Youth Policy Advisor

As a Youth Policy Advisor, you will work on assignments at public organizations. Depending on your experience, you can be deployed for policy development, implementation, regional cooperation, project-based assignments, or broader issues within the social domain. You will navigate between policy, implementation, management, administration, and cooperation partners. You help to reduce complex youth issues to clear choices, concrete actions, and implementable policy.

• Develop, update, and implement youth policy
• Support or advise management, administration, and cooperation partners
• Translate national developments into local policy
• Participate in change and implementation processes
• Connect policy, implementation, and regional agreements
• Identify social developments, risks, and improvement opportunities
• Work on projects and programs within the social domain
• Prepare policy documents, advice
• Contribute ideas on feasibility for professionals, young people
• Reduce complex issues to clear actions and choices

For more experienced professionals, there are assignments where you can advise more independently, take the lead, and work more closely with management, administration, and regional cooperation. For those at the beginning of their policy career, there are assignments where you can grow, learn from experienced professionals, and gain increasing responsibility.

What they ask You want to contribute to better support for young people and families. You understand that good youth policy must not only be substantively correct but also implementable for professionals and residents. You are socially engaged, analytical, and curious about how policy, implementation, and governance influence each other. You enjoy collaborating with various parties and want to further develop yourself within the youth domain.

• HBO or university level of work and thinking
• Experience or strong affinity with Youth, Youth Care, or the social domain
• Experience within a public or social organization is a must
• Interest in policy development, implementation, and social issues
• Political-administrative sensitivity, or the ambition to develop further in this area
• Good advisory and writing skills
• The ability to collaborate with various stakeholders
• The motivation to further develop yourself within the public domain

You will be deployed on a secondment basis: on a project contract or in permanent employment. This offers variety in assignments with the security and guidance of a committed employer. Employment conditions include:

• Attractive salary in accordance with the client's collective labor agreement, depending on your education and experience
• Holiday pay of 8.33% and an attractive year-end bonus
• Pension scheme
• Additional relevant training and courses tailored to your ambitions, with a training budget of €5,000
• Intervision, coaching, and periodic knowledge sessions
• Access to a professional network
• Laptop and phone, also for private use
• Travel expense reimbursement, NS Business Card, or, depending on your travel time, the possibility of a lease car
• A committed group of colleagues and regular meetings and social events