Do you want to contribute to Wageningen University & Research's societal challenges? Are you looking for a varied job with plenty of career opportunities? And would you like to work in a pleasant atmosphere in which you can express your enthusiasm and independence? Then join our Corporate Governance & Legal Services team! We are looking for a pragmatic legal expert who knows how to get work done and wants to contribute to WUR's complex legal issues together with us.

You are an enthusiastic, accurate and independent legal counsel with at least two years’ experience in the field of private law. In this position, you will be legal counsel regarding research contracts, intellectual property, corporate law questions and contribute to data management compliance.

What are you going to do as legal counsel?

• You will advise some WUR units on research and collaboration agreements. This will involve questions on copyright, other intellectual property rights and on know-how and data. How can we as an organisation best make an impact with our models, software and data? Or how is copyrighted work of students protected? How do we deal with visual material or infringement claims?
• You will advise on corporate law questions, for example on setting up a foundation or assessing a shareholders' agreement;
• You identify new legislation and important case law in the field of data and AI and translate this to application at WUR. You contribute to the development and implementation of compliance policy in the field of data and AI;
• There are also various other tasks, such as litigation and requests in connection with the Open Government Act (Woo), which we divide within the team based on interest, personal development or temporary assistance.

You will work here
The CG&LS department consists of 20 staff members, including a team of eight legal counsel. The legal policy for the entire organisation is shaped here, in coordination with the legal counsels in the sciences groups. The department's field of work is broad, with focus areas such as: governance, compliance, value creation, internationalisation, scientific integrity, employee participation, education, privacy and disputes. Private law questions are handled by four of the team’s legal counsels.

The CG&LS team is your home base. Here you discuss on content with the other legal counsels and tasks are divided. You mainly work together with staff from other departments within Wageningen University & Research. This takes place in multidisciplinary teams. For you, this means cooperation with colleagues from, among others, the corporate department Value Creation and the WUR Library, as well as legal counsels and project leaders in the sciences groups of WUR.

Wageningen University & Research is an entrepreneurial organisation. For this legal team, that means there are always new challenges and development opportunities.

• You have completed a university degree in Dutch law;
• You have at least 2 years’ experience in private law and are interested in improving yourself in the areas of data management, intellectual property and corporate law. You enjoy exploring new areas of work;
• You have a proactive and service-oriented working attitude and a good sense of administrative relations. You can work well together, present and bring people along with your advice;
• You have good analytical skills and are able to formulate useful and clear advice. You like dynamics and can keep an overview;
• You have a good command of Dutch and English, both spoken and written.

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 compensation hours by working more;
• sabbatical leave, study leave, and partially 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 8,3%;
• excellent pension scheme via ABP.

In addition to these first-rate employee benefits, you will of course receive a good salary. We offer, depending on your experience, a competitive gross salary of between € 3,830.- and € 5,949.- based on a full-time working week of 36 hours, in accordance with Wageningen Research Collective Labour Agreement (salary scale 11). Additionally, a contract of 0.8 FTE can be discussed. You will initially receive a one-year contract, with the intention of converting this to an open-ended contract if you prove to be suitable for the position and if business conditions remain unchanged.

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.

You are going to work at the greenest and most innovative campus in the Netherlands and with your work you have a clear and positive impact on society. At WUR we work on the most pressing challenges of our time, like climate change and feeding the world in a sustainable way.

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, 7,600 employees (6,700 fte) and 13,100 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.

Read the 5 reasons why your future colleagues enjoy working at WUR and watch this video to get an idea of our green campus!

We will recruit for the vacancy ourselves and do not appreciate unasked for services from recruitment agencies. However, sharing in your network is appreciated.