‘Without collaboration, impact is impossible. So… let's connect, and make a sustainable impact on society.’
Wouter is Manager at the Centre of Applied Research of Art, Design & Technology (CARADT).
Your Job
As a Quality, Information and Education Officer at the Center of Applied Research for Art, Design and Technology (CARADT), you will contribute to the support of research. Your work focuses on ensuring quality, managing information flows and strengthening the connection between research and education.
Within quality management, you ensure that quality guidelines are applied and adhered to in research projects and processes. These guidelines are essential to ensure and continuously improve the quality of our research at CARADT. This is done according to CARADT’s quality plan, with which we maintain our own standards. In addition, you play an important role in setting up and managing information flows and systems according to Avans standards. This is important for knowledge sharing and collaboration.
In addition, you actively contribute to connecting research results with other research centers and the curricula of undergraduate and graduate programs. Although you are not ultimately responsible, you play an important role in facilitating these connections. You support the development and fine-tuning of new and existing modules and themes so that they are in line with the research results and social challenges that are central to research at CARADT. For this, you regularly collaborate with teachers, researchers and external partners. In this way, you help ensure that practical education and research remain coherent and current.
You as Quality, Information and Education Officer within Avans
Art and design play an important role in the development of society. CARADT enables artists and designers to fulfill this role. CARADT conducts practice-oriented research and integrates science, politics and technology into the field of art and design. The complexity of today’s society requires an approach in which insights from different research fields come together. We develop our research program in close cooperation with the various courses within Avans University of Applied Sciences and with external partners. Currently CARADT has 3 research groups: Cultural and Creative Industry, Regenerative Art and Design and Situated Art and Design.
You will work in the office which consists of a manager, two management assistants, project managers and a communication expert. The atmosphere is casual and informal. We are a small team, but everyone here has a deep passion for art and culture. We value each other’s expertise and learn from each other daily. Our office feels informal, a place of fun and spontaneous ideas and where everyone feels at home. The shared love of art and culture binds us and motivates us every day. In addition, we are very flexible in location and time and part of the team often works from home or remotely.
What We Offer You
An environment where you have the freedom to discover and improve things; this is how we get the best out of you. We facilitate you in your continuous development, with which you then contribute to our further professional and technical professionalization. Furthermore, we offer you:
You Are a Match if
For this role, it is essential that you are able to work accurately and carefully within the frameworks of quality management and information systems. You are analytically strong, which helps you to understand and improve complex information flows, and you know how to translate theoretical insights into daily practice within a creative, research-oriented environment. Working together with a variety of professionals comes easily to you: you understand the importance of an open attitude and know how to communicate information clearly. Your flexibility and eye for detail make you a valuable link between education and research within CARADT.
Furthermore, you have:
About Avans
Big, but small-scale. Engaged. Personal. That’s Avans. This is where you can be yourself. You are given all the freedom with your unique ideas and insights, in line with our learning and entrepreneurial character. We offer optimally flexible education and research in co-creation with the professional field. And we are constantly evolving with the world around us. We want to offer more tailored education, where students partly determine their own learning route. That is our Ambition for 2025. Discover more Avans as an employer through these stories
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Join us at CARADT and at Avans
Do you see yourself in this position and further professionalizing the doctoral program in art education? Then apply for this position via the application button in the vacancy on the website of Avans, no later than February 13, 2025. In your application, share your motivation for this position with us. Do you have questions? Then please contact Wouter Meys, manager CARADT, via wt.meys@avans.nl or on 088 5250244. We will give you an update on your application within 2 weeks of the vacancy closing.
‘Without collaboration, impact is impossible. So… let's connect, and make a sustainable impact on society.’
Wouter is Manager at the Centre of Applied Research of Art, Design & Technology (CARADT).
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