About Tidalis

Do you want to be part of our innovative team that helps protect “The Great Barrier Reef”, make our waterways safer and more secure and optimize the efficiency of the world’s largest ports? Then keep reading! We serve clients around the globe with advanced solutions in the areas of maritime traffic, ports, and terminals. Together, we ensure the safe and efficient movement of people and goods in the maritime world.

The Assignment

Currently, business information within the Tidalis group is fragmented across different systems, folders, and mailboxes. This makes it difficult for employees to quickly find the right information and for departments to effectively share knowledge—especially across borders.

For your graduation project, you will address this challenge by designing and building the foundation of a corporate intranet in SharePoint. This intranet will serve as the central information hub for all Tidalis companies.

Important note on scope: your deliverable is the initial setup of the intranet—including its architecture, structure, design, governance model, and editorial framework. The actual content (such as policies, process descriptions, and departmental pages) will be created and maintained by the departments themselves, both during your pilot phase and after your internship ends. Your role is to build a platform they can confidently manage and further develop.

The intranet should support, among other things:

• Policies and procedures — accessible documentation for all employees
• Processes and ways of working — easily searchable across departments and entities
• Corporate communications — news, announcements, and updates from management and departments
• Onboarding — a central place for everything new employees need in their first weeks
• New colleague introductions — helping employees get to know each other
• Cross-departmental knowledge sharing — enabling departments to manage and share their own information across the organization

What will you do?

• Engage with departments across various Tidalis companies to understand their needs, what information they want to share, and how they envision their part of the intranet
• Define functional and technical requirements based on these insights
• Design a logical information architecture that works across the entire group, balancing central and decentralized content
• Build the SharePoint foundation, including site architecture, navigation, search, permissions, and page templates
• Develop a governance and ownership model to ensure content remains accurate and up to date
• Run a pilot with one or more departments, gather feedback, and refine the setup
• Train and support departments so they can independently maintain and expand their sections of the intranet, supported by clear editorial guidelines
• Write your graduation thesis based on this project

What do you bring?

• You are a Bachelor’s or Master’s student in a relevant field such as Information Science, Business Administration, Communications, Information Management, HRM, or similar
• You have an affinity with digital collaboration and a genuine interest in how organizations share knowledge
• You are independent, communicative, and able to engage stakeholders effectively
• You enjoy interacting with different departments and cultures and translating their needs into practical solutions
• You are fluent in English (our working language); Dutch is a plus but not required
• Experience with or interest in SharePoint / Microsoft 365 is an advantage—you will further develop your skills during the internship

What do we offer ?

• A graduation project with real impact across the entire organization — your work will be used by colleagues in multiple countries
• An experienced supervisor at Tidalis and plenty of opportunities to collaborate and exchange ideas
• A market-based internship allowance
• A workspace at our Apeldoorn office, with good coffee and engaged colleagues.
• Freedom and ownership — you will be the specialist on this project
• Access to all departments and stakeholders needed to make your assignment a success

Practical Information

• Type: Graduation internship (thesis project)
• Duration: 5–6 months
• Start date: September (to be discussed)
• Location: Tidalis office in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands (no travel required)
• Working hours: To be discussed; hybrid working possible
• Working language: English