HR Project Leader Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP)

A government organization is launching a comprehensive and urgent Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) project.

• The goal is to gain insight into the development of work within the organization and what this means for personnel, functions, staffing, and required knowledge and skills.
• The impact of AI, robotization, and digitalization is explicitly considered.
• For each team, it must be clear what these developments mean for future work.
• This is not a supportive or junior project leader role.

What you will do.

• Responsible for the complete project-based approach to SWP.
• Drawing up the project plan and plan of approach.
• Dividing the project into clear phases, results, and deadlines.
• Setting up the project organization and managing progress, quality, and results.
• Organizing analyses, workshops, and discussions with teams and management.
• Mapping the current and future personnel situation per team.
• Analyzing the impact of AI, robotization, and other developments on work.
• Translating the outcomes into concrete HR challenges and advice.
• Involving management and the board in the approach, progress, choices, and results.
• Managing any external agencies and other stakeholders.
• Identifying bottlenecks and making autonomous adjustments.
• Ensuring that the results are actually implemented and secured.
• Other HR projects may become part of the assignment.
• Close collaboration with the strategic HR advisor.
• The division of roles is clear: Strategic HR advisor for strategic frameworks and policy development; HR Project Leader for project plan, execution, coordination, stakeholder management, progress, and implementation.
• You are the connecting link between strategy and execution.

What they ask

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience within HRM and/or organizational development.
• Demonstrable experience with Strategic Workforce Planning.
• Demonstrable experience with independently leading complex HR/organizational projects.
• Experience with drafting and presenting project plans to management and/or the board.
• Ability to translate a complex assignment into a concrete approach, planning, and results.
• Accustomed to independently managing various stakeholders.
• Ability to provide substantive advice and actually organize the execution.
• Available for at least 3 days per week.
• Sufficient experience to independently draw up a project plan, present it to management/board, and involve the organization in its implementation.
• Not a candidate who has primarily gained experience under the guidance of a senior project leader.