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Municipality of Enschede Communication advisor Expertise Network Youth Overijssel

Communication advisor Expertise Network Youth Overijssel

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Function

Communication advisor Expertise Network Youth Overijssel

Location

Enschede City Hall

Hours per week

8 hours per week

Duration

24.02.2025 - 30.06.2025

Application number

SRQ175902

DAS

Municipality of Enschede

Closing date

date-icon03.02.2025 clock-icon09:00
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Role description and task arrangements

Hands on Communication Advisor Expertise Network Youth Overijssel

We are looking for an experienced hands on communication advisor who has a strong affinity with youth and participation. You will build the visibility and accessibility of the Network of Excellence. Through your efforts, referrers, social workers, education, municipalities, as well as parents and youth know how to find us. We are there for young people and their families with complex and multiple requests for help. Together with the network, we ensure that no youth falls between the cracks.


With your broad experience in the communications profession, you see where opportunities exist, but also where sensitivities lie. You know what communication is needed for a good profile and positioning and easily take the lead in this. Others like to ask your advice and you are happy to implement it.

Description of the assignment
Communication is an important part of the Expertise Network Youth Overijssel: working together with municipalities, GIs and care providers requires active communication. As communication advisor you are responsible for implementing the communication strategy for the entire Expertise Network, the RETs and the five tasks. You guard the coherence of all communication activities. You also regularly coordinate with (communication) colleagues of collaborating parties. The work takes place at tactical and operational level. Therefore we are looking for someone who can advise as well as strong in execution.


So what exactly are you going to do?

  • You will bring the website up to date and work with parents and youth in this. The communication must be clear and understandable for them
  • Once every two months you will provide a richly filled newsletter. In these newsletters, we draw attention to projects that contribute to appropriate help for youth with complex and multiple help needs
  • You organize meetings within the tasks or network-wide
  • You take care of the LinkedIn page and highlight news here
  • You discuss what they need in terms of communication to do their job well. This might include putting out a survey, creating a talking picture or recording a podcast, for example


Where will you be working?
The supra-regional Expertise Network Youth Overijssel is a network in the field of multiple and complex requests for help within youth care. It is a network of, with and for youth, parents, youth care professionals, municipalities and youth care organizations in the province of Overijssel. The Expertise Network is a task that has been assigned to Enschede city center.

 
The Expertise Network Youth Overijssel has several functions. We help families and young people with multiple and complex requests for help to find a solution. In addition, we work concretely (more policy related) on a number of development issues in the system, which have been around for years and which we can only solve together as a network. We also learn and improve together. 



The tasks of the Network of Expertise

The supra-regional Network of Expertise, together with the network, has identified a number of important tasks for which real structural solutions are needed. These five tasks are:
  • Arriving at a good explanatory analysis of the origins of the complex problems
  • Continuity of care with youth who turn/are 18 years old
  • Unconditional living
  • Eating Disorders
  • Complex separations
  • In addition, client perspective is an important pillar of the program.
 
To bring the developments on these tasks and networks in Overijssel to the attention of the network, we are looking for a hands on communication advisor.

Who are you?

First, we find it important that you have an affinity with the target group. In addition, you know how to communicate the impact of the expertise network to the network and take this communication to the next level. In this you are the booster! It is important to inspire and stimulate at all levels of the parties involved.

To perform this role well, you will need at least:
  • HBO working and thinking level
  • Extensive experience (at least 4 years) as an executive communications consultant 
  • Knowledge of municipality, youth aid, education
  • Knowledge of decision-making in networks, within healthcare and within municipalities
  • Programmatic and project-based working
  • You are organization-sensitive and move easily in a political-administrative environment
  • Your writing is easy and clear
  • You are creative and entrepreneurial

The Requirements

  • Completed college education 
  • At least 4 years of work experience as a communications consultant 
  • 2 relevant references, containing the following information: referent's name, position, organization, email address and/or phone number. 
  • You have mastered the microsoft package
  • You have experience with CMS systems

The Wishes

  • Relevant experience within a municipal and/or regional government environment 
  • Experience with complex youth care is a plus 
  • Experience with the Overijssel Care Landscape is a plus 
  • Mastery of the Adobe package
The candidate has the competencies listed below. This can be tested in a personal interview. 
  • Clear writing skills
  • Creative 
  • Entrepreneurial 
  • Eye for opportunities and sensitivities  

Company data

Company data

Municipality of Enschede

Role description and task arrangements

Hands on Communication Advisor Expertise Network Youth Overijssel

We are looking for an experienced hands on communication advisor who has a strong affinity with youth and participation. You will build the visibility and accessibility of the Network of Excellence. Through your efforts, referrers, social workers, education, municipalities, as well as parents and youth know how to find us. We are there for young people and their families with complex and multiple requests for help. Together with the network, we ensure that no youth falls between the cracks.


With your broad experience in the communications profession, you see where opportunities exist, but also where sensitivities lie. You know what communication is needed for a good profile and positioning and easily take the lead in this. Others like to ask your advice and you are happy to implement it.

Description of the assignment
Communication is an important part of the Expertise Network Youth Overijssel: working together with municipalities, GIs and care providers requires active communication. As communication advisor you are responsible for implementing the communication strategy for the entire Expertise Network, the RETs and the five tasks. You guard the coherence of all communication activities. You also regularly coordinate with (communication) colleagues of collaborating parties. The work takes place at tactical and operational level. Therefore we are looking for someone who can advise as well as strong in execution.


So what exactly are you going to do?

  • You will bring the website up to date and work with parents and youth in this. The communication must be clear and understandable for them
  • Once every two months you will provide a richly filled newsletter. In these newsletters, we draw attention to projects that contribute to appropriate help for youth with complex and multiple help needs
  • You organize meetings within the tasks or network-wide
  • You take care of the LinkedIn page and highlight news here
  • You discuss what they need in terms of communication to do their job well. This might include putting out a survey, creating a talking picture or recording a podcast, for example


Where will you be working?
The supra-regional Expertise Network Youth Overijssel is a network in the field of multiple and complex requests for help within youth care. It is a network of, with and for youth, parents, youth care professionals, municipalities and youth care organizations in the province of Overijssel. The Expertise Network is a task that has been assigned to Enschede city center.

 
The Expertise Network Youth Overijssel has several functions. We help families and young people with multiple and complex requests for help to find a solution. In addition, we work concretely (more policy related) on a number of development issues in the system, which have been around for years and which we can only solve together as a network. We also learn and improve together. 



The tasks of the Network of Expertise

The supra-regional Network of Expertise, together with the network, has identified a number of important tasks for which real structural solutions are needed. These five tasks are:
  • Arriving at a good explanatory analysis of the origins of the complex problems
  • Continuity of care with youth who turn/are 18 years old
  • Unconditional living
  • Eating Disorders
  • Complex separations
  • In addition, client perspective is an important pillar of the program.
 
To bring the developments on these tasks and networks in Overijssel to the attention of the network, we are looking for a hands on communication advisor.

Who are you?

First, we find it important that you have an affinity with the target group. In addition, you know how to communicate the impact of the expertise network to the network and take this communication to the next level. In this you are the booster! It is important to inspire and stimulate at all levels of the parties involved.

To perform this role well, you will need at least:
  • HBO working and thinking level
  • Extensive experience (at least 4 years) as an executive communications consultant 
  • Knowledge of municipality, youth aid, education
  • Knowledge of decision-making in networks, within healthcare and within municipalities
  • Programmatic and project-based working
  • You are organization-sensitive and move easily in a political-administrative environment
  • Your writing is easy and clear
  • You are creative and entrepreneurial

The Requirements

  • Completed college education 
  • At least 4 years of work experience as a communications consultant 
  • 2 relevant references, containing the following information: referent's name, position, organization, email address and/or phone number. 
  • You have mastered the microsoft package
  • You have experience with CMS systems

The Wishes

  • Relevant experience within a municipal and/or regional government environment 
  • Experience with complex youth care is a plus 
  • Experience with the Overijssel Care Landscape is a plus 
  • Mastery of the Adobe package
The candidate has the competencies listed below. This can be tested in a personal interview. 
  • Clear writing skills
  • Creative 
  • Entrepreneurial 
  • Eye for opportunities and sensitivities  

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