Project Leader Educational Housing
A governmental organization established an Integrated Housing Plan (IHP) for educational housing in February 2026. From this plan, various rehousing issues for school buildings are being initiated. To ensure the continuity of education during renovation and new construction projects, a semi-permanent temporary educational facility must be realized. In addition, depending on the space requirements of the first project, additional temporary units will be placed.
The organization is looking for an independent project leader responsible for realizing this temporary housing solution. The temporary location will serve as a rotating location for multiple educational projects within the organization.
What you will do.
- Act as the central point of contact for external parties involved in the realization of semi-permanent and temporary educational housing
- Ensure coordination with the internal project organization and relevant stakeholders
- Monitor the progress, coherence, and dependencies of the various educational projects and report clearly on them
- Develop a realistic and feasible approach within the framework of the organization and current market conditions in educational housing
- Translate the principles of the established housing plan into implementation and ensure compliance throughout the project
- Manage budget, risks, planning, quality, and organizational preconditions
- Ensure coordinated communication with involved parties
- Oversee the assessment of designs, drawings, specifications, and work descriptions and ensure they align with project objectives
- Advise on tendering and contract forms and ensure controlled execution
- Coordinate and manage the entire process of preparation, realization, delivery
Profile
- Able to oversee the broad lines of complex projects and connect separate issues
- Represents the interests of the organization in a professional and balanced manner
- Analytical ability, organizational qualities, and results-oriented approach
- Operate carefully and environmentally aware within a political-administrative context
- Effectively switch between strategic, tactical, and operational levels
Competencies.
- Project management: systematically manage complex housing projects from initiation to delivery, monitoring progress, planning, quality, risks
- Stakeholder management: effectively connect diverse interests of school boards, municipal disciplines, users, and external parties, and build support for decision-making and implementation
- Administrative sensitivity: effectively navigate a political-administrative environment and translate project information into clear advice and reports
- Overall direction: provide direction on the coherence between the various education and housing projects and ensure consistent management
- Organizational sensitivity: actively involve the internal organization in the development and realization of the project and ensure coordination
- Communication skills: communicate clearly and convincingly with internal and external stakeholders and ensure consistent communication
What they ask
- Minimum 3 years of demonstrable work experience with educational housing within a municipal organization, including actively managing GROTIK aspects
- Minimum 5 years of demonstrable work experience in the past 8 years within a municipal organization, in an advisory role
- Demonstrable work experience with executing projects based on an Integrated Housing Plan (IHP) for educational housing, established by the municipal council
Wishes.
- Demonstrable work experience in the past 5 years within a municipal organization with drafting progress reports, decision-making documents, and administrative advice
- Demonstrable completed education at a minimum HBO bachelor level in the field of Civil Engineering and/or Industrial Engineering and Management
- Demonstrable work experience in the past 5 years with at least 3 complex housing projects within a municipal real estate environment, involving new construction, renovation, temporary housing, and/or semi-permanent housing
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