Project Manager/Program Manager

Project overview

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Assignment description

Within the High Water Board of Schieland and Krimpenerwaard (HHSK), resilience is a strategic spearhead. As an organization with a vital public task, we are part of the critical infrastructure. Developments such as digitalization, increasing threats, and new legislation – including the Critical Entities Resilience Act (WWKE) – place high demands on the continuity and security of the organization.

A risk scan was conducted to assess our resilience. This resulted in a top 3 of points of attention that we are now addressing.

Important points of attention emerging from the risk scans:

Therefore, an organization-wide Resilience Program has been launched to make HHSK stronger and better prepared for the future.

Resilience concerns an integral issue that encompasses physical, digital, organizational, and human aspects. In this context, Facility Management & HR play a key role in strengthening the human factor and the work environment.

HHSK is looking for an experienced project leader who will manage the coherence between these domains and the organization-wide program and ensure effective & executable implementation of the necessary measures arising from the resilience program and the WWKE. The HR track focuses on strengthening the personnel resilience of HHSK by safeguarding critical functions, increasing replaceability, strengthening integrity and resilient behavior, developing leadership, and structurally anchoring resilience in policy, processes, and organizational culture.

The assignment focuses on translating the Resilience Program and WWKE into concrete actions within Facility Management and HR, with the following main themes:

Inventory

Physical security

Facility prerequisites

Future-oriented policy

To be delivered, in addition to the scope mentioned above:

Requirements, personal characteristics, and wishes

• Concrete plans are missing for the top three classified risks.
• Systems, ICT, and staffing are not yet sufficiently resistant to disruptions.
• Coordination of crisis management, risk management, and business continuity needs improvement.
• There is a need for a clear approach and direction.
• Conducting risk analyses and vulnerability scans of buildings, grounds, and vital objects, in relation to necessary measures.
• Strengthening the safety and robustness of work locations. Including, but not limited to, strengthening security, visitor management, supervision, and alarm response;
• Developing measures against sabotage, vandalism, unauthorized access, and insider threats.
• Setting up and optimizing facilities for business continuity;
• Safeguarding measures related to access control, security, and emergency facilities;
• Developing continuity measures for utility failures (electricity, water, gas, telecommunications) including emergency provisions;
• Safeguarding the management, maintenance, and periodic review of security facilities.
• Developing and implementing an integral policy for physical security, aligned with the WWKE and the Resilience Program;
• Developing evacuation, lockdown, and shelter-in-place procedures for various threat scenarios;
• Developing screening policies for both HHSK and HHR;
• Developing a resilience policy, including an action plan;
• Co-developing and implementing training and education programs, including awareness training (aligned with the resilience program).
• Integral implementation plan for physical and personnel resilience
• Advice on prioritizing investments based on risk analysis
• Integrity and awareness program
• Critical function analysis
• Strong and experienced project leader when it comes to complex organizational issues;
• Experience with themes such as resilience, security, crisis management (from a business operations perspective);
• Experience in a public or administrative context;
• Connecting and able to collaborate across domains;
• Well-developed communication and advisory skills;
• Strategically strong and hands-on in realization;
• Persuasive towards management and professionals;
• Results-oriented and able to actually realize implementation;
• Demonstrable experience with physical security within vital infrastructure or government;
• Knowledge of the WWKE, NIS2, and relevant security standards (such as ISO 27001, BIO, and where relevant NEN standards);
• Knowledge of security risk management and integral security;
• Experience with Business Continuity Management (BCM) and crisis organization;

Project details

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