• Managing two locations (child centres) in Rotterdam region with responsibility for the day-to-day management of the teams.
• Quickly understand the situation at both sites and set priorities for the coming months.
• Being a visible presence in the workplace, being a point of contact for employees and creating a safe, open atmosphere.
• Work intensively with the regional manager to bring the teams along in the IKC/KC development.
• Build and develop relationships with primary schools, parents and other relevant partners in the neighbourhood.
• Ensuring clear communication, clear frameworks and decisiveness in a period of much change.
• Support, coach and encourage pedagogical staff in their professional development.
• Monitor quality, continuity and (basic) operations at the sites (planning, staffing, processes).

Context and objective

• At two child centres in the Rotterdam region, there are solid challenges around IKC-/KC-formation; a solid, interim leader is needed.
• The focus is on further shaping the cooperation between childcare and schools within the child centres.
• The site manager helps the area manager to also get the childcare team on board with this change.
• Important goal: to create calm, clarity and confidence so that teams can focus on children and quality.
• The role is temporary, but with a clear development mission: laying the foundation for a sustainably functioning IKC.
• You will work in a social, non-commercial organisation where the best interests of the child and the neighbourhood are the focus.