Core team member Master Choreography COMMA 2

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COMMA (Co-creation of Movement Master of Arts in Choreography) is a joint master degree in Choreography offered by Codarts University for the Arts in Rotterdam and Fontys Academy of the Arts in Tilburg.

COMMA is a JOINT DEGREE that aims to bring together the expertise, knowledge, staff and facilities from both institutions for higher education in the arts. The underlying principle behind this idea is that by sharing resources and offering an advanced professional program at a master's level, the student will benefit from the combined strengths of Codarts and Fontys. Those strengths include Circus and Performance Arts, Professional Dance (company, freelance, production house, and musical theatre), Amateur Dance, Community Arts, and Arts Education (dance). The COMMA programme is firmly rooted in the expertise and knowledge of the creator, artistic research, and co-creation. It emphasizes the importance of diversity and the development of a learning community while valuing craftsmanship, transforming experiences, generating alternatives, and providing time and space for creative processes. These values have informed the curriculum, the selection of lecturers and staff, and ultimately the students.

This degree helps students become reflective creators, able to integrate knowledge and skills fundamental to both practice and theory relating to and extending beyond dance, circus, and community arts. Our in-house and international staff encourage students to challenge their existing beliefs and expand their knowledge. As a result, students learn to critically reflect on their experiences, merging their inherent strengths and qualities with new ideas and perspectives. This approach ensures they receive a rich educational experience.

What will you do?
Profile: Choreography & Community Art, strong experience with practice-based research
As a core team member of COMMA, you share responsibility for designing the curriculum of this English-language master's programme in Choreography. You coach students in their study career, individually and in groups (group dynamics). You are a member of the core team and take part in the team meetings in which we are jointly responsible for the vision and direction, as well as the content of the curriculum. You work together with the training coordinator, who takes on both the formal (staffing, quality assurance in the form of training documents, finances) and day-to-day organisation of the programme. You will also contribute to curriculum development, be involved in content (lecturing, coaching students and managing research mentors) and vision development in the practice-led or practice-based research programme, and be part of the thesis committee. With the team, you will ensure a strong connection with the professional field with a special focus on choreography, in which the students work and from which we recruit our guest lecturers. Making connections with stakeholders is part of your tasks. Your work also includes working on interdisciplinary connections and looking for and realising innovative developments in the field of teaching methods, coaching, entrepreneurship and social engagement and impact within the master's programme.

What do we ask of you?
As a Person:

• You are able to work with your core team members and programme coordinator to create an inspiring curriculum for students;
• You have a good understanding of what is going on and what is on our minds and can translate this into an educational programme;
• You are able to give innovative direction to the direction of the programme in collaboration with the team and the field;
• You have a good network in the professional field, with a focus on European Circus and Performing Arts;
• You can use this network to formulate interesting study assignments for our students as well as engage guest lecturers;
• You can work well together;
• You have good social and intercultural skills and an interest in students' personal development;
• You have experience in individual coaching and group coaching (group dynamics, building learning communities);
• Excellent command of English language; both oral and written;
• Good research skills.

In terms of education and background:

• You have knowledge and experience of multiple contemporary teaching formats and techniques and working methods;
• You have a Master's degree and corresponding level of thinking and work;
• You have experience with contemporary artistic research and its methodologies;
• You have an affinity for higher education and a vision of inspiring, talent-oriented education;
• You have or are willing to obtain a teaching qualification;
• You have experience as an assessor in higher education;
• You have your own practice or are employed by a relevant stakeholder.

Get to know us?
Does the above appeal to you and do you recognise your talents in our description? Then we would like to get in touch with you. Simply respond via the application button! Your motivation will tell us how you can make an impact at COMMA.

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Terms of employment
If you choose Fontys, you will naturally choose very nice primary and secondary terms of employment and an appropriate salary. A selection from our offer:

• Employment: temporary
• Salary in Scale 11 (min € 4.535,76 - max € 6.359,46)
• End-of-year bonus of 8.3% in December
• 8% holiday allowance in May
• Around 50 days off (including public holidays)
• A modern home working arrangement
• Enjoy financial benefits with a number of collective insurances
• Flexible commuting arrangement
• Development opportunities Ontwikkel jezelf (fontys.nl)
• An extensive range of services for a healthy and active lifestyle ('Fontys Vitaal')

Practical information
We like to make things easy for you, the following is definitely going to help you with that

• Do not wait too long to apply, this vacancy closes on: January 29, 2025
• Address your application to: Martyn Smits (Associate director Fontys Academy of the Arts)
• Any questions about the vacancy? No problem. Ask them to Martyn Smits, 06 192 829 02
• Questions about the procedure can be addressed to Team Recruitment (HR&O), 08850 75366
• Are we both positive? Introduction starting from 17th February, with the program beginning on 1st September
• COMMA's core team aims for a balanced composition of the team, reflecting COMMA's diverse and dynamic practice and in line with the DEI values of Fontys and Codarts
• Within Fontys, a mandatory test moment has been introduced for anyone who is going to perform work within Fontys, in the form of a VOG

Why work at Fontys?
Contributing to a sustainable, inclusive and vital society. This is our ambition. And because that society is always in a state of change, so is our college. With our 'Fontys for society' strategy, we are responding to this; our course towards a talent-focused, inquisitive and certainly also agile organisation. Because what leads to progress today is outdated tomorrow. We need to continuously renew, enrich and refresh our education. Only then will we know how to fulfil our social mission. Together. With you? Read more about Fontys University of Applied Sciences and our course on Fontys.nl

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