Species Management Plan Coordinator

• Ensure that the Species Management Plan (SMP) becomes understandable and workable for all stakeholders.
• Provide advice for the structural safeguarding of the SMP.
• Translate the ecological principles of the SMP into workable processes, clear responsibilities, and concrete agreements.
• Connect internal disciplines such as ecologists, project leaders, policy advisors, permit issuers, and managers.
• Collaborate with external parties such as residents, housing corporations, VvE's (Owners' Associations), project developers, and contractors.
• Ensure that the knowledge and advice of ecologists are involved at the right time and translated into practice.
• Ensure clear and consistent communication about the SMP.
• Be responsible for the registration system and annual reporting to the competent authority.
• Guide the permit application and ensure coordination with the province, environmental service, and experts.
• Identify the consequences of the SMP for municipal processes and projects and translate these into workable processes, protocols, and work instructions.
• Ensure that the SMP is applied in sustainability efforts, renovation, demolition, and new construction.
• Develop and organize a clear communication strategy.
• Ensure knowledge transfer and structural safeguarding of the SMP within the organization.
• Organize a clear structure for questions, signals, and bottlenecks from the organization and external stakeholders.
• Organize monitoring, registration, and reporting, and ensure good information provision to the province and environmental service.
• Advise management and administration on choices, risks, costs, bottlenecks, and necessary measures.
• Identify bottlenecks and opportunities and ensure continuous improvement of working methods.

What they ask

• Minimum 3 years of demonstrable work experience as a process manager, program manager, project leader, or similar role within a government organization.
• Minimum 2 years of demonstrable work experience with the implementation, execution, or safeguarding of policy, programs, or change initiatives within the physical living environment.
• Demonstrable work experience coordinating collaboration between multiple internal and external stakeholders (government agencies, consulting firms, housing corporations, developers, contractors, and/or social organizations).

Preferences.

• Demonstrable work experience with the implementation of a policy program, plan, or permit process within the physical living environment, involving multiple internal and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrable work experience with monitoring, registration, reporting, and progress monitoring of projects or programs.
• Demonstrable work experience advising management, executive board, and/or administration on risks, bottlenecks, decision-making, and necessary measures.
• Demonstrable work experience identifying improvement opportunities and implementing process or organizational improvements within a project, program, or organization.
• Demonstrable work experience with Species Management Plan (SMP) within a government organization.
• Completed education at a minimum of HBO bachelor level in the field of Ecology, Spatial Planning, Area Development, or Construction Management.

• Participation in regular work meetings.
• Accountable to the client or a supervisor.
• Working in a team environment.