About this role
- Study at WUR Bachelor's Master's - Collaborate with WUR - Themes - Study at WUR - Collaborate with WUR - About WUR - Research Funding Officer Career at WUR About us - Plenty of variety and challenges - Pleasant working atmosphere - Time for personal development - Proper work-life balance - Internationally leading Your job As a Research Funding Officer and organizational project manager, you support and coordinate acquisition and project management processes. You ensure that new research opportunities are identified, assessed, and successfully converted into proposals, grant applications, and projects. Additionally, you ensure that projects are executed within time, budget and regulatory constraints. Projects can range from fieldwork and experimental research to data management, modeling, and policy-oriented research. This gives you broad insight into the research activities of Wageningen Research. You work closely with researchers, (scientific) project leaders, clients, and support departments within WMR and Wageningen University & Research (WUR). Your tasks and responsibilities as a Research Funding Officer: Research funding (approximately 70% of your time) - identifying and monitoring assignments, tenders, and grant opportunities relevant to WMR and aligned with the organizational strategy; - assessing grant and tender requirements and advising on opportunities, risks, co-financing, and partnerships; - coordinating and guiding proposal and grant application processes, ensuring that financial, legal, and technical input is available on time; - advising researchers and project leaders on acquisition processes, procedures, and grant conditions; - monitoring the progress of acquisition and proposal processes and reporting on them. Project management (approximately 30% of your time) - supporting project leaders in the execution of research projects; - monitoring project objectives regarding time, quality, budget, or...