Communication Advisor

• Advise and guide board members, management, team leaders, and colleagues in their communicative role, both solicited and unsolicited.
• Actively contribute to the organization's environmental focus and help take external steps.
• Occasionally provide training or presentations and develop supporting tools.
• Translate external insights into the organization's challenges, considering the long-term vision and short- to medium-term goals.
• Be linked to projects and portfolios with an advisory and facilitating role.
• Establish connections between the organization and its collaboration partners at various levels.
• Map sensitivities, interests, and desired roles of actors in the communication process.
• Responsible for an appealing communication approach aimed at promoting voter turnout in elections.
• Translate national campaigns into regional campaigns and develop communication approaches for various target groups, both online and offline.
• Collaborate with other public bodies.
• First point of contact for a youth panel, guiding, facilitating, stimulating, motivating, and occasionally directing the panel.
• Coach young people in delivering assignments and presentations.
• Positively critical of ongoing issues and communicative deployment in projects.
• Ask the right relevant questions and make clear work agreements.
• Aware of administrative and political relationships.
• Shape your own work by identifying, analyzing, and discussing issues.
• Quickly switch when direct communicative attention is needed.
• One of the contact persons for the press, advising and guiding board members and colleagues who act as spokespersons, or acting as spokesperson yourself.
• Write and edit texts for internal and external media.
• Participate in the press duty roster.

• Accessible and easily makes contacts.
• Can effortlessly switch between conversation levels and convey advice clearly and tactically.
• Analytical and results-oriented with a hands-on mentality.
• Creative and dares to think and act outside the box.
• Administratively sensitive, environmentally aware, and knows how to act correctly in this context.
• Easily builds and leverages a network.
• Connecting and has an optimistic outlook.

What they ask

• Completed HBO / WO education in communication.
• Minimum 3 years of work experience as a communication advisor within the government.
• Work experience at a strategic level in a political-administrative environment.
• Experience advising board members and management.
• Experience with press relations and drafting communication lines.
• Experience with developing and implementing communication plans within projects and partnerships.
• Fluent writing and pleasant presentation skills.

Preferences.

• Experience with a similar public organization is a plus.
• Affinity with the work area of a water management organization.
• Experience with guiding a youth panel or similar is a plus.