HR Services Officer

Hoe zorg je ervoor dat medewerkers en leidinggevenden snel hun weg vinden in de wereld van HR?

Als HR Services Officer ben jij een belangrijke schakel in de dagelijkse HR-dienstverlening. Je helpt medewerkers en leidinggevenden verder, zorgt dat HR-processen soepel verlopen en ziet waar het beter kan.

Van een nieuwe medewerker die bij WUR start tot een collega die doorgroeit of uit dienst gaat: jij zorgt dat de administratieve en organisatorische kant goed geregeld is. Daarbij heb je oog voor de persoon achter het proces. Een internationale medewerker heeft bijvoorbeeld andere procedures nodig dan een Nederlandse collega. Jij weet wat er nodig is en vindt snel de juiste weg.

Je werkt nauw samen met HR-collega’s en bent een betrouwbare wegwijzer voor leidinggevenden bij uiteenlopende HR-vragen. Tegelijkertijd kijk je verder dan de vraag van vandaag. Je signaleert knelpunten, denkt mee over oplossingen en draagt bij aan HR-processen die steeds slimmer, duidelijker en eenduidiger worden.

Jouw taken en verantwoordelijkheden als HR Services Officer:

• verzorgen van eerstelijns ondersteuning om vragen van leidinggevenden/medewerkers/HR professionals te beantwoorden;
• verantwoordelijk voor het operationele proces rondom in- door- en uitstroom binnen de SLA en proces KPI's;
• aannemen en afhandelen van administratieve verzoeken op het gebied van autorisaties en berekeningen vanuit de organisatie volgens werkinstructie en processtandaarden;
• waarborgen van de kwaliteit van personeelsdossiers;
• pakt regie en neemt deel aan projecten op het gebied van optimalisatie HR-processen;
• je zoekt oplossingen voor specifieke in- door- uitstroom (complexe) casussen waarbij advies wordt ingewonnen bij verschillende stafafdelingen;
• je bent verantwoordelijk voor het opstellen en actualiseren van de kennisbank in het HR Services-team.

HR Services Officer

How do you ensure that employees and managers quickly find their way in the world of HR?

As an HR Services Officer, you are an important link in the daily HR services. You help employees and managers move forward, ensure that HR processes run smoothly and see where things can be improved.

From a new employee who starts at WUR to a colleague who grows or leaves the company: you ensure that the administrative and organisational side is well organised. In doing so, you have an eye for the person behind the process. For example, an international employee needs different procedures than a Dutch colleague. You know what is needed and quickly find the right way.

You work closely with HR colleagues and are a reliable guide for managers with a variety of HR questions. At the same time, you look beyond today's question. You identify bottlenecks, think along about solutions and contribute to HR processes that are becoming smarter, clearer and more unambiguous.

Your tasks and responsibilities as HR Services Officer:

• providing first-line support to answer questions from managers/employees/HR professionals;
• responsible for the operational process around inflow, throughflow, and outflow within the SLA and process KPIs;
• accepting and handling administrative requests in the field of authorizations and calculations from the organization according to work instructions and process standards;
• ensuring the quality of personnel files;
• takes control and participates in projects in the field of optimization of HR processes;
• you will look for solutions for specific inflow, throughflow and outflow, (complex) cases in which advice is sought from different staff departments.
• you will be responsible for setting up and updating the knowledge base in the HR Services team.

Postdoc: understanding plant immune responses against insect egg deposition

The goal of this research project is to unravel the genetic basis and molecular mechanisms involved in plant defence traits that kill insect eggs, preventing insect larvae from hatching or impeding their development, thereby reducing damage to the plant. Little is known about plant immune receptor genes involved in egg-killing, how insect-derived ligands are perceived, and which immune pathways are activated.

As a postdoctoral researcher, you will contribute to the characterisation of plant immune receptor genes, identify their intra- and interspecific diversity, and investigate downstream immune pathways.

This project is part of an NWP OTP project and executed in close collaboration with vegetable breeding and seed companies. Within the insect team at Biosystematics, you will lead both dry lab (Bioinformatics) as well as wet lab (plant transformation and receptor characterization) activities and co-supervise two PhD students.

Your duties and responsibilities include:

• NGS techniques;
• RNAseq;
• Plant transformation;
• Bioinformatic analysis;
• Crispr-cas9.

Your team
You will work with Dr. Fatouros and her team, including a postdoc, two PhD students, two technicians, close collaborators at Biosystematics Group, Dr. Klaas Bouwmeester and Dr. Robin van Velzen as well as collaborators of Plant Breeding, incl. Dr. Lotte Caarls.

You will work here
You will join the insect team led by Dr. Fatouros within the Biosystematics group at Wageningen University. Our research explores the evolutionary ecology of plant-insect interactions in close collaboration with plant physiologists, molecular biologists and plant pathologists. Research in the Biosystematics group focuses on plant and insect biodiversity and its evolutionary origins, both within and above the species level. The Biosystematics group is part of the Plant Sciences Group at Wageningen University.

PhD position on local food web dynamics within offshore wind farms

PhD position on local food web dynamics within offshore wind farms in the North Sea POWER (Progress in Offshore Wind Ecological Research) consortium.

As offshore wind farms rapidly expand in the North Sea, mitigating their ecological impact on marine ecosystems is critical. The North Sea POWER project addresses this challenge by filling vital knowledge gaps regarding underwater noise, biomass and water flows, and wildlife disturbance (such as seabirds and bats) to support a sustainable green energy transition. By reducing uncertainty in models and identifying effective mitigation options, North Sea POWER supports offshore wind development that protects marine ecosystems while contributing to a sustainable energy future.

The project is funded through the Dutch Research Agenda (NWA), developed in collaboration with the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy.

Led by Wageningen University & Research, the project brings together a transdisciplinary consortium of leading academic institutions, societal stakeholders, conservation organisations, and energy sector partners. More about the consortium.

This position is one of twelve PhD and postdoc positions across the consortium. You will be part of a team working on shared questions, with joint meetings, fieldwork and training alongside your own project. You will be hosted at Wageningen Marine Research in Den Helder, where you will study how fouling communities in offshore wind farms affect local food web dynamics and carbon cycling in close collaboration with Wageningen University. Part of the molecular lab work will be performed in the lab of Marine Animal Ecology in Wageningen.

Are you interested in how biofouling communities in offshore wind farms affect local food web dynamics and carbon cycling?
We are looking for a motivated PhD candidate to join our research team on biofouling with a focus on quantifying how biofouling communities influence primary and secondary production and blue carbon sequestration in the seabed. By combining laboratory experiments, in-situ fieldwork observations, and ecosystem modelling, your work will help refine current ecosystem-scale models and inform environmental impact assessments.

Your duties and responsibilities include:

• conduct laboratory experiments to measure and quantify grazing rates, carbon biomass, prey preferences, particle export, and faeces sinking velocity rates across different fouling species;
• execute field surveys from research vessels;
• integrate empirical data into conceptual models;
• publish research findings in peer-reviewed journals and present them at national and international conferences;
• mentor BSc/MSc students.

Your team
You will be part of Wageningen Marine Research (WMR – Den Helder), as a member of the Theme Team North Sea Reefs with Dr. Joop Coolen, and Dr. Ninon Mavraki as your daily supervisors, and you are also part of the Marine Animal Ecology Group (MAE) supervised by the Associate Professor Reindert Nijland at Wageningen University and Research. In Den Helder a broad group of scientists, analysts, field workers and students work on a variety of topics, such as benthic ecology, seals, seabirds, bats and other species. You will be a member of the theme team North Sea Reefs, with multiple colleagues specialising in the ecology of natural and artificial reefs in the North Sea. Furthermore, you will have the opportunity to design experiments involving molecular tools, such as eDNA and DNA metabarcoding, which then will be performed at the molecular laboratory of MAE in Wageningen University.

You will work here
The position is available within Wageningen University & Research at the Marine Animal Ecology group. The organisation has good and flexible employment conditions, including good education and training facilities for PhD students. Your working location will be at Wageningen Marine Research in Den Helder, the Netherlands, where the daily supervisors Joop Coolen and Ninon Mavraki are located. WMR is an applied research institute with 3 locations (Den Helder, IJmuiden and Yerseke) in the Netherlands. Research areas in Den Helder include coastal and offshore North Sea, tropics and (ant)arctic regions. In addition to ecological research, WMR advises the government regarding protection of species and habitats, pollution, and other anthropogenic interactions with ecology, and collaborate with industry, i.a. to study nature inclusive designs. Facilities in Den Helder in addition to offices, include a benthic lab, eco-analysis lab, climate rooms, mesocosms and algae culture facilities. Additionally, WMR has an experimental hard substrate garden in the marina on the island of Texel.

Docent Social, Health & Organizational Psychology

Binnen het departement Psychologie van de faculteit Sociale Wetenschappen zoeken we voor de afdeling Social, Health and Organizational Psychology (SHOP) een docent.

Je belangrijkste taak is het verzorgen van onderwijs binnen de bacheloropleiding Psychologie en de Engelstalige Academic Master van onze afdeling. Daarnaast kun je worden ingezet voor onderwijs dat vanuit Psychologie aan andere bachelor- en masteropleidingen wordt verzorgd.

Je geeft werkgroepen en/of colleges binnen verschillende cursussen in het tweede en derde jaar van de overwegend Nederlandstalige bacheloropleiding en binnen de Engelstalige masteropleiding. Daarnaast bestaan je werkzaamheden onder meer uit het maken en nakijken van opdrachten en tentamens, tutortaken, de begeleiding van bachelor- en masterthesissen en co-coördinatietaken.

Een belangrijk onderdeel van de functie is de begeleiding van bachelor- en masterthesissen. Daarom zoeken we een docent met voldoende academische en methodologische expertise om studenten zelfstandig te begeleiden bij het opzetten, uitvoeren en rapporteren van wetenschappelijk onderzoek. Het profiel dat bij deze docent past kan zijn verkregen via het behalen van een (research) masterdiploma of een PhD. De precieze onderwijstaken zijn afhankelijk van de expertise en competenties die jij als docent meebrengt.

We vinden het daarnaast belangrijk dat je inhoudelijk betrokken bent bij een van de onderzoeksgroepen van de afdeling. Dit draagt bij aan de verbinding tussen ons onderzoek en onderwijs.