A hardworking lecturer to teach in a range of different courses offered by the water systems and global change group. You are a recent graduate (MSc) in Environmental Sciences, Hydrology, Physical Geography, Climate Sciences, International Land and Water Management or a similar field. You are interested in teaching at the University and have the ambition to do a PhD within the our group.

We contribute to three MSc Programmes: International Land and Water Management, Climate Studies and Environmental Sciences. Within these programmes we offer numerous MSc courses related to impacts on water resources and climate change impacts and adaptations. In addition, we teach several BSc minors courses. As the number of students in our group is rapidly growing, we have room for a recent MSc graduate who will support us in our teaching programme.

Your main tasks will be to teach during the different master and BSc minor courses, supervising student groups within different courses, assist with supervisions of BSc or MSc thesis students and coordinate our thesis ring. In addition, you will have the opportunity to write a PhD proposal The appointment will be for initially one year, during this year you will work on your PhD research proposal under supervision of a senior staff member. If the proposal is funded you will be encouraged to stay at the group for the length of the PhD project.

• Recent MSc in Environmental Sciences, Physical or Social Geography, Climate Sciences, International Land and Water Management or related field
• Affinity with the research and teaching of the Water systems and global change group
• Interest in teaching and preferable some teaching experience
• Willingness and ability to develop a PhD research proposal
• Excellent English communication skills

A challenging position with, depending on your experience, a competitive salary from a minimum of € 2709,- to a maximum of € 4274,- for a full working week of 38 hours in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement Dutch Universities (scale 10).
In addition, we offer:

• 8% holiday allowance;
• a structural year-end bonus of 8.3%;
• excellent training opportunities and secondary employment conditions;
• flexible working hours and holidays can possibly be determined in consultation so that an optimal balance between work and private life is possible;
• excellent pension plan through ABP;
• 232 vacation hours, the option to purchase extra and good supplementary leave schemes;
• a flexible working time: the possibility to work a maximum of 2 hours per week extra and thereby to build up extra leave;
• a choice model to put together part of your employment conditions yourself, such as a bicycle plan;
• a lively workplace where you can easily make contacts and where many activities are organized at the Wageningen Campus. A place where education, research and business are represented;
• use the sports facilities on campus for a small fee

Wageningen University & Research

The mission of our University is to explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life. Nine specialised research institutes from the Wageningen Research Foundation and Wageningen University have joined forces to help answer the most important questions in the domain of healthy food and living environment.

With approximately 30 locations, 6,500 employees, and 12,000 students, it is one of the leading organisations in its domain worldwide. An integrated approach to problems and the cooperation between various disciplines are at the heart of the outstanding approach of Wageningen.

The Water Systems and Global Change (WSG) group is a solution oriented multidisciplinary research group where staff and students can develop new skills and excel in their science in this field. In our research, we analyse and assess the impacts of climate change and population growth and propose and test adaptation strategies. We use simulation models, earth system observations, scenario analysis and field studies. We actively invite students from different backgrounds, and skills and interests to take part in our courses and research. Also our staff comes from a diversity of backgrounds. Currently our group has 12 staff members, 7 post-docs and more than 30 PhD students. The group has as an excellent funding base with lots of external grants and projects from a broad range of funding organisations.

Research of the group has a strong international focus, with projects at global scale as well as a strong focus on Africa and Asia.

Our teaching focusses on contribution to three different Master Programmes: International Land and Water Management, Climate Studies and Environmental Sciences. Within these programmes we offer numerous Master courses related to global change impacts on water resources and climate change impacts and adaptation. In addition, a number of BSc minor courses are offered. A growing number of students is interested in the work of our group and last year we had about 70 MSc students doing their Master thesis at our group.

Equal opportunities employer
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age. Furthermore, given our active policy to be as inclusive as possible as employer, we explicitly invite women and international candidates to apply.