A public executive organization works towards a pleasant, safe, and sustainable living environment. The organization faces important strategic and organizational developments, including the introduction of the Environmental Act (Omgevingswet) and the Quality Assurance for Construction Act (Wkb). A development trajectory is currently underway, focused on professionalization, strengthening integral collaboration, and implementing a new organizational structure.
Due to a transitional phase within the management, an interim Director of Operations is being sought.
What you will do.
- Provide integral leadership to the executive organization.
- Ensure continuity of services to municipalities, the province, and other partners.
- Promote collaboration between permitting, supervision, enforcement, specialized advice, and business operations.
- Be co-responsible for business operations and the realization of organizational objectives.
- Actively contribute to the implementation of the new organizational structure.
- Guide organizational developments and changes in a careful and unifying manner.
- Advise the board, the interim general director, and management on strategic issues.
- Maintain relationships with municipalities, the province, administrators, and chain partners.
- Contribute to the further development of leadership, ownership, and collaboration within the organization.
- Ensure a good connection between administrative, tactical, and operational processes.
Profile
You are a strong and unifying leader who brings calm, provides direction, and is capable of combining organizational development with the daily management of operations.
- Ensures calm, continuity, and administrative stability during the interim period.
- Contributes to a successful implementation of the new organizational structure.
- Strengthens collaboration between the different parts of the organization.
- Ensures progress of strategic and organizational development challenges.
- Supports the board, management, and leadership in complex change and development issues.
- Ensures a smooth handover to the structural filling of the director position.
What they ask
- Completed education at a minimum of HBO bachelor level.
- Work experience as an (interim) director, group manager, or similar executive with ultimate responsibility within a government organization.
- Work experience with organizational development and/or change trajectories within a political-administrative environment.
- Work experience leading large executive organizations within the public domain.
- Recent experience managing a public executive organization and having worked in the past two years within the environmental services domain or a comparable administratively complex executive environment.
- The "Bring Your Own Device" (BYOD) principle applies.
Preferences.
- Relevant work experience as a director of operations or comparable executive management position.
- Work experience with organizational development and change assignments within a public executive organization.
- Work experience in the past 5 years with the administrative, organizational, and social challenges within the environmental services domain, including permitting, supervision, and enforcement (VTH), regional collaboration.
Competencies.
- Unifying leadership
- Administrative sensitivity
- Collaboration
- Organizational sensitivity
- Inspiring and coaching leadership
- Results-oriented
- Decisiveness
- Change capability
- Strategic thinking
- Drive
- Environmental awareness
- Customer and stakeholder-oriented
- Communication skills
- Innovative capacity
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