inhoudelijk beleidsmedewerkers

English translation: policy officer

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Dutch term or phrase:inhoudelijk beleidsmedewerkers
English translation:policy officer
Entered by: Barbara Milano

10:19 Jun 24, 2020
Dutch to English translations [PRO]
Government / Politics
Dutch term or phrase: inhoudelijk beleidsmedewerkers
In samenwerking met het gemeentelijk projectteam en de *betrokken inhoudelijk beleidsmedewerkers* is Over Morgen verantwoordelijk voor het opstellen van een integraal ontwikkelperspectief voor de Spoorzone.

Explanation from the client: They are civil servants who set policy frameworks for the elected council members and ‘executive team’ to confirm. What would be a suitable translation, in your opinion? Thank you all!
Barbara Milano
Netherlands
Local time: 08:03
policy officer
Explanation:
See the following website:
https://www.prospects.ac.uk/job-profiles/policy-officer
"Your responsibilities as a policy officer will include researching and advising on issues, carrying out developmental work and liaising with internal and external contacts.

Depending on your role, you may also be involved in campaigning for change."
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Marijke Singer
Spain
Local time: 08:03
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4 +3policy officer
Marijke Singer
4personnel working on/responsible for substantive policy
Carmen Lawrence
3policy designers
Barend van Zadelhoff


  

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personnel working on/responsible for substantive policy


Explanation:
These are the people who establish the content of company policy in the form of policy statements.


    https://www.lawinsider.com/dictionary/substantive-policy-statement
Carmen Lawrence
Greece
Local time: 09:03
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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policy officer


Explanation:
See the following website:
https://www.prospects.ac.uk/job-profiles/policy-officer
"Your responsibilities as a policy officer will include researching and advising on issues, carrying out developmental work and liaising with internal and external contacts.

Depending on your role, you may also be involved in campaigning for change."

Marijke Singer
Spain
Local time: 08:03
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 12
Grading comment
Thank you!

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agree  philgoddard: In my experience, "inhoudelijk" can be ignored in most cases.
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agree  Lianne van de Ven
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agree  Catriona C.
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policy designers


Explanation:
Looks like these people set policy frameworks fo

Policy Designer

Job description

Reporting to a Senior Policy Adviser/Designer in Policy Lab, you will bring your design skills to a range of innovative projects which meet the complex needs of policy teams across Government. You will:

- Manage a range of projects with departments where you will bring design, data and digital tools to policy teams - helping them to design policy around the lived experiences of those affected
- Commission external experts (e.g. ethnographers, data scientists, service designers) and manage their input into projects
- Be on the lookout for new tools, techniques and approaches (‘next practice’) that can be brought into government
- Use your practical design skills to improve the Policy Lab's suite of tools, techniques and communications materials
- Organise workshops and ‘sprints’, including: agreeing outputs and outcomes; setting the agenda; preparing materials; facilitation
- Produce high quality outputs for Policy Lab projects, including creating clear and visually compelling project reports and presentations
- Support the creation and testing of prototypes in policy delivery environments, making physical, digital and speculative mock-ups of policy ideas
- Support the Lab’s wider learning agenda: helping other civil servants to understand and use new ways of working

https://cabinetofficejobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/appcentre-1/br...

About Policy Lab

Policy Lab brings people-centred design approaches to policy-making. We provide policy teams with practical support to better understand the people they are trying to reach, and work with them to co-design new solutions.

We were set up in 2014 as part of the Civil Service Reform plan to make policy making more open. We work in support of the vision for A Brilliant Civil Service. We’re a small team - currently of 16 - a mix of designers, researchers and policy-makers. But we also work with a wide network of experts who we bring in on different projects.

We use design, data and digital tools and act as a testing ground for policy innovation across government. Our support is best suited to tackling intractable, complex, systemic policy problems that require fresh thinking and can lead to potentially transformative solutions. We sit in the Cabinet Office but serve the whole of government, primarily responding to requests from policy teams.

We don’t have a physical Lab and we don’t wear white coats. But our co-design approach and the suite of tools and techniques we’ve developed over time help create a neutral space where ideas can flourish. This space allows for collaboration across departments, with external experts and with the public.

We work at three levels:

- delivering new policy solutions through inspiring practical projects
- building the skills and knowledge of the policy profession and wider civil service
- inspiring new thinking through our writing and experiments

https://openpolicy.blog.gov.uk/about/#:~:text=Policy Lab bri...

Public policy can be considered a design science. It involves identifying relevant problems, selecting instruments to address the problem, developing institutions for managing the intervention, and creating means of assessing the design. Policy design has become an increasingly challenging task, given the emergence of numerous ‘wicked’ and complex problems. Much of policy design has adopted a technocratic and engineering approach, but there is an emerging literature that builds on a more collaborative and prospective approach to design. This book will discuss these issues in policy design and present alternative approaches to design.

https://www.elgaronline.com/view/9781786431349/chapter04.xht...



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CONCEPTIONS OF POLICY DESIGN
More than four decades ago, Jan Tinbergen (1958) addressed policy design. His specific concern was with development, which can be thought of more broadly as progress toward a preferred but yet to be realized collective future. His perspective continues to echo in subsequent conceptions of the motivation for and fundamental characteristics of policy design. He advocated a turn to design as a replacement for ‘decisions … taken on the basis of vague ideas of general progress, and often somewhat haphazardly … a process of trial and error … [marked by] … setbacks and crises, and probably a good deal of misplaced energy and effort …’ (Tinbergen, 1958: 3). Policy design effort follows from dissatisfaction with a record of behavior including its efficiency.
Motivated by that dissatisfaction, the policy designer builds on awareness that ultimate, broad goals require achieving ‘certain general conditions … an economy must possess certain basic characteristics … and some government activity.’ A government must have at hand ‘a minimum of instruments of economic policy … and these must be properly used.’ Because the goals or values sought are never in reality singular but always multiple (a multiattribute utility function), the instruments should be multiple as well.
Beyond those basics, design is informed by an ‘awareness of … [goal related] … potentialities and advantages’ derived from descriptions of the past and present, and projections. It also should be informed by awareness of ‘varying circumstances. Depending on circumstances some elements of … policy will require more emphasis and attention or will appear more or less promising than others.’ Further, the action elements of designs (‘programs’ and their component ‘projects’) ‘by their very nature have to be guesses and must be revised periodically.’ (Tinbergen, 1958: 4–7). In sum, Tinbergen called attention to the starting points of universal requirements or necessary conditions, government policy instruments as means, recognition of alternative possible outcomes, situational diagnosis, uncertainty, and sufficient flexibility for revision in light of experience.
While Tinbergen did emphasize economic matters and governmental instruments, he made it quite clear that a far broader set of actors and factors should be considered in policy design. These include the private sector, general population attitudes, the administrative organs of government with their varied proclivities and capabilities, current economic structure, natural resources, geographic situation, particularly strong personalities, the size of the entity involved, and its sensitivity to behavior external to it. Policy design then is the ‘solution of a jig-saw puzzle of considerable complexity.’ (Tinbergen, 1958: 35)
In light of these considerations, the challenges to the policy designer are to devise a set of steps which together make up a ‘coherent and coordinated whole.’ That, in turn, calls for avoiding the pitfalls of sole reliance on quantitative data, wishful thinking about available resources, omission of interactive effects, and inattentiveness to timelags and sequences of action. Policy designs are working drafts to be scrutinized and modified, based on eclectic information, internal consistency, completeness, and the direct and primary as well as indirect and secondary consequences of their constituent programs and projects (Tinbergen, 1958: 9–33). Given the importance of what will not be known with certainty, the responsible designer will consider offering ‘alternative programs,’ each with a somewhat different base of assumptions. Failures will still result because of factors such as the ignorance of politicians, pressure from vested interests, ministerial rivalries, incentives offered by legislatures, and external interference.
Policy designers should be modest about the ‘role to be played by scientific knowledge and insight … The relevant facts of life are too many and too varied to make it possible to reach decisions without a strong intuitive feeling for human relations’ (Tinbergen, 1958: 68–69). Policy designers engage more in a craft than a science. Policy design a la Tinbergen stands in contrast to ‘an interventionist perspective, requiring a precise forecast of events so an external hand can intervene to assure meeting of the exogenously determined targets’ (Saeed, 1994: 11).

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Another interesting link:

https://ris.utwente.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/19838256/heuris...

And:

Public Policy and Human Development
How can public policy promote innovation-based growth? What is lacking in the current social protection policy in your country and how can it be improved? What are the key factors that governments should take into account when forming their migration policy? If you want to develop the skills to answer these questions in a professional capacity, then the master's programme in Public Policy and Human Development is a good fit for you.

The Master of Science in Public Policy and Human Development emphasises the connection between public policy and decision-making processes, or more specifically, the effectiveness and efficiency of governance. You will be equipped with a variety of skills, tools and knowledge which enable you to work as a policy designer or policy analyst. You will be capable of working within public and private institutions at local, national and international levels. The one-year master's programme is offered as a double degree in collaboration with United Nations University (UNU-MERIT ).

https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/education/master/master-...


Barend van Zadelhoff
Netherlands
Local time: 08:03
Native speaker of: Native in DutchDutch
PRO pts in category: 12
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