Currently, the academic career paths apply to assistant professors, associate professors and full professors. The information on this page is for these staff and their managers. In the future, we’ll also develop career policies for lecturers, early career academics and healthcare professionals at the UMCs.
Recognise and reward across the board
We aim to recognise and reward results and qualifications within academia across the board. This means more emphasis on qualitative aspects and performance in the areas of education, impact and leadership, and less on quantitative indicators.
If you’d like to know more about how we create space for employees by providing career paths and development opportunities with vertical and horizontal career steps within the three core domains of education, research and impact, read Academic career paths. In addition, the Guide will tell you how the academic career paths and annual consultations are interconnected and what this means for both managers and academics.
Responsibilities in the annual consultation
Every manager
- shares the departmental or faculty strategy
- explores the individual development needs of employees
- gives feedback on individual development
Every academic with an assistant professor/associate professor/full professor profile
- consults the departmental or faculty strategy
- reflects on their own career path (The Guide to reflecting on your academic career path will be helpful in this regard)
- discusses this path and their own development need with their direct manager
- discusses a focus on one of the core domains
Together, the manager and academic make development agreements in the annual consultation. The visualised annual consultation cycle gives a step-by-step overview of who does what, including a reference to all resources.
Help in preparing
As a good consultation starts with good preparation, you can draft your input using the interactive PDFs below. Note: please save the document before filling it in. This will ensure your text is saved.
- Preparation for academics: Annual consultation: reflective report and Guide to reflection on your academic career path.
- Preparation and reporting for managers: Annual consultation: consultation report
A general explanation of the annual consultation, including instructions on how to document it, is available on the webpages on annual consultations for employees and annual consultations for managers.
Expectations and basic requirements
In the academic career paths, we ask you – as an academic – to meet basic requirements in the areas of education, research and impact. You are expected to excel in one of the domains: education, research or impact (by choice and in agreement with your manager). Your contribution to the team and academic community is important, for example in the form of organisational and/or institutional responsibilities.
For a manager and academic to make agreements about academic career paths, they must first determine whether the latter meets all of the expectations. To this end, each faculty added its specific criteria to the university-wide framework. Please click on the link corresponding to your faculty below to find out what criteria apply there. (Please note: information coming soon)
- Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam
- Faculty of Science
- Faculty of Social Sciences
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