Policy and Implementation Team Leader

In short

• You will manage a team of approximately 30 professionals. You will be responsible for achieving operational and financial results, driving innovation, and ensuring the well-being of your team.
• Your first task is to build a strong team capable of developing and implementing HR policies in a coordinated manner.
• Together with the BI&O Department Manager and the Organizational Consulting Team Leader, you form the department’s management team. Together, you are responsible for the overall mission of BI&O. In addition to the department’s professional development, this mission also involves balancing human resources and tasks.

The position

As the Policy and Implementation Team Leader for the recently formed Policy and Implementation Team, you will serve as the results-oriented, coaching-style team leader. The team focuses on the following areas: strategic organizational development, HR policy, and implementation. These have been combined into a single team to strengthen HR’s implementation capacity. By combining strategic organizational development with the development and implementation of policy into a single team, HR’s implementation capacity is strengthened. Greater attention to implementation leads to better policies and better execution of those policies.

Here's what you do on an average workday

• You will hold work meetings with the team members who are working on the vision for personal care, and you will ensure alignment with the board’s mandate on Inclusion & Diversity.
• You will consult with the department manager regarding preparations for the staff alderman for Human Resources.
• You have a coaching session with a consultant about a complex case.
• You're having a meeting to discuss absenteeism with one of your team members.
• You have your monthly consultation with your financial advisor.
• You are leading a team meeting in a hybrid setting.
• You consult with your team members regarding employment conditions and with your fellow team leader from HR about a structured work process for the implementation of new regulations.

This is where you get started

Everyone is welcome within the HR department, and we value the differences among our colleagues—in age, background, gender, personality, dreams, and hobbies. All these differences lead to better results for our organization and our city. We’re interested in your talent, and we don’t think in terms of limitations, but rather in terms of opportunities. If you need resources or accommodations to do your job well, we’ll make sure they’re available. So whoever you are: you’re warmly invited to apply for a position that appeals to you. The selection committees are diverse in composition and know how to conduct inclusive hiring. The scoring form we use has also been reviewed for these aspects.

About the department and the team
The Policy and Implementation team is part of the new Policy, Implementation & Organizational Advisory department. The mission of the Policy, Implementation, and Organizational Advisory (BI&O) department is to achieve, as a department, concrete and relevant results in collaboration with the business side of the organization, thereby ensuring that the city and its citizens are served as effectively as possible. We initiate policy changes, develop actionable policies, and implement them. We support the management of the City of Amsterdam in developing the organization.

What you bring

For the position of Policy and Implementation Team Leader, you must have:

• University-level work and thinking.
• You are results-oriented and an excellent coach; you build your work on trust and connection.
• You’re always focused on collaboration; you’re a networker and a go-getter.
• You can design a strategic vision just as easily as a solid implementation process.
• You are diplomatic, you have a sense of humor, and you know how to navigate flexibly between different interests.
• You have proven experience in the field of strategic organizational development and HR policy.
• You have management experience at a comparable level in a political and administrative context, and you have experience in change management.

You should have the following skills:

• Environmental awareness
• Vision
• Collaborate
• Results-oriented
• Responsibility

Here's what we offer you

As the Policy and Implementation Team Leader, you’ll join our team for 36 hours a week and can count on the following terms of employment.

• A gross monthly salary between € 5,274 and € 7,269 (scale 14) based on a 36-hour workweek. The exact salary will be determined based on your education, knowledge, and experience .
• An employment contract for a term of 1 year, with the possibility of a contract for an indefinite term thereafter if you currently do not have an employment contract, or have only a temporary one, with the City of Amsterdam.
• If you already have a permanent employment contract with the City of Amsterdam, then you will retain it and be transferred.
• Professional development and training opportunities. Our in-house training center, the Amsterdam School, offers a variety of training courses, professional development programs, and on-the-job coaching to help you continue to challenge yourself.
• An individual flexible budget (IKB) equal to 17.05% of your salary, which you can use, for example, for additional pension contributions or extra days off.
• A pension plan with ABP, the pension fund for the public sector and education.
• A travel allowance of € 0.10 per kilometer, up to 45 kilometers one-way for the commute between home and work, for the number of days you work at the office, and/or a work-from-home allowance of €2 net per workday that you work from home.
• A monthly contribution to health insurance.
• Hybrid work: In this role, you can work partly from home and partly in the office. We provide (work-from-home) equipment to help you set up a safe and healthy workspace.
• A cell phone and a laptop.

Curious about all our terms of employment? View the City of Amsterdam Personnel Regulations (PGA):www.amsterdam.nl/pga/.

Do you have any questions?

If you have any questions about the position and/or the application process, please contact: Heleen Latooij, BI&O Department Manager, at 06 187 292 07 or h.latooij@amsterdam.nl.

Apply for this job

• If this job opening interests you, please submit your application by June 22, 2022, via the application form on our website.
• The selection process begins immediately after the application deadline and consists of two rounds of selection.
• If your resume matches the job description, we'd be happy to invite you for an interview.
• The interviews will take place in person during the week of June 27 at our office located at Amstel 1 in Amsterdam.
• We require a recent Certificate of Good Conduct (VOG) from every colleague who joins our team.
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