Interim Project Secretary
As an interim project secretary, you work within public, private, and social organizations. You ensure oversight and continuity in projects where many interests converge. With your structure, precision, and sense of collaboration, you are the connecting link between project teams, stakeholders, and other involved parties. You bring stability to operations, monitor progress, and help teams stay sharp when the pressure is high.
You are always on the move as an interim project secretary
You work in high-stakes environments where your experience makes an immediate difference. You create structure in the bustle, maintain oversight when everything seems to happen at once, and ensure that decision-making is clear, meticulous, and well-documented.
With your sharpness, composure, and sense of proportions, you are not only supportive but also guiding. You see what others miss, ask the right questions, and help leaders make decisive choices. This is precisely why you are an indispensable link in organizations that want to move forward.
This role is responsible, challenging, and meaningful, and that is exactly why it is so interesting for experienced professionals who truly want to make an impact.
Why work as a project secretary?
Turning chaos into structure. Maintaining oversight when the stakes are high and deadlines are tight. As a project secretary, you are the nerve center of projects that change the Netherlands. While the project manager focuses on strategic content, you ensure that decision-making, processes, and information provision run flawlessly. You are the one who ensures that the project is not just conceived, but actually executed.
Why this role is perfect for you:
- You are directly at the controls: You join boards, project leaders, and external stakeholders. You are literally at the heart of the operation and are privy to all the strategic and political choices being made.
- You are the calm in the dynamics: In complex projects—such as the construction of a port or social recovery—the pace can be hectic. Your talent for planning, organizing, and streamlining makes the difference between stress and success for the entire team.
- A massive learning curve: Because you are constantly getting a look behind the scenes at various large clients, you quickly learn how diverse (government) organizations operate. The ideal way to build a powerful network and a rock-solid CV.
- Impact without the loneliness of the top: You make a crucial contribution to the success of a project without bearing the ultimate political or financial responsibility.
- Career security: With us, you may switch between challenging projects, but not between employers. You have the security of a permanent contract, a reliable income, and a close-knit team of colleagues to fall back on.
What assignments can you expect?
As an interim project secretary at Public Support, you work at social organizations such as municipalities, healthcare institutions, and educational institutions. Every project is different, but you always work on projects that matter, such as the restitution in the childcare benefits scandal, the Flood Protection Program, or the renovation of the House of Representatives. Interim project secretaries work through us in roles such as:
- Project Secretary at a municipality or province
- Program Secretary in healthcare
- Project Support Officer for organizational development
- Project Officer for area development
- Program Officer for sustainability
- Project Management Support in education
How can you make a difference?
The role of project secretary is broad and versatile. In practice, this means you are responsible for:
Planning and progress
You monitor the planning, identify risks in time, and ensure clear progress reports.
Meetings and decision-making
You prepare meetings, take minutes, monitor action and decision lists, and ensure that agreements are met.
Communication and documentation
You consolidate information, manage documents, and ensure a single clear, up-to-date version of the truth.
Collaboration and coordination
You liaise between internal and external stakeholders and monitor roles and responsibilities.
Operational support
You organize sessions and site visits and facilitate travel tasks for the team if necessary.
Digital workflow
You work with Microsoft 365 and collaboration platforms and use AI support where necessary for information organization and productivity.
In some assignments, the role of a project secretary touches upon that of an interim board secretary, for example within programs or administratively complex trajectories.
Why work at Public Support?
As an interim project secretary at Public Support, you are part of the leading expert in project support within the public and private sectors. You work independently for various clients but can always fall back on your colleagues within your team. This is why project secretaries choose Public Support:
Network of project specialists
At Public Support, you are in close contact with other project support professionals. There is always room to brainstorm, ask questions, and learn from each other. We regularly organize meetings to deepen professional knowledge and strengthen mutual connections.
Growing in your role as project secretary
At Public Support, you are given the opportunity to develop as you wish. You get access to more than 3,000 training courses, live meetings, and peer review sessions, so you can learn in a way that suits you. Whether you want to delve deeper into project-based working, administrative processes, or personal skills, at Public Support you get the space and support to grow in your profession.
Broadening and deepening your expertise
Because you work with diverse organizations and teams, you build a solid portfolio of relevant knowledge and skills in a short time. You work with different systems, processes, and specialists. This allows you to not only develop broadly but also remain agile and effective in new environments. For experienced professionals, this means an opportunity to deploy existing expertise purposefully and to deepen it further. You add value within every assignment from day one, while continuously learning and growing.
Work with your Heart
Work with your Heart stands for doing what you do out of genuine commitment. Our interim professionals work every day toward a better Netherlands. With a heart for the public sector and for each other. We believe that job satisfaction arises from good communication: listening, helping where possible, and having fun. In this way, we create a pleasant collaboration and impact that goes beyond the work itself.
That is working with your heart.
Four days to land and get acquainted
Are you coming to work with us? Great! And welcome 🙂
It is also exciting, of course. That is why we give you a warm welcome and take four days together with you to get acquainted. This way, you get to know the organization, your colleagues, the culture, and the tools we work with.
To start with, we literally roll out the red carpet to our office for you. And even before you start, your lease car will be at your door.
In which role our professionals make a difference
Wherever support is needed, our interim professionals are ready. You bring structure, alleviate workload, and help teams move forward. Discover the roles in which you can do just that.
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Executive Assistant
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Who we make a difference for
Can you see yourself in this role?
Our directors are active by region and specialization, ensuring there is always someone who truly knows your organization.
