Operational Safety Advisor for Training

• Ensuring operational safety: You ensure physical safety during the design, preparation, and execution of education and training.
• Tailored safety advice: You analyze risks, draw up research and advisory plans, and advise on workable control measures.
• Creating awareness: You support instructors in increasing risk awareness and safe conduct during training.
• Quality assurance and innovation: You assess new insights, methods, and techniques and translate them into applicable improvements within the defense unit.
• Stakeholder management: You coordinate safety issues and necessary measures with subject matter experts (SMEs), instructors, units, and fellow advisors.

What they ask

• You combine safety expertise with a practical approach.
• You carefully analyze risks, communicate clearly, and provide independent advice.
• In the dynamic training environment, you easily switch between instructors, specialists, and decision-makers.

What they ask

• A demonstrable safety background, built through education and relevant practical experience.
• Completed HBO (higher professional education) and relevant experience with operational safety or industrial safety.
• You can analyze safety risks and translate them into clear, actionable measures.

Preferences.

• Experience with developing or guiding education and training is a plus.

• Analytical ability: You thoroughly understand complex safety issues, identify risks, and establish connections between policy, training objectives, and operational practice.
• Judgment and decisiveness: You carefully weigh risks and interests, form an independent judgment, and provide clear advice in a timely manner.
• Advisory skills: You translate safety insights into concrete, actionable measures and know how to build support for your advice.
• Communication skills: You communicate clearly and convincingly with instructors, specialists, managers, and other stakeholders.
• Organizational sensitivity: You understand the operational context of a defense unit and take into account responsibilities, interests, and decision-making lines in your advice.
• Collaboration: You actively seek connection with subject matter experts and users and contribute to joint, workable safety solutions.
• Independence and initiative: You proactively address issues, organize your work independently, and address bottlenecks in a timely manner.
• Flexibility and stress resistance: You continue to act carefully and effectively in a dynamic environment, even when priorities change or time pressure increases.
• Integrity and sense of responsibility: You handle sensitive information with care and consistently act from a professional safety awareness.

• A security screening (VGB) is part of the application process.
• It is necessary that you, as a civilian applicant, have Dutch nationality.
• Providing a Certificate of Conduct (VOG) is a condition for appointment.
• A security screening and reference check may also be part of the selection procedure. This involves a background check on, among other things, criminal records and financial matters.