English speaking vacancies in Holland: April 2013

Saturday 13 April 2013

VACANCY: Contracts Manager (in english) in Leiden Netherlands

Heerema Marine Contractors - The Hague Area, Netherlands

Job Description

The Legal department
The legal department provides advice to the organisation in various legal areas. The department is involved in the solving of complex legal issues of different nature. In addition the legal department is directly involved in the negotiation of complex contracts and supervision of any legal procedures.
Contracts Manager / Quantity surveyor

As a Contracts Manager you work from within the Legal department. You know your contracts inside out.
You have the skill to signal possible obstacles well ahead and to act accordingly. You will help to draft contracts during the tender phase and will manage the contract in execution. You will ensure that the contractual terms and conditions, including variations, of the contracts for offshore scopes of work are acceptable to HMC and comply with HMC’s bidding and contracting policy, in order to minimize unfavorable legal or financial consequences for HMC.

As Contracts Manager you report to the Senior Legal Counsel and to the Project Manager when assigned to a project. Besides, you will work closely together with the Tender Managers, Tender Coordinators, Project Managers and Staff departments like Tax.

Your daily activities

Assist and advise the Project Manager on contractual matters, both client and subcontractor related;
Support the Tender Manager or Project Manager during client negotiations;
Create a contractual key condition summary for contracts;
Manage variation orders and change requests;
Improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the contractual qualification process;
Document the qualification process;
Maintain an archive of past client contractual terms and conditions and the qualifications thereto;
Maintain an archive of change order filing and correspondence.

Your profile

You have 4 to 6 years’ working experience of which 3 in the offshore oil and gas industry or contracting business, preferably with complex projects,
You are familiar with basic English contract law,
You have a Bachelor degree in engineering and have gained experience with contracts through your occupation or by additional schooling. A degree in Law is also accepted, as long as you have relevant working experience in the industries mentioned above,
You have excellent analytical and pragmatic skills,
You have impeccable communication skills in English, both spoken and written,
You will be working in our international headquarter in Leiden, the Netherlands, but you are willing to travel on a regular basis and are open for an assignment abroad should the project at hand require.

HMC offers

Informal work atmosphere in an international environment,
Excellent secondary labor conditions, such as a bonus scheme, a pension scheme, 35 days annual leave and various insurances,
Ample opportunities for personal development,
Free use of Heerema's fitness facility with instructor,
Opportunities to develop your own initiatives and to work independently within a team of committed colleagues.

Company Description

Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) is a world leading marine contractor in the offshore oil and gas industry. HMC transports, installs and removes all types of offshore facilities. These include fixed structures, complex infrastructures and floating facilities, in shallow water, deepwater and ultra deepwater.

read more here: http://www.careersathmc.com/Job-detail/5769/135712/Contracts-Manager-Quantity-surveyor.html

Tuesday 2 April 2013

VACANCY: Assistant Professor in Global Justice at Leiden University Netherlands

Specificaties - (uitleg)

Locatie	The Hague
Functietypes	Professors, associate professors, assistant professors and lecturers
Wetenschappelijke discipline	Economics, Law, Behaviour and Society, Language and Culture
Uren	38,0 uren per week
Werk-/denkniveau	Doctorate
Vacaturenummer	13-114

Functiebeschrijving

Contribution to the development of the LUC major in Global Justice, which houses research-led teaching ranging from public international law, peace and conflict studies, applied ethics, and criminology, to case studies in social, political, environmental, and economic justice.
Delivery and design of undergraduate courses in the interdisciplinary major of Global Justice, including thematically and methodologically related courses across the BA and BSc programme.
Development of interdisciplinary research projects which can integrate undergraduate research, including supervision of capstone (honours thesis) projects.
Tutorship of no more than 30 students through provision of academic and career guidance.
Committee service in academic administration bodies, including interviewing for the annual student admissions cycle and contributing to student recruitment activities.
Participation in the social and extra-curricular academic life of LUC.

Functie-eisen

PhD degree or equivalent in a field allied to global justice (with preference given to candidates with an interdisciplinary background that speaks to global challenges).
Demonstrable potential for excellence in research-led teaching.
Demonstrable passion for undergraduate education, in and out of the classroom (experience with blended learning technologies is an advantage).
Demonstrable enthusiasm for liberal arts and sciences in higher education.
Demonstrable commitment to a close-knit, interdisciplinary, academic community.
Outstanding research qualities manifest in an established or developing publication record.
Superior command of English (familiarity with any of the other UN languages is desirable but not required).

Arbeidsvoorwaarden

LUC offers a full-time Assistant Professorship, starting on 1 August 2013, in the dynamic and growing academic setting of LeidenUniversity and The Hague. LUC is located within the Faculty of Campus The Hague, Leiden’s second location in The Netherlands and a 12-minute train ride from the city of Leiden. The Faculty is growing rapidly and has seen the recent arrival of the Institute for Public Administration, the establishment of the School of Governance and the Centre for Innovation, and the introduction of new bachelors and masters programmes. Established in 1575, Leiden University is the oldest university in The Netherlands and one of Europe's foremost research universities, which is now proud to host its own honours university college in The Hague.
The position is “tenure track”, which may lead to a permanent (tenured) position after a three year period (contingent upon performance). The first year will be probationary; upon successful completion of this year a further two years will be offered. The appointment will proceed in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities (CAO Nederlandse Universiteiten). The salary will be in the range for an Assistant Professor;level depends on previous experience, and ranges between € 3.227,- (salary scale 11) and € 5.020,- (Salary Scale 12) gross per month, commensurate with qualifications, with additional holiday and end-of-year bonuses. Candidates from outside the Netherlands may be eligible for a substantial tax reduction (30% rule).

All newly appointed academic staff at LeidenUniversity are introduced to the Basic Teaching Qualification (BKO), an individually-tailored learning process to assess your level of teaching qualifications. If needed, BKO facilitates further development of your teaching skills.

More information here: http://www.academictransfer.com/employer/LEI/vacancy/17936/lang/en/

Introduction of the ‘European Blue Card’

As from 19 June 2011 the Netherlands has a new purpose of stay: the European Blue Card. The European Blue Card is a separate purpose of stay in addition to the existing National Highly Skilled Migrant Programme. The EU Blue Card Council Directive is intended for highly skilled foreign nationals who do not have EU, EEA or Swiss nationality, and who wish to work in one of the member states of the EU. The Directive is also meant to make it easier to settle in another EU member state. A residence permit will always be required in that other member state, however. To obtain this residence permit the employee must comply with the conditions applicable in that member state.

The conditions for residence in the Netherlands as an EU Blue Card holder are stricter than those for residence as a Highly Skilled Migrant. The employee must have a contract for highly qualified employment for at least one year, earning at least EUR 60,000 gross (in 2011). The employee must have completed a course of higher education lasting at least three years. The employee must prove this by having his diploma assessed by Nuffic. For a regulated profession, a competent authority will take decisions about the admission to that profession.

Advantages
One of the advantages of the EU Blue Card is that it is easier for an EU Blue Card holder and his family members to settle in another EU member state at a later date. After eighteen months foreign nationals who have an EU Blue Card are exempted from the provisional residence permit (MVV) requirement, if they want to work in another EU member State. In this second member state the employee must submit an application for a residence permit as a holder of an EU Blue Card. Each member state may implement the directive in slightly different ways. If someone holds a Blue Card in the Netherlands, this does not mean that the requirements are also met in other member states.

Another advantage is that after having stayed lawfully with the EU Blue Card holder in the Netherlands for two years, the family members may apply for a residence permit for ‘continued residence’. For other purposes of stay this is only possible after having stayed lawfully in the Netherlands for three years. The family members must have resided legally and continuously within the territory of an EU member state for at least five years, however. An employee who has stayed legally in the Netherlands as an EU Blue Card holder for two years may apply for the status of ‘long-term resident as a non-EU member country national’. He must have resided legally and continuously within EU territory for five years and must comply with the other conditions for this purpose of stay.

Highly skilled migrants from outside of the EU

A highly skilled migrant is a migrant who comes to the Netherlands to be employed, and has a gross annual income of at least €47,565, or €34,881 if he/she is under thirty. This income requirement does not apply if the employee enters service for certain functions in an educational or research institution. For information on the specific functions to which this clause applies, you can inquire at the IND office for labour and highly skilled migrants. When a foreign national has been granted residence in the Netherlands as a highly skilled migrant, the employer of the highly skilled migrant is not required to be in possession of a work permit for that foreign national.

Professional soccer players, ministers of religion, teachers of religion and prostitutes are not eligible for a residency as highly skilled migrant.

Important!
The amounts stated above will be indexed every year as of 1 January.