Are you a pro-active, service-oriented team player at BSc/MSc level? Do you have strong IT-skills and a sincere interest in student affairs? Then you may be the right candidate to support our BSc and MSc courses as our new Education Coordinator!

We are the Soil Biology Group, a team of professors, researchers, postdocs, lab staff and PhD’s from all over the world. We teach six courses throughout the academic year at BSc and MSc level, to 15-100 students per course. The topics of the courses are related to our expertise from soil, plant and ecological sciences. Do you want to know more about us and our work? Watch our movie!

Your role
As education coordinator you coordinate our teaching activities and promote a targeted, efficient and high-quality education process and performance of our teachers. Your tasks include:

• Optimization of course organisation
• Logistics of courses (facilities, student assistants, schedule, course materials)
• Maintenance and further development of the digital learning environment
• Record and manage student data
• Organize, prepare and record meetings of teachers’ teams
• Support organization of course exams and assessments
• Provide students with information about our courses
• Exchange “best practices” among teachers

• A BSc (HBO) or MSc degree
• Interest in student affairs
• A proactive approach aimed at solving problems
• Ability to keep oversight over all tasks and work accurately
• Strong IT-skills (Excel and Outlook, preferably also Brightspace and OSIRIS)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in Dutch and English

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

• sabbatical leave, study leave, and partially paid parental leave;
• working hours that can be discussed and arranged so that they allow for the best possible work-life balance;
• the option to accrue additional compensation / holiday hours by working more, per week;
• 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 8.3%;
• excellent pension scheme.

In addition to these first-rate employee benefits, you will of course receive a good salary. Depending on your experience, we offer a competitive gross salary of between € 3,072,- and €4,640,- based on a full-time working week of 38 hours, in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreements for Dutch Universities (CAO-NU) (scale 8-9). This position is for 0.5 FTE. Initially, we offer you a one-year contract, which will then be extended to an open-ended contract if there is mutual enthusiasm. Of course, we would be happy to discuss this with you if you have any questions.

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 unique position in an international environment with a pleasant and open working atmosphere.

You are going to work at the greenest and most innovative campus in Holland, and at a university that has been chosen as the “Best University” in the Netherlands for the 19th consecutive time.

Coming from abroad
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.

Our team of advisors on Dutch immigration procedures will help you with the visa application procedures for yourself and, if applicable, for your family.

Feeling welcome also has everything to do with being well informed. Wageningen University & Research's International Community page contains practical information about what we can do to support international employees and students coming to Wageningen. Furthermore, we can assist you with any additional advice and information about helping your partner to find a job, housing, schooling.

Wageningen University & Research

Wageningen University & Research
The mission of Wageningen University & 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, 7,200 employees (6,400 fte) and 13,200 students and over 150.000 participants to WUR’s Life Long Learning, Wageningen University & Research is one of the leading organisations in its domain. The unique Wageningen approach lies in its integrated approach to issues and the collaboration between different disciplines.. 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

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