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UtrechtOn site36 hours/week3-6months
An experienced policy advisor for public order and safety is sought for temporary engagement to strengthen a public order and safety cluster within a government organization.
- The assignment primarily focuses on crisis management and digital security, with explicit administrative advice to the executive board.
- Deployment is also requested for other public order and safety themes such as care and safety, subversion, and neighborhood-oriented safety initiatives.
- The deployment is intended as a temporary replacement and has a clear focus on dossiers with administrative and political priority.
- The assignment is characterized by a combination of policy development and operational coordination in crisis situations.
What you do
- Advise the executive board on crisis management, digital security, and other public order and safety themes.
- Provide clear, administratively aligned advice that supports administrative decision-making.
- Draft and edit administrative documents, memos, policy documents, and proposals for the executive board, including substantiation and risk analysis.
- Represent the organization in regional consultations and networks, particularly within relevant collaborative partnerships.
- Identify national and regional developments in public order and safety and translate them into local policy and implementation practice.
- Contribute to the implementation of the Integrated Safety Plan and prepare the initiation of the next Integrated Safety Plan.
- Coordinate and hold final responsibility for the BPG audit, including preparation, coordination with chain partners, and follow-up on recommendations.
- Act as a case manager or project leader where necessary; support urgent cases such as crises, domestic exclusion orders, and property closures.
- Guide and coach a junior policy advisor for Public Order and Safety within the team, providing direction in work distribution and content quality.
Profile
- Quickly deployable and able to complete projects and dossiers independently.
- Works closely with internal departments such as social domain, enforcement, and communication, and external partners such as police, safety region, public prosecutor's office, and care partners.
- Demonstrates administrative sensitivity.
- Ensures timely, administratively usable advice, progress on the Integrated Safety Plan, effective representation in regional consultations, and a completed BPG audit with concrete follow-up actions.
What they ask
- Demonstrable work experience in the past 3 years as a Senior Public Order and Safety Advisor within a government organization with up to 15,000 inhabitants.
- Demonstrable work experience in the past 3 years with advising the executive board on crisis management.
- Minimum of 5 years of demonstrable work experience as a Senior Public Order and Safety Advisor within a government organization.
Preferences.
- Minimum of 3 years of demonstrable work experience in the past 7 years with advising the executive board on crisis management.
- Demonstrable work experience with collaborative partners such as safety regions, police, welfare foundations, and provinces.
- Demonstrable work experience as a Senior Public Order and Safety Advisor/employee within a government organization.
Competencies.
- Adaptability
- Expressiveness (oral)
- Expressiveness (written)
- Customer-oriented
- Listening
- Perseverance
- Tactical behavior
- Motivation
- Results-oriented work
- Collaboration
- Persuasion
- Assertiveness
- Decisiveness
- Organization
- Critical thinking
- Analytical ability
- Planning and organizing
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