Liaison Officer Operations
You will work for a government organization committed to socially relevant work and a safe country. This organization supports its colleagues at home and abroad with equipment, supplies, and IT. You will work within a specialized department that supports the transition to an information-driven and technologically advanced armed force. You operate within a bureau that forms the central point where operational signals, chain information, and management needs converge.
The work environment is dynamic, with high time pressure and a continuous process of information gathering, analysis, and alignment. You will switch daily between different levels and interests.
What you do
- Translate operational signals into concretely substantiated insights about risks, feasibility, and capacity impact, enabling management to prepare and substantiate decisions.
- Gather, interpret, and translate operational information into concretely substantiated insights about risks, feasibility, and capacity impact.
- Analyze the impact of operational developments on deployability, equipment, and logistical chains, and explicitly identify dependencies and bottlenecks.
- Actively collect feasibility information from Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) within the chain and translate this into concrete insights about feasibility and capacity.
- Advise management based on your analyses and ensure that relevant risks, bottlenecks, and dependencies are timely and substantiated in the decision-making process.
- Act as a connecting link between operations, the chain, business operations, and management, translating operational signals into administratively usable insights and communicating the impact of decisions back to the chain.
- Deliver products such as interpretation notes, risk analyses, chain overviews, and input for situation reports and decision-making.
- Independently set priorities and actively gather information in a dynamic environment with high time pressure.
- Provide the substantive basis for decision-making, without making decisions yourself.
What they ask
- HBO+/WO (higher professional education/university) working and thinking level and extensive experience within an operational, logistical, or similar context.
- Ability to quickly process, interpret, and translate large amounts of information into concrete advice.
- Understanding of how operational processes and logistical chains interact and the ability to make dependencies and risks transparent.
- Familiarity with military command and the ability to quickly extract the core from commands and orders.
- Proactive work attitude; independently gather information.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to remain effective under time pressure.
- Understanding that your role is not to make decisions, but to provide the right analysis and advice that enable decision-making.
- Competencies: Analytical ability, Chain awareness, Proactivity, Organizational and political sensitivity, Stress resistance, Collaboration and connection.
Practical
- A security screening and reference check are part of the selection procedure.
- An assessment may be part of the selection procedure.
- You must originate from a country within the European Economic Area, or possess a combined permit for residence and work (GVVA).
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