The project leader is responsible for strengthening organization-wide capacity steering and personnel deployment, at both strategic and tactical levels. The assignment primarily focuses on designing, implementing, and securing effective steering mechanisms, enabling the organization to better respond to changing circumstances, including scenarios of growth and contraction.
You create insight into current and future capacity needs and translate this into clear frameworks and action perspectives for management and the organization. In doing so, you connect different disciplines and ensure transparent and well-founded decision-making. You will build upon existing building blocks already developed in this area.
What you do
- Develop a coherent approach for capacity steering, including clear processes, roles, responsibilities, and prioritization frameworks.
- Advise on improving management information and develop analyses and scenarios that provide insight into the demand, supply, and utilization of capacity.
- Implement the working method and ensure its adoption within the organization, with a focus on sustainable embedding and continuous improvement.
- Connect stakeholders and advise management and the board, with transparent communication about choices, progress, and results.
Profile
We are looking for an experienced project leader with a strong background in change management and organizational development, with a strong vision on workforce management based on experience and recent developments in this field. You have demonstrable experience in setting up steering models and capacity issues in complex organizations. You are able to:
- translate complex issues into concrete and workable solutions
- connect different interests and disciplines
- communicate clearly and transparently
- pragmatically and results-oriented steer towards realization
- achieve sustainable improvements in steering and decision-making
What they ask
- Demonstrable completed education at a minimum of HBO bachelor level.
- Minimum 5 years of demonstrable work experience in the past 8 years as a project leader within a government organization.
- Minimum 3 years of demonstrable work experience in the past 8 years with capacity steering, the relationship between financial and HR processes, change management, and client-contractor relationships.
- Demonstrable work experience with developing and implementing policy frameworks, work processes, information provision, and relevant ICT systems.
- Demonstrable work experience with projects in collaboration with various stakeholders at different levels and with different backgrounds.
Preferences.
- Minimum 5 years of demonstrable work experience in the past 10 years as a project leader within a government organization.
- Minimum 3 years of demonstrable work experience in the past 5 years with issues in the field of capacity steering.
- Minimum 5 years of demonstrable work experience in the past 10 years with developing and implementing (HR) work processes, policy frameworks, and ICT systems related to workforce planning or capacity steering.
- Minimum 3 years of demonstrable work experience in the past 5 years with stakeholder management.
Competencies.
- Project management skills
- Collaboration
- Connecting
- Organizational awareness
- Results-orientation
- Change-orientation
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