Senior Manager City Management (secondment)

Project overview

Profile of the suited interim professional:

• Act as a political point of contact towards aldermen, management, and other political bodies
• Prepare well-substantiated advice and documents on politically sensitive dossiers such as tree policy
• Manage expectations and escalate in a timely manner where necessary
• Improve the quality, predictability, and timeliness of administrative production processes
• Coach colleagues in enhancing political quality
• Manage at least one, possibly two teams within City Management, including the team for strategic policy and programming
• Coach team and asset managers
• Take the lead in further professionalizing asset management
• Promote integrated collaboration between the four asset managers
• Take over part of the daily management and political representation to relieve the current head of department
• Act as a sparring partner in preparing and executing decisions
• Completed education at a minimum HBO-bachelor level
• Minimum of 5 years of work experience, gained in the last 10 years, as a manager or leader within a government organization responsible for at least one team
• Demonstrable experience with politically sensitive dossiers and direct advice to aldermen, management, executive board, and/or municipal council
• Preferably at least 7 years of experience with politically sensitive dossiers and liaising with political administrators
• Preferably experience with optimizing team and work processes and professionalizing a department
• Preferably experience with improving the quality, predictability, and timeliness of political documents and decision-making processes

Project details

• Start: flexible
• Duration: 9 months
• Location: Zoetermeer, North-Holland, South-Holland, NL
• Rate: 137-137 EUR/h
• Languages: Dutch