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Environmental Permit Officer

South HollandHybrid36 hours/week3-6months

Strengthening the continuity and quality of permit issuance within a team of a municipal organization.

  • A coaching role is central: guiding colleagues on complex issues, actively transferring knowledge, and stimulating their professional development.
  • Increasing the independence and professional competence within the Environmental Permits cluster.
  • Providing overview, structure, and coherence based on extensive experience with large, complex, and multidisciplinary projects.
  • Advising on complex environmental permits, directing integrated advice, and monitoring the quality and progress of decision-making.
  • Setting clear priorities and making decisions, so that dossiers are handled timely, carefully, and legally sound.
  • Being the substantive point of contact for colleagues and taking responsibility for the collective result.
  • Fostering a learning environment where knowledge is shared and quality is sustainably ensured.
  • Acting with political-administrative sensitivity and environmental awareness in politically sensitive dossiers.
  • Timely identification of risks, clear balancing of interests, and convincing presentation of advice.
  • Handling extensive and complex permit applications.
  • Together with the team leader, quality officer, and other seniors, guiding process improvement, quality development, and the further professionalization of the cluster, with a focus on collaboration, ownership, and results-orientation.

What you do

  • Deliver a plan of approach with learning objectives within four weeks.
  • Organize weekly or bi-weekly coaching and learning consultations.
  • Provide practice-oriented guidance and advice based on case studies.
  • Transfer professional knowledge through coaching where necessary.
  • Deliver periodic progress reports.
  • Make a demonstrable contribution to the development of colleagues within the Permits team.

What they ask

  • Demonstrable completed education at a minimum of HBO bachelor level in a construction-related field.
  • Minimum 2 years of demonstrable experience in guiding, coaching, and developing employees within permit issuance, VTH (Safety, Permits, Supervision, and Enforcement), or a comparable field.
  • Minimum 5 years of demonstrable work experience as a senior permit officer and experience with complex and multiple permit applications.

Preferences.

  • Candidate demonstrably possesses ABW 1 and ABW 2 diplomas.
  • Demonstrable work experience with the application of the Environmental Act (Omgevingswet) and related legislation and regulations in the handling of complex environmental permits.
  • Demonstrable work experience in the past 6 years with CLO (Centric Leefomgeving).
  • Demonstrable work experience in advising on politically and administratively sensitive dossiers within a municipal organization, where interests have been weighed and decision-making supported.
  • Minimum 2 years of demonstrable work experience in the past 5 years coordinating complex permit procedures and/or multidisciplinary projects, involving coordination with various internal and external stakeholders.

Practical

  • 'Bring your own device' applies: bring your own mobile phone including subscription and a laptop (no iPad) for all business contacts. Workstations are equipped with USB-C (Thunderbolt) docking monitors.

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