Project Manager Realization

Project overview

For our end client, the Police, Harvey Nash is looking for a Project Manager Realization.

Start date: ASAP after completion of screening

Responsibilities

What will you do

In coordination with the program manager, you will manage complex change and development trajectories within the organization. With your experience, you will efficiently achieve the right results and provide substantive assessment.

In coordination with a contractor from the line/operations, you will be responsible for the implementation of complex change tasks involving multiple organizational units, interests, and disciplines. You will connect people, create support, and bring clarity to discussions so that jointly supported choices can be made.

You will guide the entire process of hard organizational design and change (realization). You will translate complex issues into concrete actions and ensure that interests and different disciplines come together.

You will be responsible for preparing the reorganization plan and executing the organizational change. You will monitor the schedule, paying attention to a suitable balance between progress and quality. You will identify and escalate risks and bottlenecks in a timely manner and will be in constant coordination with the program manager about this.

As the lead author, you will prepare the associated (decision-making) products, requests, applications, and other potential administrative proposals. This includes, for example, an action plan and a reorganization plan. You will collaborate with the various expertise areas associated with the change trajectories (e.g., Organizational Advisor, HR Advisor, Communication Advisor, and administrative support).

You will be responsible for the careful administrative processing of organizational changes. In coordination with the program manager, you will work closely with various disciplines within the police organization; besides the HR chain, this can include control, planning and capacity management, and facilities.

You will be a connecting link between the program and the line/operations. Your input and ideas will be valued, and within the program, you will contribute to ensuring the integrity between different disciplines and change trajectories.

You have a hands-on mentality, act as a working supervisor who makes a significant contribution to the end result in both execution and process and structure.

Context descriptions:

Complex tasks with a major impact on one or more organizational units.

You feel comfortable in an evolving environment where projects are complex, interests are significant, and collaboration is essential.

You get energy from building together.

You navigate easily in a complex stakeholder field with diverse interests.

You possess organizational sensitivity.

Professional Experience & Knowledge

Who are you

You operate at the intersection of organizational development and change management and are a strong discussion partner for management, line/operations, and potentially co-determination.

You maintain an overview and switch quickly within the organization. You create support and involvement and stay the course despite setbacks.

Working with deadlines and diverse interests suits you well. You connect different disciplines and stimulate ownership within the project team.

You have a feel for political and administrative relationships and can easily switch between discussion partners at the tactical and strategic level.

You have demonstrable experience as a project manager in a comparable public organization.

You have knowledge of and experience with design and organizational development issues and reorganization trajectories.

You are entrepreneurial, persistent, and innovative.

You have the ability to inspire, enthuse, and manage complex issues.

You have insight into change management issues.

You are proactive and connecting. You dare to think outside the box and can translate policy into execution.

You possess a hands-on mentality.

HBO working and thinking level.

Competencies:

Planning and organizing

Helicopter view

Stakeholder management

Influence

Collaboration

Results-oriented

Change management insight

Conditions:

We are looking for 2 project managers/ Each of the project managers is:

Available 24-32 hours per week

Available until the end of 2027 with a chance of extension

The working days and times are negotiable.

The location of the work will primarily be Hoofdstraat in Driebergen.

The police operate in a changing society where diverse perspectives are essential for good police work. Therefore, diversity is of great importance to us. How can we utilize your knowledge and background for this?

For this assignment, a screening type BO applies. For more information about the screening: Police selection - Screening | Kombijdepolitie

Furthermore, we would like to receive the following information:

Earliest possible start date

Availability in hours per week

All-in rate (incl. travel and/or accommodation costs, excl. VAT)

Vacation schedule within the next 3 months

Place of residence

Candidate's date of birth

• (Written) communication skills

Project details

13 months

Hours per week: 32 hours

Location of work: Driebergen-Rijssenburg

On-site or from home: Office days: Monday, Tuesday & Thursday

ZZP possible: NO

Function scale and step: 11 Company Operations Specialist C

Education level: HBO-Bachelor

You have a diploma at HBO level (bachelor) or equivalent via EVC. Or you have at least two years of demonstrable experience at the required working and thinking level. This must be demonstrated with your CV, supplemented with an official job description, vacancy text, or other document clearly stating the required working and thinking level.

108 EUR all-in ex VAT

Deadline: 22-10 before 09:00

Motivation for hiring

The unit is looking for two experienced project managers in the area of execution and actual realization of organizational development tasks, included in the development agenda of the Landelijke Expertise en Operaties (LX) unit.

Within the domains of the LX, change tasks are elaborated through three phases: first a Rough Design, then a Fine Design, and finally Realization. Two Project Managers Realization are needed for the realization part of these tasks. The Project Manager Realization manages and is responsible for the actual realization of fine designs within the unit. Realization of these fine designs consists of activities necessary to set up concrete, functioning structures, processes, functions, and resources.

This role requires knowledge and skills in both project management and the ability to realize organizational development trajectories with an HRM component. Preferably someone who is well-versed in the playing field of the police, the functioning within units, and the collaboration and coordination with stakeholders within the PDC. This is not a dealbreaker.

This specific and specialized expertise is scarce and not present within our unit. We have actively searched for project managers with the right profile from within our own organization over the past year. This has not been found to date.

Given the urgency to build a future-proof LX unit with the tasks involved in organizational development and the actual realization of these tasks, hiring these project managers is necessary.

Assignment description

As Project Managers Realization, you will work within the LX on unit-wide realization tasks that play out within the domains.

The Landelijke Expertise en Operaties (LX) unit is in full motion. In 2024, the former Landelijke Eenheid was split into two units. In 2025, the structure of the LX was established at the domain level. The unit consists of 5 different domains, a Staff Service, and a Business Operations Service, which will undergo varying degrees of further development in the coming years.

This further development is described in various plans, which are prioritized at the unit level through a change agenda. The 2026 change agenda includes several extensive tasks involving the redesign of (parts of) one or more domains.

Within the unit, a method and phasing for design have been established, whereby a rough design, fine design, and realization trajectory lead to the implementation of a new design or organizational structure.

These change tasks have a strong HRM component, with the new structure often leading to a reorganization. The tasks have various objectives, underpinned by the need for cultural change, leadership development, and efficient collaboration with other domains and/or units in the country. Additionally, the National Police, and thus the LX, faces a significant budget cut.

A program structure has been set up within the unit with support from the Police Service Center (PDC) and external consulting firms, aiming for the realization of prioritized tasks within the set frameworks. The scale of the tasks, the scarcity of required expertise, and the desire to remain agile and embed such a structure sustainably within the organization mean that processes and structures may be subject to change in this phase. In addition to working together on the realization of tasks in the domains, there will also be an element of pioneering and co-building these structures at the unit level.

Not a classic corporate project manager profile that primarily manages remotely: a hands-on project manager is sought who prepares plans and administrative products, organizes actions, and resolves bottlenecks.

Demonstrable experience with the implementation/realization of complex organizational changes in a large organization (guideline: >2,000 employees); preferably within government, police, or another political-administrative executive organization.

Experience with reorganization trajectories, co-determination/decision-making, and collaboration with HR, Control, IT, Facilities, and other business operations disciplines is a significant plus.

Hands-on, flexible, results-oriented, constructive, and collaborative; remains effective amidst changing circumstances, scarce capacity, and conflicting interests.

Does not just build for the result of the trajectory, but simultaneously professionalizes the working method and ensures transfer, safeguarding, and strengthening of ownership in the line.

Special positioning

As a project manager, you fulfill a temporary independent role and operate outside the hierarchical line organization.

This independent position makes it possible to:

Integrally weigh organizational interests;

Steer sub-projects across the board for quality and coherence;

Independently advise on administrative dilemmas;

Set priorities within sub-projects;

Escalate objectively when progress or quality is under pressure.

You do not manage based on substantive domain responsibility, but on the quality of organizational development, governance, implementation, and sustainable safeguarding.

This independent position contributes to transparency, administrative stability, and professional execution of complex change tasks.

Goal of the assignment

You are explicitly tasked with professionalizing the assignment in such a way that organizational development is sustainably embedded within the standing organization.

The ultimate goal is that:

Change becomes part of regular business operations;

Knowledge, methodologies, and governance are transferred;

Internal change capacity is developed;

LX can continuously and adaptively respond to societal and national developments.

• Start: z.s.m. na afronding van de screening
• Duration: 13 maanden
• Location: Zeist, Utrecht, NL
• Rate: 108-108 EUR/h
• Languages: Dutch