resume

It stimulates me as a person to create good services at all levels in the organisation. Those services may include: organisational advice, courses programme to expand the competences of the personnel, organisational development; recruitment and selection; labour conditions completed in 3 organisations including policy for expats working in the Netherlands. Taxation and insurance issues, security and safety. International experience: Africa and Asia.

EXPERIENCE

Human Resources

Advising director, managers and employees. Drafting of annual plans and training schemes. Writing of policy papers, recruitment and selection procedures, legal advice, dismissal and labour contracts, secondment contracts, recruitment of international staff, labour conditions expat staff and national staff; security policy/protocol; taxation, pension and insurance advice to employer and employees.

Security

Assesments, security guidelines and regulations

Management

Leading teams of local staff (direct 3 to 5; indirect up to 120) team of HR 2 employees

EXPERIENCE
(Interim) HRM

2009

Interim HR advisor

Cordaid Pakistan, recruitment, labour conditions and organisational change

Interim HR advisor Consultants for Health and Development: advice and assistance in recruitment and labourconsitions (on going)

2008- 2009

HR advisor International

KNCV TB Foundation: expat and national HR policy labour conditions; security policy; Code of Conduct; implementation of HR instruments, supporting country offices: registration, security, national HR issues.

2006- 2008

HR advisor expat employees and Q&C advisor for setting up international offices

Oxfam Novib: Security Policy, Expat conditions and national labour conditions

1-2006

Interim HR Coordinator

Care Nederland

Recruitment of international staff and office staff, advising director in negotiations about formulating labour conditions. Advise on and implementation of restructure of HR department

2005

Interim HR Advisor

Cordaid Netherlands

Recruitment of international staff for Indonesia, Sudan, Burundi, Congo, Afghanistan. Investigation and preparation of studies about: benchmark of terms of employment, database and productivity of HR department. Duration 5 months.

1-2003

Interim HR Manager

War child, Amsterdam

Set up of HR department from scratch

International assignments

2005

Public Health Engineer

OXFAM GB - Indonesia - Aceh

Supervision of water and sanitation infrastructure in IDP camps.

Project duration 3 months.

Short term visits: Burundi, Kenya, Pakistan, Nigeria (all HR related problems to solve)

1994

Water & Sanitation Engineer Katale Camp

(160.000 refugees) Goma (DRC), OXFAM GB, project duration 3 months.

1979 - 1981

Project co-ordinator Rural Water Supply (Rwanda),

SNV Development Organisation The Hague.

1996 - 2002

Human Resource Manager, DRA / Care Nederland Foundation, The Hague Set-up and management of the HRM department

1987 - 1996

HR Officer/account manager for: process industry, printing trade industry and business services,

Labour Office Department Groningen.

1988 - 1996

Part-time teacher Labour-market policy, ‘Hogeschool’ Haarlem - SOSA-sector Groningen.

1982 - 1987

Assistant Human Resources and Social Affairs, Municipality of Haren.

EDUCATION

1984 - 1987

Higher Professional Education (HBO) in Labour Market Politics-Human Resource

Policy, Groningen, the Netherlands (HBO training Staff and Labour)

1978

Institute of Technology (HTS) Civil Engineering Groningen

1971

Technical Secondary School (MTS) Groningen

1969

Advanced Elementary Education (Mulo-A) Uithuizermeeden

COURSES

Language course French, Acculturation course,

Financial Analysis, Account Management,

Personal effectiveness, Preparatory course emergency aid.

Report writing, WORD, EXCEL, Lotus.

LANGUAGES

Dutch

native speaker

English

fluent, writing: good

French & German

fluent, writing: reasonably

VARIOUS INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCES

Practising as a Civil Engineer in South Africa (Engineering Office and Contractor)

Travelling in Zimbabwe, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Sudan and Egypt

Attending and preparing seminars for emergency aid personnel: London, Dublin, Brussels and Lyon in co-operation with APSO, RedR and IHE

Burundi: project visit in order to advice on downscaling the project of DRA

Set-up of a twinning project with two municipalities

Chair International Board of HAI Foundation: involved in process of restructuring board and organisation

HOBBY’S

Renovating own home, windsurfing, cycling and skating.

PERSONAL DATA

Surname

Sybrandy

First/middle names

Atze Jan

Born

16 April 1953

Marital status

married , 2 children

Nationality

Dutch

CONTACT

Julianalaan 81, 2628 BD Delft, Netherlands

Phone ++ 31 (0)15 - 262 2607, Mobile ++ 31 (0)6 - 11071528

Mail: linsy@xs4all.nl