dutch a plus but not essential);
• Enjoy decision making and working independently; Creative; Interest in climate change and equality issues is a plus.

In addition, you are:

• Currently enrolled as a student and remain so for the duration of the employment

• Entitled to work in the Netherlands

What can we offer you?

We offer an employment contract for 3 months, renewable for another three months with good performance, preferably starting on 11 March 2024. The employment contract is for 11,4 hours a week.

Your salary, depending on your study year ranges between €2.618 to €2.846 gross per month on the basis of a full working week of 38 hours. This sum does not include the 8% holiday allowance and the 8.3% year-end allowance. The Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities (CAO NU) is applicable.

About us

The University of Amsterdam is the largest university in the Netherlands, with the broadest spectrum of degree programmes. It is an intellectual hub with 42,000 students, 6,000 employees and 3,000 doctoral students who are all committed to a culture of inquiring minds.

Amsterdam Law School

Committed, responsible and open-minded. This is how we at the Amsterdam Law School view the role of law in a constantly changing (international) society. With over 5,000 students and 550 staff, we are one of the larger law faculties in the Netherlands. We educate legal professionals who know how to apply the law effectively with the aim of actually contributing to solutions for society. We respond to social developments through innovative and pioneering research. In this way, we always keep in touch with society.

Department of Public International and European Law

The Department of Public International and European Law, in addition to 3 support staff, consists of approximately 50 employees who, with great commitment and dedication, work in research and education in the fields of International Public Law and European Public Law. The department is responsible for teaching four different Bachelor's courses and two minors and provides the English-taught Master's program in International and European Law with 4 different tracks. The research is being done in the two research centers ACELG and ACIL. The department has an equal division of men and women and has employees with 16 different nationalities.

Want to know more about our organisation? Read more about working at the University of Amsterdam.

Any questions?

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Job application

If you feel the profile fits you, and you are interested in the job, we look forward to receiving your letter and CV. You can apply online via the link below. We will accept applications until end date. We particularly invite students from under-represented backgrounds to apply. The interviews will take place online in the week of 4 March 2024.