Senior Program Manager Organization Development and Transformation | UHT

Description

We are looking for an experienced Program Manager for the Implementation Organization Benefits and Compensation (UHT). In this strategic interim assignment, you will work on a complex societal change task with significant administrative, organizational, and societal impact.

The central task of this position is to develop, shape, implement, and sustainably anchor the additional damage route and the future design of the objection processes within UHT. You will ensure coherence between policy, execution, processes, organizational design, and implementation.

You will lead a program with multiple interconnected projects and change initiatives. The program focuses on strengthening UHT's implementation capacity by developing new working methods, optimizing existing processes, and, where necessary, realizing supporting IT solutions. The goal is to support affected parents in a timely, careful, and appropriate manner.

In addition, you will fulfill an important political-administrative role. You operate at the intersection of strategy, execution, and governance, ensuring alignment between the executive board, management, staff departments, and operational teams.

Tasks and responsibilities

• Act as the figurehead of the program and functionally lead project and program teams.

• Take charge of the coherence between sub-tasks and their connection to the receiving organization.

• Develop the future design of the additional damage route and objection processes.

• Translate sub-results into an integrated, future-proof, and executable organization and process model.

• Develop a future vision for the processing of objections.

• Elaborate proposals for, among other things, triage, treatment routes, multidisciplinary work, and administrative support.

• Map capacity, personnel mix, roles, responsibilities, and competencies.

• Identify and manage risks, dependencies, bottlenecks, and preconditions.

• Prepare strategic choices and decision-making for the client, management, and governance meetings.

• Develop an implementation and transition approach and manage a controlled introduction.

• Ensure sustainable embedding, transfer, and anchoring within the line organization.

What do we ask?

Requirements:

• Completed education at a minimum Master's level (WO). Candidates without a Master's degree must have at least 15 years of demonstrable experience with organization-wide change tasks, program management, and decision-making at management or executive level.

• Minimum 10 years of demonstrable experience as a project manager, program manager, or manager of organization-wide change tasks, with at least 5 years in an environment involving coordination and decision-making with executive management, management, and multiple internal and external stakeholders.

• Minimum 5 years of demonstrable experience with the operational management of a department or organizational unit, for example, as a Management Team member, department manager, or team manager, with responsibility for production, quality, capacity, results, and process improvements.

• Minimum 5 years of demonstrable experience with designing, implementing, and embedding changes in processes, working methods, organizational structures, or service delivery within an operational, political-administrative, or legal work environment.

Additional wishes:

• Experience in initiating, managing, and realizing organization-wide change tasks in collaboration with executive and management teams within an administrative context.

• Experience in translating strategic objectives into coherent choices regarding organizational design, processes, service delivery, and execution, taking into account societal, political, and organizational interests.

• Experience in advising the executive board, management, and administrative clients on strategic issues, decision-making, and implementation challenges within a political-administrative context.

• Experience with transformation tasks where changes in administrative priorities, laws and regulations, societal context, or organizational preconditions have been translated into direction, strategy, and execution.

• Experience in creating administrative and organizational support and convincingly representing programs, proposals, and results to the executive board, management, and stakeholders.

Competencies

• Sensitivity to governance

• Persuasiveness

• Collaboration

• Planning and organizing

• Motivating

Information

Start date: November 16, 2026

Number of hours: 32 hours per week

Assignment length: until March 31, 2027, with an option for extension

Location: Utrecht

Form: Secondment (freelancers not allowed)

Position scale: 13

Interested?

We kindly request your CV by Tuesday, October 20, 12:00 PM with contact details and availability. We will provide you with substantive feedback on your interest in this interim assignment shortly.

Contact

For more information about this assignment, please contact Nicholas Schoonhoven, Managing Consultant Interim Management, 06 13 15 68 11, Find more English Speaking Jobs in Netherlands on Arbeitnow