IT Traineeship; A kickstart as of February 2025!

Please note: you must be fluent in Dutch!

Are you graduating soon or do you have a maximum of two years of relevant work experience? We offer an IT Traineeship where you develop yourself both professionally and personally towards a challenging and inspiring position as an IT engineer. And that's just the beginning!

By the way, did you know that Wageningen University & Research (WUR) has been voted the the best employer for ICT within a non-ICT organization in 2024?

The WUR IT Traineeship is a combination of working, learning, personal development, fun and daily challenges. You will work with different teams so that you get to know the organization well, you will discover where your talents lie so that you can carry out increasingly larger assignments.
We promise that in 18 months you will go through a development that will accelerate your career; You will work for a leading, international knowledge organization, you will receive substantive training and you will grow in the role of technical engineer or functional manager.

You will receive a coach from the organization who will give you honest feedback and teach you how to adjust your behavior in such a way that you achieve results. In short; business, technology, ICT and (personal) development at WUR's IT department: a unique opportunity for a Young Professional.

What does the IT Traineeship entail?
You take a huge step in your career in a year and a half. You will develop both hard skills and soft skills, you will participate in challenging training courses with other enthusiastic trainees and you will obtain IT certificates. You can think of training courses such as ITIL, Digital Information Design, skills training such as Agile, personal effectiveness, time management, personal intervision, coaching and technical training such as CCNA, RHCSA, VCP and Azure Fundamentals. This is always in consultation and depends on your personal development.

Throughout the entire period, you will be guided by experienced professionals within our organization. You will not only support the day-to-day work, but you will also work on a number of innovation assignments within this traineeship. These assignments will give you a broad picture of our IT organization, you will quickly gain valuable experience and you will make contacts for the future.

In the traineeship, you will be given the time and opportunity to find out where your ambitions and interests lie and to be well prepared to move on to a permanent position in one of our IT teams. You get to know yourself to discover what you want and can do, you get to know a lot of new colleagues and you get to know the organization.

In addition to all the educational moments, there is also room for fun. Every month we organize our IT drinks, WUR organizes the WeDay (= sports day) and other fun activities.

This is where you will be working
With 200 employees, our IT department provides a modern ICT environment for education and research. We work in multidisciplinary teams on current issues in the field of digitization, self-service, security, data/application management, high performance computing and cloud strategy. We have our own data centers and work entirely in the cloud. Our Infra teams provide the necessary compute, storage and networking capacity to enable groundbreaking research and education within WUR. Highly available, stable and above all user-friendly. In the background, but also very visible. So plenty of development and career opportunities for specialists at different levels.

• A completed IT education (MBO4 or HBO);
• HBO working and thinking level. If you do not have a completed HBO education, an online assessment may be part of the procedure;
• Up to two years of relevant work experience;
• Good command of the Dutch and English language;
• You are focused on your own development.

The following competencies are important for this position:

• Enterprising and result-oriented;
• Cooperate;
• Taking ownership;
• Communicative skills;
• Analytical.

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.

Of course, these excellent fringe benefits also come with an appropriate salary. Depending on your experience, we offer a competitive salary of a minimum of € 3.070,- to a maximum of € 3.315,- for a full working week of 36 hours in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Wageningen Research (scale 8) In addition, an appointment of 32 hours is negotiable.

We offer you a contract for the duration of the traineeship (18 months), with the intention of converting it into a contract for an indefinite period.

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 multi-faceted position in an international environment with a pleasant and open working atmosphere.

Wageningen University & Research

Wageningen University & Research
The mission of Wageningen University & Research is “To explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life”. Under the banner Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen University and the specialised research institutes of the Wageningen Research Foundation have joined forces in contributing to finding solutions to important questions in the domain of healthy food and living environment.

With its roughly 30 branches, 7,600 employees (6,700 fte) and 13,100 students and over 150,000 participants to WUR’s Life Long Learning, Wageningen University & Research is one of the leading organisations in its domain. The unique Wageningen approach lies in its integrated approach to issues and the collaboration between different disciplines.

Read the 5 reasons why your future colleagues enjoy working at WUR and watch this video to get an idea of our green campus!

We will recruit for the vacancy ourselves and do not appreciate unasked for services from recruitment agencies. However, sharing in your network is appreciated.

For more information about this position, please contact Roy Bartels, Department Manager Operations. Email: roy.bartels@wur.nl or by phone 0317 – 489 060 or with Bart Aarts, Department Manager Operations. Email: bart.aarts@wur.nl or by phone: 0317 – 486 620

For more information about the procedure, please contact Leoni Gasille, Sr. HR Business Partner, phone: 0317-485 821 or by e-mail: leoni.gasille@wur.nl

Do you want to apply?
This can be done directly via the application button next to the vacancy on our website so that we can process personal data with your permission.

This vacancy is open until Monday 25 November 2024. We want to schedule the first job interviews as soon as possible.

Equal opportunities
Wageningen University & Research (WUR) employs a large number of people with very different backgrounds and qualities, who inspire and motivate each other. We want every talent to feel at home in our organisation and be offered the same career opportunities. We therefore especially welcome applications from people who are underrepresented at WUR. A good example of how WUR deals with inclusiveness can be read on the page working at WUR with a functional impairment