Part-time​/Professor in Youth Health Care

Offer Description

• You are an ambitious, internationally oriented researcher in the field of youth health care. You have experience in a relevant research field within youth health care and wellbeing (such as vaccinations and screening, growth and development, nutrition and physical activity, mental health, health literacy and behavior, or health inequalities in young populations).
• You will develop a research program within youth health care, publish in international journals, acquire research funding, and develop national and international research partnerships.
• You strive for excellence in your research and thus contribute to the reputation of KU Leuven and the Department of Public Health and Primary Care.
• You will take up teaching tasks within public health in general, and youth health care in particular, as well as teaching tasks related to your specific research expertise.
• You will provide this contribution in the medical curriculum and within the interuniversity master programme in youth health care. For the latter you will take on the role of academic coordinator.
• Additionally, you will supervise master and doctoral dissertations.
• The educational instruction you provide will meet the requirements set for academic programmes in terms of level, orientation and academic orientation and will be in line with the educational goals of KU Leuven. Commitment to the quality of the programme as a whole will be self‑evident.
• You will partake in teaching and research activities at the service of society by participating in domain‑specific service activities.
• Over time, you will be willing to engage in academic responsibilities within KU Leuven and to contribute to the national and international visibility of the department.
• You will develop a network of contacts within youth health care that provide an added value in your field of research and / or education.
• You must hold a PhD.
• You are expected to demonstrate significant research experience in one or more topics relevant to youth health care. The quality of your research must be evidenced by publications in international journals and experience in writing project applications. International research experience is an added value.
• You have strong teaching skills and preferably demonstrable teaching experience. Furthermore, you should have the necessary communication and organisational skills and you are a team player.
• Your spoken and written English must be excellent.
• The official administrative language used at KU Leuven is Dutch. If you do not speak Dutch (or do not speak it well) at the start of employment, KU Leuven will provide language training to enable you to take part in administrative meetings.
  Before teaching courses in Dutch or English, you will be given the opportunity to learn Dutch, respectively English, to the required standard.

We offer a part‑time (minimum 50 %) or full‑time academic position in an intellectually challenging environment. KU Leuven is a research‑intensive, internationally oriented university that conducts both fundamental and applied scientific research. It is strongly interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary and strives for international excellence. To this end, it actively collaborates with its research partners at home and abroad. It offers its students an academic education based on high‑level scientific research.

You will work in Leuven, a historic, yet dynamic and lively city in the centre of Belgium, 20 minutes from Brussels, the capital of the European Union, and less than two hours from Paris, London and Amsterdam.

Depending on your file and qualifications, you will be appointed to one of the grades of the independent academic staff: assistant professor, associate professor, professor or full professor. In principle, assistant professors are appointed as tenure‑track professors for a period of 5 years. Afterwards, they are permanently appointed as associate professors, if the evaluation is positive.

KU Leuven is well set to welcome foreign professors and their families and provides practical support with regard to immigration & administration, housing, childcare, learning Dutch, partner career coaching,
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