Team Leader Applied Ecology in Agrosystems
2 weken geleden
**_Would you like to contribute to the mission of WUR, particularly that of Agrosystems Research, by leading a team of professionals and managing larger, complex research projects? Do you have a keen eye for your colleagues' well-being and enjoy empowering them to perform at their best? Is your passion for impactful applied research still unfulfilled? Then this is the job for you._**
**Your responsibilities as a teamlead and researcher are**:
- maintaining intensive contacts with clients from both Dutch and international governments, businesses, and other research institutions;
- coaching project leaders in executing project management and setting up large research projects, including those based on public-private partnerships (PPS);
- being a member of the Management Team of the business unit. In this role, you will be jointly responsible with other MT members for executing the mission, ensuring scientific quality, acquisition, revenue, and financial results of the business unit;
- actively seeking collaboration with relevant research groups both within and outside the WUR organization. Multidisciplinary collaboration is our strength;
- reporting directly to the BU manager and contributing to the long-term strategy of the business unit, strategic personnel planning, and translating this into the research team’s strategy.
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.
This position comes with excellent secondary employment conditions, including a competitive salary. Depending on your experience, we offer a market-conform salary ranging from a minimum of €4.862;
- to a maximum of €8.091;
- for a full 36-hour workweek in accordance with the CAO Wageningen Research (scale 13-14). Moreover, a 32-hour workweek is negotiable. Initially, we offer you a one-year contract, which will be extended to a permanent contract upon mutual enthusiasm. We are, of course, open to discussing any questions you might have about this.
Wageningen University & Research encourages internal career growth and mobility through its internal recruitment policy. There are ample opportunities for personal initiative in a learning environment, and we offer excellent training opportunities. You will have a versatile job in an international environment with a pleasant and open working atmosphere.
You will be working on the greenest and most innovative campus in the Netherlands, at a university that has been chosen as the "Best University" in the Netherlands for the 19th consecutive time.
**Coming from abroad**
Wageningen University & Research is the university and research centre for life sciences. The themes we deal with are relevant to everyone around the world and Wageningen, therefore, has a large international community and a lot to offer to international employees.
Feeling welcome also has everything to do with being well informed. Wageningen University & Research's International Community page contains practical information about what we can do to support international employees and students coming to Wageningen. Furthermore, we can assist you with any additional advice and information about for example helping your partner to find a job, housing, or schooling._ Finally, certain categories of international staff may be eligible for a tax exemption on a part of their salary during the first five years in the Netherlands._ **You will work here**
Our **Business Unit, Agrosystems Research**, is part of the **Plant Sciences Group **at **Wageningen University & Research**. We are a community of researchers dedicated to developing safe and sustainable agricultural systems that are well integrated into society and contribute to the quality of life. We operate in a demand-driven contract research organization.
Our core activity is understanding and quantifying the soil-crop-environment continuum at both the process level and the agrosystem level. We achieve this through experiments and computer modeling, ICT, sensing and robotics, field tests, interviews, conceptual development, action research, and integral analysis and implementation of results in collaboration with stakeholders. Our research and knowledge-intensive advisory systems are based on agronomy, ecology, and information technology as our primary scientific disciplines, increasingly supplemented by social science research. Our vision of agro-ecology involves integrating agronomic, technological, and social research in interaction with stakeholders. This requir
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