Secretary & Student Recruiter

Your job

Are you an organizational talent who likes to make a difference for students? Do you enjoy being the linchpin in a dynamic team and do you enjoy working in an environment where education, administration and creativity come together? Then we are looking for you!

As a secretary and student recruiter, you will support the Nutrition & Health programme team at Wageningen University. Together with your colleague from the secretariat, you ensure that our students – more than 1000 – are helped on time and properly. You play an important role in the daily organization and in communication with prospective students.

You have a versatile position in which you combine administrative, organizational and coordinating tasks. You are the first point of contact for students, work closely with study advisors and the programme director, and are also the spider in the web for the promotion of our programmes through, among other things, the open days and online communication.

What does your work come down to in concrete terms?

• Administrative and operational support for study advisors and programme director, including administrative support for the courses we teach as a team;
• Front office for the training (staffing Mon–Fri 9:00–16:00 together with colleague), both physically and via e-mail;
• Calendar management for the team, both in Outlook and in the self-service environment for students;
• Taking minutes and preparing meetings, partly in English;
• Coordination of information activities for our programmes, such as open days (also occasionally on Saturdays or in the evening);
• Thinking along and implementing communication materials for prospective students, online and offline, in line with the university guidelines for this;
• Managing our graduation administration, including maintaining the Linkedin group with graduates.

Team
You will be part of the Nutrition & Health training team, one of the largest training teams at Wageningen University. There are ten of us and together we support our bachelor's, master's and online master's programmes. Our workplaces are located in the modern Helix building on the Wageningen Campus. Your direct supervisor is the programme director, and you work closely with colleagues within the team and beyond.

Together with your colleague, you form the heart of our secretariat. You coordinate the tasks and working hours in consultation with the manager.

Working as a secretary at Wageningen University & Research
Your new colleagues welcome you to Wageningen University & Research (WUR). The collaboration with colleagues in an informal environment is greatly appreciated by secretaries at WUR. This, in combination with a lot of self-direction and independence, means that the work-life balance can also count on a lot of appreciation.  

Add to that a challenging international environment where, on our beautiful green campus, we work daily on themes with a major social impact.

Your qualities

• You get energy from working with and for students from all kinds of backgrounds;
• You are a real team player: flexible, accurate, stress-resistant and friendly;
• You have at least MBO+ working and thinking level. Experience in a similar position is an advantage.
• You know how to empathize with what prospective students are looking for and also dare to think about information material and communication. Both for 15-year-old VWO students and for 45-year-old Life-Long-Learners;
• You are handy with MS-Office (especially Word, Excel, Teams and Outlook) and quickly learn other, new IT systems. You are not afraid to take on new technical-administrative challenges;
• You enjoy working within a programme with many specialisations, where nutrition and health in a biomedical context are central;
• You are available at peak times such as open days and our start of the academic year (2nd half of August. Of course, you can compensate for this at other times.

In our team, Dutch is the working language. You speak and write excellent Dutch (C2) and have a good command of English  (oral B2, written C1). If you still want to grow in your English, we are happy to help you through our language center Wageningen in'to Language. 

We offer you

When it comes to terms of employment,  Wageningen University & Research is the right place for you. A number of highlights from our collective labour agreement are, for example:

• sabbatical leave, study leave and partly paid parental leave;
• working hours that can be determined in consultation, so that an optimal work-life balance is possible;
• There is a lot of attention for vitality and you can use the sports facilities on campus at an attractive rate;
• a structural end-of-year bonus of 8.3%;
• excellent pension scheme through the ABP.

Of course, these excellent fringe benefits also include an appropriate salary. Depending on your experience, we offer a competitive salary of a minimum of € 2,899 to a maximum of € 3,809 per month for a full working week of 38 hours in accordance with  the Collective Labor Agreement of Dutch Universities (scale 7).

When it comes to your contract, we initially offer an annual contract of 30 hours per week. A contract of 24 hours a week is also possible. We initially offer a one-year contract that can be extended if this is possible within the (economic) organizational conditions – if you perform well.

Wageningen University & Research stimulates internal career opportunities and mobility with an internal recruitment policy. There are ample opportunities for own initiative in a learning environment, we offer excellent training opportunities. With us, you will get a versatile job in an international environment with a pleasant and open working atmosphere.

You will work on the greenest and most innovative campus in the Netherlands, on one of the newest buildings, at a university that has been chosen as the "best university" in the Netherlands for the 20th consecutive time.

Do you want more information?

For more information about this position, please contact Rolf Marteijn, MSc (Programme Director and Team Leader, 06-30462450, rolf.marteijn@wur.nl). 

Questions about the procedure? Please contact Edvard Jongschaap, Sr. Corporate recruiter via email: edvard.jongschaap@wur.nl or by phone: 0317 – 489 178

Apply?
Click on the application button for the vacancy on our website. Only applications via our website will be processed.

This vacancy is open until Monday, June 16, 2026. We want to schedule the first job interviews on 23, 24 and 25 June 2025. 

Welcome, safe and appreciated
Wageningen University & Research (WUR) attaches great importance to diversity and inclusion. This is because we believe that different insights lead to innovative solutions. We therefore create a working environment where everyone feels welcome, safe and valued, regardless of background, identity or experience. Together, we are building a culture in which everyone's unique contribution contributes to the success of our organization.

We are

The mission of Wageningen University & Research is 'To explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life'. Within Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen University and the specialised research institutes of the Wageningen Research Foundation are joining forces to contribute to the solution of important questions in the field of healthy food and the living environment.

With approximately 30 branches, 7,700 employees (7,000 FTEs), 2,500 PhD and EngD candidates, 13,100 students and more than 150,000 Lifelong Learning participants, Wageningen University & Research is one of the world's leading knowledge institutions in its field. The integrated approach to the issues and the cooperation between different disciplines form the heart of the unique Wageningen approach.

Our employees indicate these points as good reasons to come and work at WUR: read the 5 reasons to come and work at WUR 

We are recruiting for this vacancy ourselves. Acquisition is not appreciated, but sharing in your network is.