A public safety and health region has implemented AFAS and is live with its HR processes. The upcoming period will focus on further optimization, adoption, embedding, and ownership. The emphasis is not only on the further development of AFAS but also on strengthening the HR organization as the owner of the services. An experienced project leader is sought to manage both the further AFAS HR (re)development and the setup and development of an HR Key User team.
The assignment focuses on connecting HR processes, user requirements, system development, and management. The project leader ensures clear prioritization & analysis, effective collaboration between HR, functional management, Information Provision, and the AFAS Product Owner, and contributes to a sustainable establishment of ownership within the organization.
What you will do. Further development of AFAS.
- Optimize and standardize HR processes within AFAS
- Realize key improvement initiatives
- Strengthen the coherence between HR processes, financial processes, and supporting systems
- Manage change requests, improvement initiatives, and new functionalities
- Establish a working method for analysis, management, development
- Monitor the coherence between HR processes, financial processes
- Coordinate collaboration with other teams as needed
- Ensure a supported roadmap for the further development of AFAS HR & payroll
Setup and embedding of HR Key User team.
- Develop the HR Key User team to a higher level
- Define roles, responsibilities, and task distribution
- Develop working methods for change management, testing, user support, and knowledge sharing
- Coach and guide HR key users in their role
- Strengthen knowledge, ownership, and self-reliance within the HR organization
- Ensure the continuity of the team within the line organization
Manageable development portfolio and governance.
- Analyze all outstanding improvement, change, and development requests
- Structure the existing development portfolio
- Establish a supported prioritization methodology
- Realize quick wins and help reduce backlogs
- Set up decision-making and consultation structures
- Develop a roadmap for the remaining development tasks
- Ensure that new development requests are systematically assessed and planned
Change and adoption guidance.
- Support HR employees in the further adoption of AFAS
- Promote knowledge sharing and collaboration among involved stakeholders
- Ensure clear communication about changes and developments
- Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement within HR
- Strengthen collaboration between HR, functional management, Information Provision, and the AFAS Product Owner
Profile
- Experienced project leader or program manager who helps organizations transition from implementation to ownership and continuous development
- Extensive work experience with AFAS within complex and/or (semi-)governmental organizations
- Demonstrable work experience with the further development of HR systems after implementation
- Work experience with setting up and developing key user networks or user organizations
- Work experience with HR processes and digital HR services
- Work experience with stakeholder management at tactical and strategic levels
- Ability to provide strategic direction as well as achieve pragmatic results
What they ask
- Completed education at a minimum of HBO bachelor level
- Minimum 3 years of demonstrable work experience with AFAS implementations and/or further development of AFAS
- Minimum 3 years of demonstrable work experience in a project leader role within HR systems
- Demonstrable work experience with developing or guiding a key user organization or user network
- Demonstrable work experience within a public or non-profit organization
Preferences.
- Demonstrable work experience with optimization and further development of AFAS after go-live
- Demonstrable experience with setting up, coaching, and professionalizing key users or super users
- Demonstrable experience with digitalization and optimization of HR processes
- Demonstrable experience with setting up governance, decision-making, and collaboration between business, management
- Personal motivation in which the candidate describes how he/she achieves ownership, adoption, and sustainable embedding of HR systems
Competencies.
- Connecting leadership
- Organizational sensitivity
- Stakeholder management
- Coaching and developing employees
- Results-oriented
- Change capability
- Analytical ability
- Judgment
- Organizing and prioritizing
- Communication skills (oral and written)
- Collaboration
- Initiative and ownership
Practical
- Required number of professionals: 1
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