Lecturer Health and Society

The lecturer position will mainly contribute to the HSO teaching portfolio. We are looking for someone who can support education (courses and thesis and internship supervision). The area of teaching includes social determinants of health, health promotion, the healthy living environment and global one health. You will also act as the education coordinator for the group.

Your duties and responsibilities include:

• Assisting HSO staff members in the coordination and teaching of the HSO education curriculum
• Coordination of HSO Thesis (Bachelor and Master) and Internships (Master)
• Answering education-related questions of students and staff
• Keeping up-to-date with all education organizational issues at WUR and supporting the teaching staff of HSO to implement them (Quality Control)
• Coordinate with the other education coordinators of the section SPS: eg make sure thesis and internship guidelines are up to date, inform students about rules and regulations on Brightspace
• Coordinate meetings of the HSO Education Committee and give education updates during the HSO Group Meetings

You will work with a nice group of researchers and teachers known as the Health & Society Group. You will be based in the Leeuwenborch Building on the Wageningen University & Research campus.

Requirements:

You are proactive and take initiative in organizing. You are easy approachable for students.
You also possess:

• A MSc degree in Health and Society, Public Health or Health Promotion;
• Teaching experience at academic level (having a teaching qualification is a plus);
• Good organization, communication and coordination skills;
• An enthusiasm to help out students and staff with education related questions;
• Dutch language skills.

In our international working environment there is an increasing amount of communication in English. For this position it is about language level C1. If you do not yet have this level, we will of course help you and you can go to our language center Wageningen in'to Language

You can see that there are plenty of challenges ahead of you. These challenges can also be seen as development opportunities. So if you do not yet have the track-record required in the vacancy, but do have solid work experience, we would also like to invite you to apply.

You will work here
Health and Society
We, in the Health and Society Group, see ourselves as embedded in widening circles of engagement with the major challenges facing human and planetary health today. Whether we are studying the domain of people, places, policies, or the planet more broadly, we engage with these domains with the aim to improve health and society.

Our research includes studies on the role that the local environment plays in shaping lifestyle and health practices, the role that friends, family or places play in influencing health-related decisions, and the effects that polices play on population and planetary health. We use science and theory to guide us in our approach, and participatory practices to foster a healthier world.

We aim

• to advance knowledge on the social determinants of health and how to intervene on those determinants using a social sciences lens
• to educate, train, and equip students at all levels in the theories, tools, and methods required to improve population and planetary health
• to conduct internationally-recognized health sciences research with social impact.

The Health and Society Group is part of the WUR-Centre for Space Place and Society (CSPS) that aims to advance creative, critical, and engaging scholarship within and beyond the social sciences with particular focus on earthly, socio-spatial and environmental justice and translate knowledge into practical action in pursuit of a more just and equitable world.

More information about Health and Society can be found at wur.eu/hso

Salary Benefits:

Wageningen University & Research offers excellent terms of employment. A few highlights from our Collective Labour Agreement include:

• sabbatical leave, study leave, and partially paid parental leave;
• 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 / holiday hours by working more, per week;
• 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.

In addition to these first-rate employee benefits, you will of course receive a good salary. Depending on your experience, we offer a competitive gross salary of between € 3.226 and € 5.090 for a full-time working week of 38 hours, in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreements for Dutch Universities (CAO-NU) (scale 10). This is a temporary position for 1 year, for 0.6 fte.

Wageningen University & Research encourages internal advancement opportunities and mobility with an internal recruitment policy. There are plenty of options for personal initiative in a learning environment, and we provide excellent training opportunities. We are offering a unique position in an international environment with a pleasant and open working atmosphere.

You are going to work at the greenest and most innovative campus in Holland, and at a university that has been chosen as the “Best University” in the Netherlands for the 19th consecutive time.

24 hours per week

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