Financial Support Officer

Wordt jij onze nieuwe Financial Support Officer? Ben jij sterk in organiseren, houd je van afwisseling én heb je gevoel voor cijfers? Dan is de functie van Financial Support Officer (32–38 uur per week) misschien wel jouw ideale volgende stap.

Als Financial Support Officer ondersteun je de leerstoelhouder van een leerstoelgroep binnen Wageningen University & Research. Je bent de verbindende schakel binnen het team en de afdeling Finance & Control. Je zorgt daarbij dat administratieve processen en werkzaamheden soepel verlopen. Een leerstoelgroep bestaat uit ongeveer 30 tot 40 medewerkers. Zij werken aan fundamenteel onderzoek en academisch onderwijs op het gebied van gezonde voeding en leefomgeving.

Je werkt nauw samen met de leerstoelhouder en bent het eerste aanspreekpunt voor uiteenlopende administratieve vragen. Daarnaast speel je een belangrijke rol in het voorbereiden, bewaken en controleren van projectbegrotingen, jaarplannen en personeelsinformatie. Je signaleert ontwikkelingen, bewaakt overzicht en zorgt voor een correcte administratie.

Dit doe je samen met collega’s zoals projectcontrollers, projectleiders, secretaresses en andere Financial Support Officers binnen het Finance & Control-team.

Hier kom je te werken
Je komt te werken op de bruisende campus van Wageningen University & Research: een inspirerende en innovatieve werkomgeving waar onderwijs, onderzoek en ondernemerschap samenkomen. Van start-ups tot internationale organisaties zoals Unilever en FrieslandCampina — alles draait hier om innovatie en samenwerking.

Financial Support Officer

Are you our new Financial Support Officer?

Are you highly organised, do you enjoy working in a varied role, and do you have affinity with numbers? Then the position of Financial Support Officer (32–38 hours per week) might be your ideal next step.

As a Financial Support Officer, you support the chairholder of a chair group within Wageningen University & Research. You play a key role in ensuring that administrative processes and activities run smoothly.

You act as a central point of contact within the team and between the chair group and the Finance & Control department. In this role, you work closely with the chairholder and are the first point of contact for a wide range of administrative questions.

A chair group typically consists of 30 to 40 colleagues working on fundamental research and academic education in the field of healthy nutrition and living environments.

In addition, you play an important role in preparing, monitoring, and controlling project budgets, annual plans, and personnel information. You monitor developments, maintain oversight and ensure accurate records.

You do this in collaboration with colleagues such as project controllers, project leaders, secretaries and other Financial Support Officers.

Where you will work
You will work on the vibrant campus of Wageningen University & Research: an inspiring and innovative working environment where education, research, and entrepreneurship come together. From start-ups to international organizations such as Unilever and FrieslandCampina — everything here revolves around innovation and collaboration.

Projectadministrateur (20 uur/week)

Do you have a passion for financial administration and are you comfortable preparing invoices? Are you flexible, able to build connections easily, and do you enjoy working in an innovative environment as part of a friendly team? Then the position of Project Administrator could be your next challenge.

For the Finance & Control department of the Animal Sciences Group (ASG), we are looking for an enthusiastic, customer-oriented, and accurate Project Administrator to join the Finance & Control team of Wageningen Livestock Research in Wageningen (7 team members).

In this exciting role, you will:

• Perform financial and administrative tasks, including invoicing and providing support to Project Controllers;
• Be responsible for accurate and timely invoicing, mailbox management, intercompany (IC) bookings, and processing project milestones in Unit4 Business World;
• Ensure the correct use of general ledger accounts and VAT regulations;
• Work independently with a high level of responsibility;
• Collaborate closely with colleagues within the Finance & Control team;
• Work in Wageningen, with the option to work partly from home.

HR Business Partner for Professors

Are you an HR professional with a strong sense of governance and an understanding of an academic environment? And would you like to play an advisory role in attracting, appointing, and supporting professors? Then we are looking for you!

As HR Business Partner Professors, you are the key link in all HR processes relating to professors. You operate at various levels within the organisation and work closely with the Rector Magnificus, general directors, and various committees. You safeguard processes, provide advice, and ensure careful and professional decision-making.

In addition, you will have the opportunity to contribute as an HRBP within one of WUR’s organisational units and participate in HR projects.

Your duties and responsibilities as HR Business Partner Professors include:

• preparing and coordinating procedures for chair holder vacancies. You attend introductory and final interviews with candidates alongside the Rector Magnificus and the General Director, and are involved in negotiations on employment conditions;
• for appointments of personal professors, you are, together with other HRBPs, a member of the central Appointments Advisory Committee (AAC)/panel. You are responsible for coordinating HRBPs, including invitations and, where necessary, explaining the role of HR within this AAC;
• you attend the feedback sessions of the C-AAC between candidates and the Rector and subsequently coordinate the nomination and appointment process;
• you provide HR advice in cases involving the Rector and ensure accurate reporting and correspondence;
• for the administrative aspects of these processes, you work closely with HR Service Officers. You support the drafting of customised appointment and employment letters, bespoke agreements for termination, and pension letters.

Your team
You are part of the HR Business Partnering Concern Staff team and are based in the Atlas building (Wageningen). Collaboration is a key value within our HR team. As a team, we value a hands-on mindset and a shared commitment to further professionalising our services.

You will work closely with a Senior Business Partner Professors, who focuses more on policy-related work and collaborates with you on complex processes and/or cases. In addition, the team consists of three ‘regular’ (senior) HR Business Partners and an HR Head.

Postdoc researcher in transitions to nature-inclusive farming systems

Are you a researcher passionate about restoring biodiversity and ecosystem services in agroecosystems? Are you experienced in the design of reward schemes for farmers and/or the underlying policy frameworks? Would you like to be part of an interdisciplinary research team, combining quantitative and qualitative approaches, to address complex environmental challenges? Then we have the perfect opportunity for you.

There is a need to transition to more ‘nature-inclusive’ or ‘biodiversity-positive’ food systems. Livestock production systems, as a main land user (globally and in the Netherlands), are urged to act and contribute to the recovery of biodiversity and ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes. The design of reward schemes that support farmers in such a transition, however, remains a challenge.

In this context, two research projects have been granted: ECOPESIA (EU Horizon Europe) Enhancing climate and ecosystem outcomes through the promotion and upscaling of payment for environmental services in agriculture; and DECISION (NWO-KIC) Dairy and Ecology: co-innovating business operations for nature. These projects aim to develop integral approaches and reward schemes that support the transition to nature-inclusive (dairy) farming systems in the EU and in the Netherlands.

Your research will contribute to the aims and tasks of these two projects. You will also contribute to the teaching duties of the Animal Production Systems (APS) chair group.

Your research tasks include:

• Developing an analytical framework for designing, assessing, and scaling schemes that reward farmers for delivering biodiversity and ecosystem services (e.g. payment for ecosystem services, agri-environmental schemes, nature credits and result-based finance);
• Mapping and critically assessing relevant policy frameworks at global, EU, and Dutch contexts, and where relevant proposing policy recommendations to support the design and implementation of reward schemes;
• Developing an integrated research agenda aligning the objectives of both research projects;
• Supporting project coordination and management activities;
• Contributing to scientific publications, project outputs, and policy-relevant outputs.

Your education tasks include supervising MSc and BSc students, and contribute to teaching activities (lectures and practicals) in courses, such as APS40306 Future Livestock Systems, APS30306 Sustainability Assessment in Animal Sciences or BEC33306 Finance and Sustainability.

You will work here
This postdoc will be situated at the the Animal Production Systems group of Wageningen University & Research. Here we analyze and explore the roles of livestock in food systems with the aim of making these food systems more sustainable. The group focuses on unravelling the complexity of livestock systems, and exploring trade-offs and synergies of innovations regarding environmental impact, animal welfare, and economic viability, to design a more sustainable future.

You will join the team led by Raimon Ripoll-Bosch, focused on understanding the complex interactions between livestock, nature (biodiversity and ecosystem services) and economy, to design enabling environments for the transitions to nature-inclusive agroecosystems.