Projectcontroller

Are you a critical thinker who excels with numbers and has an affinity for projects? Do you enjoy working closely with project leaders while keeping the bigger picture in mind? We are a stable organisation that values a healthy work-life balance. If you enjoy working with detail without losing sight of the bigger picture, you could be the person we are looking for. Read on!

Your job
As a Project Controller with us, you are the financial all-rounder who helps keep everything running smoothly. You are responsible for project and service reports, prepare budgets and ensure that project files are complete and up to date. And that is not all: you also ensure that services and projects are invoiced on time. In short, you are an important link between the primary process and the Finance department.

You have an advisory and monitoring role and support other partners within collaborative projects and partnerships. Within the Project Control team, you work closely with two other Project Controllers and a Project Administrator. Together with the Business Controllers, Project Leaders and Product Owners from the V&H and IT departments, you help ensure the efficient delivery of projects.

Thanks to your financial background, you will quickly be able to independently prepare and analyse financial reports and identify potential risks at an early stage. On top of that, you contribute to implementing internal control measures and reviewing processes and procedures. Excited to learn more?

Where you will work
Facility Services (FB, including Digital Information Services) at Wageningen University & Research is a professional service organisation with more than 500 employees. It is responsible for providing and supporting the physical and digital working environment for employees and students.

The team
The F&C department consists of nine employees: four Business Controllers and five Project Controllers. Together, they are responsible for financial and business-economic policy and management. Within the F&C department, we are looking for a Project Controller.

PhD position: Trait-based drivers of global plant distributions

Are you interested in spatial ecology, species distributions, and plant functional traits? Do you want to contribute to understanding global patterns of plant diversity, and plant responses to environmental change?

Conserving biodiversity in a rapidly changing world requires understanding why some species occupy vast geographic ranges while others remain restricted to small areas. Traditionally, efforts to answer this question have focused on understanding and predicting the distributions of individual species. However, recent advances in biodiversity and trait datasets have expanded our capacity to incorporate the functional characteristics of species, allowing us to go beyond the species concept and better capture the variation in biota using functional traits across different levels of biological organisation.

This PhD position explores how functional traits influence global patterns of plant biodiversity and plant responses to environmental change. The project focuses on three different levels of organisation, ranging from broad functional forms that capture major ecological plant strategies (e.g. tree, epiphyte, shrub), to finer levels of organisation among species (inter-specific variation) and within species (intra-specific variation). As a PhD candidate, you will make use of large trait databases like TRY and BIEN, and be responsible for setting up a greenhouse experiment similar to that of a provenance trial set-up (i.e. growing seeds collected from across a species’ native geographic range under varying environmental conditions). Specifically, your duties and responsibilities include:

• Collating plant distributions, functional traits, and environmental data from various sources
• Setting-up and conducting a greenhouse experiment to assess variation in plant phenotypic plasticity under simulated environmental conditions
• Publishing your research in peer-reviewed journals and presenting your research at (inter)national conferences
• Mentoring BSc/MSc students

You will work here
The research is embedded within the Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation group, which is led by Prof. David Kleijn. You will be supervised by Dr. Coline Boonman and Dr. Amanda Taylor. Prof. David Kleijn is the promotor.

PhD position in modelling the formation and flooding of coastal peat landscapes

Are you fascinated by how water, sediment and vegetation shape coastal landscapes? Would you like to use numerical models to reconstruct the formation and flooding of peat landscapes during the Holocene, to better understand coastal landscape development under future sea-level rise? And are you eager to work in an interdisciplinary research team? Then this PhD position may be for you!

Zeeland is a low-lying coastal province in the south-western part of the Netherlands. During the Holocene, large parts of the region developed into an extensive peat landscape. Following a combination of sea-level rise, natural landscape dynamics and human land use, this landscape was flooded and transformed into the tidal environment it is today.

As a PhD candidate, you will investigate the processes behind these major landscape changes. You will translate existing geological records and paleo-tidal reconstructions into morphological and hydrodynamic boundary conditions for new numerical model simulations. In turn, you will validate the simulated coastal landscape development with the available paleo-records.

You will work with numerical models such as Delft3D, to capture interactions between hydrodynamics, sediment transport, morphology, and peat dynamics. The model studies will help to unravel how these bio-physical interactions have, over centuries to millennia, formed the Zeeland peat landscape and caused its subsequent rapid flooding.

This PhD position is part of Re-Flex Zeeland, an interdisciplinary project funded by the Delta Climate Center. The project brings together Wageningen University, Utrecht University, the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), and regional partners. Although the project focuses on Zeeland, it addresses internationally relevant questions about the resilience and vulnerability of low-lying deltas under sea-level rise, land subsidence and human intervention.

Within the Re-Flex Zeeland project, you will collaborate closely with another PhD candidate working on geological and vegetation reconstructions, and with a postdoctoral researcher developing three-dimensional visualizations of the past landscapes.

Your duties and responsibilities include:

• developing, calibrating and evaluating numerical models that couple hydrodynamics, sediment transport, morphology and vegetation dynamics;
• translating geological and paleo-tidal reconstructions into model configurations;
• designing numerical experiments to investigate the formation and flooding of coastal peat landscapes;
• collaborating with researchers at Wageningen University, Utrecht University, NIOZ and the Delta Climate Center;
• publishing your findings in scientific journals and presenting them at international conferences;
• supervising BSc and MSc thesis students, and contributing to field excursions in Zeeland as part of BSc and MSc education;
• completing a PhD thesis.

You will work here
We are the Hydrology and Environmental Hydraulics Group (HWM), a dynamic and committed team of academics, support staff, postdocs and PhD researchers. Our focus is on hydrology and environmental hydraulics, which we combine to understand and quantify hydrological processes in catchments, aquifers, rivers and deltas. We develop novel sensing techniques, create models and perform field and lab experiments to advance process understanding.

You will be supervised by Roeland van de Vijsel and Ton Hoitink, and will work closely together with other researchers in the Re-Flex Zeeland project.

Your working time will be divided between Wageningen University, and the Delta Climate Center in Vlissingen, a coastal city in Zeeland. The exact balance will be agreed at the start of the appointment. Regular presence at both locations and travel between them will be expected.

Project Controller

Ben jij een kritisch persoon die uitblinkt in cijfers en affiniteit heeft met projecten? Ben je ook graag in gesprek met projectleiders om het totaalbeeld in het oog te houden? We zijn een stabiele organisatie en hechten veel waarde aan een gezonde werk-prive balans. Als jij graag tot in detail werkt zonder het grotere plaatje uit het oog te verliezen, dan ben jij de persoon die we zoeken. Lees verder!

Wat ga je doen
Als projectcontroller bij ons ben jij de financiële duizendpoot die alles op rolletjes laat lopen. Je verzorgt project- en dienstrapportages, stelt budgetten op en zorgt ervoor dat projectdossiers compleet en actueel zijn. En dat is nog niet alles: je zorgt ook voor tijdige facturatie van diensten en projecten. Kortom, je bent een belangrijke schakel tussen het primaire proces en de financiële afdeling.

Jij hebt een adviserende en monitorende rol en ondersteunt de overige partners bij samenwerkingsverbanden. In het team Projectcontrol werk je nauw samen met twee andere projectcontrollers en de projectadministrateur. Samen met de Business Controllers, Projectleiders en Product Owners van de afdelingen V&H en IT zorg je voor een efficiënte uitvoering van projecten.

Dankzij jouw financiële achtergrond ben jij snel in staat om zelfstandig financiële rapportages op te stellen, te analyseren en vroegtijdig risico’s te signaleren. En als kers op de taart draag je ook nog eens bij aan het uitvoeren van interne controlemaatregelen en de beoordeling van processen en procedures. Enthousiast geworden?

Hier ga je werken
Facilitair Bedrijf / Digital Information Services – Afdeling Finance & Control (F&C)
Het Facilitair Bedrijf (FB inclusief Digital Information Services) van Wageningen University & Research is een professionele dienstverlener (>500 medewerkers), verantwoordelijk voor de inrichting van de fysieke en virtuele werkomgeving van medewerkers en studenten en ondersteuning bij het gebruik daarvan.

Het team
De afdeling F&C (9 medewerkers) bestaat uit een team van 4 businesscontrollers en 5 projectcontrollers die met elkaar verantwoordelijk zijn voor het financieel- en bedrijfseconomisch beleid- en beheer. Binnen de afdeling F&C zoeken we een projectcontroller.

Medior Software Developer

Wageningen University & Research (WUR) is a leading university in the field of education and research and invests heavily in digitisation. For our software development team, we are looking for a medior software developer.

As a medior software developer at WUR, you contribute to the development and improvement of software that supports education, research and university operations. You take responsibility for your own work, learn from experienced colleagues and tackle more complex technical challenges along the way. You have the ability to work independently on assigned issues, but also to know when to seek advice. You are willing to learn, experiment and further develop your technical skills

Software development is changing rapidly, particularly with the rise of AI-assisted development and applications that leverage AI. We are looking for developers who are curious about these developments and can use new tools thoughtfully, without losing sight of the quality of the code, security, maintainability and the needs of our users. As a medior developer, you are expected to critically assess AI-generated output, understand the code you commit, and develop your ability to assess the quality, safety, and suitability of that code for the issue at hand.

You will be part of our central IT department with about 200 colleagues. Together, we deliver modern IT for students, researchers and staff, with a focus on digitalisation, security, data and cloud. There is plenty of room for growth — WUR was named best employer for IT specialists in 2024 for a reason.

What will you do?

• Designing and developing scalable, secure and maintainable software systems
• Translating requirements and user needs into practical technical solutions
• Taking responsibility for assigned functionalities and components, from deployment to testing and delivery
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to discussions about software design and quality
• Collaborate with colleagues to solve problems and improve existing systems
• Contribute to automated testing, documentation, monitoring and continuous improvement
• Adopting and applying existing architecture and development practices
• Experimenting with new technologies, including AI-assisted development tools, while critically assessing output
• Collaborate with developers, researchers, teachers, students, and other stakeholders within the university