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UtrechtHybrid36 hours/week6-12months
A unique opportunity to further develop a proven regional approach and make a concrete social impact for both newcomers and employers.
- A role with significant responsibility, variety, and visibility within a regional labor market region.
- Collaboration with an enthusiastic project team and strong regional partners.
- A work environment where innovation, collaboration, and social significance are central.
- This combined position is a maternity leave replacement.
What you will do. As Project Leader:
- Provide daily leadership for the further rollout of a successful regional pilot that guides newcomers to paid employment.
- Manage implementation, monitor progress, and ensure that newcomers are guided to paid employment earlier and more effectively.
- Be responsible for the coherence between content, collaboration, planning, and subsidy accountability within the frameworks of a European fund.
- Functionally manage the implementing professionals, organize consultations and decision-making, and identify risks or bottlenecks in a timely manner.
- Connect the project with existing policies in the field of integration, participation, and the labor market.
- Be the central point of contact for various partners and agencies, employers, and subsidy advisors.
- Ensure clear communication with partners, employers, and newcomers.
- Maintain contact with the external research team conducting evaluations.
- Ensure correct project administration, substantive progress reports, and financial accountability, in close collaboration with (regional) subsidy advisors and project support.
As Project Assistant:
- Support the implementation and development of a local initiative.
- Be responsible for the execution and implementation of new trajectories.
- Be responsible for project and participant administration.
- Organize meetings and workshops.
- Support the project management team.
- Ensure correct subsidy accountability.
- Maintain contacts with internal and external stakeholders.
- Identify risks and improvement opportunities in a timely manner.
- Manage the project mailbox and ensure timely and correct handling of incoming correspondence.
Profile
- Connection with the social mission to offer newcomers prospects for work.
- Leadership: provide daily leadership to the project and effortlessly switch between strategic goals and daily project practice.
- Connecting: effectively collaborate with diverse partners, bridge interests, and bring parties together in a joint regional approach.
- Communication skills: communicate clearly at different levels, build support, and adjust when necessary.
- Political sensitivity: work carefully and structured, with an eye for administrative relationships and decision-making processes.
- Proactive: take initiative, analyze bottlenecks, and translate them into concrete improvements.
- Planning and organizing: maintain an overview of various activities and interests, determine what is needed and when, and ensure realistic planning.
What they ask
- Experience with project leadership within the social domain, labor market policy, integration, or a similar environment.
- Experience with complex projects, preferably with European or national subsidies.
- Familiarity with working within subsidy frameworks, monitoring, and accountability.
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