Managerial tasks and Leadership - Art of Engagement

• People management

  • Monitors careful and diverse recruitment and selection, actively focuses on diversity, inclusion and the application of the Collective Labour Agreement.
  • Stimulates employees in their development and careers and focuses on the use of everyone's personal talents.
  • Coaches and directs employees and teams in achieving performance in line with the strategy.
  • Is a case manager in case of illness leave.
  • Proactively invests in the social cohesion of the team and creates a natural learning environment.
  • Makes clear decisions and proactively manages the division of tasks to clarify expectations and keep the workload healthy.
  • Periodically carries out strategic personnel planning (including development plan) and applies succession management. 
  • Proactively informs employees about organizational developments and policies and everyone's responsibility in these.

• Financial management

  • Carefully checks budgets of project plans.
  • Actively and regularly manages budget spending and cost control.
  • Thinks along about the budget of the department and critically questions those involved about planning and spending.
  • Accounts for their own budget and implementation in the P&C cycle and reports on progress. 
  • Always applies the four-eyes principle (dual control) in financial management.

• Process management

  • Performs professional commissioning for programs such as coordination of complex tasks, prioritization and communication.
  • Monitors progress, improvement and reporting of projects and programs.
  • Invests in their own digital knowledge and involves this in strategy, planning and process management. 
  • Monitors the safety of facilities (e.g. lab).

• Strategic management

  Not in this role.

• Leadership - Art of Engagement

  • Shows exemplary role in Art of Engagement:
    1. Contributes to the bigger picture
    2. Is bold and decisive
    3. Is clear and transparent
    4. Listens and gives room for growth
  • Continuously develops own leadership qualities and takes responsibility for improving feedback points. 
  • Invests in self-insight and in exemplary role by sharing about their own development and mistakes.

Development and training

• Mandatory training for academic staff

  • Leadership and management skills
  • Recognizing (social) safety

• Mandatory training for support staff

  • Leadership and management skills
  • Recognizing (social) safety

• Further development

  • Annual consultation for managers
  • Effective dialogues (in Dutch only)
  • Mentorship (support staff)
  • Mentorship (academic staff)
  • Team coaching
  • Intervision

Positions and roles

• Positions and roles of academic staff

  • Professor 1, 2
  • Senior Lecturer 1
  • Head of department (with management of employees)
  • Section head
  • Program director of Studies

  Cursive positions are not a formal UFO position but a VU-specific position or role.

• Positions and roles of support staff

  • Head of department 2, 3 (with management of employees)
  • Coordinator operations 1, 2
  • Substantive position with managerial aspect (including policy officer; controller; project leader; ICT consultant)

  Cursive positions are not a formal UFO position but a VU-specific position or role.

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