Junior Lecturer Water Resources Management

at  Wageningen University Research

Are you interested in the complex dynamics of water management through interdisciplinary pathways? Are you excellent at teaching, and are ready to prepare future specialists in International Land and Water Management? If yes, then this may be the perfect opportunity for you!
The Water Resources Management (WRM) group ,a part of Environmental Sciences group at Wageningen University and Research is seeking to recruit a Junior Lecturer (Docent 4) in the field of the socio-technical aspects of water management for a minimum of two years.

1. Education (70%-time allocation)

The Junior Lecturer will have the following education responsibilities, to be further developed based on experience and interest:

• inputs to the Bachelor International Land and Water Management courses, such as ‘Orientation BIL’, ‘Environmental Justice’, ‘Land and Water Engineering’, ‘Design 2’, ‘Orientation on International Land and Water Management’ and tutoring student groups in the writing sessions for BSc. theses;
• education innovation;
• supervise BSc internship and thesis students in the field of water resources management (2-4 students per year).

1. Projects and general chair group work (20 %-time allocation)
   The Junior Lecturer will work partly on projects that link research, capacity-building and policy support.
2. Developing own research ideas and acquisition of funding to carry out a PhD project within the WRM group (10 %-time allocation).