Postdoc: Environmental Justice in Scaling

6 dagen geleden

Amsterdam Zuid, Nederland Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Voltijd

**Your function**:
In this exciting postdoc position, you will conduct applied research to address a major knowledge gap on how to scale Nature Based Solutions in an equitable and just way. Using political sciences and economics, you will independently develop research activities in our FairNature project, funded by Biodiversa+ under the call “Nature-Based Solutions for biodiversity, human well-being and transformative change (BiodivNBS)”. You will work across two sections at IVM: Environmental Policy Analysis and Environmental Economics.

**Your duties**
- you will conduct an online survey with a choice experiment to assess values for nature based solutions
- you will conduct interviews with key stakeholders and experts to assess the justice trade-offs that can emerge in scaling NBS and identify the governance structures that support or hinder just scaling of NBS
- you will contribute to projects management and engaging our stakeholders
- you will contribute 10% of your time to our teaching activities

**Your profile**:

- you have a PhD degree in environmental social science, environmental economics, or a closely related field (or you are very near to completing your PhD)
- you have experience with qualitative approaches for interviews and stakeholder meetings
- you have advanced quantitative skills for survey analysis
- you have a strong interest in environmental justice theories and practices (or related normative theories and approaches, including participation)
- it is an advantage if you speak Dutch
- it is an advantage if you have experience in working on stakeholder engagement

We realise that each individual brings a unique set of skills, expertise and mindset. Therefore we are happy to invite anyone who recognises themselves in the profile to apply, even if you do not (fully) meet all the requirements.

**What do we offer?**:
An exciting postdoc position in a socially-engaged organization with a supportive project team and an active early-career scientist community. At VU Amsterdam, you contribute to education, research and service for a better world. And that is valuable. So in return for your efforts, we offer you:

- a salary of minimum € 3.345,00 (Scale 10.0) and maximum € 5.278,00 (Scale 10.12) gross per month, on a full-time basis. This is based on UFO profile Researcher 4. The exact salary depends on your education and experience.
- a position for at least 0.8 FTE. Your employment contract will initially start with a 1-year contract with the possibility to extend with another 2 years.

We also offer you attractive fringe benefits and regulations. Some examples:

- A full-time 38-hour working week comes with a holiday leave entitlement of 232 hours per year. If you choose to work 40 hours, you have 96 extra holiday leave hours on an annual basis. For part-timers, this is calculated pro rata.
- 8% holiday allowance and 8.3% end-of-year bonus
- solid pension scheme (ABP)
- contribution to commuting expenses
- optional model for designing a personalised benefits package

**About us**:
**Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM)**
Established in 1971, IVM is a leading environmental research institute that is internationally recognised for its high quality research output in a range of environmental disciplines, as well as for its interdisciplinary work. The mission of the institute is to contribute to sustainable development and care for the environment through scientific research and teaching. IVM aims to do excellent problem-oriented research that is useful to a wide range of stakeholders in the Netherlands and internationally. A unique strength of our research is to understand sustainability problems in their social and economic context. IVM’s research community works within four departments: Environmental Economics; Environmental Geography, Environmental Policy Analysis; and Water and Climate Risk. Since 2001 IVM has been part of the Faculty of Science at VU Amsterdam (legal name Stichting VU).

The department of Environmental Policy Analysis (EPA) at IVM is a team of more than 25 researchers that was evaluated in the most recent international research quality review as “world leading” and as being “one of the highest profile academic research groups involved with sustainability governance from around the world”. We address questions related to institutional effectiveness and change, governance innovation and complexity as well as learning and adaptation. Empirically, we have a strong focus on water, climate change and biodiversity.

**Faculty of Science**
Researchers and students at VU Amsterdam’s Faculty of Science tackle fundamental and complex scientific problems to help pave the way for a sustainable and healthy future. From forest fires to big data, from obesity to malnutrition, and from molecules to the moon: we cover the full spectrum of the natural sciences. Our teaching and research have a strong experimentally technical, computational and interdisciplinary nat

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