Are you are an ambitious and enthusiastic scholar and a team player, dedicated to education and research in an interdisciplinary and international academic environment?

We are looking for a lecturer who will strengthen our group for 8 months. This lecturer will participate in the education program of the Health and Society Group at Wageningen University. Most of our teaching is offered in the Bachelor program "Gezondheid en Maatschappij" and the Master Applied Communication Science, specialization Health and Society. The lecturer will lecture courses, give tutorials and supervise BSc and MSc theses and internships.

• a MSc/PhD in the field of health promotion, with a particular interest in interdisciplinary approaches towards health-related phenomena and the understanding of health inequalities;
• experience in quantitative and qualitative research methods;
• skills in interdisciplinary thinking and able to translate this to education in BSc and MSc programs;
• excellent didactic skills for teaching at both Bachelor and Master level (University Teacher Qualification is a preference);
• excellent written and oral communication skills;
• fluency in both Dutch and English is an absolute pre-requisite.

This position requires an excellent English language proficiency (a mininum of CEFR C2 level). For more information about this proficiency level, please visit our special language page.

A challenging position with, depending on your experience, a competitive salary from a minimum of €2.709 up to a maximum of € 4.274 for a full working week of 38 hours in accordance with the Collective Labor Agreement Dutch Universities (scale 10). This position available for 32 hours per week.
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 Wageningen University & Research 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, 6,000 employees, and 12,000 students, Wageningen University & Research 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.

For further information about working at Wageningen University & Research, take a look at thespecial career site.

The Health and Society Group
The Health and Society Group is part of the department of Social Sciences Group of Wageningen University and is a dynamic and quickly growing group, both in terms of research and teaching. Our mission is to advance the understanding of factors, processes and mechanisms that underlie the development of health and well-being during the life course. We are particularly interested in health development as a function of the interaction between people and their socio-ecological context. We apply a combination of research methods and techniques: quantitative research, qualitative research, mixed methodology, and both traditional and (participatory) action research.