Project Manager Streetwise

Project overview

ATTENTION: This assignment is not available for direct freelance deployment. Deployment 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, which means independent deployment 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 who wish to participate as self-employed individuals can only be proposed when they are deployed through an authorized secondment agency or employment contract.

Hybrid - At least 2 days per week at the office

Your role

In a complex environment where employees collaborate daily with residents, entrepreneurs, social organizations, market parties, and colleagues, professional and resilient conduct is essential. The renewed Streetwise curriculum helps employees of Urban Development to recognize signals in time, better assess risks, and act with confidence, integrity, and resilience in challenging situations. This way, we build a reliable, transparent, and safe organization together.

We are looking for an experienced project manager with strategic-governmental insight and an affinity for learning and development. You are a connector who can identify needs from the organization and translate them into a concrete, attractive, and future-proof learning program. With your analytical skills, results orientation, and organizational sensitivity, you ensure support and successful realization of Streetwise 2.0.

Responsibilities

• Mapping the target group, conducting needs assessments, and defining learning objectives.
• Setting up the training offer, including the necessary training sessions and workshops. Aligning the program content with the needs of the target group. This also includes being suitable for the different job profiles within the organization, with attention to customization where necessary.
• Monitoring progress and reporting the program status to the responsible stakeholders in a timely manner. This will be done in collaboration with a Learning and Development advisor who provides guidance and advice, and the integrity coordinator.

Requirements

As a project manager, you can identify risks of unwanted influence and recognize and discuss them in a timely manner. You act with integrity and can make professional judgments under pressure. Of course, you are a strong communicator and know how to effectively deal with different interests and resistance.

Finally, you distinguish yourself through:

Wishes

The department

The Directorate and Board Support (DBO) department forms a solid foundation for the directorate. DBO coordinates and advises on decision-making for the Urban Development (SO) cluster. In addition, DBO also acts as an advisor on governmental strategy, governmental processes, and information provision between City Hall and SO, and within SO. DBO functions within SO as a true staff department; connected in all aspects to the directorate, the cluster, and the board. In addition to the directorate secretaries and directorate advisors, the directors' personal assistants are part of DBO.

The department also has a team with a steering role in terms of organizational quality and organization-wide topics, such as service delivery, privacy, integrity, digitization, and demand management of concern-wide support. The department also has a Data & Analysis team: the data experts of and for Urban Development.

The atmosphere within the team and the department is informal, friendly, hardworking, and results- and solution-oriented.

• Connecting ability: brings together different parties, interests, and perspectives.
• Analytical ability: can carefully analyze needs, risks, and issues and translate them into appropriate learning objectives.
• Results orientation: maintains focus on delivering a concrete and executable program within the set deadline.
• Planning skills: organizes the project in a structured manner and monitors progress, planning, and quality.
• Strategic-governmental insight: understands the context of a municipal organization and knows how to operate effectively within it.
• Strong communication and advisory skills: can listen, ask probing questions, persuade, and present findings clearly.
• Organizational sensitivity: has a good sense of interests, relationships, and dynamics within the organization.
• You have completed at least a relevant HBO (higher professional education) degree, for example in Public Administration, Business Administration, HRM, Learning & Development/Educational Science, Integral Safety Science, or a comparable program;
• You have at least 3 years of work experience as a project manager, gained in the last 5 years;
• You have at least 2 years of work experience in a governmental, political, or socially complex environment.
• You have experience with developing, implementing, or renewing training, learning, or development programs;
• You have work experience as a project manager within a complex public or governmental organization;
• You have knowledge of integrity issues, resilience, organizational development, or learning & development;
• You have demonstrable experience with stakeholder management and gathering needs from diverse target groups;
• You have experience advising management and executive levels.

Project details

• Start: 2026-11-01T23:00:00
• Location: Rotterdam Zuid-Holland, NL
• Languages: Dutch