Within a regional context, the goal is to build a net total of 30,500 homes by 2030. Projects are stalled due to procedures, capacity, infrastructure, financing, or decision-making. The chair of the Regional Acceleration Table ensures that bottlenecks are not left unresolved but are addressed. The chair mobilizes participants and their constituencies, holds administrators and directors accountable for their responsibilities, and ensures that agreements are met.
The Regional Acceleration Table holds a unique position: parties are not only at the table to discuss the housing construction task but to solve concrete problems. This is not a chair from the sidelines, but a driver who ensures construction happens.
What you will do.
- Advances stalled housing construction projects and actively addresses individual cases.
- Clarifies where the problem lies and who is responsible.
- Directly and assertively holds various stakeholders accountable for their responsibilities.
- Ensures that agreements are concrete and adhered to.
- Breaks through situations where parties point fingers at each other or talk past each other.
- Brings the right people together and empowers them.
- Takes initiative and persists until results are achieved.
- Informs and advises on progress and on topics requiring regional or provincial involvement.
- Filters generic bottlenecks from various projects and translates them into strategic policy for the executive table.
Profile
The chair works closely with the secretary of the Regional Acceleration Table and forms an important link between the Acceleration Table and the administrative environment of a region. The chair is connecting, persistent, results-oriented, pragmatic, administratively sensitive, and possesses a hands-on mentality. The chair can quickly grasp complex issues, set priorities, and easily switch between project manager, civil servant, administrator, and director.
What they ask
- Minimum of ten years of work experience within the domain of Housing and Spatial Planning.
- Minimum of ten years of work experience in a political-administrative environment.
- A motivation letter explaining suitability for the assignment.
Preferences.
- Relevant and specific work experience with concrete case studies, role stability, and independence.
- Relevant basic and academic education, specific process and skill training.
- Vision on the role and its approach.
Competencies.
- Personal presentation with natural authority and a communicative style.
- Quick adaptability.
- Assessment of political-administrative sensitivity: dealing with conflicting interests, risk management, and process monitoring.
- Conflict resolution and decisiveness: how to break impasses and bring clarity and resolve.
- Match with the regional task through environmental awareness and sufficient motivation and energy.
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