You will work at the heart of a municipal collaboration in the field of Social Affairs. For one of the participating municipalities, this also applies to ICT. A policy advisor for Livelihood Security & Participation is sought within the Social Affairs department, specifically the Advice, Support & Control unit. The Social Affairs department is a dynamic department that supports residents with benefit applications, job searching, and debt issues.
Work is seen as the best opportunity for social participation and poverty prevention. The Advice, Support & Control unit combines expertise from policy, legal functions, quality, and (financial) control, and works closely with the executive units.
What you do
- Be the content owner of several coherent policy themes.
- Advise, write, and implement policies.
- Gather signals from implementation and ensure new ideas and rules are effectively put into practice.
- Advise the collaborating municipalities, quality, and specialized units on policy choices, with a strong focus on livelihood security, minimum income policy, debt assistance, and reintegration.
- Draft and keep up-to-date ordinances, further regulations, policy rules, and other policy documents.
- Translate new laws and regulations into actionable policy, including organizing their implementation.
- Take on project-based assignments within your portfolio and beyond, potentially fulfilling the role of project leader or coordinator.
- Connect policy and implementation: gather signals, organize collaboration, and use practical experience to make policy smarter and more effective.
- Contribute to the annual plan, management reports, and other P&C products from your dossiers.
- Fulfill a secretarial role in the broad policy consultation with the three municipalities.
- Manage several content-related accounts and regulations within your portfolio.
- Participate in internal, municipal, and regional working groups.
- Flexibly contribute to new challenges and quickly master new subjects.
What they ask
- Minimum HBO (higher professional education) working and thinking level.
- Preferably several years of relevant experience as a policy advisor within the social domain.
- Knowledge of or demonstrable affinity with the Participation Act, livelihood security, minimum income policy, debt assistance, and/or civic integration.
- Ability to translate laws and regulations into clear, actionable policy.
- Fluent writing skills for memos, policy proposals, policy rules, and ordinances.
- Project-based approach: structuring, concretizing agreements, and keeping track of results.
- Connecting, curious attitude, actively seeking collaboration with implementation, municipalities, and fellow specialists.
- Courage to challenge existing working methods if improvements can be made.
- Sensitivity to a political-administrative environment and the ability to weigh different interests effectively.
Practical
- Salary up to € 5,624 gross per month (scale 10 according to municipal collective labor agreement).
- Individual choice budget (IKB) of 17.05% on top of the gross salary.
- Professional and informal working environment with room for personal initiative, development, and training.
- Opportunity to contribute to the development of a unit into a knowledge and expertise center and a project-oriented partner.
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