Senior Specialist Learning & Development

How do we ensure that our employees possess the knowledge and skills needed in care and welfare not only today, but also in the future? And how do we ensure that learning and development are not isolated activities, but a coherent part of our organizational development?

As a Learning & Development Business Partner at Stichting Humanitas, you will provide direction to these issues. You translate our organization's ambitions and the challenges in the labor market into a clear multi-year course for learning and development. In doing so, you look beyond education and training. You connect on-the-job learning, craftsmanship, leadership development, and sustainable employability to the future of Humanitas.

You are a strong interlocutor for the board and management and provide substantive direction to the further development of Learning & Development. Together with stakeholders, you determine where the priorities lie, monitor coherence, and ensure that plans are not only good on paper but are also actually realized.

What will you concretely do?

• You develop the multi-year L&D course, the annual plan, and the L&D portfolio, in alignment with the organizational strategy, strategic workforce planning, and developments within care and welfare.

• You advise the board, management, and executive team on complex learning and development issues and translate these into strategic choices, policy proposals, and development programs.

• You provide substantive professional direction to the L&D advisors, connect the various areas of focus, and monitor the quality and coherence of learning programs and learning pathways.

• You determine substantive priorities, make choices regarding the deployment of resources, and monitor the progress, quality, and results of the L&D portfolio, in coordination with management.

• You initiate and lead organization-wide L&D projects and build strategic partnerships with educational institutions, knowledge partners, and other organizations.

In doing so, you always manage to make the connection between strategy and practice. Because a good development agenda only has value if employees, teams, and the organization can actually move forward with it.

You will become part of the Learning & Development discipline within People & Organization (P&O) at Stichting Humanitas. Together with the L&D advisors and other involved colleagues, you will work on the further development and professionalization of learning and development within our organization.

You report to the Manager of P&O disciplines and advise the Director of P&O directly on strategic L&D issues. Additionally, you are a substantive part of the P&O advisory team and work closely with HR Business Partners, HR advisors, managers, and external knowledge partners.

Within Learning & Development, we work with various areas of focus, including vocational training, workplace learning, and learning pathways. You monitor the connection between these areas and ensure a common course, clear priorities, and coherent results.

Humanitas is an organization in full development. The changes in care and welfare, the labor market tightness, and the increasing attention to craftsmanship and sustainable employability make learning and development more important than ever. In this position, you will be given the space to provide direction based on your expertise and to help build a future-proof organization.

You are an experienced business partner who knows how to translate developments into a clear vision and achievable plans. You oversee the bigger picture but do not lose sight of daily practice. You dare to make choices, ask critical questions, and know how to bring others along with your advice.

You feel at home in an organization with diverse interests and know how to make connections at all levels. In doing so, you combine substantive expertise with organizational sensitivity, persuasiveness, and a result-oriented approach.

In addition, you bring:

• HBO+/university level of working and thinking and extensive experience within the field of learning and development, preferably in a complex organization.

• Broad knowledge of strategic L&D policy, organizational development, workplace learning, vocational training, and the development of craftsmanship.

• Demonstrable experience with strategic advising to the board and management and translating organizational issues into policy and multi-year development plans.

• Experience with developing and managing organization-wide programs, projects, and portfolios, including setting priorities and monitoring results.

• Strong advisory and communication skills and the ability to connect diverse interests and create support.

You take initiative, work independently, and know when to push forward. You are not afraid to challenge existing ways of working and always keep an eye on what is feasible within the organization.

A strategic advisory role in which you contribute directly to the development of employees and the future of Stichting Humanitas. And furthermore:

• A one-year contract for 32-36 hours per week, with a view to a permanent contract upon satisfaction of both parties;

• A salary according to FWG 60 of the VVT collective labor agreement, depending on your knowledge and experience.

• An end-of-year bonus of 8.33% and 8% holiday allowance.

• Space for your own initiative, professional development, and the further shaping of Learning & Development within Humanitas.

• An engaged working environment in which you collaborate with colleagues who are committed to good care and support in Rotterdam and the surrounding area.

Please note! You can apply up to and including December 2nd. On December 3rd, we will make a selection of the CVs. After this, we will let you know if you have been selected. The first and second interviews will take place on Thursday, December 10th, between 09:00 and 13:00.

If you have any questions first, please feel free to contact me!

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