This assignment focuses on strengthening coherence and standardizing working methods within the truancy and Transition Point departments of a regional government organization. You will guide the professional development of the team, without managing your own caseload. The goal is to ensure professional service delivery and contribute to the right to education and development for children and young people.
You will collaborate with professionals from a specific team, the team leader, and a quality officer, with clearly defined responsibilities.
What you will do.
- Promote a uniform application of relevant legislation (Compulsory Education Act and Sustainable Work Transition Act).
- Ensure clear working agreements and uniform and complete registration in the Youth Tracking System (JVS).
- Be the primary professional point of contact for truancy officers and transition coaches.
- Support colleagues with complex professional issues without taking over their cases.
- Coordinate the distribution of schools with the team leader.
- Guide new employees and help them find their way carefully and quickly.
- Coach colleagues in their professional development.
- Organize professional meetings and provide direction to thematic working groups.
- Stimulate structured knowledge sharing between truancy officers and transition coaches.
- Identify differences and bottlenecks in implementation and translate them into concrete improvement proposals.
- Contribute to the introduction of new legislation, work processes, and applications, together with the quality officer and team leader.
- Consult with the team leader on administratively, legally, or politically sensitive issues.
Profile
- You bring structure and coherence to daily professional and operational activities.
- Colleagues can approach you with complex questions; you think along and provide direction, while they remain responsible for their own cases.
- You maintain an overview, introduce structure, and constructively address colleagues regarding agreements made.
- You listen carefully, ask the right questions, and make clear considerations.
- You know when you can provide direction independently and when coordination is needed.
- You connect the daily practice of truancy and the Transition Point with new developments.
- You make complex subjects understandable and translate them into actionable agreements for colleagues.
- You work with commitment, are results-oriented and meticulous, take initiative, and positively engage colleagues.
What they ask
- Minimum of a completed HBO (higher professional education) degree.
- In the past five years, at least two years of relevant work experience within the field of truancy and the Transition Point, specifically as both a truancy officer and a transition coach (may also be a combined function).
- In the past two years, performed activities where the Compulsory Education Act and the Sustainable Work Transition Act were applied.
- In the past five years, at least one year of work experience with professionally advising and coaching professionals in a non-hierarchical role.
- At least one relevant reference from the past 5 years, stating that the candidate has experience with activities comparable in nature and scope to the assignment, including the organization's name, contact person's name and function, and contact details.
Preferences.
- In the past five years, supervised at least two separate professional coaching trajectories for professionals or gained at least 2 years of experience in a structured professional coaching role.
- Experience with guiding and onboarding new employees.
- Experience with organizing knowledge sharing, professional meetings, or thematic working groups.
- Experience with implementing new legislation, work processes, or applications.
- Experience working with the Youth Tracking System (JVS).
Competencies.
- Maintain overview and structure.
- Communicate clearly and constructively address professionals.
- Connect and coach professionals without a hierarchical position.
- Translate complex professional topics into concrete and actionable agreements.
- Act in a results-oriented manner and be administratively, legally, and politically sensitive.
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