We are looking for an assistant education manager to help improve the quality of our education. Are you passionate for education innovation and improvement and able to prioritize and execute tasks effectively in a developing and hardworking setting? Then we are looking for you!

You are a dynamic, dedicated young professional who can provide general assistance with education management across the section, streamline education support and innovation. You will be assisting in courses like: tutorials, working groups and excursions as well as coordination of thesis and internship. Your general education tasks will be maintaining a thesis database and supervision of exams.
Another important part of this position is to assist in developing and implementing continuous learning lines and learning trajectories within the bachelor programmes (e.g. academic skills). Therefor you will assist in developing plans for education innovation and help building new online courses such as MOOCs or other forms of online education.

To further strengthen our section, you:

• have a (recent) Msc in anthropology, sociology, geography, or a related field;
• have good didactic qualities and teaching experience in and enthusiasm for teaching and working with students;
• have an ambition for developing teaching modules and further professionalisation of education;
• love to work in interdisciplinary and international education teams and settings;
• are an excellent communicator and writer;
• have affinity with (some of) the broad fields in which our section is active: health, food, (rural and urban) development, political ecology, crisis and disaster studies.

We offer an employment contract for 0,6 FTE (24 hours a week) for initially the period of 1 year, with the possibility of extension. This vacancy stays a temporary position from November 2019-November 2024.
Depending on your experience you will receive a competitive salary from a minimum of € 2.835,- to a maximum of € 3.895,- for a full working week of 38 hours in accordance with the Collective Labor Agreement Dutch Universities (scale 9). In addition, we offer:

• 8% holiday allowance;
• a structural year-end bonus of 8.3%;
• excellent training opportunities and secondary employment conditions;
• flexible working hours and holidays can possibly be determined in consultation so that an optimal balance between work and private life is possible;
• excellent pension plan through ABP;
• 232 vacation hours, the option to purchase extra and good supplementary leave schemes;
• a flexible working time: the possibility to work a maximum of 2 hours per week extra and thereby to build up extra leave;
• a choice model to put together part of your employment conditions yourself, such as a bicycle plan;
• a lively workplace where you can easily make contacts and where many activities take place on the Wageningen Campus. A place where education, research and business are represented;
• use the sports facilities on campus.

Wageningen University & Research stimulates internal career opportunities and mobility with an internal recruitment policy. There are ample opportunities for own initiative in a learning environment.

We offer a versatile job in an international environment with varied activities in a pleasant and open working atmosphere.

Wageningen University & Research

The mission of our University is to explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life. Within Wageningen University & Research, nine specialised research institutes from the Wageningen Research Foundation and Wageningen University have joined forces to help answer the most important questions in the domain of healthy food and living environment. With approximately 30 locations, 5,000 employees, and 10,000 students, it is one of the leading organisations in its domain worldwide. An integrated approach to problems and the cooperation between various disciplines are at the heart of the unique approach of Wageningen.

Section Space, Place and Society (SPS)
The Space, Place and Society section at the Social Sciences department of Wageningen University consists of three chair groups: Health and Society, Rural Sociology and Sociology of Development and Change. Together with the Cultural Geography group, based at the Environmental Science department of Wageningen University, they form the Centre for Space, Place and Society (CSPS), which seeks to advance critical-constructive scholarship within the social sciences with a focus on issues of socio-spatial and environmental justice. CSPS investigates dynamics of spatial and social change, with special attention to questions of inequality, exclusion, difference and plurality. CSPS thereby seeks to translate knowledge into practical action in pursuit of a more just and equitable world. For CSPS see https://centreforspaceplacesociety.wordpress.com/).

equal opportunities employer
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.