Project Manager Capability Building & Future Skills
Do you want to play a key role in the development of AI and digital skills for students and staff within an educational institution? A dynamic, university-wide initiative focuses on the responsible exploration, development, and application of AI in education, research, and business operations. In close collaboration with faculties and organizational units, strategic vision is connected with practical implementation, so that promising AI solutions can be safely and thoughtfully tested and scaled up where necessary.
The Capability Building & Future Skills workstream focuses on developing AI, data, and digital skills for students and staff, through training, learning pathways, and other learning interventions. As a Stream Facilitator (project manager), you provide operational support to the Stream Leads, ensure a consistent working method, and help organize, coordinate, and monitor learning initiatives. In addition, you are part of the central program team and contribute to the overall coordination of the initiative.
What you do
- Support the Stream Leads with project-based and operational tasks within the Capability Building & Future Skills workstream.
- Ensure a consistent working method for developing, rolling out, and evaluating learning interventions, such as training, workshops, learning pathways, and micro-credentials.
- Facilitate collaboration between HR/Learning & Development, Teaching & Learning, Library, faculties, services, and other partners.
- Coordinate planning, communication, and logistics around learning activities and monitor progress and participation.
- Contribute to collecting feedback, monitoring impact, and implementing improvements in the learning portfolio.
- As part of the central program team, together with other facilitators, structure the workstreams, connect initiatives, help set boundaries and priorities, and ensure integral change management.
What they ask
- HBO or academic working and thinking level.
- Experience with learning & development, educational innovation, or HR/talent development in a complex organization, preferably in higher education or the public sector.
- Affinity with AI, data, and digitalization, and with the skills required for this.
- Minimum of 4 years of experience in project management, program coordination, or L&D coordination (e.g., knowledge of agile, design thinking, or learning pathway development).
- Experience with improvement, implementation, and adoption processes related to learning activities.
- Excellent communication skills in Dutch (C1 level) and English (B2 level).
- Ability to prioritize, set boundaries, and work in a dynamic environment with multiple parallel learning initiatives.
Profile
- Flexible, pragmatic, and resilient in an environment where learning and change are central.
- Strong in stakeholder management and easily switch between lecturers, researchers, HR, support services, and management.
- Able to translate learning needs and didactic concepts into concrete, actionable plans.
- Organizationally sensitive and able to constructively guard boundaries and priorities.
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