Lecturer Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship

Introduction

At the Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM), we are looking for two lecturers to be responsible for the coordination of the thesis trajectory of students in the MSc in Strategic Entrepreneurship programme. As an RSM lecturer in this department, your main tasks are to evaluate the students’ progress and coordinate the related tasks.

Job description

Becoming one of our lecturers, you join a dynamic and international department of dedicated educators and academics who engage in high-quality research and teaching.

RSM’s MSc Strategic Entrepreneurship programme addresses core topics in the field of entrepreneurship, the startup lifecycle, and the startup ecosystem. Students work on opportunity recognition and validation, business model design, entrepreneurial finance and fundraising, venture growth and scaling, and corporate venturing and innovation. They learn how to combine academic theory with applied, evidence-based practice.

This programme culminates in a team-based master thesis trajectory. Here, you are part of a dedicated team of lecturers who guide and supervise the students as they conduct original empirical research on an entrepreneurial question, supported by clinic and plenary sessions.

Job requirements

Your job as lecturer is to manage the thesis trajectory of a designated group of student teams within RSM’s MSc Strategic Entrepreneurship programme. Your management of this team or teams includes training, teaching, providing feedback to students, and evaluating students on their deliverables, participation, and progress throughout the thesis trajectory.

Within these student teams, part of your responsibilities also include running recurring ‘clinic’ sessions. In these sessions, students present their work to you and their teammates in turn and they receive peer and lecturer feedback. Additionally, you schedule and prepare plenary sessions on themes such as thesis topic choice, conceptualising the theoretical framework, methods, data analysis and interpretation, and presenting and writing. You may also work on projects related to the teaching of innovation and educational research.

You work closely with the Academic Director (AD) and with other members of the department. RSM offers you the developmental support you need as a lecturer, including obtaining teaching qualifications, so that you can further develop into a senior lecturer.

Employment conditions and benefits

This is a position for 0.7 fte with a contract for 28 hours per week. The start date can be either at the end of 2026 or as of January 2027. The contract duration will be for one year, with the possibility of extension after satisfactory performance.

The conditions of employment correspond with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities (CAO NU). The starting is scale for this position is scale 10.

Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) has attractive employment conditions and offers you a holiday allowance of 8 per cent, an end-of-year bonus of 8.3 per cent, and a generous number of vacation days.

EUR offers all employees an annual personal career budget for training and development, together with additional coaching and development opportunities.

As a well-known international university, EUR aspires to maintain an equitable and inclusive community, and provides equal opportunities to all employees and applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, functional impairment, citizenship, or other personal characteristics.

More information about working at EUR is available at Working erasmus university

Employer

Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) is an internationally oriented university with a distinct social vision on education and research – our mission being 'Creating positive societal impact'. EUR employs over 4,100 staff and nearly 33,000 students from 140 countries follow our academic education. Everything we do, we do under the credo The Erasmian Way - Making Minds Matter. We are global citizens: connecting, entrepreneurial, open-minded and socially engaged. These Erasmian Values serve as our internal compass and make Erasmus University recognisable and distinctive to the outside world. Guided by these values, with a broad perspective and an eye for diversity, different backgrounds and viewpoints, our staff collaborate closely on solving societal challenges from dynamic and cosmopolitan Rotterdam. Thanks in part to the high quality and positive societal impact of our education and research, and our characteristic mentality, EUR can measure itself against the top European universities. eur.nl

Faculty / Institute / Central service

Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) is one of Europe’s top-ranked business schools. RSM provides ground-breaking research and education furthering excellence in all aspects of management and is based in the international port city of Rotterdam – a vital nexus of business, logistics and trade. RSM’s primary focus is on developing business leaders with international careers who can become a force for positive change by carrying their innovative mindset into a sustainable future. Our first-class range of bachelor, master, MBA, PhD and executive programmes encourage them to become critical, creative, caring and collaborative thinkers and doers.
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RSM is an equal opportunity employer and explicitly encourages applications from candidates of all genders, ethnicities, and nationalities.

Group

The Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) offers a high-profile master of science in both the Strategic Management and Strategic Entrepreneurship programmes.

This department at RSM has a large and highly international faculty, educated at renowned international institutions, with both a strong teaching tradition and international orientation.

Department

The Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) offers a high-profile master of science in both the Strategic Management and Strategic Entrepreneurship programmes.

This department at RSM has a large and highly international faculty, educated at renowned international institutions, with both a strong teaching tradition and international orientation.

Additional information

Your appointment as lecturer is for 0.7 FTE and is initially for one year, with the possibility of extension and with the potential to be converted to a permanent contract as a lecturer.

In your role as an RSM lecturer, you collaborate closely with experienced faculty members in the development and delivery of the thesis coordination activities at the MSc level. RSM's Learning Innovation Team supports you as a faculty member in the improvement and innovation of your courses and programme.

Applying

Are you interested in this vacancy? Please submit your application as soon as possible, and no later than 25 September 2026.

Ensure your application includes all of the below:

• Motivation letter
• Curriculum vitae
• Any recent teaching evaluations

We will begin to consider candidates immediately and will continue in our search until the currently open positions have been filled.

Would you like more information about the lecturer position at RSM? Please contact Carolien Heintjes at cheintjes@rsm.nl or Angie Fronczek at fronczek@rsm.nl.

For more information about us, please visit our department webpage: Strategic management and entrepreneurship

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