[voew-listserver] STAR-FLOOD Vacancy

"Andreas Thiel" <a.thiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Tue, 19 Jun 2012 19:19:09 +0200

Dear all,

The vacancy for a post doc for our STAR-FLOOD program is out!
http://www.academictransfer.com/employer/UU/vacancy/14591/lang/en/

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Postdoc Flood Risk Governance In Europe (1,0 fte)

Functiebeschrijving 

The Environmental Governance section of Utrecht University will be the 
coordinator of an EU 7th Framework programme called STAR-FLOOD. This program 
was recently awarded a grant of 5.5 Million Euros. The project is focused on 
analyzing, explaining, evaluating and designing policies to better deal with 
flood risks from rivers in urban agglomerations across Europe. The results of 
this ambitious programme are expected to be highly relevant for policies and 
law at the European, national and regional level and for the development of 
public-private partnerships.

STAR-FLOOD stands for STrengthening And Redesigning European FLOOD risk 
practices: Towards appropriate and resilient flood risk governance 
arrangements. It is expected that flood risks from rivers will increase 
significantly in the coming decades, not only because of climate change, but 
also due to increasing urbanization of river areas. To deal with these risks, 
many European countries focus on building, reinforcing and maintaining dikes. 
STAR-FLOOD takes as its starting point that a focus on dikes is necessary, but 
not sufficient in order to ensure sustained flood protection. From a resilience 
point of view, the strategy should be broadened with pro-active spatial 
planning, building prescriptions, warning systems, evacuation- and recovery 
plans. To study how this broadening of strategies can be brought about, the 
programme will combine and integrate public administration and legal expertise. 
The research closely connects to current policy discourses in various European 
countries and to the approach underlying the European Floods Directive.

The main objective of this research position will be to carry out activities 
related to scientific integration of the whole STAR-FLOOD program. This work 
will be done together with one fellow postdoc and under the coordination of the 
program leader, prof. Peter Driessen. Public administration and legal scholars 
in six EU countries will produce country-specific analyses of Flood Risk 
Governance. The team at the UU Environmental Governance section will ensure 
that theoretical integration between the different disciplines (public 
administration and law) is achieved, that the different research activities are 
adequately linked and that the whole program is carried out in a theoretically 
and methodologically consistent way (including cross-country comparability of 
the case study results).

To achieve these goals, you will carry out the following kinds of activities:

*       organizing and facilitating activities (workshops, master classes, 
meetings) in order to promote multi-disciplinary collaboration;
*       carrying out additional empirical analyses;
*       writing some of the program deliverables, including a final document 
with the main research results, as well as reports on scientific progress;
*       reviewing, editing and integrating scientific contributions of other 
consortium partners;
*       writing high-impact scientific publications related to the core of the 
research program;
*       disseminating the research results at scientific conferences and 
towards practitioners;
*       handling questions of other consortium partners;
*       facilitating smooth communication and efficient exchange of information 
through the program website and social fora.

Functie-eisen

The following qualifications are expected:

*       a PhD and proven strong expertise in the discipline Environmental 
Studies, Public Administration, or in one of the social sciences that are 
considered relevant for this research topic. Law-related expertise is 
considered a plus;
*       content-related qualities required to develop and conduct research in 
the field of flood risk governance;
*       experience with publishing scientific work in refereed international 
scientific journals;
*       be a team player, able and willing to cooperate with social science and 
legal scholars in interdisciplinary projects;
*       able to communicate well with the world outside the university 
(politics, public administration, commerce, societal organizations, 
consultation boards) in order to highlight the profile of the research 
department and to enhance knowledge dissemination;
*       excellent organisational skills allowing you to organize and coordinate 
complex projects.

Arbeidsvoorwaarden

You will be offered a full-time position, initially for one year, with a 
possible extension to 3,5 years, starting on, or shortly after, 1 October 2012.

The salary is dependent on experience and ranges between € 2.379,- and € 4374,- 
gross per month (based on a fulltime appointment, scale 10/11, Collective 
Labour Agreement Dutch Universities). The salary is supplemented with a holiday 
allowance of 8% per year and an end-of-year bonus of 8.3%.

In addition we offer a pension scheme, health insurance, a partially paid 
parental leave, and flexible employment conditions. Employment conditions are 
based on the Collective Labour Agreement of the Dutch Universities.

Organisatie

Utrecht University’s Faculty of Geosciences offers education and research 
concerning the geosphere, biosphere, atmosphere and anthroposphere. With a 
population of 2,200 students (BSc and MSc) and 575 staff, the faculty is a 
strong and challenging organisation. The Faculty is organised in four 
Departments: Earth Sciences, Physical Geography, Innovation, Environmental & 
Energy Sciences, and Human Geography & Urban & Regional Planning.
The department of Innovation, Environmental & Energy Sciences is responsible 
for education and research on relations between humans and the environment, 
environmental policy and its influence on sustainable development and the 
management of innovation.
The department’s section on Environmental Governance, headed by Prof. Peter 
Driessen, is a renowned centre of expertise on practices and modes of 
governance, and their influence on sustainable development. The section’s 
research agenda covers, amongst others, biodiversity and water management; 
urban, regional and infrastructure planning; climate change policy; and risk 
management.

Additionele informatie

Potential candidates can contact Ineke Bakker-Maas (+31 30 2531625; 
g.g.bakker@xxxxx) for a copy of the program fact sheet. Further information on 
the position can be obtained from Prof. Peter Driessen tel: +31-30- 2535771 (or 
by e-mail: p.driessen@xxxxx) and Dr. Dries Hegger tel. +31-302537829 (or by 
e-mail: d.l.t.hegger@xxxxx). 

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