Project Manager Reorganization Design and Advice Municipalities Brummen and Rheden

Project overview

You are capable of leading complex administrative processes and independently drafting high-quality policy and administrative texts. Familiarity with the organizations of the municipalities of Brummen and Rheden is an explicit advantage in this context.

The municipalities of Brummen and Rheden are preparing for an administrative merger, with the intended effective date of January 1, 2030. The municipal councils have instructed their executive boards to prepare a joint Reorganization Design (HIO), followed by a Reorganization Advice (HIA). The municipality of Rozendaal is exploring the possibility of joining this process.

What is the assignment about?

The preparation of the HIO and HIA is an administratively, socially, and organizationally complex process. The municipalities involved each have their own identity, administrative relationships, social challenges, and regional cooperation relationships. The challenge is to connect these different perspectives into a convincing and carefully substantiated proposal for the future.

The HIO must clarify why the proposed reorganization offers a sustainable solution for the social challenges of the involved municipalities, what added value it has for residents, entrepreneurs, and social organizations, and under what conditions this added value can actually be realized.

The preparation takes place within the framework of the General Rules Reorganization Act (Wet arhi) and the Policy Framework for Municipal Reorganization. The social and administrative relationships within the municipalities, regional positioning, financial implications, and organizational feasibility play an important role.

Where will you work?

The municipalities of Brummen and Rheden work with a joint project organization, which will be adjusted if Rozendaal joins. The project organization consists of sub-projects with separate sub-project leader(s).

The general project manager is responsible for the integrated management and coherence between these sub-projects. The sub-project leaders remain responsible for the substantive quality and timely delivery of their own sub-project results. The project manager is supported by two strategic administrative advisors, a project secretary, and external experts. The steering committee consists of the mayors and municipal secretaries of both municipalities. The municipal secretaries jointly fulfill the administrative client role for this project and are also the client for the project manager.

• You work as the general project manager and lead author of the HIO and HIA.
• You supervise the preparation, production, and administrative finalization of the HIO and HIA, from the setup of the project organization and the integrated planning to decision-ready documents and the processing of objections.
• The 'Bring Your Own Device' principle applies to this assignment. The candidate will use their own IT resources (laptop, phone, and associated accessories) for the execution of the assignment.
• Demonstrable completed education at a minimum university level in public administration, administrative and organizational sciences, public management, or a comparable field.
• Minimum 10 years of demonstrable work experience in the past with or for a municipality or government institution.
• Minimum five years of demonstrable work experience independently managing complex, multidisciplinary projects, programs, or change initiatives within a political-administrative environment.
• Demonstrable work experience advising municipal executives, directors, or municipal secretaries on strategic and politically sensitive issues in the relevant region.
• Demonstrable work experience with inter-municipal cooperation, administrative cooperation issues, organizational development, or the administrative reorientation of government organizations.
• Demonstrable work experience independently drafting strategic policy documents, administrative advice, and decision-making documents for executive boards, municipal councils, or comparable administrative bodies.
• Demonstrable experience with complex administrative cooperation, future administrative issues, or municipal reorganization.
• You have demonstrable work experience leading multidisciplinary projects in an environment with multiple administrative clients.
• Demonstrable political-administrative work experience and sensitivity, preferably gained in both advisory and administrative roles.
• Excellent strategic, analytical, and editorial skills, including independent lead authorship of complex administrative documents.
• You have demonstrable work experience with organizational development, change initiatives, and municipal services.

Project details

• Start: Zo snel mogelijk
• Duration: Verlenging: Onbekend
• Location: De Steeg, NL
• Rate: 101-101 EUR/h
• Languages: Dutch