JOB VACANCY: Operational Manager (24 hours per week)

Volunteers Central Amsterdam (VCA) is looking for a

Operational manager (24 hours per week)

Do you want to contribute to a city where volunteering truly makes a difference with your leadership? At the Volunteer Center Amsterdam, we are looking for an operational manager who provides direction, maintains oversight, and builds a future-oriented organization with us.As an operational manager, you ensure that the Volunteer Center Amsterdam (VCA) runs smoothly. You bring structure, coherence, and calm, so that colleagues can do their work with joy and impact. You work closely with the managing director and actively think about the further development of our (internal) organization and the positioning of VCA. This new role offers plenty of room for personal input.
Working at VCA means contributing to a social task that really matters. You will find yourself in a professional organization with an expert team that operates every day in a dynamic playing field, right in the city.

What are you going to do exactly?

As an operational manager, you move smoothly between strategy and execution, between people and results. Your main tasks:

• You are responsible for the tactical and operational management of the organization.
• You lead approximately 18 professionals (intermediaries, organizational advisors, and project staff) and coach them in their development and daily work.
• You bring structure and coherence to tasks and meetings, and you monitor progress and priorities.
• You bring calm and direction to an environment that is constantly in motion. You provide space where possible and guidance where needed.
• You are visible, approachable, and actively contribute to an open, inclusive, and learning culture.
• You are a sparring partner for the team (content and process) and for the managing director (strategic and tactical).
• From practical issues, you spot opportunities for the positioning of VCA.
• You translate vision and strategy into concrete goals and projects, with an eye for a healthy business operation.

What do you bring?

You are a manager with a heart for people and for social impact:

• You have 3 to 5 years of experience as a coaching leader in the social sector and you flexibly adapt your leadership style to the needs of employees, and you can switch according to the needs of the employees.
• You stimulate ownership and autonomy within clear frameworks and consciously utilize people’s talents.
• You are organizationally sensitive and navigate smoothly within the organization and in collaboration with partners.
• You enjoy working with short lines of communication, you have a decisive and efficient approach, and you prefer minimal bureaucracy.
• You are a natural connector and know how to inspire and persuade people to join you.
• You are a warm and caring person, someone with whom people quickly feel at ease and are eager to reach out to.

What do we offer?

• A leadership role with significant societal impact.
• A place in an organization that is located in the heart of Amsterdam and closely connected to the city.
• Space to provide direction, to build your team, and to make a real impact.
• An energetic, professional, and committed team that wants to grow together with you.
• Attention to personal development, leadership, and career.
• A dynamic role with plenty of room to learn, experiment, and take initiative.
• A salary according to the Collective Labor Agreement for Social Work, scale 10, appropriate to your experience.
• A one-year contract with a view to a permanent position.
• Good employment conditions, including a laptop, phone, full travel expense reimbursement, and Individual Choice Budget.

Who are we?

Volunteers Central Amsterdam is the expertise center for volunteer work in the city. With a team of 25 professionals and 24 volunteers, we strengthen voluntary engagement in Amsterdam. We help Amsterdammers find a volunteer position that makes them happy, support social organizations with knowledge, advice, and guidance, and show how important volunteer work is for the city. Independent, expert, and involved, we are ready for the entire volunteer sector – always with a heart for the city and its residents. If you get energy from building together, innovating, and connecting, then respond to this vacancy! The working language of the organization is Dutch. Good Dutch is therefore necessary.

React or want to know more?

• For more information, you can contact Henriette van der Meij at 06-35115435 or via h.vandermeij@vca.nu
• You can send your motivation letter and CV by March 2 at the latest to Sylvia Nobel at s.nobel@vca.nu, mentioning the vacancy for Operational Manager (24 hours per week).
• The vacancy has been posted both internally and externally. In case of equal suitability, internal candidates will be given priority.
• The job interviews will take place on Thursday, March 12, and Wednesday, March 18.
• Acquisition in response to this advertisement is not desired.