The purpose of this role is to strengthen the visibility, consistency, and adoption of the Chief Architecture & Engineering Office (CAEO) portfolio across Rabobank. The role ensures that the departments priorities, standards, learning initiatives, and guidance are translated into clear communication, effective stakeholder engagement, and coordinated execution, thereby supporting CAEOs mission across subjects such as Sustainable IT, Learning & Development for engineering, architecture & engineering policies and procedures, and enterprise architecture guidance.

Key Responsibilities

Develop and maintain a department-wide communication and engagement approach for CAEO.

• Translate departmental strategy, priorities, roadmaps, standards, and initiatives into clear and consistent messages for relevant target groups.
• Ensure coherent positioning of CAEO topics across internal and, where relevant, external communication channels.
• Support the department in strengthening awareness, understanding, and adoption of key CAEO themes, including Sustainable IT, Learning & Development for engineering, architecture & engineering policies and procedures, and enterprise architecture guidance.

Internal Responsibilities

Visibility, Adoption and Change Support

• Increase the visibility of CAEO priorities and services within CITO and, where relevant, across the wider bank.
• Support the adoption of departmental guidance, standards, procedures, and learning offerings by making them accessible, understandable, and relevant to stakeholders.
• Connect CAEO initiatives to broader bank-wide priorities, strategic themes, and transformation agendas.

Content and Communication Governance

• Coordinate internal communication materials, including department pages, presentations, updates, event materials, and stakeholder-facing content.
• Ensure that content developed within CAEO reaches the right audiences at the right time through the appropriate channels.
• Safeguard consistency in tone, messaging, timing, and positioning across the departments portfolio.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Participate in and contribute to relevant internal forums, communities, and cross-functional consultations.
• Support the maintenance of a stakeholder landscape and establish strong working relationships with key partners, including:
  • Business managers and department leadership
  • Communication and change professionals
  • Learning & Development stakeholders
  • Engineering, policy, and architecture subject-matter experts
  • Relevante bankbrede functies en enabling teams

Learning and Development Coordination

• Act as a connector between CAEO priorities and Learning & Development initiatives for engineering and related disciplines.
• Identify opportunities to embed departmental topics in learning journeys, academies, communities, and other development formats.
• Support the coordination of learning-related plans and engagement activities for departmental themes, including planning, stakeholder alignment, follow-up, and visibility.
• Ensure coherence across learning-related communication and engagement efforts, while content ownership remains with the relevant subject-matter experts.

Events, Communities and Departmental Initiatives

• Support and coordinate department-wide events, knowledge sessions, communities, campaigns, and roadshows.
• Help ensure that CAEO themes are structurally represented on relevant internal agendas and platforms.

External Responsibilities

External Positioning and Representation

• Support the external visibility of CAEO themes and expertise in relevant professional networks, events, and collaborations.
• Contribute to positioning the department as a credible and coordinated source of expertise on architecture, engineering, standards, and learning-related topics.

External Communication and Collaboration

• Work in alignment with Corporate Affairs, communication professionals, and relevant spokespeople where external communication is required.
• Contribute to thought leadership materials, external publications, and collaborations where these support departmental objectives.

Knowledge Sharing and Capability Building

• Enable broader understanding of CAEO topics by supporting knowledge-sharing across the department and the wider organization.
• Help connect expertise areas and create visibility for the departments contribution to engineering excellence, architectural guidance, policy implementation, and continuous development.

Role Boundaries

• This role does not replace subject-matter ownership within engineering, architecture, policy, Sustainable IT or Learning & Development teams.
• This role is not accountable for drafting technical standards, policies, or architectural content, but for supporting their communication, positioning, coordination, and adoption.
• This role does not replace formal corporate communication functions, but works in partnership with them where required.
• This role is not a general administrative support function, but a dedicated professional role focused on communication, engagement, and coordination across CAEO.
• This role supports coherence and execution across multiple themes and stakeholders and therefore requires a structured, strategic, and collaborative approach.

• Bachelors or Masters degree, or equivalent working and thinking level.
• Relevant experience in communication, stakeholder engagement, change support, coordination, or a comparable advisory or program support role.
• Experience working in a complex organizational environment, preferably within technology, architecture, engineering, learning, or policy-related contexts.
• Demonstrated ability to work across different subject areas and translate specialist content into practical communication and engagement approaches.
• Experience in preparing communication materials, organizing events or communities, and coordinating stakeholder-facing initiatives.
• Ability to operate independently while maintaining close alignment with leadership, subject-matter experts, and supporting functions.
• High level of integrity, professionalism, and care in handling sensitive information and representing departmental interests.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English are essential. Proficiency in Dutch is preferred, but not required.

Competenties

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex departmental topics into clear, accessible, and audience-appropriate messages.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build relationships, align interests, and work effectively across a broad and diverse network.
• Strong organizational and coordination skills, with the ability to manage multiple initiatives, priorities, and dependencies in a structured manner.
• Change agility and the ability to support adoption of new ways of working, standards, learning initiatives, and departmental guidance.
• Strategic thinking combined with a pragmatic, hands-on approach to delivery and execution.
• Ability to work in a politically sensitive and complex environment, with sound judgment and appropriate awareness of organizational context.
• Professional collaboration skills and the ability to connect people, topics, and initiatives across teams and disciplines.
• Strong storytelling and presentation skills to support visibility, engagement, and positioning of departmental themes.
• A proactive, self-starting attitude with a high degree of ownership, reliability, and attention to quality.

At Rabobank, we are working towards a culture where everyone feels welcome. We value our differences and use them to collaborate more effectively and make better decisions. We do this step by step, focusing on what is going well and where we can continue to improve. By being open to different perspectives, we create an environment where colleagues feel heard. This helps us build an organisation where people enjoy working and where we truly understand and serve our customers. We believe in the power of differences. By combining people's differences, we become an even better bank.

We're curious about what the professional will bring to our team at the CAEO Support Office. The 12 colleagues of the CAEO Support Office are responsible for coordinating, communicating, and supporting CAEO themes within the organisation. Collaboration is our way of working as one driven team within Rabobank. Some figures: CAEO consists of 180 FTE within an organisation of approximately 11,000 FTE and there are over 48,000 Rabobank colleagues worldwide.

Optie tot verlenging: Niets over bekend.

Hybride: Geen verdere informatie

Fee: De administratieve partner rekent een aanvullende fee van € 2,50 boven op het uurtarief.

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Language : English mandatory