Are you an enthusiastic and experienced researcher with an academic attitude and broad interdisciplinary interest? Do you have a PhD in Spatial or Environmental Planning? And do you combine good communication skills with an affinity with rural and environmental challenges? Then we are looking for you!

The Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning Group (LSP) investigates how challenges brought about by global and environmental change can be addressed by means of spatial planning and design. These challenges include climate mitigation and adaptation, safeguarding biodiversity and keeping our countryside vital. Our specific competence is to analyse complex and dynamic systems at the landscape scale, and to propose inspiring and meaningful solutions. We aim for inclusive solutions and actively engage with stakeholders in all phases of our research. Read more in these news articles about our work.

Accordingly, we educate and train a growing numbers of Bachelor, Master and PhD students to become knowledgeable, reflective, and creative landscape architects and planners. As assistant or associate professor Land Use Planning you will dedicate approximately 40% of your time to teaching and 60% to (commissioned) research and management tasks. You will be contributing to the Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning programmes (BLP/MLP), by teaching courses (partly in Dutch) and by supervising BSc/MSc theses.

Tenure Track is a career path for hardworking scientists at Wageningen University who pursue to excel in education and research. We seek to attract scientific talent and to stimulate and support their development.

• hold a PhD in Spatial or Environmental Planning, Geography, or another related field;
• have a demonstrated interest in rural and environmental topics;
• have basic knowledge of the Dutch situation regarding spatial planning and (rural) policy;
• have at least three publications in international, peer-reviewed ISI journals;
• have experience in teaching, preferably also in course coordination;
• have good communicative and writing skills;
• be willing to contribute to general tasks and activities of the chair group;
• have some command of Dutch, and an excellent command of English.

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, up to 40 hours 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, we offer a tenure track position, for 38 hours per week (1 fte). Salary depends on knowledge and experience. Gross salary per month from € 3.807,- to € 5.211,- (assistant professor position) and from € 5.275,- to € 6.421,- (associate professor position) based on full time employment. Upon meeting the criteria of the Wageningen University Tenure Track, you will be tenured after four years.

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 17th 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. Applicants from abroad moving to the Netherlands may qualify for a special tax relief, known as the 30% ruling. Our team of advisors on Dutch immigration procedures will help you with the visa application procedures for yourself and, if applicable, for your family.
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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 12.500 students, it is one of the leading organisations in its domain worldwide. A coordinated approach to problems and the cooperation between various disciplines are at the heart of the outstanding approach of Wageningen. We have been named Best Employer in Education category 2019-2020.

The Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning Group is embedded in the department of Environmental Sciences of Wageningen University, which provides fundamental research and academic education on our living environment. We are a dynamic, young, international group with around 50 lecturers and professors and around 20 phds. We are member of the Wageningen School of Social Sciences (WASS) and of the Institute for Environment and Climate Research (WIMEK).

We do the recruiting for this vacancy ourselves. Please do not contact us for sales purposes!