Advisor Public Order and Safety - Asylum Dossier

Project overview

For the municipality of Bernheze, YER is looking for an Advisor Public Order and Safety - Asylum Dossier

The Position

The municipality of Bernheze faces the challenge of realizing reception locations for asylum seekers and housing for other special target groups. This task requires a careful balance between social responsibility, liveability, safety, and local support.

The Advisor Public Order and Safety plays a key role in this. You will advise the board on safety and public order aspects, identify risks, and ensure an integrated approach in collaboration with internal and external partners. You will consider the interests of residents, neighbours, social organizations, and chain partners.

Activities

For this task, we have established a multidisciplinary project group. As an Advisor Public Order and Safety, you will be responsible for, among other things, the following activities:

About the Company

Small enough for overview, large enough for challenge: that's Bernheze. We are a green municipality consisting of 5 residential cores. Approximately 200 employees work together with businesses, institutions, and 32,000 residents. We embrace courageous initiatives from the core and the work floor, which creates great opportunities to capitalize on. Here, you have impact. Because the smaller the scale, the more visible the result. We are at the heart of society, just like our town hall. During a lunch walk, you can easily reach the beautiful countryside or the center of Heesch with its abundant shops.

We have been working hybrid for years, based on trust in each other. Trust allows us to build. Together, with attention and courage.

What You Bring

Competencies

For this challenging assignment, we are looking for an experienced professional with:

Profile

You have demonstrable experience as an Advisor Public Order and Safety within a municipal organization and are familiar with issues surrounding the reception of asylum seekers, migration, residential care locations, or other social housing tasks. You are a strong discussion partner for administrators and chain partners and know how to connect safety interests with administrative, social, and organizational interests. This allows you to make a significant contribution to the safe, liveable, and socially responsible execution of this complex task.

Offer

You will work with a team of enthusiastic colleagues within the spatial domain and can count on a good work-life balance. We also reward your commitment and performance with an attractive salary and appealing extras. Our employment conditions at a glance:

• Board Advisory
• Advising the mayor, aldermen, director, and management on issues related to public order and safety at reception and housing locations.
• Drafting administrative advice, risk analyses, and action perspectives.
• Identifying social and safety risks and translating them into appropriate measures.
• Supporting decision-making regarding location choices and safety conditions.
• Advising on the safety of administrators and the municipal council during the decision-making process.
• Risk Analysis and Safety Issues
• Mapping safety risks for locations and the surrounding area.
• Assessing the impact on liveability, public order, and the perception of safety.
• Advising on necessary management measures and safety arrangements.
• Monitoring developments and signals from the community.
• Regie on Public Order and Safety
• Coordinating municipal efforts on safety issues related to reception and housing.
• Establishing connections between policy, execution, and administration.
• Managing complex cases and potential incidents.
• Ensuring an integrated approach within the municipal organization.
• Collaboration with Chain Partners
• Intensive collaboration with police, Safety Region, COA (Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers), housing corporations, care and welfare organizations, and other involved parties.
• Participating in and chairing safety meetings.
• Making agreements on responsibilities, measures, and information exchange.
• Promoting a joint approach focused on safety and liveability.
• Environmental Management and Participation
• Advising on participation and environmental processes from the perspective of public order and safety.
• Maintaining contact with residents, entrepreneurs, and social organizations.
• Identifying social tensions and resistance.
• Contributing to creating support and preventing escalation.
• Crisis Management and Incident Management
• Advising on incidents and social unrest related to reception or housing locations.
• Preparing scenarios and action perspectives.
• Coordinating safety-related alignment between involved organizations.
• Together with the AOV (Public Order and Safety Officer), evaluating incidents and translating lessons learned into policy and execution.
• Political-administrative sensitivity.
• Demonstrable experience in public order and safety and the functioning of the local and regional crisis organization.
• Knowledge of reception issues, migration issues, and/or housing for special target groups.
• Strong advisory and management skills.
• Environmental awareness and organizational sensitivity.
• Ability to operate in a socially and administratively sensitive environment.
• Good communication skills and persuasiveness.
• Stress resistance and decisiveness.
• Ability to weigh interests and create connections between different parties.
• Competitive fixed salary, depending on knowledge and experience;
• 25 vacation days and 8.33% holiday allowance;
• 7.55% 13th-month payment;
• Travel expenses reimbursement or lease car;
• Good pension scheme;
• Overtime arrangement: payment in salary or time for time;
• The above applies to collaboration on contract; freelance is also possible, of course;
• Ongoing challenging assignments in the spatial domain;
• Intensive and personal guidance;
• Opportunity to participate in a personal coaching program;
• Inspiring masterclasses.

Project details

• Start: flexible
• Location: Heesch, NL
• Languages: Dutch