Pioneer Spatial Development & Housing

Project overview

Team Development Space & Environment

The Space & Environment Development team works daily on a liveable, future-proof, and sustainable municipality. We are involved in the spatial development of our environment and ensure that plans, initiatives, and projects are carefully considered and executed. Our activities range from guiding environmental permits and creating spatial plans to supporting area developments and advising on policy in the areas of housing, sustainability, and mobility. We work closely with residents, entrepreneurs, developers, and other partners within and outside the organization.

Assignment

The municipality of Baarn intends to programmatically manage a number of (societal) tasks, including the program “spatial development and housing”. This approach needs to be integrated into the existing ways of organizing work. Additionally, the Development Space & Environment (ORO) team needs better coherence within and between work processes. This requires evaluation, updating, and guidance in roles, responsibilities, and work agreements.

The pioneer will be tasked with substantively leading and structuring the spatial development and housing program, and will provide an impetus for improving the work processes of the ORO team.

Close collaboration with the manager, the management team, and the involved employees is expected.

The assignment focuses on:

The pioneer will take responsibility for the housing task from a spatial development perspective and develop what is organizationally necessary for it. The pioneer will support the manager in process management, work organization, and work agreements within the team. The personnel responsibility lies with the manager. The pioneer is aware of the political and organizational interests and the impact of changes on employees and teams and handles them with care.

The assignment requires a professional who is visibly present in the organization, can guide teams and employees through change, provides firm and active advice to the municipal executive board, dares to make decisions, and can translate improvements into concrete and workable results.

6 months - 32-36 hours - 1.00 FTE

Profile of the suited interim professional:

Functional Requirements

• Substantively structuring and leading the societal task for “spatial development and housing”, including the administrative client role for housing projects and the political advisory role on “housing”, as well as advising the management team on developing and structuring the role of program manager within the organization;
• Providing a quality boost to the work processes, methods, and work agreements of the ORO team, also in line with the new programmatic approach to housing tasks. This includes identifying potential improvements up to and including implementation.
• Minimum of 2 years of demonstrable work experience in the last 9 years within municipal organizations in a leading role or function;
• Minimum of 2 years of demonstrable work experience in the last 9 years with developing and optimizing work processes;
• Minimum of 2 years of demonstrable work experience in the last 9 years in the field of spatial planning / spatial project development and/or permit granting / supervision & enforcement and/or sustainability;
• Have worked in more than 4 organizations for longer than 6 months.
• Minimum of 4 years of work experience in operationally, tactically, and strategically advising management on organizational issues, or a minimum of 1 year as a member of a management team at a corporate level;
• Minimum of 2 years of demonstrable work experience in the last 9 years advising aldermen in their responsibility for portfolios;
• Minimum of 1 year of demonstrable work experience managing advisors or policy officers or project leaders;
• Minimum of 1 year of demonstrable work experience managing employees from an operational service or supervisors or enforcers;
• Minimum of 1 year of work experience as a work process developer or as a communication professional or as a team coach.

Project details

• Start: flexible
• Duration: 6 months
• Location: Baarn, Utrecht, Flevoland, NL
• Languages: Dutch