Lecturer Mathematical and analytical skills of professionals

Hogeschool Utrecht is looking for a Knowledge Center for Learning and Innovation

Lecturer Mathematical and analytical skills of professionals

About the Knowledge Center Learning and Innovation

The Professorship of Mathematical and Analytical Ability of Professionals is part of the Knowledge Center for Learning and Innovation (KC LENI).

KC LENI
The Knowledge Center for Learning and Innovation (LENI) focuses on the broad issue of generic competencies that professionals need as part of (working together) and thus living together (now and in the future). What is the content of these competences, how can professionals develop, learn and practice them, which everyday, organized or casual contexts help with this and which tools and methods can support this process? And how does education help with this? Education in the broadest sense of the word, from primary education to higher vocational education and from institutionalized learning practices in schools to organized learning practices at work.

Social developments
The professorship Mathematical and Analytical Capacity of Professionals ties in with developments at three levels: society, the university of applied sciences and the knowledge center. At the social level, the dynamics and complexity of professional practices in today’s high-tech society increasingly demand arithmetic and language skills. Both professionals and citizens are faced with an increasing flow of quantitative and statistical information that one must be able to interpret in order to make decisions regarding professional actions. Technological applications play an increasingly important role in these information flows and commercial practices. More than in the past, thinking skills are needed to deal with such systems in an informed way. The ability to understand the quantitative and multidimensional side of the world around us is an important competence. The question from society is therefore how these competences can be developed and maintained in continuous lifelong learning lines, and how pupils, students and professionals can be equipped to deal adequately and autonomously with the contemporary complexity and dynamics in study, work and daily life. life.

Mathematical and analytical skills within the degree programs
In many HU degree programs – but also in vocational education and professional practices in the broad sense – people struggle with the question of which mathematical skills (prospective) professionals are required to function in future professional practice, which is dynamic and in which ICT resources are playing an increasingly important role. It is not uncommon for mathematics to be a stumbling block to improve student success, and to develop a lifelong learning offering that suits professional practice, knowledge of the necessary mathematical competences and the way in which they are acquired is essential.

Connection to the knowledge center
At the level of the Knowledge Center for Learning and Innovation, it is important to include specific competence professors in addition to education-oriented professorships. The transcending themes of the former can be reinforced by domain-based research groups, and vice versa. Given the importance of mathematical competences (including numeracy, statistical literacy and mathematical skills) and the great difficulties that citizens and professionals experience with this, a mathematical-oriented competency research group should not be missing in addition to the new language-oriented research group. The internal, regional, national and international demand for the Knowledge Center to contribute to curriculum development and educational innovation in arithmetic, statistics,

Focus and research question
The central research question is therefore; What mathematical and analytical competences do professionals need to adequately deal with quantitative and multidimensional issues in their complex professional practice, what is the nature and form of these competences, and how can they be acquired and maintained?

Your work
Through practical research you make an important contribution to social issues surrounding the mathematical and analytical ability of professionals. This concerns both the effect on professional practice and the effect on education. You are a designer, driver and owner of the research program for the next four-year period of the research group. You translate data from research, professional practice and scientific theory development into methodical action, training strategies, innovative programs for and together with professional practice and communicate about this in various media. You recruit research grants and / or clients for your research activities and actively manage the various funding streams. For other activities you can think of supervising PhD students, publishing your findings in scientific journals and journals and further developing the knowledge network at regional, national and international level. With your research program you contribute to the central research question of KC LENI, including through joint research. Of course you also contribute to a good organization and strategy of the knowledge center, the associated training institutes and the HU as a whole.

Who you are

• An authoritative scientist who obtained his doctorate in a field relevant to the research group;
• A recognized, authoritative senior researcher, as evidenced by publications in international peer-reviewed journals in the field described in the profile.

What you got

• You have a clear and innovative vision of trends and developments in education and you have proven ability to give substance to the core assignment and research course, in line with the course of the Knowledge Center Learning and Innovation
• You have demonstrable success in acquiring research grants in the second and third flows of funds and initiating, executing and delivering projects together with various parties;
• You bring a relevant network with you and are capable of networking with national and international knowledge institutes and with regional and national professional fields;
• You have knowledge of and affinity with education;
• You have leadership and relational qualities: he / she is a team player and knows how to motivate people;
• You have organizational qualities; takes financial responsibility;
• You have the potential to develop into lecturer 1:
  • is organization sensitive; serves the bigger picture and thinks broadly; has an overview of the whole
  • can subordinate his own interest to collective interest and provide direction, both substantively and commercially, from the whole
• You have excellent oral and written skills in both Dutch and English.

Terms of employment
You will receive an employment contract (D4) with a size of at least 0.6 FTE with a maximum of 1.0 FTE. The research program of the professorship has been established in outline and will be further elaborated by the lecturer. Depending on your knowledge and experience, the gross monthly salary for full-time employment (1 FTE) is a minimum of 5,642.27 and a maximum of 7,284.86 euros (scale 15). In addition, you receive a holiday allowance of 8% and a thirteenth month, according to the collective labor agreement for higher professional education. We also have excellent study and development opportunities. Furthermore, there is a choice between a shorter working week or more leave for a longer working week and there is flexibility in working hours. We have voluntary collective health insurance and extras such as discounts with other insurance policies, software and fitness purchases. The vacancy is internal and external.

Applying
You can only apply online directly until Friday, 1 May 2020. If you would like more information about this position, please contact Prof. Elly de Bruijn, director of the Knowledge Center,  elly.debruijn@hu.nl ; Brief Structural Note on Mathematical and Analytical Ability of Professionals can be requested from  Tim.Grandiek@hu.nl .

More information about working at Hogeschool Utrecht can be found at www.werkenbijhu.nl. The application procedure can be found in the application code on our site https://werkenbijhu.nl/arbeidsvoorwaarden. Here is also a link to the CAO-HBO.

The HU is a transparent organization through open communication with each other and our environment. The HU’s operating philosophy is based on working in teams. The starting point in the collaboration is that we share our knowledge and do what we promise, both internally and externally. This means that we consistently recognize, use, share and strengthen each other’s different competences and expertise. So that we can get together what is in it. Hogeschool Utrecht is a knowledge organization. With high-quality education and research, we work on innovation and professionalization of professional practice and on the personal development of talent. In this way, we contribute to the social, cultural and economic development of an open, just and sustainable society. The HU trains motivated students aged 17 to 67. It is therefore not only about newcomers to the labor market, but also about people who already work and want to update, broaden or deepen their knowledge and skills. After all, society needs professionals who continue to (d) train. We have a wide range of courses that cover almost all (professional) sectors and are one of the largest providers of post-initial education and master studies.
With 3,500 employees, we form a large organization in which the human dimension remains central. The HU has offices in the cities of Utrecht and Amersfoort. In addition, the activities of the Seminary for Special Needs Education are organized regionally from the regional offices.