Project Manager Area Development

Project overview

We are looking for an experienced project manager for the municipality of Waddinxveen who can quickly find their way within a complex municipal area development and, after a short induction period, can independently take on multiple projects. Are you available 28 hours per week?

The Position

As a project manager for area development, you will be responsible for multiple sub-projects within the Sleutelkwartier. You will be responsible for daily management and progress, and will manage integrally on aspects including program, planning, finances, quality, risks, and decision-making. Depending on the current distribution within the team, you will, for example, work on sub-projects within Sleutelkwartier Noord, including housing developments and locations where the municipality collaborates with developers, housing corporations, and other landowners.

The projects are in various phases: from plan development and spatial procedures to agreements, preparation of tenders, and realization. Your activities include:

About the Company

Working on the center of Waddinxveen

The municipality of Waddinxveen is actively developing its center. An important development here is the Sleutelkwartier: the historic heart of Waddinxveen and a key link between the station and the current center. The ambition is to further develop the area into a vibrant, attractive, and recognizable part of Waddinxveen, where living, meeting, and staying come together. The Sleutelkwartier consists of various sub-projects, which are in different phases of area development. From initiative and plan development to spatial procedures, contract formation, and preparation for realization.

This makes it a versatile and dynamic area development where spatial, financial, legal, and social interests converge. To ensure the continuity and progress of the ongoing projects, they are temporarily looking for a project manager for area development.

Working within the Sleutelkwartier Team

You will become part of the Sleutelkwartier team. Within this team, we work with a core team of project managers, under the direction of the area development project manager. Each project manager has their own sub-projects and responsibilities, but together we manage the coherence and result of the Sleutelkwartier as a whole. In the core team, they discuss the progress of the various sub-projects, make integral considerations, and align important choices, risks, and administrative issues. The developments within the Sleutelkwartier are closely related.

Choices within one sub-project can have consequences for the program, public space, finances, planning, or development strategy of another sub-project. This gives you a lot of independence and responsibility within your own projects, but you are explicitly not alone. Together with the other project managers and the project manager, you work towards one common goal: bringing the Sleutelkwartier step by step to a good and coherent result.

What You Bring

Offer

You will work with a team of enthusiastic colleagues in 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:

YER offers you the opportunity to showcase your knowledge and experience at public organizations throughout the Netherlands. We are the sparring partner at the right level that can give your career the right boost! You will be employed by YER and will work at one of our clients.

• Independently managing multiple sub-projects within the Sleutelkwartier;
• Managing program, planning, finances, quality, and risks;
• Coordinating and connecting the various municipal disciplines;
• Conducting discussions and negotiations with developers, housing corporations, landowners, and other external parties;
• Guiding plan development and spatial procedures;
• Preparing, making, and monitoring agreements and contracts with market parties;
• Preparing administrative decision-making and advising management, the executive board, and, where necessary, the municipal council;
• Identifying bottlenecks and organizing solutions and decision-making in a timely manner;
• Aligning your sub-projects with the other developments within the Sleutelkwartier;
• Actively contributing to the core team and the integral course for the area.
• Independent and results-oriented;
• Strong in organizing and structuring complex projects;
• A team player who sees the interest of the total area development in addition to their own project interest;
• Connecting and environmentally aware;
• Administratively sensitive;
• Financially and legally sufficiently knowledgeable to manage projects integrally;
• Experienced in collaboration and negotiation with market parties;
• Able to bring different interests together;
• Proactive and decisive;
• Strong communicator, both orally and in writing.
• Competitive fixed salary, depending on knowledge and experience;
• 25 vacation days and 8.33% holiday allowance;
• Travel expenses reimbursement or lease car;
• Good pension scheme;
• Overtime arrangement: payment in salary or time for time;
• Continuously 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: Waddinxveen, NL
• Languages: Dutch