Program Manager Digital Transition (16 to 24 hours/week)

Project overview

You will work to ensure the digital transition lands sustainably within the organization. You are an experienced program manager with a strong change management profile. You think strategically, organize tactically, and act pragmatically. You are not a technical program manager or senior project manager, but a connecting leader who helps realize sustainable change.

You provide direction, connect interests, and mobilize people.

Who are you?

Aventus is working on future-proof education, supported by an accessible, clear, and coherent digital landscape. With the Digital Transition program, Aventus is realizing the digital prerequisites for flexible and personalized education, including projects for digital examination processes, the education catalog, and the learning management system.

This transition goes beyond technology. It requires changes in processes, collaboration, leadership, and behavior. It is a complex task where joint ambitions and the professional autonomy of sectors and services converge.

The executive director is the client; a director acts as the delegated client. The program manager leads the program with an agreed mandate and forms one team with the project leaders.

The program manager focuses on strategic goals and coherence. The project leaders focus on concrete project results.

• You understand interests and relationships and grasp the dynamics and professional autonomy within an educational organization.
• You have demonstrable experience with complex organizational changes, focusing on culture, behavior, collaboration, and leadership.
• You bring people and interests together, create support, and stimulate ownership.
• You bring clarity and make complex issues concrete, without becoming rigid.
• You dare to explore new paths, experiment, and adjust, while monitoring the agreed course.
• You ask sharp questions, investigate what works, and stimulate learning and improvement.
• You take a stance, dare to address people, and provide direction without relying on hierarchical power.
• You bring energy and know how to involve the program team, the steering committee, and the environment in the change.
• Your candidate has work experience in education, preferably MBO (vocational education).
• Your candidate has at least 10 years of work experience in program management.
• Your candidate has at least 10 years of work experience in change management.
• Your candidate has at least 10 years of work experience in digitalization and its impact on an organization.
• Your candidate has experience with stepping into and restarting an ongoing program. Reference number: ROCAVE_0042 Publication date: November 6, 2026 Application deadline: November 17, 2026, 12:00 PM.
• How many years of work experience does your candidate have in program management? Based on the CV provided by you, it must be possible to determine whether you/your candidate meets the stated answer. If this cannot be determined, you will receive a score of '0 points' for this item.
• How many years of work experience does your candidate have in change management? Based on the CV provided by you, it must be possible to determine whether you/your candidate meets the stated answer. If this cannot be determined, you will receive a score of '0 points' for this item.
• How many years of work experience does your candidate have in digitalization and its impact on an organization? Based on the CV provided by you, it must be possible to determine whether you/your candidate meets the stated answer. If this cannot be determined, you will receive a score of '0 points' for this item.
• Does your candidate have extensive work experience with strategic program management and complex organizational changes? Based on the CV provided by you, it must be possible to determine whether you/your candidate meets the stated answer. If this cannot be determined, you will receive a score of '0 points' for this item.
• Does your candidate have knowledge of change management and adaptive iterative forms of program management? Based on the CV provided by you, it must be possible to determine whether you/your candidate meets the stated answer. If this cannot be determined, you will receive a score of '0 points' for this item.
• Does your candidate have work experience with executive advising, stakeholder management, and leading multidisciplinary teams? Based on the CV provided by you, it must be possible to determine whether you/your candidate meets the stated answer. If this cannot be determined, you will receive a score of '0 points' for this item.
• Does your candidate have the ability to translate complex issues into clear advice, basic documents, and concrete actions? Based on the CV provided by you, it must be possible to determine whether you/your candidate meets the stated answer. If this cannot be determined, you will receive a score of '0 points' for this item.

Project details

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