For a Security, Permits and Enforcement department of a government organization, an experienced team manager is sought to temporarily lead the Legal Affairs, Policy and Advice team. As a team manager, you are responsible for the daily management of the team. You ensure continuity, stability, and quality, provide clarity and support to employees, and monitor the progress of activities.
You are part of the department's management team and actively contribute to joint management issues, coordination, and decision-making. In doing so, you look beyond your own team and take into account organizational and political-administrative interests. The assignment is explicitly a temporary replacement and not a change assignment. The focus is on ensuring daily management and representing the team within the management team.
What you will 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
- Participating in the department's management team and contributing to joint management issues and decision-making
- Serving as a sparring partner for employees, fellow team managers
- Promoting collaboration 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
What they ask
- Minimum of 3 years demonstrable work experience as a team manager, department manager, or similar leadership position within a government agency
- Demonstrable work experience with personnel management, coaching, and guidance of employees
Preferences.
- Demonstrable completed education at a minimum of HBO bachelor level
- Demonstrable work experience with managing legal and/or policy professionals or 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 leadership position within a municipal organization
- Demonstrable work experience within the domain of Security, Permits and Enforcement (VVH), VTH, Public Order and Safety, or Permit Granting
Profile
- Leadership: Provides firm, accessible, and connecting leadership to professionals. Offers clarity, support
- Administrative sensitivity: Has a feel for political-administrative relations and takes diverse 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 government 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
- Self-reliance: Quickly integrates and can function independently with limited onboarding time
- Flexibility: Easily switches between different issues
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