Management-/Office-Assistent

Ben jij de verbindende schakel die onze leerstoelgroep wil ondersteunen? Weet je van aanpakken en vind je het leuk om op de meest duurzame campus ter wereld aan de slag te gaan? Lees dan verder en reageer snel!

De leerstoelgroep Bodemchemie (SOC) is voor het secretariaat op zoek naar een zelfstandige management-/office-assistent die zorgt voor de administratieve ondersteuning.

Als management-/office-assistent vervul je een actieve rol bij administratieve en organisatorische taken, zoals bijvoorbeeld: correspondentie, agendabeheer, voorbereiden en organiseren van vergaderingen, reisboekingen, assisteren bij procedures voor buitenlandse medewerkers die bij de leerstoelgroep komen werken, verwelkomen van nieuwe medewerkers, assisteren van de leerstoelhouder, ondersteunen van docenten met organiserende taken voor hun onderwijs en het verzorgen van bestellingen.

Je bent zelfstandig, proactief, organisatiesensitief en accuraat. Je communiceert duidelijk en prettig (mondeling en schriftelijk) in het Nederlands en het Engels. Wij zoeken een teamspeler die makkelijk schakelt tussen programma’s, overzicht houdt, structureert en niet bang is om initiatief te nemen. Verder denk je mee over interne communicatie en draag je bij aan het optimaliseren van onze interne processen. Kortom, je bent de spin in het web van de leerstoelgroep en eerste aanspreekpunt voor medewerkers, studenten en externe contacten. Als je ervan houdt om met mensen te communiceren en orde te scheppen, dan is er veel ruimte voor eigen inbreng.

Je hebt korte lijntjes met de collega’s die de financiële ondersteuning verzorgen en met het management van SOC.

Chemical Analyst

The Laboratory of the Animal Nutrition Chair Group (ANU) is looking for a Chemical Analyst (Full-time, 38 hours/week)
As a chemical analyst, you will be responsible for conducting chemical analyses for the Animal Nutrition Chair Group.

Your tasks and responsibilities as a chemical analyst include:

• Supporting BSc, MSc, and PhD students in performing analyses as part of their thesis and research;
• Supervising laboratory practicals;
• Working with and improving the laboratory information system.

In the long run, there are opportunities for career growth into a leadership role within the laboratory of the Animal Nutrition Chair Group.

About Us
The Animal Nutrition Chair Group is part of the Department of Animal Sciences at Wageningen University & Research. The chair group provides education and conducts research in the field of animal nutrition to improve animal production, health, and welfare in a sustainable way, thereby enhancing quality of life. The chair group has a chemical laboratory for analyzing sample material obtained from research.

Assistant or Associate Professor, in the field of atmospheric dynamics and/or meteorology

The Meteorology and Air Quality group at Wageningen University & Research (WUR) invites applications for an Assistant or Associate professor position in the field of meteorology and atmospheric physics. We seek a researcher whose expertise complements and expands our group's strengths, particularly in large-scale atmospheric or climate dynamics. We welcome applicants employing any methodological approach, numerical modeling, or theoretical analysis. Candidates with research interests spanning local to global scales and aligning with our current meteorological research themes will be valued. Beyond research excellence, we are looking for candidates with strong potential for innovation, passion for education and leadership and who would like to bring their own expertise and background to the group.

The education part of the position also involves teaching at BSc and MSc level and advising of students, which amounts to approximately 40% of the time. Examples courses that we teach are Geophysical fluid dynamics, Atmospheric Dynamics, Boundary-layer Meteorology and Atmospheric Modelling. On our website you find all courses, and they are clearly connected with our research. Interesting to note here is the recognition of the excellent education offered in Wageningen. Our university was chosen as the best institution for higher education in the Netherlands for the 20th time in a row in 2024. Besides that, we are ranked as university as number 1 worldwide in the fields of agriculture, ecology and environment, as well as excellent rankings in other fields.

Furthermore, an important aspect of the job is the acquisition of research projects, both at national and international level, to fund new PhD and postdoc positions. More information on our research and education activities can be found at the page of our group.

This position is part of the Academic Career Framework (ACF) at Wageningen University & Research, which has replaced the traditional Tenure Track. This new career framework for all academic staff at Wageningen University starts on 9 March 2025. One of the 3 career paths is the Professor Career Path. The aim of this ACF is to achieve a new balance in recognising and valuing academics where both team collaboration and the unique talent of individual scientists are seen, by creating more differentiation in career paths, putting the emphasis on the quality of work and less on quantitative results, doing justice to the individual qualities and ambitions of academics as much as to team performance, promoting all aspects of open science and encouraging high-quality leadership in the academy.

HR Business Partner

Ben jij een ervaren HR-professional en heb je de ambitie om een belangrijke rol te spelen in het verder vormgeven en implementeren van de dienstverlening van HR? Dan zijn wij op zoek naar jou!

In de rol van HR Business Partner binnen het HR-team van de Concernstaf, krijg je de kans om jouw expertise te benutten en zo bij te dragen aan de ontwikkeling van ons integraal HR-beleid. Je werkt nauw samen met het management en je adviseert en ondersteunt de verschillende stafafdelingen bij de implementatie van hun HR agenda. Samen met je collega’s van het Center of Expertise (CoE) geef je invulling aan de strategie & tactiek van Recruitment, Vital & Health en Learning & Development. Je krijgt de ruimte om veranderingen te begeleiden, talent te ontwikkelen en een werkcultuur te bevorderen waarin samenwerking centraal staat.

Jouw taken en verantwoordelijkheden als HR Business Partner zijn:

• sparringpartner en adviseur voor leidinggevenden op organisatieontwikkeling en teamcasuïstiek niveau;
• invulling geven aan de HR-agenda en (mede) verantwoordelijkheid voor de succesvolle implementatie van HR-beleid;
• meedenken en een actieve rol aannemen bij de ontwikkeling en uitvoering van strategische personeelsplannen en organisatievraagstukken;
• deelnemen in diverse HR-projecten. Bijvoorbeeld op het gebied van Leiderschap, Organizational Design, Diversity & Inclusion, Social Safety of Recognition & Rewards.

Jouw team
Jij gaat samenwerken met ons gedreven HR-team dat bestaat uit 3 (parttime) HR Business Partners en is, - inclusief HR Support en CoE collega’s -, ongeveer 8 personen groot. Samenwerken is binnen ons HR-team een belangrijke waarde. Als team vinden wij het belangrijk dat je samen de schouders eronder wil zetten en mee wilt bouwen aan de verdere professionalisering van onze dienstverlening.
In totaal werken zo´n 900 collega’s bij Concernstaf, verdeeld over zeven afdelingen (Communicatie & Marketing, Education & Student Affairs, Finance & Control, Corporate Governance & Legal Services, Human Resources, Strategy & Accounts, Value Creation).

PostDoc Mineral Nutrition in Annual and Perennial crops

We are seeking a PostDoc to work in ongoing projects at the Plant Production Systems (PPS) chair group, related to perennial tree crops and annual food crops. We have funding secured for one year in two projects: the CocoaSoils project (www.cocoasoils.org), and the Space to Place project (https://www.isric.org/projects/space-to-place). These projects focus on improving productivity and resource use efficiency by optimizing fertilization rates on-station and in local farming conditions. Overarching questions are: how to quantify the influence of soil characteristics on crop yield, nutrient uptake and yield responses to fertilizer? How can we quantify and predict the effects of farmer management effects on soil nutrient supply, crop uptake and the yield response? How can we find simple proxies to assess productivity?

At least 50% of your time, you will be working on the CocoaSoils project. The aim of CocoaSoils is to understand the mineral nutrition requirements of cocoa. We have established 10 long-term large-scale nutrient response trials (in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Cameroon, Nigeria, Ecuador and Indonesia) and around 200 small-scale on-farm trials with a limited number of treatments (in West Africa only).

We are looking for a postdoc to work on the Core Trial data.
The tasks include:

• retrieve and analyse 3−5 years of data that was collected already;
• go to the trials to collect missing data (optional, depending on the interests of the candidate);
• write up the results in one or more manuscripts.

Research questions that we aim to answer include:

1. What are optimal N-P-K combinations to achieve maximum yields and/or maximum nutrient use efficiency in modern cocoa varieties?
2. How do cocoa physiological processes (e.g. flower abortion; allocation of assimilates to different organs) respond to different N-P-K combinations?
3. What are suitable proxies (e.g. pod number; pod size) to estimate cocoa yield?
4. What is the variability (in terms of yield) between different cocoa trees within a plantation, and how does this variability develop over multiple years?

The work of the postdoc will feed into one or more papers on the CocoaSoils Core Trials, and into the development of new grant proposals to fund future research.

You will work here
The research is embedded within the Plant Production Systems Group (https://www.wur.nl/en/research-results/chair-groups/plant-sciences/chair-group-plant-production-systems.htm) led by Prof. Katrien Descheemaeker. You will be supervised by Dr. Lotte Woittiez and Dr. Tom Schut.