A specific region aims to further strengthen the collaboration between education and youth care. The ambition is to establish a regional education-care arrangement (OZA) where education and care collaborate integrally, providing children with appropriate support as close to home as possible. Evaluations of existing pilots show that a collective approach leads to:
- more peace and continuity within schools
- reduced administrative burdens
- improved collaboration between education and youth care
- more efficient use of resources
- better development opportunities for students
To achieve this ambition, municipalities, partnerships, and school boards have signed a letter of intent and established a management assignment. An experienced project leader is sought for its implementation. The assignment focuses on:
- realizing a supported project plan
- preparing and executing one or two pilots
- monitoring the results
- delivering a management advisory report for a structural regional education-care arrangement
The project leader is responsible for the daily management of the project. The assignment is provided by a regional steering committee, on behalf of various participating partners consisting of municipalities, inclusive education partnerships, and specialized education school boards. The steering committee is responsible for the administrative direction of the development of a regional OZA.
What you do
- Develop, organize, and guide the regional exploration towards a future-proof education-care arrangement
- Draft an integral project plan including planning, risk analysis, governance, communication
- Assemble, organize, and chair the regional project group
- Execute the process steps from the management assignment
- Collect and analyze available regional data
- Guide schools and partners in developing pilot proposals
- Prepare decision-making regarding the selection of pilots
- Guide the implementation of the pilots
- Organize knowledge sharing among participating organizations
- Identify and manage risks
- Prepare quarterly reports
- Advise the steering committee
- Draft a final report with recommendations for the implementation of a future-proof education-care arrangement
- Report to the regional steering committee
- Prepare administrative decision-making
- Provide quarterly reports
- Periodically coordinate with the chairman of the steering committee
- Ensure timely identification of risks and bottlenecks
What they ask
- Minimum 1 year of demonstrable work experience as a project leader/process facilitator in a complex, administrative environment where multiple public or social partners collaborate
- Within the last 5 years, minimum 1 year of demonstrable work experience at the intersection of education and youth care / inclusive education
- Minimum 1 year of demonstrable experience in leading multidisciplinary project groups and translating results into administrative advice and financial/organizational governance proposals
Preferences.
- Experience with realizing education-care arrangements within inclusive education (full: >3 years experience; partial: 1-3 years experience)
- Knowledge and insight into the financing system of both education (WPO/WVO) and the municipal youth domain (Jeugdwet) (full: >3 years experience; partial: 1-3 years experience)
- Experience with stakeholder management and complex collaborations, experience with connecting diverse interests between municipalities, inclusive education partnerships, and school boards (full: >3 years experience; partial: 1-3 years experience)
Competencies.
- Administrative sensitivity
- Strong communication skills and unifying leadership
- Analytical ability
- Persuasiveness
- Results-orientation
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