Project Support Officer Area Development

Project overview

Are you a structured, proactive organizer who enjoys making projects run smoothly and contributing to the content? Then this position at the municipality of Zuidplas is for you!

The Position

As a project support officer, you will relieve project managers of their burdens. You will ensure that processes run well, appointments are tightly organized, and information is clearly available.

Responsibilities

Additionally, you will have the opportunity to develop further, for example, towards a project secretary role or deepening your knowledge of the financial aspects of projects.

About the Company

At the municipality of Zuidplas, you will make a difference every day. With a wide variety of projects, we work from our Project Management Bureau on the future of our villages. They develop areas, house social organizations, ensure sufficient recreational opportunities, and have grand plans in the field of landscape and sustainability. Everything they do is for our residents, entrepreneurs, or visitors. Due to the departure of one of their project support officers, they are looking for a new team member. Someone who enjoys supporting multiple project managers in area development projects.

Make a difference at Zuidplas!

Working at the municipality of Zuidplas means working in an environment where trust, flexibility, and space are central. In their growing municipality, with villages like Moerkapelle, Moordrecht, Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel, and Zevenhuizen, as well as the new Cortelande, you will work on issues that truly matter. Here, you think big and do it together.

The Organization

You will be working within the attractive and innovative growing municipality of Zuidplas and will be assigned to the Project Management Bureau cluster. Here, ambitious project leaders and support staff work on primarily area development projects and projects within the Landscape Zuidplas and Sustainability program. The Project Management Bureau, like Zuidplas, is growing. We are professionalizing. For example, last year they introduced Project-Based Work. There is also room for growth and development through, for instance, intervision.

In addition to project managers and support officers, their PMB cluster also has professionals who guide processes or manage programs. They offer a home base for both junior and more senior project leaders and support officers. You will provide support to (typically) multiple project managers, and together you will form the project teams.

What You Bring

Offer

You will collaborate 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:

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 assigned to one of our clients.

• Supporting multiple sub-projects and project managers
• Organizing meetings (1-on-1 and group sessions)
• Preparing, attending, and minuting meetings
• Managing and archiving project documentation
• Maintaining network drives and intranet pages
• Drafting annual plans
• Distributing documents for project and steering groups
• Preparing project and steering group reports
• Minimum MBO work and thinking level
• MINIMUM 2 YEARS OF MUNICIPAL EXPERIENCE
• Experience as a project support officer and/or project or program secretary
• Experience with project-based and/or program-based work
• Hands-on mentality and proactive attitude
• You work very structurally and can convey this to others
• Digitally proficient (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Accurate and decisive
• 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: Nieuwerkerk a.d. IJssel, NL
• Languages: Dutch