Project Leader Stakeholders Housing First 010

Project overview

ATTENTION: This assignment is not available for direct freelance engagement. Engagement is only possible through a secondment agency/supplier or via a payroll/employment contract. The activities will be carried out under the leadership and supervision of a public execution organization, therefore independent engagement is not permitted. Offering suppliers must be able to be included in the chain. For this, WAADI registration and a G-account are required.

Candidates wishing to participate as self-employed individuals can only be proposed when they are engaged through an authorized secondment agency or employment contract. In the context of 'Anders werken' (Working Differently), work is primarily performed from home. MS Teams is used for meetings and digital encounters. When physical presence is required, it will mainly take place at the following locations: Timmerhuis, Halvemaanpassage, or Delftseplein 29.

As Project Leader Stakeholders Housing First 010, you will manage the collaboration, profiling, and visibility of the Housing First approach. You will work at the intersection of program, communication, and organizational change. Your role: You will ensure that partners, employees, management, executive board, and politicians are kept informed in a timely, unambiguous, and appropriate manner about the shift towards a different approach to homelessness. You will connect strategic goals with concrete actions and communication tools.

In doing so, you will strengthen sustainable collaboration within a broad network including housing corporations, care providers, neighborhood partners, municipal departments, social organizations, and regional municipalities. You will work closely with program management, the communication advisor, the project team, and the process owners of the organizational change.

What will you do?

• Manage network and collaboration: You will strengthen and maintain the stakeholder network around Housing First 010. You will organize collaboration, including through the communication working group, keep partners engaged, and identify bottlenecks. You will translate signals and diverse interests into concrete improvement actions and workable agreements.
• Strengthen positioning and strategic visibility: In consultation with program management, you will manage positioning towards the executive board, politicians, partners, and the public. You will develop compelling core messages and stories and utilize strategic moments, including network meetings, to make the approach visible.
• Translate strategy into resources and execution: Together with the communication advisor, you will develop and monitor an integrated internal and external communication and network strategy. You will coordinate the realization of, among other things, web and intranet content, newsletters, presentations, Q&As, information packages, visual aids, and materials for managers and network partners.
• Support organizational change through communication: You will advise on stakeholder impact, communication risks, and support, and translate choices and scenarios into understandable messages. You will ensure that employees and partners understand what is changing, why it is happening, and how it contributes to Housing First 010.
• Organize meetings and conference contributions: You will prepare regional network meetings, stakeholder dialogues, and advisory groups, and ensure appropriate content and resources.
• Monitor results and adjust: You will monitor the planning, coherence, reach, understanding, and effectiveness of communication activities. You will report on progress, identify risks, and adjust the strategy and execution when necessary.

Requirements

You are an experienced project leader and strategic communication professional who easily switches between strategy and execution. You have a good understanding of administrative and organizational relationships, maintain an overview in a complex environment, and know how to connect people with different interests. You work independently and systematically, but actively seek collaboration to achieve supported results. You combine strong network management with change management and communication expertise.

You are visible, approachable, and convincing, without losing sight of the interests and sensitivities within the chain. You also bring calm and structure, make complex issues understandable, and turn resistance into involvement and action perspectives. You are connecting and network-sensitive, build sustainable relationships, and connect interests at the executive, management, and operational levels. You understand complex social and administrative issues and connect long-term goals with concrete results. You write and present clearly, convincingly, and target-group-oriented, even on complex or sensitive topics.

You set priorities, monitor deadlines, manage progress, and take ownership of execution. You are proactive and environmentally aware, and you are skilled at translating complex social, policy, and organizational issues into core messages, communication plans, and concrete resources. Finally, you have excellent oral and written command of the Dutch and English languages.

Wishes:

The department: The Care & Protection department of the Directorate of Social Welfare & Youth Care is responsible for policy development for Rotterdammers who need support or care. The field of work is diverse, (administratively) complex, and dynamic. It includes social reception, sheltered living, OGGZ (care for people with problematic behavior), prevention of youth crime, post-detention care, (youth) protection, domestic violence, and child abuse.

An important task is strategic advice and support to the municipal executive and the (cluster) directorate, and systematic connection with and facilitation of execution (including Social Development in the Neighborhood, Participation & Urban Care, Youth Desk) and the Work & Income cluster. The Care & Protection department has 3 policy teams, one of which is the Care & Social Reception team. The Housing First 010 program team is part of this team. The Participation & Urban Care (P&SZ) department implements the Social Support Act and the Participation Act for groups of vulnerable Rotterdammers.

It looks holistically at vulnerable Rotterdammers from the perspective of various laws and municipal tasks. The department has knowledge of and experience with vulnerable Rotterdammers such as homeless people, people with (O)GGZ issues, newcomers, ex-offenders, and victims of domestic violence and human trafficking.

• You have at least a completed university degree (WO);
• You have at least 8 years of work experience as a project leader and/or communication advisor, gained in the last 12 years;
• You have work experience with stakeholder management in a network with municipalities, care organizations, housing corporations, and/or social partners;
• You have work experience with the communication of at least 1 organizational change;
• You have work experience with the issue of homelessness, gained in the last 2 years;
• You have work experience at a municipality with more than 250,000 inhabitants;
• You have work experience with developing websites, intranet messages, newsletters, presentations, and social media posts.
• You have work experience with developing and implementing communication and stakeholder strategies;
• You have work experience with organizing network meetings, stakeholder dialogues, working conferences, and/or congresses;
• You have knowledge of change management processes, participation, and support development. This must be evident from work experience in the CV.;
• You have work experience with the implementation of Housing First;
• You have work experience with the substantive and organizational coordination of a large congress, executive visit, working conference, or other event with multiple partners.

Project details

• Start: 2026-10-08T22:00:00
• Location: Rotterdam Zuid-Holland, NL
• Languages: Dutch