Cluster Coordinator for Information Services & ICT/Senior Advisor

Ready for a new challenge?

As the coordinator of the Information Services and ICT cluster, would you like to play a crucial role in advising on, initiating, and managing processes within a leading research institute? At the Netherlands Institute for Social Research (SCP), you will actively contribute to ensuring that information services and information management function effectively to support the SCP’s mission.

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About the Netherlands Institute for Social Research

The SCP tracks, explains, and explores the social and cultural well-being of the people of the Netherlands. Among other things, we monitor living conditions and quality of life, evaluate government policy, and conduct exploratory studies for future policy. The SCP is an independent, professional research institute that conducts policy-relevant scientific research and falls formally under the Ministry of Health, Welfare, and Sport. The SCP employs approximately 120 staff members (about 100 FTE), divided among a two-person executive board, 7 program teams, and 3 departments. The management team (MT) consists of the executive board, program leaders, and department heads.

Diversity and Organizational Culture

The SCP’s work focuses on society as a whole. To do this effectively, we strive to ensure diversity in skills, perspectives, and backgrounds within our teams. We also actively work to foster an organizational culture in which everyone feels welcome and can be themselves.

The challenge of change

The SCP is undergoing significant development. In line with the recommendations of the review committee in 2021, we have stepped up our efforts in communication and public affairs. We are working more intensively to identify underlying social trends, continuously sharing knowledge with stakeholders, and proactively responding to current events. Issues such as the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, sustainability, and housing shortages are receiving increasing attention. Together with other planning agencies, we are developing tools to assess the broad welfare impacts of societal developments and policy options. This initiative will be continued in the new Multi-Year Plan (2025–2030).

Operations Department

The Operations Department (BV) provides high-quality expertise and services to ensure that everyone at the SCP can do their job effectively. BV is one of the SCP’s three staff departments and is responsible for ensuring an efficient and effective internal organization. Through its advisory, monitoring, support, and policy-setting functions, the department contributes to achieving the SCP’s goals and the Multi-Year Plan.

Information Services & ICT Cluster

The Information Management & ICT cluster coordinates, develops, and optimizes information management, information provision, and ICT services within the SCP. The vision and strategy for information management and information provision for the period 2024–2028 were recently formulated. This vision responds to the ongoing changes in society regarding information and digitization. The SCP ensures that we have access to up-to-date information, systems, and knowledge to collaborate more intelligently and easily, both within and outside the organization. In doing so, we prioritize intuitive ease of use and sustainability as our guiding principles. Everyone at the SCP takes responsibility for this and is transparently accountable to policymakers, the scientific community, and society.

Key themes in this vision include: Organization, Boundless Collaboration, Manageability, Accountability, Digital Sustainability, Knowledge, and Data.

Main responsibilities of the cluster

• Develop a multi-year information vision and strategy and translate these into an action plan. ;
• Advising management and employees on the implementation of security policies and control measures;
• Ensuring information security and management within legal frameworks such as the GDPR, the Public Records Act, the Research and Education Act, the Biological Information Act, the Network and Information Security Act, and the VIR-BI;
• Managing ICT within the organization;
• Implementing process management and quality control in the area of information provision and administration to ensure consistent process execution, including providing advice and support for innovation, improvement, streamlining, and harmonization of processes;
• Management of the library and archives.

Purpose of the position

As a cluster coordinator, you are responsible for translating the long-term vision for information provision and information management into a sustainable ICT, information management, and information security plan. You advise the executive board and the management team on key developments in these areas, including relevant laws and regulations. In doing so, you will also liaise with relevant parties such as the Data Protection Officer, the CIO Office, the Legislation and Legal Affairs Directorate, and the Chief Data Officer of the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS), and you will participate in interdepartmental meetings organized by these officials. In addition, you will prepare the information management budget and monitor material expenditures. You will lead all projects with an IT-ICT component, including the Open op Orde program, and will functionally manage three staff members. In your role as privacy officer, you will perform tasks and provide advice within the framework of the GDPR.Furthermore, you are responsible for several operational management-wide tasks or ad hoc matters and, together with other coordinators, contribute to the development and monitoring of the planning and control cycle for operational management.

Job Requirements

• University-level work and thinking skills;
• At least three years of relevant work experience in the fields of information management, IT, and ICT;
• Sufficient knowledge of and experience in applying relevant laws and regulations related to IT and IT security, such as the GDPR, the Dutch Data Protection Act (WOO), the Public Records Act, and the VIR-BI, as well as legal frameworks such as the BIO and NIS.
• Experience in project management;
• Experience in strategic consulting (both verbal and written);
• Experience in managing staff;
• Skills: organizational sensitivity, situational awareness, sound judgment, persuasiveness, motivation, networking, planning and organizing (including progress monitoring), results-oriented approach, analytical skills, and taking initiative.

The offer:

• A dynamic role within a research institution with societal relevance;
• Plenty of room for initiative and the opportunity to contribute to the SCP’s strategic direction;
• An inclusive work environment that prioritizes personal development;
• Flexible working hours and the option to work from home;
• A salary of at least €5,212.93 and at most €7,477 gross per month, excluding vacation pay;
• An IKB budget of 16.50%, including an 8% vacation allowance.
• For more information about the terms of employment, visit www.caorijk.nl

Would you like to play a key role in the SCP’s digital transformation and help build a future-proof organization? Apply now and join us in shaping the social and cultural knowledge of the Netherlands!

The procedure

SCP is being assisted in this recruitment process by the executive search firm Colourful People. For more information, please contact Henna Seedorf, Partner, at 06-24274368. You can apply by submitting your cover letter and resume no later than October 26 via the Colourful People website. The pre-selection interviews will take place during the week of November 4–11, 2024, and the first and second rounds of selection interviews will be held on-site at SCP in The Hague during the week of November 20–25, 2024.