At the Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM), we are looking for two lecturers to be responsible for the coordination of the thesis trajectory of students in the MSc in Strategic Entrepreneurship programme. As an RSM lecturer in this department, your main tasks are to evaluate the students' progress and coordinate the related tasks.
Job description
Becoming one of our lecturers, you join a dynamic and international department of dedicated educators and academics who engage in high-quality research and teaching.
RSM's MSc Strategic Entrepreneurship programme addresses core topics in the field of entrepreneurship, the startup lifecycle, and the startup ecosystem. Students work on opportunity recognition and validation, business model design, entrepreneurial finance and fundraising, venture growth and scaling, and corporate venturing and innovation. They learn how to combine academic theory with applied, evidence-based practice.
This programme culminates in a team-based master thesis trajectory. Here, you are part of a dedicated team of lecturers who guide and supervise the students as they conduct original empirical research on an entrepreneurial question, supported by clinic and plenary sessions.
Requirements
Your job as lecturer is to manage the thesis trajectory of a designated group of student teams within RSM's MSc Strategic Entrepreneurship programme. Your management of this team or teams includes training, teaching, providing feedback to students, and evaluating students on their deliverables, participation, and progress throughout the thesis trajectory.
Within these student teams, part of your responsibilities also include running recurring 'clinic' sessions. In these sessions, students present their work to you and their teammates in turn and they receive peer and lecturer feedback. Additionally, you schedule and prepare plenary sessions on themes such as thesis topic choice, conceptualising the theoretical framework, methods, data analysis and interpretation, and presenting and writing. You may also work on projects related to the teaching of innovation and educational research.
You work closely with the Academic Director (AD) and with other members of the department. RSM offers you the developmental support you need as a lecturer, including obtaining teaching qualifications, so that you can further develop into a senior lecturer.
Additional Information
Benefits
This is a position for 0.7 fte with a contract for 28 hours per week. The start date can be either at the end of 2026 or as of January 2027. The contract duration will be for one year, with the possibility of extension after satisfactory performance.
The conditions of employment correspond with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities (CAO NU). The starting is scale for this position is scale 10. https://www.universiteitenvannederland.nl/files/publications/Salarisschalen%20per%201%20januari%202025.pdf
Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) has attractive employment conditions and offers you a holiday allowance of 8 per cent, an end-of-year bonus of 8.3 per cent, and a generous number of vacation days.
EUR offers all employees an annual personal career budget for training and development, together with additional coaching and development opportunities.
As a well-known international university, EUR aspires to maintain an equitable and inclusive community, and provides equal opportunities to all employees and applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, functional impairment, citizenship, or other personal characteristics.
More information about working at EUR is available at http://www.eur.nl/en/working-erasmus-university
Selection process
Are you interested in this vacancy? Please submit your application as soon as possible, and no later than 25 September 2026.
Ensure your application includes all of the below:
- Motivation letter
- Curriculum vitae
- Any recent teaching evaluations
We will begin to consider candidates immediately and will continue in our search until the currently open positions have been filled.
Would you like more information about the lecturer position at RSM? Please contact Carolien Heintjes at cheintjes@rsm.nl or Angie Fronczek at fronczek@rsm.nl.
For more information about us, please visit our department webpage: https://www.rsm.nl/faculty-research/departments/strategic-management-and-entrepreneurship/
RSM: www.rsm.nl
Additional comments
Your appointment as lecturer is for 0.7 FTE and is initially for one year, with the possibility of extension and with the potential to be converted to a permanent contract as a lecturer.
In your role as an RSM lecturer, you collaborate closely with experienced faculty members in the development and delivery of the thesis coordination activities at the MSc level. RSM's Learning Innovation Team supports you as a faculty member in the improvement and innovation of your courses and programme.
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