Junior Liaison Officer

As a Junior Liaison Officer, you support researchers and project leaders in national and international subsidy and tender processes. You assist them in preparing proposals in a well-structured manner—organizationally, financially, and procedurally—ensuring they meet the requirements of funding bodies. You operate at the intersection of content, finance, and regulations. In this role, you work independently on multiple files, but you also collaborate closely with colleagues within the Liaison Office and regularly coordinate with Finance & Control and Legal Affairs. Within a short period, you develop into a fully-fledged discussion partner for researchers in the field of grants and project applications. Fixed office days on Thursdays and Fridays are required, while the remaining days can be arranged in consultation, with the option to work remotely for part of the week.

Your tasks and responsibilities include:

• Advising researchers and project leaders on the preparation and submission of grant and tender applications (organizational, financial, and procedural aspects).
• Acting as a liaison between researchers, Finance & Control, Legal Affairs, and external funding providers.
• Analyzing funding schemes and assessing their applicability to research projects and collaborative partnerships.
• Supporting the drafting and submission of project proposals, including all required documentation.
• Monitoring deadlines and ensuring a careful and timely submission process.
• Collaborating with colleagues within the Liaison Office and coordinating with relevant internal stakeholders.

Your team
You will be part of the Liaison Office & Legal Affairs team within the Environmental Sciences Group (ESG) at Wageningen University & Research (WUR). We support researchers and project leaders in realizing impactful, internationally oriented research. Our team combines legal expertise with support in grants and collaborative partnerships. We operate in a compact, professionally structured environment with short lines of communication, where independence and teamwork go hand in hand. Within the Liaison Office, you will work closely with colleagues from Legal Affairs, Finance & Control, and the research community.

Paralegal

As a paralegal, you provide broad support to colleagues within the organization in the drafting of agreements and other documents. In doing so, you contribute to preventing (legal) questions and issues. In addition, you carry out diverse tasks within the field of self-management and maintain your own case portfolio. You act as the connecting factor between internal stakeholders and Legal Affairs, and you know how to find your way within a complex organization.

Your tasks and responsibilities include:

• Drafting and reviewing legal (standard/template) agreements and handling them, potentially in collaboration with the lawyer(s);
• Advising colleagues in advance;
• Managing correspondence with various (internal) clients;
• Handling legal files, both simple and administrative;
• Contributing to the translation of various developments within the organization;
• Taking over the duties of our administrative staff member during their absence.

Your team
You will be part of the Legal Affairs & Liaison Office team within the Environmental Sciences Group (ESG) at Wageningen University & Research (WUR). A driven, ambitious team with a strong growth mindset, a passion for law, and a pragmatic approach to solutions.

Here you will work
We challenge you to deliver for inspiring stakeholders at both national and international levels. We strive to provide an informal atmosphere and give everyone the space to grow, both professionally and personally. We believe that an open environment and direct communication bring out the best in everyone.

Researcher Food Chains

As a Researcher food chains, you will work on improving sustainable food chains. You will contribute to projects aimed at reducing food loss and associated emissions, quantitatively estimating sustainability impact, and to broader issues related to the design and sustainability of food chains. You will do this in projects in the Netherlands, but also in Europe and in low- and middle-income countries, such as Ethiopia, Indonesia and Mexico. From Wageningen, you will work together with the project team to develop solutions that make chains more sustainable, robust and efficient. Within the Supply Chain Development expertise group, you will work on analysing and assessing interventions in food chains. You combine quantitative analyses with systems thinking and translate insights into practical and feasible solutions. The impact in practice is central to this. The role is varied and often consists of a combination of literature research, analysis and reporting, contributions to workshops with (Dutch) third parties and stakeholder processes, and fieldwork. You will work in both a Dutch and international context and travel within and outside Europe several times a year.

Your duties and responsibilities include:

• Analysing food chains and assessing interventions aimed at sustainability
• Performing quantitative and qualitative analyses, for example in the areas of cost, quality, emissions and sustainability impact
• Performing (pre-)feasibility analyses and scenario analyses
• Contributing to policy briefs and developing tools and training materials
• Contributing to workshops, stakeholder processes and implementation issues
• Contributing to data collection, fieldwork and project outputs, such as project reports, reports, presentations and other products agreed with clients
• Supporting senior and medior researchers in project execution and the practical design of projects.

You are interested in food chains and in connecting analysis to application and implementation. In time, you will develop towards an independent role in projects and analyses.

The team you will be working in
You will work within the Supply Chain Development expertise group. This group supports organizations worldwide in analyzing, designing and improving sustainable food chains through data collection, analysis and the development and assessment of interventions. Work is being done on, among other things, food loss reduction, making chains more sustainable and system innovations, including logistics optimisation, in both a Dutch and international context.

You will work here
The ecosystems of WUR, Wageningen Campus and beyond offer numerous opportunities for collaboration on innovative developments and solutions. That is why we are looking for a team player with a focus on application and with a proactive attitude and a talent for bringing partners together. Examples of clients include industrial organizations, such as ingredient suppliers and food companies, government agencies and combinations thereof in public-private partnerships.

Researcher quantitative supply chain analyses

Are you passionate about quantitative analyses and improvement of supply chains?
Do you like an international focus and multidisciplinary work environment?

We have a vacancy for a researcher quantitative supply chain analyses. Will you join us?

As a researcher quantitative supply chain analyses, you will work on analysing and improving sustainable food chains based on data. One of your focuses will be on projects aimed at quantifying and reducing food waste and associated sustainability impact, and on broader issues surrounding the design and sustainability of food chains. You will often work in international projects in low- and middle-income countries, such as Ethiopia, Mexico and Indonesia, but also in the Netherlands and elsewhere in Europe. From Wageningen, you use quantitative analyses to better understand chains and make them more sustainable, efficient and robust.

Within the Supply Chain Development expertise group, you will contribute to quantifying and improving performance in food chains, with a focus on food loss reduction, emission reduction and economic analyses, among other things. You will work on collecting, analysing and interpreting data, with quantitative methods and models and practical application at the centre.

The role is varied and often consists of a combination of literature research, analysis and reporting, contributions to workshops and (Dutch) stakeholder processes, and fieldwork. You will work in both a Dutch and international context and travel within and outside Europe several times a year.

Your duties and responsibilities include:

• Collecting, structuring and analyzing data from different sources
• Performing quantitative and statistical analyses, for example in terms of costs, quality, emissions and sustainability impact
• Performing (pre-)feasibility analyses, market research, scenario analyses and economic analyses
• Applying statistical and quantitative methods and models
• Contributing to (Dutch) policy documents and developing tools, methodologies and training materials
• Contributing to workshops, stakeholder processes and implementation issues
• Contributing to data collection, fieldwork and project outputs, such as project reports, reports, presentations and other products agreed with clients
• Supporting senior and medior researchers in project execution and the practical design of projects

You are interested in food chains and in connecting analysis to application and implementation. In time, you will develop towards an independent role in projects and analyses.

The team you will be working in
You will work within the Supply Chain Development expertise group. This group supports organizations worldwide in analyzing, designing and improving sustainable food chains through data collection, analysis and the development and assessment of interventions. Work is being done on, among other things, food loss reduction, making chains more sustainable and system innovations, including logistics optimisation, in both a Dutch and international context.

You will work here
The ecosystems of WUR, Wageningen Campus and beyond offer numerous opportunities for collaboration on innovative developments and solutions. That is why we are looking for a team player with a focus on application and with a proactive attitude and a talent for bringing partners together. Examples of clients include industrial organizations, such as ingredient suppliers and food companies, government agencies and combinations thereof in public-private partnerships.

Sr Payroll Specialist

As Payroll & Tax Specialist Sr. with a special interest in foreign payroll, you and your two team members take pride in a monthly timely and correct payroll in the Netherlands and abroad. You are an expert on Dutch payroll processes for Wageningen University and Research (WUR). Additionally, you and another team member manage the Working Abroad Services (WAS) for expats (around 30-50 per year) and collaborate with an external partner to monitor their service delivery and direct related processes within the organization, including billing.

You will work closely with two other Senior team members on the Dutch payroll, a remote-working team member on WAS and an external partner on Working Abroad Service delivery as well as the Pension Fund, Tax authority and Insurance companies when relevant. The Payroll & Tax team is one of four teams within HR Operations, alongside HR Services (payroll administration), HR Contact Centre, and Processes & Applications. An interdisciplinary team (TOP) works in an agile way on the change portfolio on HR processes and applications. You will also collaborate with HR Legal, Welcome Center Food Valley professionals, and other HR colleagues within HR Operations, Centers of Expertise, and HR Business Partners.

Your duties and responsibilities include:

• Responsible for payroll in the Netherlands and abroad for Wageningen University and Research (four entities including internships) and the Working Abroad Services delivery on all requests from the business.
• Advise on and supervise the correct application of schemes, procedures, systems, and regulations, and communicate when this is not the case.
• Inform and advise managers, colleagues, or individual employees on the interpretation and application of methods, regulations, and rules, including maintaining the online Knowledge Base.
• Co-develop and implement collective terms of employment and legislation, and prepare, develop, and implement applications, policy tools, or regulations in the field of labor and income.
• Coach and train colleagues.