We are currently looking an educational adviser/pedagogical expert/trainer to strengthen our team.

You facilitate and inspire programme directors and programme committees in innovating Bachelor and Master degree programmes. You will advise them on (flexible) learning pathways, skills learning trajectories, and so on. While doing so you support the implementation of the University's policy for education, offering high quality scientific knowledge in a rich learning environment, activating and engaging students in their personalised, flexible and continuous learning process.

You will also participate as trainer and supervisor in the University Teaching Qualification programme. Together with a team of supervisors you further develop this UTQ programme. Moreover you will facilitate the team in the communication with the target group (e.g. through intranet, a blog and news updates).

In addition to advise and supervision, you offer training and workshops on implementing balanced university curricula. You will work in a team of educational trainers and advisors and will also collaborate with instructional designers, project coordinators, functional managers and multimedia experts.

• A relevant MSc-degree in the field of Educational or pedagogical sciences, Educational Technology or similar,
• A proven track record in the advice, development and implementation of educational improvements and innovations in higher education curricula/programmes,
• Excellent communication and consultancy skills, enabling you to give well-founded advice to teachers and staff and to work in a heterogeneous team of academic and technical experts
• Ability to cope with stress and work agile and with deadlines,
• (up to date) knowledge of and skills in teaching competences (e.g. design, teaching, supervision, assessment and evaluation, learning pathways),
• Excellent proficiency in English (C2),
• Affinity with the Wageningen domains of environment and life sciences is a plus,
• Competences: assertive, solution oriented, team player, creative and curious

This concerns initially temporary appointment, up to 0,8 or 1 fte (32-38 hours) as Educational Developer 2, 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 € 3637,- gross per month to € 4978,- gross per month (scale 11) according to the Collective Agreement for Dutch Universities (CAO Nederlandse Universiteiten). In addition, we offer a holiday allowance of 8% and an end-of-the-year bonus of 8.3% of your annual salary and a good pension of the ABP Pension Fund.

Wageningen University & Research

Wageningen University and Research centre Delivering a substantial contribution to the quality of life. That's our focus - each and every day. Within our domain, healthy food and living environment, we search for answers to issues affecting society - such as sustainable food production, climate change and alternative energy. Of course, we don't do this alone. Every day, 6,500 people work on 'the quality of life', turning ideas into reality, on a global scale.

Could you be one of these people? We give you the space you need.

For further information about working at Wageningen UR, take a look at www.wageningenur.nl/career.

Education and Student Affairs
'Education and Student Affairs' (ESA) is - as central department in Wageningen University and Research - responsible for the strategy, the implementation as well as the 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. In addition to its accredited educational BSc and MSc programmes, ESA initiates and develops new educational activities, including an online education portfolio and professional education. More than 200 employees work at the department of Education and Student Affairs.

The Education Support Centre
As part of ESA, the Education Support Centre (ESC), aims at optimising learning and teaching and educational innovations at our university. ESC seeks to inspire lecturers, facilitate and support their teaching and the education environment and finally to enhance lecturers' professional competences. Since 14 years, Wageningen University and Research has a leading position in the Netherlands for its quality education and education facilities and continues to implement ambitious plans related to blended and open and online education. The Education Support Centre employs around 45 staff: educational trainers, instructional designers, multimedia specialists, functional managers, IT in education specialists and experts on society engaged learning. Among its main responsibilities, the centre offers pedagogical advice, advises on IT application in education, trains lecturers and offers workshops and courses (including the University Teaching Qualification (Basis Kwalificatie Onderwijs)), supports educational innovations, including the development and implementation of open and online education, offers functional management of the digital learning system - Brightspace - and IT applications such as FeedBackFruits, Turnitin and LabBuddy and, finally, stimulates and offers real life cases in education of societal partners (from business, governmental-, and civil society organisations).