Are you an experienced professional specialised in food and agriculture in protracted crisis settings? Are you interested to support our growing portfolio of work aiming to build food system resilience in fragile and conflict affected settings?

We are looking for a new colleague to join our team that is focusing on building food system resilience in protracted crisis settings at Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation. Our work portfolio contains short-term and longer-term assignments and projects, focusing on action learning for capturing good programming practice and the development of operational and policy guidelines. We work with partners in Africa on different programmes, to build food system resilience to improve food and nutrition security outcomes. For a better understanding of our work, please visit our website.

Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation seeks to bring 'Knowledge into Action'. You will have the opportunity to get involved in projects that combine our four services: capacity development, project design and implementation, action research and (policy) advisory services. You can be counted upon to build and guide effective partnerships between knowledge institutes, government organisations, civil society organisations, and private companies. You will facilitate trainings and workshops and develop training related materials, tools and methodologies, and contribute to learning agendas and knowledge management on building food system resilience in protracted crises. You will contribute to further developing our international profile and portfolio of work in the area of food system resilience, and you bring a relevant professional network that enables you to do so.

You will be working with existing programmes, in particular the Food & Nutrition Security Resilience Programme (FNS-REPRO) and NUFFIC programmes as per their protracted crisis call for the Horn of Africa. In doing so you will actively contribute to the design and implementation to build longer term North-South-South partnerships on building Food Systems Resilience, particularly in the Horn of Africa (Sudan, Somaliland, South Sudan).

At Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation, project implementation and capacity strengthening are closely intertwined and mutually reinforce each other, we expect you to work on both. Projects primarily take place in, and require travel to, the Horn of Africa, although most of our work is currently done remotely in collaboration with local partner organisations.

• a MSc degree agricultural science, rural development, disaster studies or related field of study within Social Sciences;
• qualification proving specialised knowledge in peacebuilding / conflict resolution, such as a MSc or certified professional course;
• a minimum of 4 years relevant working experience, with at least 2 years of experience in Africa (preferably experience of working in one of the Horn of Africa countries), including advisory work and knowledge development; specific experience with fodder-seed-Gum systems is an asset;
• affinity with and a demonstrated portfolio of activities on putting the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus to practice with proven track record on the Peace dimension;
• a good understanding of current developments in thinking on building food system resilience for improved Food and Nutrition Security outcomes, relevant publications in this area is a plus;
• experience in designing, planning and facilitating multi-stakeholder partnerships and training (face to face and online);
• experience with capacity strengthening and facilitation of trainings (face to face and online);
• strong communication skills including the ability to communicate effectively with people from a variety of disciplinary and cultural backgrounds;
• affinity with an entrepreneurial and dynamic working environment;
• your English proficiency is excellent (a minimum of CEFR C1 level). For more information about this proficiency level, please visit our special language page;
• willingness to travel and adaptability (moving from in-person to online formats as necessary). Travel will be part of the project when government regulations allow.

Wageningen University & Research offers excellent terms of employment. A few highlights from our Collective Labour Agreement include:

• working hours that can be discussed and arranged so that they allow for the best possible work-life balance;
• the option to accrue additional holiday hours by working more, up to 40 hours per week;
• sabbatical leave, study leave, and paid parental leave;
• there is a strong focus on vitality, and you can make use of the sports facilities available on campus for a small fee;
• a fixed December bonus of 3%;
• excellent pension scheme.

In addition to these first-rate employee benefits, you will of course receive a good salary. Initially we offer a contract for 1 year with, depending on your experience, a competitive gross salary of between €2.790,- and €4.549,- for a full-time working week of 36 hours, in accordance with the CLA Wageningen Research (scale 10). Additionally, a contract for 32 hours can be discussed.

Wageningen University & Research encourages internal advancement opportunities and mobility with an internal recruitment policy. There are plenty of options for personal initiative in a learning environment, and we provide excellent training opportunities. We are offering a multi-faceted position in an international environment with a pleasant and open working atmosphere.

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Wageningen University & Research is the university and research centre for life sciences. The themes we deal with are relevant to everyone around the world and Wageningen, therefore, has a large international community and a lot to offer to international employees. Applicants from abroad moving to the Netherlands may qualify for a special tax relief, known as the 30% ruling. Our team of advisors on Dutch immigration procedures will help you with the visa application procedures for yourself and, if applicable, for your family.
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Wageningen University & Research
The mission of Wageningen University and Research is "To explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life". Under the banner Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen University and the specialised research institutes of the Wageningen Research Foundation have joined forces in contributing to finding solutions to important questions in the domain of healthy food and living environment.

With its roughly 30 branches, 6.800 employees and 12.900 students, Wageningen University & Research is one of the leading organisations in its domain. An integrated approach to problems and the cooperation between various disciplines are at the heart of Wageningen's unique approach. WUR has been named Best Employer in the Education category for 2019-2020.

These are the points our employees list as good reasons to come work at WUR: read the 5 reasons to come work at WUR.

We will recruit for the vacancy ourselves, so no employment agencies please. However, sharing in your network is appreciated.