Working for Safety, Permits, Supervision, and Enforcement (VTH) contributes daily to the sense of safety and liveability of residents. The coach/senior permit officer is hired to strengthen the continuity and quality of permit issuance within the team. The coaching role is central: the senior guides colleagues on complex issues, actively transfers knowledge, and stimulates their professional development.
From extensive experience with large, complex, and multidisciplinary projects, the senior brings overview, structure, and coherence. The senior advises on complex environmental permits, directs integrated advice, and monitors the quality and progress of decision-making. Where necessary, clear priorities are set and decisions are made, so that dossiers are handled in a timely, careful, and legally sound manner.
The senior is the substantive point of contact for colleagues and takes responsibility for the collective result. In politically sensitive dossiers, the senior acts with political-administrative sensitivity and environmental awareness. The senior recognizes diverse interests, understands administrative relationships, and communicates carefully with initiators, administrators, management, and external partners.
In addition to the coaching and coordinating role, the senior personally handles extensive and complex permit applications. Together with the team leader, quality officer, and other seniors, direction is given to process improvement, quality development, and further professionalization of the cluster, with collaboration, ownership, and results-orientation being central. The hired coach makes a demonstrable contribution to the development of colleagues within the Permits team during the assignment.
What you do
- Deliver a plan of approach with learning objectives within four weeks
- Organize weekly or bi-weekly coaching and learning consultations
- Provide practical guidance and advice based on case studies
- Transfer professional knowledge through coaching where necessary
- Deliver periodic progress reports
- Guide colleagues on complex issues, actively share knowledge, and stimulate professional development
- Advise on complex environmental permits and handle extensive and complex applications yourself
- Direct integrated advice and monitor the quality and progress of decision-making
- Bring overview, structure, and coherence to large, complex, and multidisciplinary projects
- Set priorities and make decisions for timely, careful, and legally sound dossier handling
- Act with political-administrative sensitivity and environmental awareness in sensitive dossiers
- Identify risks, weigh interests, and communicate carefully with initiators, administrators, management, and external partners
- Collaborate on process improvement, quality development, and further professionalization of the cluster
- Take responsibility for the collective result as a substantive point of contact
- Help create a learning environment where knowledge is shared and quality is sustainably secured
What they ask
- Completed HBO bachelor's degree in a construction-related field
- Minimum 5 years of demonstrable work experience as a senior permit officer and experience with complex and multiple permit applications
- Minimum 2 years of demonstrable experience in guiding, coaching, and developing employees within permit issuance, VTH, or a similar field
- 'Bring your own device' policy applies: candidate must bring their own mobile phone and a laptop (no iPad). Workplaces are equipped with USB-C (Thunderbolt) docking screens
Preferences.
- Demonstrably possess ABW 1 and ABW 2 diplomas
- Demonstrable work experience with the application of the Environmental Act (Omgevingswet) and related legislation in handling complex environmental permits
- Demonstrable work experience in the past 6 years with CLO (Centric Leefomgeving)
- Minimum 2 years of demonstrable work experience in the past 5 years with coordinating complex permit procedures and/or multidisciplinary projects, involving coordination with various internal and external stakeholders
- Demonstrable work experience with advising on politically and administratively sensitive dossiers within a government organization, where interests were weighed and decision-making was supported
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