Initiatives Manager Spatial Planning

Project overview

For the municipality of Heerlen, YER is looking for an Initiatives Manager Spatial Planning.

The Position

What will you do?

Together with your colleague initiatives manager, you will be the point of contact for residents and businesses who have plans for the spatial living environment within our municipality. Together, you will explore the possibilities and impossibilities of the initiative. If there are bottlenecks, you will identify how they can be removed, or you will work with the initiator to find good alternative solutions.

You are the 'hinge' between the initiator, the permit case managers, and the advisors. You are a good listener, familiar with issues in the field of spatial planning, and can approach and explain complex matters simply. You have good political antennae and can connect people. To this end, you use your network and continuously work on maintaining and expanding it.

Weekly, you will present incoming initiatives at the Intake Meeting to colleagues from policy and execution to determine early on whether an initiative is desirable, realistic, and promising. For this, you will, together with the process support, prepare the agenda and minutes. You will inform the initiator of the outcome and the next steps and coordinate this with the case manager/permit grantor, other colleagues, and possibly with the involved alderman(s) via memos or council proposals.

You are a point of contact, sounding board, and sparring partner for your colleagues, team managers, and administrators regarding integrated spatial planning matters, the possibilities and obstacles for cooperation on initiatives, and the results and consequences of decisions made about them. Together with the case managers, you will ensure proper handling of files in our new case system (Rx.Mission). Together with your colleague initiatives manager, you will coordinate the task division and ensure an excellent intake meeting.

Are you the energetic and driven professional we are looking for? Apply quickly and help build the Heerlen of Tomorrow!

About the Company

The Permits Team is responsible for the case management of initiatives and permit applications/notifications in the areas of environment, construction, hospitality, events, parking, markets, and pitches. Further responsibilities include the administration of burial rights and the organization of markets and fairs.

Building the Heerlen of Tomorrow

Heerlen is a city with guts. In Heerlen, we are decisive and make things happen that others deem impossible. Working for Heerlen means working on the Heerlen of tomorrow.

What you bring

Who are you?

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:

• You have a higher professional education (HBO)/university (WO) working and thinking level, preferably with a background in Spatial Planning or Law with knowledge of Environmental Law;
• You have relevant education and several years of experience in spatial planning and/or complex permit granting;
• You have experience with conducting integrated environmental plan assessments and advising on (im)possibilities, challenges, and solutions;
• You have experience with handling preliminary requests, writing final advice, and communicating conclusions verbally and in writing to initiators and other stakeholders is important;
• You are presentable, practical, and enjoy working proactively;
• You are aware of the environment in which you work and have an eye for the practical reality within the organization. A sense of administrative and political relationships is very useful;
• You are stress-resistant, can connect dots, switch quickly, and have no trouble delegating and following up on actions. Your communication skills align with this.
• Competitive fixed salary, depending on knowledge and experience;
• 25 vacation days and 8% holiday allowance;
• Travel expenses reimbursement or lease car;
• Good pension scheme;
• Overtime arrangement: payment in salary or time off in lieu;
• Continuously challenging assignments in the spatial domain;
• Intensive and personal guidance;
• Participation in a personal coaching program if desired;
• Inspiring masterclasses.

Project details

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