HR Payroll Officer

As an HR Payroll Officer, you, along with your colleagues, are responsible for timely and accurate payroll processing. An HR Payroll Officer fullfills an administrative support role within HR.

For example, you will handle the processing of employee onboarding, offboarding, and any changes that may occur during an employment period. You maintain regular contact with HR colleagues regarding these matters. This is a position that involves regular coordination and collaboration. Drawing on your role and expertise, you identify bottlenecks and recurring needs. Do you see opportunities for improvement? Then we encourage you to contribute your ideas and come up with proposals.

What will you do as an HR Payroll Officer?

• you will review submitted personnel changes against collective agreements, legal regulations, and internal procedures before processing them in the personnel and payroll system;
• you will handle all standard correspondence related to onboarding, transfers, and offboarding;
• you will perform checks based on the four-eyes principle and consult with colleagues, supervisors and HR colleagues regarding the personnel changes;
• you ensure the quality of personnel files;
• you provide second-line support to answer questions from supervisors, employees, and HR professionals when payroll expertise is required;
• you will participate in projects related to evolving HR processes;
• you test new HR applications or optimizations within existing workflows.

HR Payroll Officer

Als HR Payroll Officer ben je samen met je collega’s verantwoordelijk voor een tijdige en correcte salarisverwerking. Een HR Payroll Officer vervult een administratief ondersteunende rol binnen HR.

Jij zorgt bijvoorbeeld voor de verwerking van een indiensttreding, uitdiensttreding en alles wat er in de tussentijd kan veranderen tijdens een dienstverband. Hierover heb je regelmatig contact met HR-collega’s. Het is een functie met regelmatige afstemming en samenwerking. Vanuit jouw rol en expertise signaleer je knelpunten en regelmatig terugkerende wensen. Zie je kansen voor verbetering? Dan moedigen we je aan om mee te denken en met voorstellen te komen.

Wat ga je als HR Payroll Officer doen?

• je toetst ingediende mutaties aan cao's, wet- en regelgeving en interne procedures voordat je deze verwerkt in het personeels- en salarissysteem;
• je verzorgt alle standaard correspondentie van in- door- en uitstroom;
• je voert controles uit vanuit het 4-ogen principe en overlegt met collega’s, leidinggevenden, HR-collega’s over de uit te voeren mutaties;
• waarborgt de kwaliteit van de personeelsdossiers;
• verzorgt tweedelijns ondersteuning om vragen van leidinggevenden/medewerkers/HR professionals te beantwoorden wanneer salarisadministratie expertise benodigd is;
• je neemt deel aan projecten op het gebied van veranderende HR-processen;
• je test nieuwe HR-applicaties of optimalisaties binnen bestaande workflows.

PhD in Optimization of Sustainable Agri-Food Supply Chains under Climate Risk

Are you interested in optimization and data science? Are you motivated to contribute to answering one of the key challenges facing agricultural systems today: how can agricultural supply chains remain resilient in a world of increasing climate uncertainty?

This PhD project offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of climate change, food systems, and advanced optimization modelling. You will develop cutting-edge operations research models and methods to redesign agricultural supply chains that can withstand extreme climate events and shifting agroecological conditions.

Hosted by the chair of Operations Research and Logistics group of Wageningen University, the project focuses on quantifying how climate change impacts the resilience of agri-food supply networks. Building on state-of-the-art models for robust and responsive food supply chains, you will investigate how disruptions such as droughts, floods, heatwaves, and other climate-related shocks might affect critical decisions on facility location, storage, processing capacity, procurement, and inventory management.

The project combines:

• stochastic and robust optimization,
• uncertainty modelling,
• large-scale supply chain design,
• and advanced algorithms for solving complex optimization problems.

You will work with real-world case studies to design future-proof supply chain networks for key agricultural products in vulnerable regions.

This position is ideal for candidates interested in:

• operations research and optimization,
• climate adaptation and resilience,
• sustainable food systems,
• mathematical modelling and data-driven decision making,
• creating tangible societal impact through research.

This PhD position is embedded within the Horizon Europe project TIPPING, a large-scale European initiative developing next-generation climate intelligence tools for agriculture. Bringing together 16 partners across 10 EU countries, TIPPING aims to support climate adaptation in the agricultural sector by combining AI-driven climate modelling, agroecological transition analysis, socio-economic assessment, and decision-support systems. The project contributes directly to the EU Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change by helping farmers, businesses, and policymakers anticipate and respond to shifting agroecological conditions and climate-related risks across Europe.

Join us in shaping the next generation of climate-resilient agri-food systems.

Your duties and responsibilities include:

• Developing advance quantitative models
• Writing scientific articles
• Participating in international project meetings
• Contributing to project activities and deliverables

You will work here
The research is embedded within the chair of Operations Research and Logistics (https://www.wur.nl/en/chair-groups/business-science/operations-research-and-logistics ), which is led by Prof. Sander De Leeuw (https://www.wur.nl/en/persons/profdrir-sljm-sander-de-leeuw ) You will be co-supervised by [Dr. Peter Kirst, Dr. Meike Reusken and Dr. Argyris Kanellopoulos].

PostDoc on Equitable Rural Futures

The Rural Sociology Group (RSO) is hiring a Dutch-speaking PostDoctoral Researcher to support the FARMHEROES project to understand and advance more equitable rural futures.

In this role you will generate cutting-edge evidence on the attractiveness of farming with a focus on diversity and inclusion. Research findings will be operationalised into user-friendly resources grounded in established organisations to ensure long-term use. Creative and Cultural Industry actors are embedded in FARMHEROES to enrich methodologies and co-develop innovative tools for communication and business development.

As a PostDoc in the FARMHEROES project, you contribute to a culture of care and deeply engaged academic research. You will work closely with partners across the Netherlands and Europe to advance:

• A network of young farmer Ambassadors
• A National AgriFutures Action Group
• Macro-Regional Labs
• The European AgriFutures Forum

You will also help mobilise diverse stakeholders to deliver policy mixes and initiatives to increase the attractiveness of farming to young people across Europe.

The position will start in October 2026 and run until December 2029, at 0.8 FTE (4 days a week). Working in the office at least two days a week is required. This job also requires travel in Europe.

Your duties and responsibilities include:

• Leading research and developing strategies, an evidence-based framework and tools for increasing diversity, equity and inclusion in research and for the future of farming;
• Helping to lead an Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (EDI) Working Group responsible for guiding inclusivity across all research activities;
• Coordinating and researching the diverse stakeholder processes associated with the project, with a focus on the Dutch young Farmer Ambassadors and the National AgriFuture Action Group;
• Undertaking teaching and supervision of MSc and BSc students on relevant topics; and,
• Serving as the key contact point for RSO in the project, leading on concrete project deliverables, attending consortium meetings, and communicating between local activities and the wider

Your team
You will work directly with Dr Jessica Duncan. More broadly, you will be embedded in the FARMHEROES project, funded under Horizon Europe.

You will work here
This job is housed in the Rural Sociology Group of Wageningen University. The Rural Sociology Group is a vibrant community of researchers who bring together different sociological theories and interdisciplinary approaches to study the many forms of power, inequality and unevenness. We start from the everyday life of people to understand transformation processes in agriculture, food provisioning, and rural development from a comparative perspective.

Projectcontroller

Wil jij als projectcontroller werken op de meest groene campus van Nederland en bijdragen aan belangrijke maatschappelijke thema’s van dit moment? Ben je financieel goed onderlegd, analytisch, nauwkeurig? Ben je op zoek naar een uitdagende baan waarin je kan groeien?

Word dan projectcontroller bij Wageningen University & Research!
Als Projectcontroller maak je deel uit van de enthousiaste afdeling F&C van de Social Sciences Group en ben je verantwoordelijk voor de administratie en het financieel beheer van (gesubsidieerde) (onderzoeks)projecten. Van begroting tot en met eindafrekening maak jij de vertaalslag tussen financiën en onderzoek. In deze functie werk je nauw samen met je collega’s aan diverse onderwerpen op het gebied van projectcontrol. En bewaak je de processen om risico’s te minimaliseren.

Op de afdelingen is een plezierige, gedreven en open werksfeer waarbij er aandacht is voor een goede werk- privébalans. Naast het team Projectcontrol bestaat de afdeling F&C nog uit het team Business Control. Het onderdeel waar je als projectcontroller voor aan de slag gaat is het departement maatschappijwetenschappen van de Wageningen Universiteit.

Wat kan je verwachten als projectcontroller :

• Je voert zelfstandig projectcontrol en bent verantwoordelijk voor de projectbeheersing.
• je bent het financiële aanspreekpunt voor projectleiders en de leerstoelgroepen van het departement en biedt zowel gevraagd als ongevraagd advies;
• je bent verantwoordelijk voor het vaststellen van resultaten van de projecten t.b.v. de maand- en jaarcijfers voor interne monitoring en externe verslaggeving (bijv. jaarrekening);
• je levert een bijdrage aan het in kaart brengen en bewaken van projectrisico’s en draag je bij aan de uitvoering van interne controlemaatregelen;
• je werkt nauw samen met je collega’s van de backoffice en business;