Programs & Audience Engagement Manager

What will you be doing?

As a hands-on manager, you bring out the best in your team to take our programs and products to the next level together. You maintain a strategic and financial overview, identify and initiate opportunities for internal and external collaboration, and can clearly articulate how our programming contributes to the library’s goals. You oversee the utilization of sub-budgets and monitor revenue and expenses by domain.

There are still untapped opportunities in the areas of communication and marketing. With your knowledge and expertise, you will bring structure to our marketing strategy, put it into practice, and manage the marketing and communications staff member. Under your guidance, you will help this colleague grow from a junior to a mid-level role. When necessary, you will also take on MarCom tasks yourself, such as preparing the annual report and handling press relations.

In Voorschoten and Wassenaar, you’ll actively reach out to expand and strengthen our network. You’ll help turn opportunities within the network into concrete results.

Who are you?

The team and management hope to find a new colleague with an open-minded attitude and a sense of humor. You enjoy a coaching leadership style: seeing your team members grow brings you joy. As a coaching leader, you focus on collaboration, both internally and externally. You inspire people and bridge the gaps between different areas.

In addition to taking a broad interest in social issues, you’re observant when needed and help maintain calm and stability within your team. For example, you step in when you see team members getting bogged down in administrative or financial tasks, even though their strengths lie in the actual work. Finally, you’re intrinsically motivated to contribute to a diverse and inclusive library.

What experience do you bring to the table?

 Your future team and the management team consider it essential that you have demonstrable and substantial experience in: 

• Leadership
  
• Strategy
  
• Budget Management and Budgets
  
• Marketing
  
• Impact Measurement
  
• Innovation/Change Management
  

Experience working in a public library and/or the nonprofit sector is a significant advantage. The same applies to experience with grants and funding.

What do we offer?

• Freedom and flexibility in how you do your work
• An entrepreneurial, flexible, and collaborative work environment
• A small but enthusiastic, enterprising, and supportive team
• A 24-hour-per-week position (0.6 FTE), with working hours to be determined by mutual agreement.
• An increase to 0.7 FTE is negotiable if the workload warrants it.
• A one-year contract based on pay scale 11 of the Collective Bargaining Agreement for Public Libraries (gross salary ranging from a minimum of €4,851 to a maximum of €5,759 for full-time employment)
• Prospect of a permanent contract extension
• Excellent benefits package, including a year-end bonus (4.5–5%) and a company car
• Working from home (part-time) is an option
• Cell phone and laptop for business use

Do you, like us, enjoy working with people, books, and films? And do you see yourself in this job description? If so, please send your cover letter and resume to Esther Habers (Executive Director) at directie@obvw.nl by January 14, 2025. If you are invited for an interview, we will notify you by Thursday, January 15, at the latest. The first interviews will take place on Monday, January 19, in Wassenaar; the second round of interviews is scheduled for Tuesday afternoon, January 27.

Recruitment agencies are asked to refrain from contacting us regarding this job opening.