*This vacancy was originally posted in Dutch
About the organisation Justice & Peace
As Justice & Peace Netherlands, we strive, inspired by Catholic social thinking and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, for a world in which human rights are respected everywhere. We do this by supporting ‘change makers’, who are committed to human rights, together with our partners at a local level.
With our global ‘Human Rights Defenders & Security programme’, and within that the ‘Shelter City Initiative’, we temporarily accommodate human rights defenders in the Netherlands and other countries so that they can continue their work with new energy, capacities and networks after returning to their own country. In addition, with our ‘Migration & Human Rights programme’, and within that the first community sponsorship model in the Netherlands ‘Samen Hier’, we strive for safe routes for refugees and to support their efforts to find their own, full-fledged place in our society. Our focus in both programmes is on cooperation with municipalities, their residents and local institutions such as universities and colleges.
We work with a committed, international team of approximately 17 employees and a varying number of interns and volunteers from our office in the centre of The Hague.
Assignment and responsibilities
As interim director, you will take on the daily management of the organization in consultation with the foundation board, focus on the proper execution of our programs and represent us externally. Because we are developing towards an organisation with a Supervisory Board model, you will help guide this process.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leadership and implementation: You are a doer with drive, you lead our young, international staff and together with the staff you implement our programmes under the current complex national and international circumstances for the protection of human rights and the associated challenges in the field of financing and fundraising;
- Collaboration within the MT: You will work together with the Management Team, which has been set up as a pilot and which meets weekly to discuss current affairs and long-term developments and to coordinate mutual activities.
- Managing employees: You know how to get the best out of our employees, taking into account their cultural differences, talent development and well-being needs and strengthening their mutual cooperation;
- Organisational Development: You will guide us in developing the planned Supervisory Board model with a multi-person Board and a Management Team with advisory and advisory powers;
- Administrative coordination: You lead the organisation with the mandate and style of a caretaker prime minister; initiatives are carefully coordinated in the Management Team and submitted to the foundation board for decision-making.
Requested profile
- Experience in the non-profit landscape: You have extensive experience in the social sector, preferably in the field of human rights and in an international context, sound knowledge of human rights and insight into the values, sensitivities and political reality in which human rights organisations operate. This with insight into financial project management and preferably together with experience in fundraising in an NGO setting;
- Hands-on mentality: You have a pragmatic, executive attitude with the ability to translate vision into results;
- Leadership and communication: You have natural leadership, have managerial experience in operating in a team and know how to inspire trust among employees with an open communication style and involve them in an atmosphere of constructive cooperation;
- Experience with organisational processes: You have experience with organisational change processes;
- Language skills: You work with international employees and target groups in an international context and therefore have good oral and written knowledge of English.
What do we offer?
- An inspiring leadership role in an organisation that is committed to human rights nationally and internationally;
- An enthusiastic, young and international working environment at our office in the centre of The Hague;
- A 36-hour working week for at least six months and preferably starting on August 1, 2025;
- Appropriate remuneration and good secondary facilities.
We will be happy to discuss further details and conditions of this appointment in consultation with the selected candidate. In order to make a good choice as quickly as possible, we will go through the selection process with the necessary attention and urgency. Acquisition is not appreciated.
Are you interested?
Please send your motivation and CV to vacature@justiceandpeace.nl. Please state that you are applying for the position of Interim Director.