Security and Network Engineering Education Technical Coordinator

Have you always thrived in a classroom being close to students Do you enjoy hands-on lab sessions Do you want to be part of a top Security and Network Engineering master program Do you want to work closely with world-class researchers and support them in connectingto our students We are looking for an Education Officer to actively develop and support the education technical labs coordination and infrastructure of our security and network engineering studies.

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The Educational Technical Coordinator is a key contributor to the teaching team connecting students teachers researchers support personnel and the alumni into a strong community around the SNE master. The teaching team mostly consists of academic staff members embedded in the Informatics Institute that bring their research and state-of-the-art knowledge to the labs in a hands-on manner from laying down cables to forensic analysis of various devices.

This is what you will do

You will actively work with course coordinators and lecturers in developing their research-basedmaterial and labs for security and network engineering courses. This includes deployment of material and labs as well as helping students in relevant technologies (e.g. installing network setups/configurations using software/hardware hacking equipment setting up servers repositories. development environments and containers etc.). Additionally you will work closely with the Thesis Coordinator and the Program Director to support the student graduationprocess during their Masters programme.

Tasks and responsibilities:

• Development and deployment of security and network engineering material and labs
• Assisting monitoring progress and grading of student projects
• Coordination of Master theses projects tracking and supporting student success
• Helping manage the community around the Masters programme

What we ask of you

Your experience and profile:

• MSc in Computer Science or equivalent
• Technical experience in Computer Networks and/or Cybersecurity
• Be a motivated teacher with a thorough and encouraging teaching style
• Experience in supporting tasks and the willingness to take the responsibility for administrative tasks such as organisation and coordination of university education and research
• Professional command of English

This is what we offer you

We offer a temporary employment contract for 38 hours per week for a period of 12 months with a probationary period of two months. The preferred starting date is as soon as possible. If we assess your performance positive a permanent contract will follow.

The gross monthly salary based on 38 hours per week and dependent on relevant experience ranges between 3708 to 5057 (scale 9) This does not include 8% holiday allowance and 83% year-end allowance. The UFO profile Education/Research officer 2 is applicable. A favourable tax agreement the 30% ruling may apply to non-Dutch applicants. The Collective Labour Agreement of Universities of the Netherlands is applicable.

Curious about our extensive secondary benefits package You can read more about it here.

You will work in this team

TheFaculty of Science has a student body of around 8000 as well as 1800 members of staff working in education research or support services. Researchers and students at the Faculty of Science are fascinated by every aspect of how the world works be it elementary particles the birth of the universe or the functioning of the brain.

The Informatics Institute is one of the seven educational institutes of the Faculty of Science (FNWI) and is responsible for the masters programmes in Artificial Intelligence Computational Science Computer Science Information Studies Software Engineering and System and Network Engineering in which currently at around 1400 students are enrolled. The education is provided by lecturers and researchers working within the GSI itself or at various research institutes including the Instituut voor Informatica (IvI) the Institute for Logic Language and Computation (ILLC) and the Korteweg-de Vries Instituut voor Wiskunde (KDV).

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If you feel the profile fits you and you are interested in the job we look forward to receiving your application. You can apply online via the red button. We accept applications until and including 15.08.2026 however if a suitable candidate is selected earlier we will close the vacancy.

Applications should include the following information (all files besides your cv should be submitted inone single pdf file):

• a detailed CV including the months (not just years) when referring to your education and work experience;
• a letter of motivation;
• a list of publications;
• the names and email addresses of two references who can provide letters of recommendation.

Due to Dutch legislation the UvA is for non-scientific positions obliged to recruit within the EU. If you are not a EU-citizen (including Norway and Switzerland) please do not apply for this vacancy.

Only complete applications received within the response period via the link below will be considered.

If you have any questions or do you require additional information Please contact:

• Paul Groth:
• Ana Oprescu:
• Kostas Papagiannopoulos: