Senior Strategic Capacity Advisor | COA

Requirements:

• At least 5 years of experience in an advisory role within a complex (semi-)public organization.

• Experience with strategic advising regarding complex issues.

• Strong analytical skills and experience with interpreting data, forecasts, and capacity issues.

Additional wishes:

• Experience within politically-administratively sensitive environments.

• Experience with capacity, housing, or social issues within the public domain.

• Experience with drafting administrative products and policy documents.

We are looking for a Strategic Capacity Advisor for the COA. In this role, you will work within a program responsible for complex capacity issues in a political-administrative environment. The assignment involves supporting the management in creating overview, coherence, and evidence-based decision-making regarding capacity tasks.

You fulfill a connecting role between information, processes, and stakeholders. In doing so, you ensure that relevant information about capacity issues is available in a timely manner and is translated into useful advice, analyses, and administrative products. You operate in a dynamic environment with great social impact, where political sensitivity and operational urgency converge.

• Collecting, structuring, and analyzing information about complex capacity issues.

• Drafting strategic advice, administrative notes, analyses, and other decision-making documents.

• Supporting the management with capacity and housing issues.

• Connecting internal and external stakeholders and promoting alignment between involved parties.

• Identifying and analyzing national, regional, and local developments that influence the capacity task.

• Translating complex information into concrete perspectives for action for management and administration

• Strategically and analytically strong.

• Stakeholder management

• Organizationally skilled and operationally decisive.

• Environmentally sensitive and administratively aware.

• Flexible and able to switch quickly in a changing environment.

• Result-oriented and stress-resistant.

• Able to structure complex information clearly and translate it into concrete actions.

Start: 2 November 2026

Hours: 32-36 hours per week

Contract length: 6 months, with option to extend

Location: The Hague

Form: ZZP (Freelance)