Advisor Administrative Affairs

Project overview

You support the executive board and in particular the mayor with administrative tasks. As a strategic sparring partner, communication professional, and director, you connect the board, organization, and external stakeholders. You are a trusted sparring partner and identify developments, opportunities, and risks. You translate administrative ambitions into visible results and developments and risks into concrete action perspectives.

You work independently in a complex administrative environment and switch between strategic advice, communication, and project-based execution. You provide direction and overview, build sustainable connections within and outside the organization, and bring clarity to issues. You do this while keeping an eye on administrative relationships, timing, and support.

What will you do?

You support the preparation of public appearances, messages, and communication. You coordinate closely with the communication team and ensure consistent and careful communication, appropriate to the administrative context and societal sensitivities. You maintain contact with internal and external stakeholders and act as a spokesperson or connecting link where necessary. You tailor messages to different target groups, interests, and circumstances. You combine strategic advice with the independent and careful execution of practical tasks related to administrative relations, receptions, and protocol.

You work together with the involved communication advisor and project leader. You ensure good preparation, timely coordination, and on-site support.

Gemeente Harlingen is the public organization for governance and execution for residents, entrepreneurs, and social organizations. In this role, the municipality connects daily services with long-term area and policy tasks. The work package includes public affairs, permit granting, and management of public space, as well as programs related to environmental management, housing, and mobility, youth, participation, and social support.

To carefully carry out these diverse tasks, Gemeente Harlingen brings together subject-matter expert teams with functions for legal support, business operations, communication, and digital services. Within Gemeente Harlingen, the municipal council establishes the most important municipal choices through decisions and budgets.

• You will attach a CV of a maximum of 5 A4 pages. You must use the attached template and fill in all requested sections.
• You have extensive experience working in an administrative environment
• HBO/WO educated
• You have a completed HBO/WO education with corresponding thinking power
• You have extensive experience organizing large events & changes of high municipal positions

Project details

• Start: Zo snel mogelijk
• Duration: Verlenging: Onbekend
• Location: Harlingen, NL
• Rate: 139-139 EUR/h
• Languages: Dutch