Social Security Employee / Medewerker Sociale Zekerheid

Team Sociale Zekerheid maakt onderdeel uit van HR Legal binnen de Corporate Staf van Wageningen University & Research. Voor dit team zijn wij op zoek naar een Medewerker Sociale Zekerheid die de adviseurs Sociale Zekerheid ondersteunt bij hun dagelijkse werkzaamheden.

Het team Sociale Zekerheid adviseert de organisatie en (ex-)medewerkers over sociale uitkeringen, complexe verzuimdossiers, pensioenen, verzekeringen, verhaalschades, overheidsregelingen en het beleid rondom deze onderwerpen.

Je werkt hybride, met Atlas in Wageningen als standplaats. Hier maak je deel uit van het team HR Legal en werk je nauw samen met je collega's.

Als Medewerker Sociale Zekerheid ben je medeverantwoordelijk voor de administratieve en ondersteunende werkzaamheden binnen het vakgebied Sociale Zekerheid. Daarnaast behandel je eenvoudige inhoudelijke vraagstukken en geef je hierover advies. Ook verzorg je de administratieve processen die voortvloeien uit het Eigenrisicodragerschap. Samen met de (Senior) Adviseur Sociale Zekerheid en de Coach Sociale Zekerheid draag je zorg voor de rapportage en coördinatie van dossiers binnen de Ziektewet (ZW), Werkloosheidswet (WW) en Werkhervatting Gedeeltelijk Arbeidsgeschikten (WGA).

Je taken en verantwoordelijkheden

• Je registreert en volgt trajecten van (ex-)medewerkers binnen de WW, ZW en WGA.
• Je verwerkt de facturatie die voortvloeit uit het Eigenrisicodragerschap voor WW, ZW en WGA.
• Je beheert de gezamenlijke mailbox en verwerkt de correspondentie van het UWV, zowel digitaal als per post.
• Je onderhoudt contact met het UWV en bent medeverantwoordelijk voor Digi-ZSM.
• Je houdt de intranetpagina actueel en verzorgt interne communicatie.
• Je ondersteunt collega's en teams met basisadvies over sociale zekerheid, wet- en regelgeving, overheidsregelingen en verzuim.
• Je voert het proces rondom de Compensatieregeling Transitievergoeding (CRTV) uit en bewaakt de voortgang.
• Je monitort processen rondom ZANU-toekenningen, de 60+-beschikking van het UWV en het Loonkostenvoordeel (LKV).
• Je biedt administratieve ondersteuning bij dossiers rondom verhaalschades, verzekeringen, sociale uitkeringen, facturen en pensioenen.

PD: Design and testing of biochars for pollution control in urban environments

Do you want to help design biochars for urban applications in pollution control and water purification? Are you excited about translating laboratory-scale discoveries into real-world field applications through a collaborative research project? If so, this postdoctoral position could be the perfect opportunity for you.

This position is part of a larger European Project led by the Municipality of Amsterdam in collaboration with other European cities (Berlin, Barcelona) examining the potential of improving the urban green transition through using biochar in the urban environment.

As a Post-doc will you will contribute to the overarching project goal to make locally produced biochar from urban green wastes a market ready carbon negative emission technology with co-benefits driving synergistic effects to improve the environmental footprint of municipalities across the triple planetary crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, and chemical pollution.

You will develop, design, and test biochar for applications in urban environments with a specific focus on pollution control and contaminant mitigation in water treatment, soil remediation, and biochar application in composting. Your work will include the optimization of biochar production from different biomass types at different pyrolysis conditions to produce biochar with characteristics tailored for specific applications such as the treatment of road runoff. Thereafter, you will conduct batch- and laboratory column experiments to inform larger scale field testing. You will also be responsible for advising on the implementation of field tests and monitoring the performance of the biochar you designed under realistic application conditions at field scale.

This collaborative project will thus bridge fundamental scientific insights with field testing of biochar in Amsterdam. As such, your role includes proactive collaboration with the municipality of Amsterdam in producing and testing biochar and in designing and monitoring field tests.

Your duties and responsibilities include:

• designing biochar towards urban applications in pollution control and water purification at laboratory scale;
• testing and benchmarking tailored designer biochar for targeted contaminant removal at laboratory scale;
• informing monitoring and evaluating field test sites for biochar application;
• synthesizing knowledge and producing dissemination materials for scientific audiences (peer-reviewed papers) and practitioners alike (technical guidance documents);
• student supervision on related topics;
• teaching activities.

Your team
You will work with Dr. Gabriel Sigmund and Dr. Nora Sutton at Environmental Technology, Wageningen University & Research.

You will work here
The research is embedded within the Environmental Technology division and the micropollutant and pathogen group, which is led by Dr. Nora Sutton and includes 4 staff members and around 15 PhD and postdocs. You will be co-supervised by Dr. Gabriel Sigmund and Dr. Nora Sutton.

PhD: Microscale Tracing of Molecules Driving Fungal Interactions in Soil

Do you want to uncover the hidden chemical language of fungi? Are you a highly motivated PhD candidate, interested in developing cutting-edge SERS microspectroscopy sensors to detect and characterize fungal secondary metabolites at single-cell scale? This PhD might be for you!

Soil fungi are key drivers of global carbon and nutrient cycling and among nature’s most prolific producers of secondary metabolites, many of which remain chemically and functionally uncharacterized. Uncovering the ecological roles of these compounds is essential for understanding how fungi interact across species and what influence those interactions have on ecosystem processes. This is why INTERSPEC is dedicated to establishment of novel experimental protocols for tracing of soil fungal secondary metabolites using surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) microspectroscopy - a method that employs optical properties of gold nanoparticles for molecule specific sensing.

Within this highly interdisciplinary project, the PhD candidate will develop SERS-based strategies for targeted spatiotemporal detection and characterization of the fungal secondary metabolites, while closely collaborating with another PhD student and 2 postdocs also working within the project across the Netherlands and Sweden and contributing to a deeper understanding of fungal metabolic processes.

Your duties and responsibilities include:

• isolation of individual interaction-specific compounds from soil fungal co-cultures and analysis of their molecular structures via spectroscopy methods;
• analysis of interactions between specific secondary metabolite compounds isolated from fungal co-cultures and Au nanoparticle-based SERS sensors;
• identification and application of strategies for SERS tracing of those metabolites in complex biological environment (including nanoparticle functionalization);
• spectral data analysis and interpretation;
• scientific writing.

You will work here
The research is embedded within the chair of Biophysics and member of the Microbial biochemistry in soils team, which is led by Dr. Milda Pucetaite.

PhD position in Understanding and Decreasing N2O emissions in Deammonification

Do you want to shape the future of sustainable wastewater treatment? Do you enjoy working together with stakeholders from the water sector on fundamental research questions? Do you want to better understand nitrous oxide emissions from deammonification technologies to improve their sustainability?

Environmental Technology at Wageningen University & Research is looking for a PhD candidate for the research project UNITED. Within UNITED (Understanding and Narrowing Impacts of Targeted N2O Emissions in Deammonification), several stakeholders from the water sector (including technology providers and end users like water authorities and companies) have joined forces with Environmental Technology at Wageningen University & Research to study the mechanisms behind nitrous oxide emissions from deammonification reactors.

Nitrous oxide emissions have a large impact on the CO2 footprint of wastewater treatment plants and they prevent the Dutch water authorities to become climate neutral by 2035. The aim of the research project UNITED is to use the increased understanding of nitrous oxide production to come up with mitigation measures. You will study the N2O production data of several full scale deammonification reactors. You will experimentally study the effect of electron donor and acceptor availability to identify strategies for reduction N2O production. Specifically, your duties and responsibilities include

• Conduct bioreactor experiments to obtain fundamental insights in the contribution of different N2O production pathways in deammonification reactors under relevant conditions.
• Analyse N2O production data of several full scale deammonification reactors located at wastewater treatment plants in the Netherlands, as well as (the variation in) composition of the rejection water typically treated in these reactors.
• Develop and test mitigation measures in a full scale deammonification reactor.
• Pro-actively communicate your research findings with partners within and outside of the UNITED consortium.
• Publish your research in peer-reviewed journals and present your research at (inter)national conferences.

You will work here
The research is embedded within Environmental Technology. You will be co-supervised by Dr. Paula van den Brink and by Prof. Annemiek ter Heijne.

Social Security Employee / Medewerker Sociale Zekerheid

Team Social Security is part of team HR Legal within the corporate department of Wageningen University & Research. Within our social security team we are looking for an employee social security to support the Advisors of the social security team. Team Social Security advices the organization and (ex)employees on social benefits, complex sick leave, pensions, insurances, recourse damages, governmental grants and policy on these topics.

Your work location will be hybrid and from Atlas in Wageningen, where you work alongside your colleagues of team HR Legal.

As Employee Social Security you will be co-responsible for the administration and support tasks within the Social Security domain. Additionally, you also provide advice on content-related matters regarding simple issues. You will also take care of the administrative tasks of the design and implementation of the obligations that come with own risk bearing (Eigen Risico Dragerschap). Next to that you will report and coordinate together with the (sr.) Social Security advisor and the Coach Social Security on ZW, WW and WGA.

Your duties and responsibilities include:

• Responsible for registry and follow up of all (ex-) employees in WW, ZW, WGA trajectories;
• Responsible for processing the billing process regarding all own risk bearing obligations WW, ZW & WGA(Eigen Risico Dragerschap);
• Mail handling; shared mailbox management and processing mail from UWV (via post and digitally);
• Communication and advice; communication with the UWV, co-responsibility for DigiZSM, keeping the intranet page up-to-date, providing internal communication and advice towards the different teams about law and legislations or basic advice around social benefits, governmental grants and sickleave;
• Execute and monitoring the process of CRTV (compensatie regeling Transitie vergoeding);
• Monitoring; the process after ZANU conferment, 60+ decision UWV and LKV (Loonkortingsvoordeel);
• Administrative support; for the process of decourse damages, insurances, social benefits, invoices and pensions.