Management Assistant

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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
Do you enjoy using your administrative expertise to support the Breeding & Genomics department, thinking along proactively and ensuring that researchers are "relieved" of their administrative tasks? Are you someone who is good at keeping priorities in view? Are you sensitive to your environment and do you have an eye for the (international) clients of Wageningen Livestock Research and WUR? Then we are looking for you - will you come and strengthen our team of top professionals in the secretariat?
Wageningen Livestock Research (WLR) is looking for an enthusiastic Management Assistant for its research department Breeding & Genomics and the relevant Head of Department.
What will you do?
As a Management Assistant, you schedule appointments (internal and external) and manage calendars in Outlook. You handle outgoing correspondence and arrange orders in our financial system. You also format research reports in the corporate house style, organise meetings and process data in various systems. In addition, you handle incoming and outgoing post and support the onboarding of new (guest) staff members.
You provide support to the Head of Department and staff members (answering questions about absence, orders, expense claims and other practical matters).
Your team
Together with the other management assistants, you ensure stable staffing and smooth cooperation within the secretariat. You are resilient under pressure and able to switch quickly; when necessary, management assistants are able to take over one another's tasks.
Wageningen Livestock Research (WLR) consists of five research departments. The WLR secret...