RIVM Screening Programme Support Specialist

The organisation

The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) works every day to promote a healthy population and a healthy living environment. In the Caribbean Netherlands, RIVM is responsible for carrying out population screening programmes for breast, cervical and bowel cancer on Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba.

Together with local healthcare partners, laboratories, GPs, specialists and other partners in the healthcare chain, the team is working on a high-quality screening programme, with the aim being to detect cancer at an early stage and promote the health of residents of the Caribbean Netherlands.

Job description

As a Screening Programme Support Specialist you will be part of a small and committed team that is responsible for carrying out population screening in the Caribbean Netherlands.

You will support the screening coordinator, project leader and other team members with administrative, organisational and operational tasks that help ensure the smooth running of the screening processes and programme activities.

You will play a key role in maintaining contact with clients, care providers and partners within the healthcare chain, and help ensure that administrative processes are handled accurately and in a timely manner.

This role does not include performing screening activities or other medical screening tasks.

Duties

Screening and client support

• You answer questions from clients about the screening process.
• You assist with planning, invitations and managing appointments.
• You assist with the processing, follow-up and communication of results.
• You liaise with clients, care providers and partners in the healthcare chain.
• You support the day-to-day running of the screening programmes.

Administration and process support

• You process and check client details.

• You assist with managing the screening inbox.

• You process documentation and registrations.

• You monitor outstanding tasks and administrative processes.

• You identify issues or anomalies within work processes.

• You assist with complaints registration and follow-up.

• You ensure correct record keeping in accordance with applicable guidelines and privacy legislation.

Programme and team support

• You assist with the preparation of consultations and meetings.
• You draw up action lists and monitor their progress.
• You assist with reporting.
• You liaise with internal and external stakeholders.
• You assist with organisational and logistical duties within the team.
• You support the project leader and screening coordinator with carrying out programme activities.
• You provide input on improving work processes.

Job requirements:

• Your level of professional and intellectual ability should be at least equal to that required for middle-management training within senior secondary vocational education (MBO-4).
• Experience in an administrative, support or care-related role.
• Proficiency in using Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Word and Excel.
• Experience within the healthcare sector, with medical record-keeping or client registration procedures, with project or programme support and with population screening programmes, preventive healthcare or chain-based care would be a definite asset.
• Experience with the careful handling of confidential and privacy-sensitive information.
• A customer-focused and service-oriented attitude.
• A talent for organisation and a feeling for priorities.
• An independent and proactive attitude to work.
• The ability to work accurately and with an eye for detail.
• Good communication skills.
• A good command of Dutch, Papiamento, English and Spanish.

Competencies

• A team player
• A client focus
• The ability to work accurately
• Good planning and organisational skills
• Flexibility
• Integrity
• A proactive attitude

What we offer

• A job in accordance with the BES Legal Position of Civil Servants Decree [Rechtspositiebesluit ambtenaren BES];

• A salary in line with the market, initial salary scale 7/ job salary scale 8 between a minimum of $2.586,- and a maximum of $4.016,- per month, based on a work week of 36 hours. Pay grade is based on knowledge and experience;

• A holiday pay (8.33% of the gross monthly income);

• A 13^th month (8.33% of the annual income);

• A vitality allowance;

• A pension plan administered by Pensioenfonds Caribisch Nederland (PCN);

• 182 holiday hours based on a work week of 36 hours;

• A temporary appointment for a year;

• A relocation scheme for candidates who respond from outside the island.

Procedure

An assessment, case, online screening and/or reference check may be part of the procedure. This vacancy is opened simultaneously internally and externally, in the course of which the following order is considered in the selection:

• Official RCN staff on Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba (internal);
• Residents of the Caribbean part of the Netherlands (external);
• Other candidates (external);

Terms of appointment

• A Certificate of Good Conduct (in Dutch: Verklaring Omtrent het Gedrag, abbreviated as VOG);
• Medical examination in connection with mandatory registration with the pension fund (with a personal contribution);
• Dutch citizenship.

Important information for interested applicants living outside the Caribbean Netherlands

• The salary is paid in American dollars, the official currency in the Caribbean Netherlands;

• The Caribbean Netherlands has its own tax regulations.  Income above the tax-free allowance of USD 21,956 in 2026 is taxed in the first bracket, up to an income of USD 53,198, at a rate of 29.4%. In the second bracket, a tax rate of 38.4% applies

• You are or will become a resident of the Caribbean Netherlands.

More information?

For more information about the job vacancy, you can contact Shahaira Libier, Project Leader Screening Caribbean Netherlands (phone number +599 795 5684 or email shahaira.libier@rivm.nl).

Digital applications

You may send your curriculum vitae with motivation to vacature@rijksdienstcn.com