Training manager Sport and Exercise

Team: Sector Welfare and Sport, Sport & Exercise programme
Location:  Alkmaar
Salary scale: 12 (€ 4,817- to a maximum of € 7,020- gross per month based on a full-time appointment)
Job scope: 1 FTE
Type of vacancy:  regular
With effect from: 17 August 2026 (start of new school year)
Responding for: 23 April 2026

Are you the experienced manager who is visible and clear, communicates carefully and quickly, is decisive and keeps focus on the results to be achieved? Then we are looking for you!

The function
As programme manager of the Sport & Exercise Alkmaar programmes, you are integrally responsible for the implementation, development and renewal of education. You are the figurehead of our sports programmes together with your colleague manager of Sport & Bewegen Koog aan de Zaan and Purmerend. Starting from a clear vision on education, you provide frameworks for the team, enabling them to flourish and stand at their best. You translate developments in the field into new policy and you are a precondition for and initiate the development of new forms of learning and customised programmes. You are able to monitor the course, make adjustments where necessary and enable the team to achieve the best results in optimal cooperation.

You are also part of the management team of the Welfare and Sport sector. Together with your MT colleagues, you will give direction to the implementation of the sector plan and the Quality Agenda. With your experience and personality, you will be an inspiring sparring partner and a valuable reinforcement of our MT.

About the sector
The Welfare and Sport (W&S) sector is formed by various programmes within this domain. We strive to provide high-quality, relevant and challenging education for our students. As a sports and/or welfare employee, you are your own instrument. This is why students work with us in a development-oriented way. This means that at W&S, we map out the personal route to qualification together, whether it is the BOL route, BBL route or continuing education; personal development into a professionally competent professional is the starting point. With us, you learn to work, learn and live together with others in a context-rich learning and working environment.

For our partners in the region (including VO, HBO, internship companies), we have a clear profile and are seen as a reliable cooperation partner. The strength of the W&S sector lies in our joint efforts. We believe we can learn from each other and by working together we achieve synergy that strengthens the quality of our education and thus our impact on students.

About the team
Team Sport and Exercise works from a clear vision drawn up with the whole team. This vision reads:

We train broadly oriented professionals to become initiators in sport, exercise and vitality. We work on personal leadership from the relationship and give our students responsibility. From this vision, we have identified the following 5 core values:

Safety, responsibility, personal development, autonomy and relationship. The vision and core values form the basis of our way of working.

Team Sport and Exercise is a diverse educational team with 22 employees (18 FTE) and is located at the Alkmaar location. Many lessons and sports activities are offered at location de Meent. The team offers Level 2, 3 and various Level 4 courses. In addition, the professional field demands more cooperation with other qualification files.

The team worked hard on team development, a shared vision of education, a good pedagogical climate and clear team goals. You know what's going on and take the team on important decisions. You work closely with your colleague manager from Sport and Exercise Purmerend and Koog a/d Zaan.

Job requirements

Your profile
You are familiar with the broad field of sport and exercise, you have knowledge of education and insight into the education of the future (certification and flexibilisation of education). You have a sense of humour, are reliable and positively critical. If you have your own background in sports and physical activity, you have an advantage. The team has included the approach culture as a spearhead in the team plan. As a manager, we expect you to set an example in this respect. In addition, you are not afraid of the necessary change challenges.

Furthermore, you bring:

• At least a completed HBO+/ WO education with corresponding work and thinking level and extensive knowledge of MBO education;

• at least 3 years' recent demonstrable work experience as an integrally responsible manager;

• clarity and decisiveness:

• Willingness to commit for several years.

Our offer
The field of work and your profession are constantly changing. We stand and go for lifelong learning. For your professional and personal development, we have our own Talland Academy and the online platform Good Habitz. In addition, you can count on excellent terms of employment, including:

• a challenging job as training manager with an ambitious team

• This is initially an appointment for the period of one year, with a possible extension;

• A salary in scale 12 as Training Manager A (€ 4,817 to a maximum of € 7,020 gross per month for full-time employment). The scale depends on your relevant (work) experience and education;

• Broad leave scheme linked to school holidays mbo;

• holiday allowance of 8% and a year-end bonus of 8.33%;

• group insurance;

• attractive vitality and lifestyle schemes;

• The opportunity to work from home occasionally.

Who are we?
Talland College believes in the power of togetherness. Only together can we do what we need to do: train skilled professionals who are important to society. We do this with our 1,800 employees, each with their own talents, ambitions, and qualities. At our locations in North Holland, Alkmaar, Heerhugowaard, Hoorn, Purmerend, and Zaanstad, we provide almost 200 vocational training courses. In this, we work closely with social institutions and companies in our regions.
With us, you get the space to design your own work. Because we believe that you know what lives and what is needed for it. That demands something of you. Initiative, a critical eye and daring to call each other to account. Apart from thinking, above all doing. We are there for each other, in education and support services. So that, together with your colleagues, you can do your work with pleasure.

Details
Interviews will take place as soon as possible after the closing date of the vacancy.

Information 
For exclusive information, contact Carolien Otjens, director of the Welfare and Sport sector.

E-mail: c.otjens-devries@talland.nl

If you recognise yourself in the profile outlined, please apply by 23 April 2026 using the application button below!