As a legal quality officer, you contribute to the legal quality of a team within a government organization. You advise colleagues on legal issues, review decisions and work processes, and ensure that the legal quality of implementation is sustainably guaranteed. You are an important sparring partner for colleagues and support them in applying laws and regulations in daily practice.
By timely identifying legal risks, improving processes, and sharing knowledge, you make a significant contribution to a professional, careful, and consistent execution of tasks. Additionally, you play an important role in the (informal) handling of objections. When an objection is filed, you contact the objector and investigate whether the dispute can be resolved through mutual consultation.
Based on your knowledge of general administrative law, the APV (General Local Ordinance), special laws, and environmental law, you support employees and the team manager with legal quality issues. You advise on the legal consequences of developments in implementation practice and contribute to the further professionalization of the team. In doing so, you translate laws and regulations and established policy into work processes, protocols, work instructions, and practical tools for colleagues.
This involves replacing a permanent employee and is therefore an embedded function with side-by-side activities under guidance and supervision.
What you do
- Provide legal support to colleagues in making decisions
- Handle Woo (Government Transparency Act) requests related to your field(s) of expertise
- Advise colleagues on proposed decisions and proposals
- Perform quality controls on permit and supervision files and analyze objection and appeal cases
- Support the expert colleague in the (in)formal handling of objections
- Support supervisors, enforcers, and permit issuers on legal quality issues and assess whether files, decisions, and work processes comply with laws and regulations
- Ensure the drafting of standard letters and work processes
- Proactively contribute to work process improvements, ensure their adaptation, and draft standard letters
Profile
- An important sparring partner for colleagues, supporting them in applying laws and regulations in daily practice
- Identifies legal risks, contributes to process improvements, and shares knowledge
- Supports employees and the team manager with legal quality issues, leveraging knowledge of general administrative law, the APV, special laws, and environmental law
- Translates laws and regulations and established policy into work processes, protocols, work instructions, and practical tools
What they ask
- Demonstrably completed legal education at a minimum of HBO bachelor level
- Minimum of 2 years of work experience in the past 8 years as a Legal Officer within a municipal organization in the field of enforcement or APV and special laws
Desired skills.
- Demonstrably completed WO master's degree in a legal field
- Minimum of 4 years of demonstrable work experience as a legal officer in the field of enforcement or APV and special laws
- Demonstrable work experience with objections and appeal cases
- Demonstrable work experience with the implementation of new laws and regulations and administrative enforcement, illustrated with examples in work experience
Competencies.
- Strong communication skills
- Good listening skills
- Independent
- Persuasive
- Works from an independent judgment
- Flexible
- Creative in problem-solving
- Shows decisiveness
- Able to maintain a good overview
- Drives for a careful completion of a legal case
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