Management and Office Assistent

As an Education support team, we support the more than 800 students in our Bachelor's and Master's programmes in Animal Sciences. As a Management/Office assistant, you manage the general e-mail box and support the team consisting of one Programme Director and five Study Advisors in their tasks. You will also actively contribute to making processes run as smoothly as possible for everyone involved, such as lecturers, prospective students and other WUR colleagues.

Your work as a Management/Office assistant is:

• Supporting educational processes. You will support various educational tasks, such as providing administrative support for the skills track in the bachelor's programme, preparing diploma ceremonies and taking minutes at educational consultations;
• Calendar management. You partly manage the agendas of the programme director and study advisors, both via Outlook and the online appointment system for students;
• Taking minutes at meetings. You prepare meetings (such as the Programme Committee) and make clear and structured minutes;
• First point of contact for staff and students. You answer questions by phone or e-mail and offer support with practical matters such as leave, absenteeism, orders, declarations and other arrangements;
• Room reservations and organization of meetings. You book teaching and meeting rooms and help organize graduation ceremonies and meetings, for example.

Working as a management/office assistant at Wageningen University & Research
Your new colleagues welcome you to Wageningen University & Research (WUR). The collaboration with colleagues in an informal environment is greatly appreciated by management/office assistants within WUR. This, in combination with a lot of self-direction, independence and the possibility of hybrid working, means that the work-life balance can also count on a lot of appreciation.

Add to that a challenging international environment where, on our beautiful green campus, we work daily on themes with a major social impact.

Education
Part of Education & Student Affairs is the "Education" section, consisting of 20 programme directors and their education teams (study advisors, spokespersons and secretariats). Within the Animal Sciences Educational team, the programme director is your manager.

You have a service-oriented and collegial attitude, which allows you to create optimal cooperation. You work accurately and have the ability to prioritize where necessary. You have excellent communication skills and the necessary decisiveness, so that things are in good hands with you.

You also have:

• An MBO+ working and thinking level.
• Recent relevant work experience with students;
• Kennis van de MS Office programma's Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams en PowerPoint;
• You have a command of Dutch and English (if your English is not quite up to standard, we will of course help you and you can contact our language center Wageningen in'to Language.
• Flexible in your availability, especially at the beginning of the academic year (early September).

When it comes to terms of employment (at Wageningen University & Research, you are in good hands. A few highlights from our collective labor agreement are:

• Sabbatical leave, study leave and partially paid parental leave
• Working hours that can be arranged in consultation, allowing for an optimal work-life balance
• The ability to accrue additional vacation or compensation hours by working more hours
• A strong focus on vitality, including access to on-campus sports facilities at an attractive rate
• A standard end-of-year bonus of 8.3%
• An excellent pension scheme through the ABP

Of course, these excellent fringe benefits come with an appropriate salary. Depending on your experience, we offer a competitive gross monthly salary of a minimum of € 2,872 to a maximum of € 3,454 for a full-time 38-hour working week, in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities (scale 6).

This is a position of 0.4 FTE. We offer a one-year contract with the intention of converting it to an indefinite contract.

Wageningen University & Research promotes internal career opportunities and mobility through its internal recruitment policy. In a learning environment, there is a lot of room for own initiative and we offer excellent development opportunities. You will work in a varied role within an international setting with a pleasant and open working atmosphere.

You will stay on the greenest and most innovative campus in the Netherlands, at a university that has been named 'best university' in the Netherlands for the 20th time in a row.

The mission of Wageningen University & Research is “To explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life.” We pursue this mission through a synergistic collaboration between Wageningen University and the Wageningen Research Foundation (applied research). Our research focuses on questions in the fields of food, living environment, and society. With around 30 locations, 7,700 staff, 2,500 PhD candidates, and over 13,000 students, Wageningen University & Research is one of the leading global knowledge institutions in its domain. Our integrated approach and collaboration across disciplines form the core of the unique Wageningen way.

These are the reasons our employees highlight as great reasons to work at WUR: read the 5 reasons to join WUR