Spatial Challenges Strategist Administrative Project Client

A government organization has great ambitions.

• The organization is implementing and developing project-based work to effectively realize its assignments.
• A proper interpretation of administrative client-side management contributes to a consistent working method and direction.
• Initiatives for these assignments and projects can originate internally or externally (e.g., from a developer).
• The assignments are extensive, cross-team, affect multiple interests and policy areas, and contribute to the organization's ambitions.
• The organization values control and direction over the totality of assignments.
• The role of administrative client-side manager is assigned from the Spatial Policy team and encompasses both substantive, administrative, and external aspects.
• Personnel responsibility rests with the team managers.

What you will do.

• As a spatial challenges strategist, you will work daily on the organization's spatial ambitions and be involved from an early stage.
• Responsible for translating ambitions into concrete assignments for a project leader.
• Takes responsibility and adjusts in a timely manner when the feasibility of an assignment is under pressure.
• Works closely with colleagues such as project leaders, program managers, and team managers.
• Maintains regular contact with portfolio holders (administrative clients) regarding progress.
• Programming: prioritizing, translating strategic goals and administrative ambitions into concrete assignments with clear demarcation and resource allocation.
• Client-side management: acting expertly and authoritatively for development assignments.
• Direction: being the connecting link between teams, the chain, portfolio holder consultations, and external contacts within the spatial domain.
• Monitoring: safeguarding agreements and progress, and reporting on this to management and the board.

What they ask for.

• Brings structure to complex spatial assignments.
• Works carefully, thinks ahead, and maintains an overview.
• Has a sense of political-administrative relations and clearly involves stakeholders.
• Takes responsibility, adjusts in a timely manner, and contributes to project-based work within the organization.
• Minimum HBO (higher professional education) work and thinking level.
• Expert and experienced with assignments in the spatial domain.
• Knowledge of project-based work and the ability to switch between levels within an organization (governance-execution).
• Independent, flexible, and capable of integral thinking.