Since 14 years, Wageningen University and Research (WUR) has a leading position in the Netherlands for its quality Education and continues to implement innovation plans related to authentic, blended and hybrid learning. Within WUR's Education Support Centre, the Society Based Education (SBE) team stimulates and develops real-life and authentic learning, by acquiring authentic assignments from societal actors, including private sector, government and non-governmental organisations. This enables students to apply their scientific and practical knowledge to tackle societal, complex and interdisciplinary issues in order to become responsible professionals in the future. With its activities the SBE team contributes to educational innovations that creates better connections between university and society. We are currently looking for a project leader to strengthen our team.

As project leader SBE you facilitate and inspire program directors, program committees and teachers to offer rich and authentic learning environments in their education. You will advise teachers on how to include real-life, transdisciplinary and authentic learning in their course and teaching practices. Secondly, you will coordinate the matching of real-life assignments for a number of BSc and MSc WUR courses. We achieve this by translating questions from societal actors into challenging student assignments. In this process you are working together with WUR teachers and project writers of the SBE team. You will work in a team of knowledge brokers, coordinators, project writers, educational advisors and will also collaborate with instructional designers, project coordinators, functional managers and multimedia experts.

We are looking for a project leader with the following qualifications and abilities:

• At least 3 to 5 years of work experience in the field of project management, didactics and knowledge sharing in higher education.
• With a relevant academic degree in the field of Education and Training or a related area.
• Up to date knowledge of educational and pedagogical theories, transdisciplinary, real-life and authentic learning.
• Affinity with the WUR domains of environment and life sciences.
• Good communication skills, enabling you to give advice and to work together with societal actors and WUR staff.
• Excellent proficiency in English (C2) and Dutch (Nt2).
• Being able to shape, manage and plan own projects within the agreed deadlines.
• Being able to work in a self-organising team.
• You are self-aware, purpose-driven, and people-oriented in your approach.

This concerns initially temporary appointment, up to 0,8 or 1,0fte (32-38 hours) as a Project Leader, starting with a one year contract with a possibility to extend. Salary depends on educational background, training and work experience and based on a fulltime employment, ranges from € 2709,- gross per month to € 4274,- gross per month (scale 10) according to the Collective Agreement for Dutch Universities (CAO Nederlandse Universiteiten).

In addition, we offer:

• 8% holiday allowance
• a structural end-of year bonus of 8.3%
• excellent training opportunities and secondary employment conditions
• flexible working hours that we determine together in good consultation
• excellent pension plan through ABP
• 232 vacation hours, the option to purchase extra and good supplementary leave schemes, e.g. the possibility to work a maximum of 2 hours per week extra for extra leave
• a flexible model to put together part of your employment conditions yourself, such as a bicycle plan
• a lively workplace on the Wageningen Campus.

Wageningen University & Research stimulates internal career opportunities and mobility with our internal recruitment policy. There are ample opportunities for personal initiative in a learning environment. With us you get a versatile job in an international environment with 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, 6,500 employees, and 12,000 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. We have been named Best Employer in Education category 2019-2020.

The department Education and Student Affairs (ESA) is responsible for the strategy, implementation as well as support for and innovation of its education. The department matches supply and demand in education, is responsible for all the administrative processes, guarantees the quality of its education and develops and implements the university's vision on education. ESA initiates and develops new educational activities, including an online education portfolio and professional education. More than 200 employees work at the department of ESA. As part of ESA, the Education Support Centre (ESC), aims at optimising learning and teaching and educational innovations at WUR. ESC seeks to inspire lecturers, facilitate and support their teaching and the education environment and finally to enhance lecturers' professional competences. ESC employs around 45 staff: educational trainers, instructional designers, multimedia specialists, functional managers, IT specialists and experts on society engaged learning. The Society Based Education team (Onderwijsloket) is part of ESC and stimulates and offers real-life cases in education while collaborating with societal partners (from business, governmental-, and civil society organisations).

Could you be one of these people? We give you the space you need. For further information about working at Wageningen University & Research, take a look at www.wur.eu/career.