As a Strategic Policy Advisor for Steering & Accountability within a Strategy, Policy and Knowledge Centre department of a government organization, you will guide how the organization sets goals, manages results, and accounts for itself to politics, ministries, and society. You will be part of a small, close-knit group of colleagues jointly responsible for the organization's external planning and control products. Your field of work encompasses the entire cycle from planning to accountability.
What you will do.
- Play an important role in drafting the external annual plan and in translating the overarching strategy into concrete, manageable goals for the internal organization.
- Ensure that policy intentions are not only ambitious but also measurable, implementable, and administratively relevant.
- Focus strongly on administrative accountability, including the annual report and accountability reports that demonstrate what the organization has achieved in public value in service delivery and how entrusted resources have been spent in internal operations.
- Help shape this new process within the department and write texts for external reports and steering documents yourself.
- Ensure that steering and accountability documents are factually correct, sharp in content, and strike the right administrative tone.
- Translate internal, including (financial), information and strategic goals into a coherent and convincing narrative.
- Advise the Board of Directors and the departments on strategic and policy-related steering issues.
- Maintain a strong network of internal and external stakeholders.
- Contribute to the organization operating with strategic acumen within the political and societal force field.
Profile
- Academic working and thinking level, for example in public administration, economics, controlling, or a comparable field.
- Minimum of five years of experience in a complex, preferably semi-public environment, in the field of policy advice, steering, and external accountability.
- Excellent writing skills: a sharp, analytical pen and strong in independently and clearly drafting complex strategic plans, reports, and administrative accountability products.
- Strategic and conceptual thinking: maintaining an overview and translating abstract strategies into concrete organizational goals and coherent policy issues.
- Administratively sensitive: an understanding of political-administrative and organizational relationships and knowing how to strike the right tone in this field, both internally and towards ministries.
- Persuasive and connecting: formulating positions with authority, building bridges, and creating support at various levels.
- Deadline-oriented: working under high pressure to ensure planning and accountability documents are ready on time, with the right quality and coordination.
- Proactive: working proactively and independently, and gaining energy from building and taking on new responsibilities.
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