Human Resources, Organization, and Communication (POC)

Human Resources, Organization, and Communication (POC)

Together, we’re stronger for safety!

At the Hollands Midden Safety Region (VRHM), you’ll help create a safe living environment throughout the region. The colleagues who work for the safety region are knowledgeable, decisive, and helpful. Communication lines are short. Working at the VRHM means building and improving. We work in an engaging yet complex environment that sometimes requires patience, perseverance, and the ability to keep things in perspective.

We are looking for a:

POC Department Manager

36 hours per week, Leiden & hybrid

Change Initiative

• Over the past year, investments have been made to improve and strengthen the department’s position. The POC department manager is expected to continue the momentum and lead the change process.
• Further developing HR and communications strategies and refining key areas such as corporate communications, labor market communications, sustainable employability, diversity and inclusion, organizational development, and compensation and benefits policies.

Strategic Advisor

• You serve as a strategic advisor to the executive board and assist the CEO in accordance with the WOR.
• Together with the executive team and the management team of the Operations division, you will help set the organization’s strategic direction on HR issues, organizational development, communication, and employer branding.
• You are able to translate organizational objectives into strategic and operational HR and communication objectives and prioritize them in multi-year plans.
• You will facilitate complex change processes such as leadership development, cultural change initiatives, new organizational structures, and workforce restructuring.
• You are highly capable of gaining and maintaining support for policies even in the face of conflicting interests.

POC

The Human Resources, Organization & Communications Department consists of 14 people and is divided into four teams: HR Consulting, Employment Conditions and Legal Status, HR and Payroll Administration, and Communications. The employees all work independently, actively seek professional coordination, and are personally invested in one another. Everyone approaches their work with the mindset of “how can I grow and develop personally?”

•  You will lead the POC department, which consists of 14 professionals; together with them and on their behalf, you create a pleasant, safe, productive, and inclusive work environment and build a department that masters all aspects of modern, diverse, and inclusive employment practices;
• You serve as the link between the four teams within the department and are able to translate the organization’s needs into the right services, amenities, and facilities.

Operations/Business management

• The POC Department is part of the Operations Division. As part of the Operations management team, you will work alongside the other department managers and the Director of Operations to contribute to excellent internal service delivery. In this way, you enable managers and employees to achieve VRHM’s social goals.
• You will be responsible for strengthening HR operational processes and preparing HR reports and recommendations.
• You are responsible for ensuring the efficient and effective operation of the POC department and the allocation of resources within the legal framework.
• As a POC Manager, you report to the Director of Operations.

We expect you to:

• a university degree (e.g., in Public Administration or Organizational Sciences) and at least 5 years of experience as a senior manager with final responsibility in a large, complex (implementing) organization, in a political-administrative environment, with proven experience in organizational development and change;
• familiarity with the division of responsibilities and coordination within the department: HR Consulting, Payroll and Personnel Administration, Legal Status and Terms of Employment, and Communications;
• a modern approach to HRM and Communication;
• a knack for numbers and an understanding of the relationship between, among other things, the budget and personnel and payroll administration;
• a highly developed sense of sensitivity;
• a high degree of stylistic flexibility.
• It is an advantage if you have worked both within and outside the public sector.

Key features

• You have a coaching leadership style.
• You are an inspiring and unifying manager.
• You give your employees autonomy, responsibility, and trust.
• You are open and approachable.
• You have a strong personality.

We also value the following competencies:

• Results-oriented, customer-focused, and entrepreneurial;
• Innovative and creative;
• Administrative and organizationally sensitive;
• Decisive, proactive;
• Planning, organizing, and monitoring;
• A sense of humor and the ability to keep things in perspective.

What do we offer?

• The position is classified in pay grade 13 of the CAR UWO Safety Regions pay scale, and the salary is a maximum of €6,610 gross per month, based on a full-time position of 36 hours per week;
• Our client offers an attractive benefits package, including a flexible spending account of 17.05% and excellent training opportunities;
• Initially, a temporary position will generally be offered, with the express intention of leading to a permanent position;
• Laptop, phone, and resources that support hybrid work;
• The ability to set your own work schedule (flexible working) and the option to work from home;
• Pension Accrual with ABP;
• Plenty of opportunities for professional development, thanks in part to excellent internal and external training programs.

More information

For more information about this position, please contact Arjan van de Watering, Director of Operations, M: 06-22 37 34 49 E: arjan.vande.watering@vrhm.nl.

Interested?

Are you the ideal candidate for this position? If so, please send a brief cover letter and your resume to personeel@vrhm.nl by June 27. Interviews will be held during the week of July 4–8, 2022.

An assessment may be part of the selection process. A valid Certificate of Good Conduct (VOG) is required prior to employment. This position is being advertised internally and externally at the same time. The VRHM prefers to source its own candidates, so this posting is not an invitation to solicit candidates.