IT Advisor

Can you help Dutch educational institutions find SURF's services and products? Can you help institutions make optimal use of them? Can you help departments translate their goals and strategies into technical plans? Are you approachable, do you understand departmental goals, and can you translate questions into achievable steps? Then we are looking for you.

Where you will work

SURF is the ICT cooperative for Dutch educational and research institutions. Together with them, we work on digital services and complex innovation challenges to enhance the quality of education and research. As an information manager, you will make a significant contribution to the collaboration between these institutions and the provision of SURF's services and products.

The team you will join

You will be working in the Information Management team, which is part of Internal Services. Your colleagues are three information managers and nine product owners who offer applications in various domains. Information Management is a curious, informal and results-oriented team that works with all departments at SURF. We are usually based in Utrecht and meet monthly for team lunches organised by SURF. You will definitely find us at the games evenings, but also at the running events organised by SURF and at every party!

Working at SURF means working for a unique and open organisation. You can see this in everything: the structure of the organisation, the set-up of the project teams, the culture in our offices and the atmosphere among colleagues. SURF offers excellent terms of employment and is flexible when it comes to work/life balance. Employees enjoy working independently. In addition, everyone is given the space and freedom to use and develop their talents as effectively and broadly as possible.

What you will do

As an information manager and privacy coordinator, you are the director of information issues within SURF. You translate questions from stakeholders into concrete applications and systems, monitor consistency with existing infrastructure and coordinate (software) selection. In addition to business stakeholders, you advise product owners and engineers on privacy issues, such as GDPR and UAVG, and ensure that our solutions are compliant, secure and practical. You bridge the gap between technology, organisation and legislation and regulations, and stay up to date with technological and sectoral developments.

Other tasks you will handle

• You will bridge the gap between business issues and strategy and concrete applications and systems.
• You have an affinity with application architecture and data infrastructure.
• You will advise the organisation on new projects and setting up projects. In doing so, you will translate SURF's “best of breed” architectural vision into practice.
• You will work together with business owners, architects, IT (service owners IM) and process owners.
• You will identify the information needs of departments, establishing the relationship between problems, opportunities and services. In doing so, you will ensure compliance with legislation and regulations and SURF's privacy and security requirements.
• You will be the central point of contact for privacy issues within the internal ICT department, helping to implement and optimise privacy and data protection policies. You will simplify compliance processes.
• You will consult with internal experts to keep abreast of developments.

Your skills and experience

• You have higher professional education or university education working and thinking level. In addition, you have several years of experience in a coordinating role within (internal) ICT (departments).
• You have a customer-oriented attitude and are a team player.
• For you, there are no problems, only challenges.
• You enjoy sharing your knowledge and skills.
• You communicate easily online and offline at various levels, are persuasive and can provide clear advice on issues within Information Management.
• Experience in project management and agile working is an advantage.
• Experience with Best-of-Breed application architecture is an advantage.

SURF takes pleasure in doing its recruitment itself; acquisition is therefore not appreciated.