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**Your function**:
The postdoc researcher will conduct research within the project emBrace, help developing effective and efficient coordination of collaborative work in the consortium, and contribute to publishing and disseminate project findings. The work will have a strong interdisciplinary character, combining participatory approaches and social learning dynamics with knowledge synthesis methods. Grounded in the Nature Futures framework, you will contribute to develop shared visions of desirable futures using participatory visioning workshops that foster human-nature connectedness, collaborative and inclusive governance, and interdependent social-ecological benefits in multifunctional protected areas across Europe.
**Your duties**
- you develop research to identify strategies to adaptively navigate the processes of integrating food systems in multifunctional protected areas, with an emphasis on the synergies and tradeoffs that emerge from the institutional, social, economic, and environmental dimensions of transformative change
- you engage in transdisciplinary empirical research in at least one of emBrace’s case studies, and conduct knowledge synthesis and integration processes
- you collaborate with the project partners towards making the case studies comparable
- you provide day-to-day assistance for the coordination of the project and facilitate collaboration with other researchers of the international emBrace project consortium
- you support project tasks and dissemination (including project meetings, conferences, deliverables)
- you publish high-impact, peer-reviewed research in international scientific journals.
**Your profile**:
- you have a PhD in geography, or a social or environmental related discipline
- you have a track record of peer-reviewed publications as well as the ability to initiate and complete original research
- you have the ability to help coordinate teamwork, and conduct transdisciplinary work with local stakeholders.
- you have excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- you have excellent written and oral command of English. Proficiency in Spanish and French would be valuable.
- you are available to start around April 1st, 2025.
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?**:
A challenging position in a socially engaged organisation. 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 € 3.378,00 (Scale 10) and maximum € 5.331,00 (Scale 10) 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 last 1 year. Afterwards, the possibility of expansion exists.
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
- contribution to commuting expenses
- optional model for designing a personalized benefits package
- a wide range of sports facilities which staff may use at a modest charge
**About us**:
**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 nature.
We work on new solutions guided by value-driven, interdisciplinary methodologies. We are committed to research, valorisation and training socially engaged citizens of the world who will make valuable contributions to a sustainable, healthy future.
**Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam**
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam stands for values-driven education and research. We are open-minded experts with the ability to think freely - a broader mind. Maintaining an entrepreneurial perspective and concentrating on diversity, significance and humanity, we work on sustainable solutions with social impact. By joining forces, across the boundaries of disciplines, we work towards a better world for people and planet. Together we create a safe and respectful working and study climate, and an inspiring environment for education and research. Learn more about our codes of conduct
We are located on one physical campus, in the heart of Amsterdam's Zuidas business district, wit
