A growing public organization has high ambitions for public space, focusing on climate adaptation, energy transition, biodiversity, mobility, and efficient use of public funds. The Programming department plays a crucial role in translating societal ambitions into management strategies, programming, and investments within the Spatial Domain. The department aims for further professionalization in integral asset management, data-driven programming, financial steering, and chain collaboration.
What you will do. As a department manager, you will lead the Programming department, which is central to Public Space Management. You will ensure the alignment of management plans, replacement tasks, and investments, and connect policy, programming, and execution. You will steer the management chain and work on the department's continuous development.
- Leadership & personnel responsibility: Integral responsibility for the department, including HR tasks. You foster ownership, collaboration, and continuous development within a leadership team of two coordinators and three senior staff members.
- Department professionalization: Provide direction for process improvement, innovation, and data-driven work, with clearly defined responsibilities.
- Vision & programming: Translate societal developments and administrative ambitions into management strategies and plans, considering quality, risks, capacity, investments, and resources.
- Client role & chain collaboration: Responsible for a well-functioning management chain, strengthening collaboration between various departments to align policy, programming, and execution.
- Business operations & financial steering: Ensure sound business operations, the planning and control cycle, and the professionalization of financial steering and management information.
- Spatial Domain Management Team: Actively contribute to strategy, collaboration, and decision-making within the Spatial Domain, with a broad view on the future of public space.
What they ask
- University level of thinking and working.
- Demonstrable experience in a management role within a complex or administrative organization, preferably within a public sector organization.
- Affinity with the physical domain and/or public space.
- Experience with organizational development and managing developing teams.
- Experience with business operations and financial steering.
Profile
You provide direction and space, structure complex tasks, and know how to mobilize people. You connect strategy with execution and navigate easily in a political-administrative environment, where you build support for choices and changes. You are results-oriented and monitor progress. As a connector, you oversee the coherence between policy, programming, execution, and external partners, and strengthen collaboration within the management chain.
You are a coaching and steady leader who stimulates ownership and helps teams develop. At the same time, you are decisive and have a sense for business operations, making clear, well-founded choices at the intersection of content, finance, capacity, and organizational interests. You play an important role in the further development of the department, focusing on professionalization, data- and process-oriented work, and integral asset management.
Practical
The department consists of approximately 30 engaged, pragmatic, and collegial professionals. Trust is the basis for collaboration, even with differences. The shared drive is to deliver the best for the administration, colleagues, and residents.
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