For a Safety, Permits and Enforcement (VVH) department of a municipal organization, an experienced interim team manager is sought to temporarily lead the Legal Affairs, Policy and Advice team. The assignment concerns a temporary replacement, aimed at ensuring daily management and representing the team within the department's management team.
What you do
- Daily management, guidance and support of employees within the Legal Affairs, Policy and Advice team
- Ensuring the continuity, quality and progress of activities
- Setting priorities and monitoring work distribution, capacity and results
- Participating in the VVH management team and contributing to joint management issues and decision-making
- Acting as a sparring partner for employees, fellow team managers and management
- Promoting cooperation with other teams and relevant internal and external partners
- Identifying bottlenecks and taking appropriate measures where necessary
- Monitoring ongoing files and developments, with an eye for legal, organizational and political-administrative interests
Profile
We are looking for a strong, accessible and connecting leader who quickly creates an overview, switches easily and dares to make decisions where necessary. You have sufficient legal knowledge and affinity with policy issues to function as a sparring partner. You do not need to be a lawyer yourself.
- Leadership: Provides strong, accessible and connecting leadership to professionals. Offers clarity, support and direction
- Administrative sensitivity: Has a feel for political-administrative relations and takes various interests into account
- Decisiveness: Dares to make decisions, sets priorities and takes responsibility for choices made
- Stress resistance: Maintains an overview under pressure and acts calmly, carefully and decisively even in complex or hectic situations
- Organizational sensitivity: Understands the dynamics within a municipal organization and knows how to effectively switch between different levels and interests
- Collaboration-oriented: Works constructively with employees, fellow team managers and other internal and external stakeholders
- Independence and flexibility: Quickly adapts, easily switches between different issues and can function independently with limited onboarding time
What they ask
- Minimum of 3 years demonstrable work experience as a team manager, department manager or similar management position within a municipality and/or government agency
- Demonstrable work experience with personnel management, coaching and guidance of employees
- Willingness to be physically present on location structurally during the assignment
Preferences.
- Demonstrable completed education at a minimum of HBO bachelor level
- Demonstrable work experience with managing legal and/or policy professionals / employees
- Demonstrable work experience as a member of a management team within a municipal organization
- Demonstrable work experience as a team manager, department manager or similar management position within a municipal organization
- Demonstrable work experience within the domain of Safety, Permits and Enforcement (VTH), Public Order and Safety or Permit Issuance
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