A government organization is looking for a sharp domain secretary. The secretary supports the director and management team in the administrative, organizational, and strategic management of the domain. The role requires a strong director who maintains an overview, makes connections, and ensures progress, quality, and administrative sensitivity within a dynamic environment.
The secretary operates at the intersection of management, leadership, and organization and contributes to an effective and well-organized decision-making process.
What you do
- Support a group director and the management team on strategic issues
- Support department heads with domain-wide tasks
- Prepare, coordinate, and monitor administrative decision-making towards the board, council
- Identify administrative, social, and organizational developments that impact the domain
- Manage planning and control
- Monitor progress, quality, and integrity of administrative documents, board proposals, and management reports
- Monitor action points, deadlines, and administrative agreements
- Ensure coherence between content, finances, capacity, and administrative priorities
- Act as a connecting link between the administrative secretariat, management, leadership, program teams, and group support
- Responsible for preparing MT meetings, administrative tables, and strategic sessions
- Promote integral collaboration within the relevant domain and with other domains
- Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders, including collaboration partners and affiliated parties
- Lead complex dossiers and domain-wide projects
- Structure decision-making, prioritization
- Support organizational development, change assignments, and implementation projects
- Identify bottlenecks and proactively propose improvements to processes and collaboration
- Be a sparring partner for management and leadership on complex or sensitive issues
What they ask
- Minimum of 1 year demonstrable work experience as a secretary within a municipal organization
- Demonstrable completed education at a minimum of HBO bachelor level
- Available by September 2026 at the latest
Preferences.
- Demonstrable work experience as a secretary within a municipality of 100,000+ inhabitants
- Demonstrable work experience with decision-making processes within a municipality
- Minimum of 2 years demonstrable work experience in the past 5 years at a municipality or government institution, in the role of secretary or management/MT advisor
- Demonstrable work experience with preparing, coordinating, and monitoring administrative decision-making
- Demonstrable work experience with taking meeting minutes, drawing up and maintaining an action list, and ensuring that actions are carried out
Profile
- Political-administrative sensitivity
- Good communication skills, both verbal and written
- Results-oriented
- Excellent advisory skills at a strategic level
- Connecting
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