Director Administrator

The Director - Administrator acts as a figurehead and steers this transition. You are not primarily technically responsible for daily process execution, but you ensure that the organization is sufficiently organized internally in a coherent manner, so that governance, quality, and financial control are in order. You lead the platform and form the linchpin between giving external meaning, administrative decisiveness, and internal governability.

• Leading the further development and implementation of the multi-year strategy.
• Translating societal and administrative issues into a coherent portfolio of programs and collaborations.
• Steering prioritization and coherence: what the organization undertakes, why it is relevant, and what impact is aimed for.
• Being a figurehead and representing the organization with authority towards governments, partners, and knowledge institutions.
• Establishing and maintaining relationships, with an emphasis on administrative significance and sustainable collaboration.
• Building coalitions in which the organization not only sets agendas but also establishes connections and facilitates collaboration.
• Ensuring that external expectations and administrative agreements are translated into workable internal frameworks.
• Bearing administrative responsibility for workable decision-making and decision quality towards the Supervisory Board within the two-tier governance.
• Ensuring transparent and traceable accountability.
• Working closely with the Advisory Board, which, based on independent expertise and commitment, advises, reflects, and acts as a sparring partner, both solicited and unsolicited.
• Safeguarding the independence and integrity of the platform.
• Acting carefully and principled when interests diverge, so that the platform remains neutral and can maintain and strengthen trust among stakeholders.

We are looking for a senior personality who fits the organization's DNA: energetic, optimistic, engaged and connecting, socially aware, and principled where fundamental interests are at stake. A connecting, coaching leader and figurehead who understands complex stakeholder environments and moves easily in public-private relationships.

Furthermore, you recognize yourself in the following competencies:

• Academic working and thinking level and at least 10 years of senior management experience within the spectrum of a program/project environment.
• Preferably, experience in a final responsible (director's) role.
• Effortlessly switching between content and business operations.
• Having a clear vision and enjoying working at a strategic level, but also being willing to roll up your sleeves.
• Flawlessly sensing when it is best to delegate matters and when it is good to take them on yourself.
• Demonstrable affinity with digitalization, preferably with your own relevant network already built up.
• Eager to take on the challenge of maintaining and expanding this network, based on your strongly developed networking skills.
• Having an eye for mandate, accountability, and transparency in the context of governance-aware leadership.
• Integrity, legality, and diligence are important starting points for your actions and decision-making.

Practical aspects.

• A one-year contract with the intention to extend indefinitely with sufficient work and good development.
• Annual holiday allowance of 8% and 32 vacation days.
• A workplace at the office and reimbursement for mobile phone costs.
• A personal development budget to further develop yourself through training, courses, or coaching.