As a lecturer, you will maintain lots of contact with our students and ensure that they successfully develop into professionals. You will do this by communicating your knowledge of a topic and supervising their studies, internships or assignments. Alongside teaching, you can focus on other activities that may interest you such as developing education, performing research or contributing to a field committee. To that end, you have many contacts outside of your own programme department and outside of Zuyd. No two working days are the same. While there are periods during the academic year that require extra effort, this is mitigated by plenty of holiday days. Alongside its lecturers, Zuyd employs educational staff and teaching assistants who assist students and lecturers and provide support in the form of lab tutorials and practicals.

Professors perform practical research, often together with lecturer-researchers, students, and external experts. This research is conducted both on behalf of Zuyd and at the request of businesses. Professors also work together with teaching teams to review how knowledge from research can improve education. This therefore represents an opportunity to make a lasting impact on your area of expertise and on Zuyd’s education.

To properly support all processes concerning education, Zuyd employs significant numbers of support staff/teaching support staff including secretaries, IT specialists, policy employees, communication advisors, marketeers, management assistants, buyers, HR advisors, legal staff, receptionists, technical staff and administrative staff. They work for an academy or at one of the service departments. As a member of support staff, you also contribute to the development of students.

In a management position, you face quite a few challenges. You lead a diverse team of professionals. Together, you work on improving education in terms of both content and process. You look for the best set-up for the organization. With the right knowledge and expertise in the right place. And in management positions too, you naturally deal with students. They ensure that you do not remain in your comfort zone and continue to innovate.