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Vital & Health Advisor
Are you an expert in the field of Vital & Health? Are you looking for a position where you not only advise and support managers in (preventing) absenteeism, but also passionately commit to a vital and healthy work environment within an innovative organization? Than this is the job for you!
Your department:
In July 2023, we started with a new HR service model: HR Together. Three components together realize the HR service: HR Business Partnering from the decentralized units and the Center of Expertise (CoE) and HR Operations. In the CoE, harmonization, development, and renewal of WUR HR policy take place. The CoE is also responsible for the vision and strategy on HR topics within its own portfolio. The CoE, in collaboration with HR Teams and HR Operations, ensures a consistent translation of policy into implementation. Experts work here who know and can apply developments outside the organization and in the field. They are responsible for translating the needs within the organization into policy for WUR. Conversely, they also ensure that developments (and legislation) in the outside world are well applied in the (HR) organization. They initiate and coordinate innovation and renewal. You work from the CoE Vital & Health (V&H) dedicated to one organizational unit and work on WUR-wide tasks in the field of Vital & Health (estimated 80% for your organizational unit, 20% WUR-wide). You work closely with the Team Lead V&H, the V&H Policy Advisor, your fellow Vital & Health Advisors, and the decentralized HR Business Partners.
Your role:
As an Vital & Health Advisor, you not only inform and advise managers but also support them in (preventing) absenteeism. Thanks to your expertise and commitment to a vital and healthy work environment, your colleagues at Wageningen University & Research can continue to work healthily. Your tasks and responsibilities as an Vital & Health Advisor are:
- you provide managers with specialist advice (both requested and unsolicited) and information about vitality, (preventing) absenteeism, and disability;
- you ensure the correct and timely execution of the process during the 1st and 2nd year of illness based on the ‘Wet Verbetering Poortwachter’ and advise and support in fulfilling the obligations within this trajectory. This includes interventions, deployment of the company doctor, file building, and 1st/2nd track. You coordinate this with the HR Business Partners of the relevant unit, company doctor, other care providers (such as Corporate Social Work), and UWV;
- you contribute to the development of Vital & Health policy and translate signals and needs from the organization into appropriate interventions.
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PhD: State-Dependent Spatial Representations using immersive Virtual Reality
Are you fascinated by how people understand, navigate, and communicate complex spatial environments? Do you hold a master’s degree in cognitive science, environmental psychology, human-computer interaction, geo-information science, or a related field, with experience in experimental research using virtual reality? If so, we have an exciting PhD opportunity for you!
Spatial thinking plays a crucial role in understanding and communicating environmental issues, from climate adaptation and landscape planning to biodiversity loss, water management, and sustainable land use. These challenges often require people to reason about spatial processes that are not immediately visible: future scenarios, delayed consequences, cascading effects, or changes that unfold across places and time. To support better environmental decision-making and communication, we need to understand how people build mental representations of such complex, dynamic spatial systems.
Spatial cognition research has traditionally studied how people represent environments through concepts such as mental models, cognitive maps, and cognitive graphs. These approaches have provided important insights into how people perceive locations, learn route layouts, and understand spatial relations. However, they are primarily suited to stable environments and are less equipped to handle situations where the same place or action may have different spatial meaning or outcomes depending on context — for example, a landscape that changes with climate, or a local action that produces effects in another part of the system.
This PhD project investigates how people learn, update, and use spatial knowledge when the structure or meaning of an environment depends on hidden or changing conditions, which we refer to as state-dependent environments. Rather than treating spatial knowledge as a static map, the project asks how people construct and reason with representations that capture not only where things are, but also the conditions under which spatial relations hold, and how immersive virtual reality and behavioural data such as movement, interaction, and eye-tracking can be used to study this process.
Specific research objectives
- Develop VR-based experimental tasks to study how people learn and update spatial representations during active exploration in different types of state-dependent environments.
- Identify behavioural patterns of state-dependent spatial reasoning that reveal how people detect, anticipate, and adapt to the intertwined relations between spatial structure and its underlying conditions.
- Establish the conditions under which state-dependent spatial representations generalise beyond the learned environment, and what individual and contextual factors predict successful knowledge transfer across virtual-virtual and/or virtual-real contexts.
The outcome will contribute to new concepts and methods for studying spatial cognition as a dynamic, predictive, and adaptive process, with broader relevance to environmental communication, systems thinking, and adaptive decision making.
You will work here
The research is embedded within the chair Laboratory for Geo-information Science and Remote Sensing (GRS) which is led by Prof. Sytze de Bruin. You will be supervised by Dr. Jiayan Zhao, and co-supervised by Prof. Arnold Bregt and Prof. Sytze de Bruin.
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Adviseur Verzuim & Preventie
Jouw afdeling:
Bij de WUR werken we volgens ons eigen ontwikkelde HR Dienstverleningsmodel: HR Together. Hierbij realiseren drie onderdelen samen de HR-dienstverlening: HR Businesspartnering vanuit de decentrale eenheden en het Center of Expertise (CoE) en HR Operations vanuit Corporate HR.
Je werkt vanuit het CoE Vital & Health (V&H) dedicated voor een organisatieonderdeel en werkt aan WUR brede werkzaamheden op het gebied van Vital & Health (ongeveer 80% voor je organisatieonderdeel en 20% WUR breed). Je werkt nauw samen met de Team Lead V&H, de V&H Beleidsadviseur, je collega Adviseurs Verzuim & Preventie en de decentrale HR Business Partners.
In het CoE vindt harmonisatie, ontwikkeling en vernieuwing van WUR HR beleid plaats. Ook is het CoE verantwoordelijk voor de visie en strategie op de HR-onderwerpen binnen de eigen portefeuille. Het CoE gaat, in samenwerking met HR Teams en HR Operations, over een consistente doorvertaling van beleid naar uitvoering. Er werken experts die de ontwikkelingen buiten de organisatie en in het vakgebied kennen en kunnen toepassen.
Jouw functie:
Als Adviseur Verzuim & Preventie, informeer en adviseer je niet alleen leidinggevenden, maar ondersteun je ook bij (preventie van) verzuim. Mede door jouw expertise en inzet voor een vitale en gezonde werkomgeving kunnen je collega's bij Wageningen University & Research op een gezonde manier hun werk blijven doen.
Jouw taken en verantwoordelijkheden als Adviseur Verzuim & Preventie zijn:
- je biedt leidinggevenden specialistisch advies (gevraagd en ongevraagd) en voorlichting over vitaliteit, (preventie van) verzuim en arbeidsongeschiktheid;
- je bewaakt een juiste en tijdige uitvoering van het proces tijdens het 1e en 2e ziektejaar op basis van Wet Poortwachter en adviseert en ondersteunt bij het vervullen van de verplichtingen in het kader van dit traject. Hierbij kun je denken aan: interventies, inzet bedrijfsarts, dossieropbouw en 1e/2e spoor. Je stemt dit af met de HR Business Partners van het betreffende onderdeel, bedrijfsarts, andere zorgverleners (zoals Bedrijfsmaatschappelijk Werk) en UWV. Je bent de spin in het web;.
- je draagt bij aan de ontwikkeling van Vital & Health beleid en vertaalt signalen en behoeften vanuit de organisatie naar passende interventies.
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Hoofd HR
Ben jij de resultaatgerichte en strategische HR Manager met ervaring in het ontwikkelen van toekomstbestendig HR-beleid, bruggenbouwer tussen directie en werkvloer met een sterke focus op organisatieontwikkeling, leiderschap en cultuur? Dan zijn wij op zoek naar jou!
De Environmental Sciences Group zoekt een leidinggevende die het HR team gaat versterken en de dienstverlening naar een hoger niveau tilt. Je bent in staat om de 'employee experience' te optimaliseren en strategische ontwikkelplannen te ontwikkelen en te implementeren. Als Hoofd HR ben jij de verbinder binnen het HR team, met de directie ESG en met corporate HR. Daarnaast wil je graag organisatie ontwikkelingen in gang zetten en resultaten boeken in duurzame inzetbaarheid en het versterken van een plezierige, veilige en gezonde werkomgeving voor alle ESG medewerkers.
Je bouwt samen met de directie, leidinggevenden en HR-BPs aan het verder verbeteren van professionele werkrelaties binnen ESG en geeft samen met het Center of Expertise (CoE) invulling aan de strategie voor ESG voor Recruitment, Vital & Health, Organisational Design en Learning & Development. Jouw uitdagingen liggen binnen ESG op het vlak van leiderschap, verbinding, verandering en cultuur.
Jouw taken en verantwoordelijkheden als Hoofd HR zijn:
- Sparringpartner en adviseur voor directie voor met name organisatieontwikkeling, (cultuur)verandering en (team)casuïstiek
- Invulling geven aan en realiseren van doelstellingen uit de HR-agenda binnen de ESG strategie, met name hoofdstuk mens, cultuur en organisatie
- Verantwoordelijkheid voor de succesvolle implementatie van (WUR-breed) HR-beleid en thema’s. De focus ligt de komende jaren op organisatieontwikkelingen, cultuurverandering, leiderschap, sociale veiligheid en werkdruk.
- Projectleiding van diverse HR-domeinen en thema’s WURbreed
- Mensgerichte leider zijn van 6 HR-BP’s (hiërarchisch) en in de matrix de CoE medewerkers en HR support medewerkers, die werkzaam zijn voor ESG
- Daarnaast zet je je samen met de andere ESG stafhoofden in voor het verder verbeteren van de dienstverlening aan het primair proces.
Jouw team
Ons gedreven HR team bestaat uit ongeveer 12 collega’s, waarvan 6 werkzaam zijn voor ESG via CoE en HR support afdelingen. Als team proberen wij samen een cultuur te creëren waarbij collegialiteit, authenticiteit en samenwerking belangrijke pijlers zijn. Een informele omgang met elkaar en humor zijn daarbij erg belangrijk. Met z’n allen streven we naar het creëren van een open en transparante cultuur. Als team willen we graag bouwen aan de verdere professionalisering van onze dienstverlening.
ESG bestaat uit het Departement Omgevingswetenschappen (16 leerstoelgroepen), dat fundamenteel onderzoek doet en onderwijs geeft, en uit Wageningen Environment Research (13 WENR onderzoeksteams), dat toegepast onderzoek doet. ESG is zeer internationaal georiënteerd in zowel medewerkers, onderwijs en onderzoek. De stafafdelingen, waaronder HR, ondersteunen het primair proces.
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HR manager
Are you a results-driven and strategic HR Manager with experience in developing future-proof HR policies, a bridge builder between senior management and the shop floor, with a strong focus on organisational development, leadership and culture? Then we are looking for you!
The Environmental Sciences Group (ESG) is seeking a manager to strengthen the HR team and take HR services to the next level. You are able to optimise the employee experience and to develop and implement strategic development plans. As Head of HR, you are the connector within the HR team, with the ESG management team and with Corporate HR. In addition, you are eager to initiate organisational development and achieve tangible results in sustainable employability and in strengthening a pleasant, safe and healthy working environment for all ESG employees.
Together with management, line managers and HR Business Partners, you will continue to improve professional working relationships within ESG. In collaboration with the Centre of Expertise (CoE), you will help shape the ESG strategy for Recruitment, Vitality & Health, Organisational Design, and Learning & Development. Your key challenges within ESG lie in leadership, connection, change and culture.
Your tasks and responsibilities as Head of HR:
- Acting as a sparring partner and advisor to the management team, particularly in the areas of organisational development, (cultural) change and (team-related) casework
- Defining and achieving the objectives of the HR agenda within the ESG strategy, with a particular focus on people, culture and organisation
- Taking responsibility for the successful implementation of (WUR-wide) HR policies and themes. In the coming years, the focus will be on organisational development, cultural change, leadership, social safety and workload
- Leading various HR projects and themes across Wageningen University & Research (WUR)
- Being a people-oriented leader for 6 HR Business Partners (hierarchically), and in a matrix structure for CoE staff and HR support staff working for ESG
- Together with the other ESG heads of staff, contributing to the continuous improvement of services supporting the primary process
Your team
Our driven HR team consists of approximately 12 colleagues, of whom 6 work for ESG through the CoE and HR support departments. As a team, we strive to create a culture in which collegiality, authenticity and collaboration are key pillars. An informal way of working together and a good sense of humour are important to us. Together, we aim to foster an open and transparent culture and to further professionalise our service delivery.
About ESG
ESG consists of the Department of Environmental Sciences (16 chair groups), which conducts fundamental research and provides education, and Wageningen Environmental Research (WENR) (13 research teams), which focuses on applied research. ESG is highly international in terms of staff, education and research. The staff departments, including HR, support the primary processes.
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