Management Team member at the Academy for AI, Games & Media

As a Management Team (MT) member (1 FTE) at the Academy for AI, Games & Media (AGM) you will be co-responsible for the development of the academy and our Breda University of Applied Sciences (BUas). You will lead the teams behind our Creative Business (CB) bachelor’s programme and Media Innovation master’s programme (MMI). You will manage budgets, resources and strategic planning, take charge of (funded) project acquisition and financial management, thrive when challenges arise, and represent the programmes inside BUas and externally.

As a leader, you will ensure the programmes remain future-ready in the face of structural upheaval across the creative and media industries: AI tools are disrupting production pipelines, influence has shifted from media houses to creators and algorithms, and entirely new professions are emerging. We prepare graduates not for today’s industry, but for the one still taking shape.

AGM is built on the conviction that AI, games and immersive media are converging into a single creative-technological field. CB and MMI sit at the heart of that convergence – where audiences, creative practice and emerging technologies meet. The recent CB accreditation confirmed this direction: value lies in the connections between programmes, while each retains its own distinct character. Your role will be to position both within that convergence and build those bridges with care, driving cross-programme collaboration without flattening the differences that make each programme distinctive.

The creative and media industries are accelerating; our programmes, and the experienced professionals who built them, must accelerate with them. Your activities focus on:

• Investing in people and protecting a sustainable working rhythm: You enable colleagues to grow into a fast-changing field (interdisciplinary work, applied research, generative tools, project-based education) through facilitative leadership and clear change management. Workload is a persistent point of attention across our teams; managing it actively – being honest about what we take on and what we let go – is a core part of the role rather than an afterthought.
• Strengthening and developing the curriculum: You ensure that programme structures translate into learning experiences that genuinely reflect where the sector is heading. Research and innovation are embedded as a core element, not an add-on, working in close connection with AGM's professorships in serious games, entertainment games, digital media, and applied AI.
• Exploring synergies across AI, CMGT and CB – while respecting their distinct characters: You pursue cross-programme connections within AGM, recognising that the boundaries between creative business, game technology, AI and media are dissolving in practice – and that each programme has its own identity, community and pedagogy. You design collaboration that strengthens those identities rather than diluting them.
• Placing the student at the heart of everything  – and building the culture that makes this possible: Everything we do is geared towards delivering graduates who are resilient, reflective, and ready to lead in industries that won’t wait for them. This requires a professional culture grounded in openness, inclusion, and social safety. To stay connected to students and education, you take on a limited amount of teaching and remain actively engaged in research.
• Contributing to an ambitious management team: You bring an analytical, constructive perspective to AGM's collective leadership – asking the right questions and identifying patterns across data and practice. You position CB and MMI within the convergence agenda and invest in the cross-academy collaboration that turns BUas-wide ambitions, such as AI-informed graduates across all programmes, into reality.

• The salary for this position amounts to a monthly minimum of €6,461.91 and a monthly maximum of €8,020.60 (gross amounts based on full-time employment);  
• This position is classified in scale 13 of the cao-hbo (collective labour agreement). Your official job title will be MT member / lecturer;
• This position involves a two-year MT appointment with the possibility of renewal at the end of this term;
• Your commuting expenses will be fully reimbursed when you travel by public transport; 
• You will receive a contribution towards your health insurance costs;
• You will receive an end-of-year bonus of 8.3% in December and an annual holiday allowance of 8% in May; 
• You will also be awarded professional development hours every year and almost 11 weeks of holiday entitlements in a full-time position; 
• You have the option to work partly from home, which can help improve your work-life balance;
• You will build an attractive pension through the ABP pension fund;
• Working at BUas means always striving for ‘the plus’. BUas aims to be more than just a university of applied sciences, continuously focusing on development and creating meaningful experiences;
• You will be working at a top-ranked university of applied sciences on a green, sustainable campus near the city centre of Breda;
• You will be working in an attractive and friendly working environment together with enthusiastic colleagues from the industry and students from around the world;
• Moving from abroad to Breda in the Netherlands? We provide support and financial compensation for relocation and settling in the Netherlands. Dutch tax authorities may offer tax reductions to applicants from abroad, making tax rates comparable to those in the UK and US. 

• You have a master’s degree in a related field;
• You have industry credibility, frontier knowledge, and a sharp perspective on where the media and creative industries are heading – generative AI, platform shifts, the convergence of media, data and technology. You can translate that perspective into concrete decisions about curriculum, team development, and graduate profiles;
• You have a proven track record of leading teams through cultural and organisational change – doing so with empathy and momentum, including active attention to workload and team well-being;    
• You have a grounded, critical view of AI's wider impact – labour, equity, environmental footprint – alongside enthusiasm for its creative possibilities;
• You have a minimum of five years of experience in the creative industries, media, marketing, communication, design, or production, or in roles closely connected to these sectors. Knowledge of higher education is preferred: you preferably have teaching experience or are willing to obtain a didactics certificate;
• You have a positive, analytical mindset and strong communication skills. You lead internationally diverse teams with confidence and cultural intelligence. You can act with sensitivity to the distinct characters of AGM's programmes and can build bridges between them without flattering differences;
• You have a proven ability to connect education with applied research and to work across disciplinary and institutional boundaries;
• You are a team player with a sense of humour, who understands that project-based, interdisciplinary education requires openness, inclusion, and social safety;
• You have good English (C1) and Dutch (C1) speaking and writing skills as you will interact with international colleagues across the organisation and beyond.

Please send us your application before 15 June via the online application form. Do you have any questions? Feel free to contact Roger Teeuwen (Director of the Academy for AI, Games & Media) via [email protected] with questions about the job itself, or [email protected] for questions about the application process.

You will receive a reply to your application no later than two weeks after the closing date. The submission of a certificate of good conduct (in Dutch abbreviated to VOG) is a condition for commencing employment at BUas. We will initiate a request for this after the terms of employment meeting. Among candidates with equal qualifications and experience, preference will be given to the internal candidate.

The first job interviews will be held in the week of 16 June.

Breda University of Applied Sciences (hereafter referred to as BUas) is a specialist, small-scale and international university of applied sciences. BUas offers bachelor's and master's degree programmes at both professional and academic levels, with expertise in closely interrelated fields: Tourism, Leisure & Events, Hotel & Facility, Logistics & Built Environment, Media & Creative Business, Games, and Data Science & AI. Our strength lies in the ability to connect these fields.

We aim to create added value in our education and research for our students, and therefore also for business and society. We provide our students with knowledge as well as ‘BUas Skills for Life’, empowering them to thrive in a constantly changing world and contribute to making it a better place. We encourage our employees to lead by example, fostering independence, collaboration and practical research that can be applied in real-world contexts.

We are curious about the world around us, considerate of each other, and committed to creating a healthy living and working environment for students and staff. This ethos defines how we operate on our campus. Within our inspiring learning community, we encourage each other to optimally develop our talents, combine knowledge and skills, and apply them in society in a sustainable manner.

External recruiters need not inquire.