Financial Recovery Program Manager | Directorate-General for Benefits Recovery

We are looking for two experienced Financial Recovery Program Managers for the Ministry of Finance - DG Recovery. Within the Directorate-General for Benefits Recovery, you will work on a socially complex and politically sensitive task: the financial completion of the supplementary compensation for parents affected by the benefits scandal by the end of 2027 at the latest.

To realize this ambition, extra programmatic capacity is being added. As a Program Manager, you play a key role in connecting policy, implementation, and communication. You translate strategic objectives into concrete results and ensure that improvement initiatives are actually realized within an environment with multiple stakeholders, implementing organizations, and political interests.

You operate at the intersection of program management, change management, and stakeholder management. In doing so, you make an important contribution to optimizing processes, strengthening service delivery, and creating political steering on the results of the recovery program.

• Translating strategic steering decisions into concrete projects and improvement initiatives.

• Developing interventions in the areas of policy, implementation, and communication.

• Coordinating and realizing policy measures and organization-wide improvements.

• Managing and guiding multidisciplinary teams.

• Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders within a complex political and social landscape.

• Contributing to issues surrounding production steering, process optimization, scaling up, and chain collaboration.

• Realizing the objectives regarding the completion of the financial recovery process for affected parents.

• You are organizationally sensitive.

• You possess political sensitivity.

• You are environmentally aware.

• You are strong in stakeholder management and networking.

• You can effectively manage organizations and teams.

• You know how to guide and develop employees.

• You are reflective and able to continuously improve.

Start: as soon as possible

Number of hours: 32 to 40 hours per week

Contract length: 6 months with an option to extend.

Location: The Hague

Form: Secondment (not suitable for freelancers/ZZP)