Interim Team Manager Labor Development | Municipality of The Hague

• You possess a higher professional education (HBO) level of working and thinking.

• You have demonstrable experience as a team manager or leader in a similar position.

• You have experience managing teams within a complex and changing environment.

• You have knowledge of change management and know how to effectively bring employees along in this.

• You have experience with result-oriented working and preferably with the OGSM methodology.

• You have an affinity with the social domain, participation, and labor development.

• You are a coaching and connecting leader with strong communication skills.

• You are analytical, organizationally sensitive, reflective, and proactive.

• You are decisive, flexible, and can set priorities well in a dynamic environment.

• You create support and know how to successfully guide teams through changes.

On behalf of the Municipality of The Hague, we are looking for an experienced Interim Team Manager Labor Development. In this assignment, you will lead a team of case managers within Den Haag Werkt, part of the Social Affairs and Employment department.

You will join an organization committed to increasing social participation and sustainable labor participation of residents. At the same time, the organization is in an important phase of change, during which services are being further developed and a reorganization is being prepared.

Together with two fellow team managers, you are responsible for the management of approximately 60 labor development case managers. You ensure stability, structure, and continuity within the teams and know how to bring employees along in organizational changes, result-oriented working, and the further development of services. In doing so, you act as a strong interlocutor for fellow managers, the cluster manager, and other stakeholders.

• You lead a team of approximately 20 labor development case managers.

• You create calm, structure, and stability within a changing organization.

• You guide employees during organizational changes and development trajectories.

• You manage in a result-oriented manner based on data and according to the OGSM methodology.

• You conduct management and quality meetings and work on the further optimization of services.

• You perform personnel tasks, including interview cycles and the application of personnel policy.

• You switch effortlessly between operational, tactical, and strategic levels.

• You actively contribute to policy, business operations, and management issues.

• You support and relieve fellow team managers and, where necessary, the cluster manager with various issues.

Start: 1 November 2026

Hours: 36 hours per week

Assignment length: 8 months with option to extend

Location: The Hague

Form: Secondment (not suitable for freelancers/ZZP)