A public educational institution is seeking a temporary Cluster Manager for the Strategy, Policy & Advice and Energy departments. You will be responsible for the integral management and steering of this cluster, which consists of three departments, each led by its own department head. The role requires a highly experienced manager who fosters connection between the departments and other clusters within the directorate.
Additionally, you will safeguard the integrality of content, processes, goals, and results, with a focus on specific developments.
What You Will Do.
- Manage, steer, and develop the cluster.
- Support the development of the Energy department, including governance, roles, capacity, priorities, risks, and realization planning.
- Guide and steer the takeover process of the medium-voltage ring of a science park.
- Support the development of the Strategy department, including establishing an integral assessment and prioritization framework for real estate, area, and energy investments.
- Elaborate the development strategy for area development of a science park.
- Implement a strengthened governance structure for a strategic housing program, in collaboration with the Head of Strategy department and the director.
- Ensure the implementation of the main work process within the departments in conjunction with another cluster.
- Safeguard integrality by ensuring that the three departments jointly contribute to the cluster's results.
- Orchestrate joint preparation with department heads on management team topics.
- Connect the cluster with other clusters on overarching subjects.
- Develop and monitor the common direction of the cluster.
- Translate organizational objectives into concrete goals and priorities.
- Identify developments and future challenges, and initiate improvements.
- Ensure a future-proof and agile setup of the cluster.
- Lead the three department heads and create the conditions for them to take responsibility.
- Represent the cluster in the management team and relevant meetings.
- Coordinate with the director on organization-wide policy themes and agenda them where necessary.
Profile
You are responsible for the integral management and steering of the Strategy, Policy & Advice and Energy cluster. You ensure connection between the departments and with other clusters, safeguard the integrality of content, processes, goals, and results, and focus on specific development themes such as area development, energy infrastructure, and governance of strategic programs.
What they ask
- Completed HBO/WO (higher professional education/university) degree in civil engineering, area development, construction management, real estate management, or similar.
- Minimum of 10 years of proven experience as a manager and leader within comparable administrative organizations.
- Extensive experience in managing multidisciplinary teams.
- Proven experience with area development and/or development and realization of energy infrastructure, including responsibility for integrality, decision-making, and collaboration between public and private parties.
- Proven experience in guiding organizational development (cultural changes, team development, implementation of new working methods).
- Must possess suitable electronic tools for the assignment (mobile phone).
- Excellent command of the Dutch language, both written and spoken.
- Agreement with secondment conditions.
Preferences.
- Provide insight into your approach using two practical case studies (max. 1 A4 page, single-sided, per case):
- Case 1: Experience with guiding organizational development (setup, professionalization, expansion, or repositioning of department(s)).
- Case 2: Experience with area development and/or the development and realization of energy infrastructure.
- For each case, describe: Context (scope, development phase, your role and responsibilities, specific development task, problem or dilemma, and relationship with area development/energy infrastructure), Action (how you determined where development or intervention was necessary, which interventions and/or decisions you personally made and why), Result (concrete and, where possible, measurable result of your actions and its effect on development, collaboration, professionalism, and results).
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