Strategic Advisor Data, Information Provision & Digitalization

Project overview

PLEASE NOTE: This assignment is not available for direct freelance engagement. Engagement is exclusively possible through a secondment agency/supplier or via a payroll/employment contract. The work will be carried out under the leadership and supervision of a public executive 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 independent entrepreneurs can only be proposed when they are engaged through an authorized secondment agency or employment contract.

The GGD Rotterdam-Rijnmond faces significant societal and organizational challenges, where data, information provision, and digitalization play an increasingly important role. To optimally leverage these developments, we are looking for an experienced Strategic Advisor Data, Information Provision & Digitalization. In this role, you will advise the board and management on complex, organization-wide issues and contribute to a future-proof strategic course.

You will connect policy, execution, and business operations, approach information provision and digitalization as integral business operations issues, and translate technological and societal developments into concrete opportunities. In doing so, you will create support for change and fulfill an important connecting role within regional and national collaborations. This way, you will make a significant contribution to a data-driven organization and the further strengthening of public health.

Your role

As Strategic Advisor Data, Information Provision & Digitalization, you will advise the board and management on complex, organization-wide issues. You will develop a coherent strategic course and translate societal, technological, and administrative developments into concrete advice, policy frameworks, and change assignments. You will consider information provision and digitalization not as standalone topics, but as part of broader business operations and organizational issues.

You will ensure connection between policy, execution, business operations, and information provision and contribute to the strategic positioning of the GGD Rotterdam-Rijnmond within relevant regional and national networks.

You will be involved in, among other things:

You can translate complex issues into clear and actionable solutions. You will not only focus on the strategic course but also on the people, processes, and collaboration needed to actually realize changes.

Result of the assignment

The assignment contributes to a future-proof and coherent strategic course for data, information provision, and digitalization, with a focus on the connection with business operations, organizational development, and external collaboration partners. The intended results are:

• Developing strategic visions, policy frameworks, and multi-year development agendas in the areas of data, information provision, and digitalization, in conjunction with broader organizational objectives.
• Advising the board and management on strategic choices, opportunities, risks, and organizational developments.
• Contributing to the further professionalization of steering on data, information provision, and digitalization, including governance, roles, responsibilities, prioritization, portfolio management, and decision-making, with explicit attention to alignment with the business operations and strategic objectives of the GGD.
• Strengthening data-driven work and promoting the effective and responsible use of data, AI, and digital innovations.
• Connecting different organizational units and creating support for strategic choices and change processes.
• Guiding organization-wide change and development processes, with attention to communication, participation, implementation, and safeguarding.
• Actively building, maintaining, and strengthening regional and national collaborative relationships and representing and positioning the GGD Rotterdam-Rijnmond within relevant networks in the fields of public health, information provision, digitalization, data, and AI. In doing so, you will act as a connecting link between internal and external stakeholders and actively bring relevant parties together.
• Identifying developments from municipalities, GGDs, GGD GHOR Nederland, ministries, and other relevant partners and translating these into strategic opportunities, advice, and collaboration possibilities for the organization.
• Safeguarding public values, including privacy, ethics, information security, and inclusivity, in the use of data and technology.
• A strengthened positioning of the GGD Rotterdam-Rijnmond within regional and national networks in the fields of data, information provision, digitalization, and public health.
• Active alignment with relevant national developments, programs, and collaborative initiatives, translating them into concrete opportunities and strategic advice for the organization.
• Further professionalization of steering on data, information provision, and digitalization, with attention to governance, prioritization, portfolio management, and alignment with the business operations and strategic objectives of the GGD.

Requirements

You are a strategically strong and analytically thinking advisor who can understand complex, organization-wide issues and translate them into clear and substantiated advice. You have a well-developed environmental awareness and are politically and organizationally sensitive. You recognize diverse interests and relationships within a political-administrative environment and know how to respond to them effectively and carefully. You understand the coherence between different organizational issues and can approach information provision and digitalization from a broad business operations perspective.

You are communicatively strong and persuasive, able to convey complex topics in an understandable way to various target groups. You can switch between executive, strategic, tactical, and operational levels and can involve the board, management, and other stakeholders in your advice. You are connecting, can bridge differences, and create support, even when interests diverge or resistance arises.

You have a strong external network or are able to build and sustainably maintain one quickly. You move easily within regional and national collaborations and know how to actively utilize relevant contacts and collaboration opportunities. You can translate developments from municipalities, GGDs, GGD GHOR Nederland, ministries, and other relevant partners into the strategic tasks of the organization. You can convincingly represent the GGD Rotterdam-Rijnmond and build bridges between internal and external interests.

You possess change management skills and can actively involve people in organizational developments. You recognize resistance, make it discussable, and can motivate others to embrace new ways of working. You combine strategic insight with results orientation and execution power. You translate ambitions into concrete and achievable actions, while paying attention to implementation, safeguarding, and the human aspect of change. You are capable of providing direction independently, without losing sight of collaboration and the various interests within the organization.

Nice-to-haves

The Department

The Strategy and Support (S&O) department falls under the Directorate of Public Health Welfare & Care and has the following objective: The S&O department provides strategic advice, directs, and facilitates in the area of business operations related to the GGD's primary process, so that the GGD's interests are optimally represented. This enables the Director of Public Health to steer effectively. We do this from an expert, proactive, dedicated, connecting, and safe organization that adapts where necessary. We do this from three different teams with strong interdependencies.

The S&O department has existed since 2024 and is, in a positive way, still fully developing, both in terms of content and culture.

• The candidate has at least a completed HBO (higher professional education) degree in Business Administration, Business IT & Management, Computer Science, or equivalent;
• The candidate has at least 5 years of recent work experience as a strategic advisor within a complex public or societal organization, gained in the last 8 years;
• The candidate has demonstrable work experience with data, information provision, digitalization, or digital transformation;
• The candidate has demonstrable work experience with strategic advising at board and management level;
• The candidate has demonstrable work experience with organization-wide change and development processes;
• The candidate has demonstrable work experience within a political-administrative environment;
• The candidate has demonstrable experience with guiding implementation and adoption issues in the field of digitalization and information provision.
• The candidate has demonstrable work experience at management and/or strategic level within a GGD or an organization in the field of public health;
• The candidate has a completed WO Master's degree in Public Administration, Information Science, Computer Science, Information Management, or a comparable relevant field of study;
• The candidate has demonstrable experience with issues related to the responsible use of AI and digital innovations;
• The candidate has demonstrable experience representing a public organization within regional and national collaborations, involving cooperation with municipalities, public organizations, and chain partners.

Project details

• Start: 2026-11-30T23:00:00
• Location: Rotterdam Zuid-Holland, NL
• Languages: Dutch