Chief of Staff

Help shape how Techleap delivers on its ambitious public program. As Chief of Staff within Stichting DutchStartHub, you will act as the operational backbone of Techleap’s public mandate, bringing structure, governance discipline, and organisational coherence at a pivotal moment of growth.

This role combines strategic coordination with operational leadership. Working as the right hand of the Director Public Programs, you ensure that Techleap’s public ambition is matched by strong execution, reliable governance, and clear internal rhythm.

What You’ll Be Doing

You will focus on strengthening how Techleap operates internally, translating public-mandate obligations into clear plans, timelines, and decision frameworks.

Your core responsibility is to ensure that Stichting DutchStartHub delivers consistently, transparently, and with built-in accountability. You coordinate subsidy planning and reporting cycles, structure internal workflows, and ensure leadership decisions are supported by reliable information and clear progress tracking.

You will drive the organisation’s operating rhythm by embedding goal-setting cycles, performance tracking, and decision-support dashboards. At the same time, you ensure governance runs smoothly by preparing supervisory board meetings, coordinating decision papers, and maintaining annual governance cycles.

Beyond structure and reporting, you act as a stabilising force during Techleap’s transition to a multi-entity model. You stay closely connected to teams and leadership, identify organisational risks early, and support leaders in navigating sensitive people, performance, and collaboration topics.

Externally, the role has limited visibility. Internally, however, you are central to how Techleap functions: ensuring clarity, continuity, and trust across the organisation.

Who you are

You are a hands-on operator who combines analytical strength with pragmatic execution, thriving in complex environments where strategy, governance, and day-to-day operations intersect.

You are comfortable working closely with senior leadership and supervisory boards, and you know how to translate strategy, compliance requirements, and organisational complexity into workable internal processes.

You bring sound judgement, discretion, and emotional intelligence, are able to provide constructive pushback, surface difficult signals early, and maintain a calm, balanced presence in environments with high expectations and multiple stakeholders.

You care about building organisations that operate with credibility and discipline, and you are motivated by impact that happens behind the scenes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience operating in complex organisations, ideally within public-sector or public–private environments.

• Strong organisational and coordination capabilities across multiple teams and stakeholders.

• Experience supporting senior leadership and governance structures such as supervisory boards.

• Ability to translate strategic priorities and compliance requirements into structured operational processes.

• High levels of judgement, discretion, and emotional intelligence.

• Confidence to challenge assumptions, provide constructive pushback, and surface sensitive issues when needed.

• Fluency in English is required; Dutch is a strong preference.

How You Work

• Connect: You maintain strong informal relationships across teams to understand organisational dynamics early.

• Make Impact: You create clarity, cadence, and repeatable processes that enable reliable execution.

• Growth Mindset: You ensure decisions are supported by the right information at the right moment.

• Truly Care: You help leaders and teams operate with trust, alignment, and shared purpose.

Your success in 6 Months

• Establish a clear operating rhythm for Stichting DutchStartHub, including goal-setting and review cycles.

• Ensure subsidy planning, reporting, and governance deliverables run on time and through repeatable processes.

• Prepare and professionalise supervisory board operations.

• Build trusted relationships across leadership and teams, providing early insight into organisational health.

• Support leadership in stabilising the transition toward a steady-state multi-entity operating model.

If you are motivated by strengthening execution, governance, and organisational coherence — and want to help shape how Techleap delivers impact at scale — we look forward to hearing from you.