Board Advisor

Project overview

Board Advisor Marketing & Communications

The Marketing & Communications department is in a phase of further professionalization. The focus is on strengthening governance, decision-making, planning & control, collaboration, and results-oriented management. For this development, we are looking for an experienced Board Advisor who acts as a strategic sparring partner for the director and the management team. As Board Advisor, you are the connecting link between strategy, execution, and management. You support the director and the MT in achieving organizational goals, strengthening the administrative structure, and improving organizational performance.

You bring structure, overview, and coherence within a complex environment with diverse interests and stakeholders.

Strategic Advice and MT Support

Planning & Control

Financial Management

Governance and Organizational Development

Profile

We are looking for an experienced professional who quickly understands organizations and moves effortlessly between strategic, tactical, and operational levels. You possess:

You are someone who:

Knowledge and Experience

• Act as a strategic advisor and trusted partner to the director and management team.
• Prepare, facilitate, and follow up on MT meetings, decision-making processes, and strategic sessions.
• Monitor progress, decisions, and action points and ensure timely follow-up.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and administrative issues and advise on them.
• Translate strategic developments into concrete decision-making, actions, and improvement initiatives.
• Support the management team in strengthening governance, management, and collaboration.
• Coordinate the business plan process, quarterly reviews (QBRs), and other components of the planning and control cycle.
• Ensure coherence between strategy, objectives, KPIs, projects, and financial frameworks.
• Analyze performance, identify deviations, and advise on necessary adjustments.
• Prepare management information, board reports, and strategic analyses.
• Coordinate budgets, forecasts, and financial reports in collaboration with Finance.
• Translate financial insights into administrative advice and courses of action.
• Support decision-making regarding investments, capacity issues, and prioritization.
• Monitor budgets and manage financial risks.
• Strengthen governance, decision-making structures, and responsibility distributions within the department.
• Optimize meeting structures and improve the quality of decision-making.
• Analyze, design, and improve critical business and control processes.
• Initiate and guide improvement projects focused on collaboration, management, and organizational development.
• Actively contribute to the further professionalization of Marketing & Communications.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to clearly distinguish between main and minor issues.
• Excellent administrative sensitivity and a feel for complex stakeholder dynamics.
• Strong advisory skills, persuasiveness, and political awareness.
• The ability to bring structure and direction to complex issues.
• A connecting personality with sufficient firmness to conduct critical conversations.
• A proactive, results-oriented attitude and a strong sense of ownership.
• Operates effectively quickly within a complex organizational context.
• Takes responsibility independently and shows initiative.
• Easily switches between strategy, policy, and execution.
• Creates calm, overview, and structure.
• Gets energy from further developing teams, processes, and organizations.
• Master's (WO) work and thinking level.
• Minimum 8 years of relevant experience as a board advisor, program manager, chief of staff, or similar strategic advisory role.
• Demonstrable experience within large, complex organizations.
• Extensive experience with governance, planning & control, and organizational development.
• Experience with financial management, business planning, and management reporting.
• Demonstrable experience in translating data, analyses, and financial information into administrative decision-making.

Project details

• Start: 2026-09-27T22:00:00
• Location: Arnhem Gelderland, NL
• Languages: Dutch