Housing Policy Advisor

• Analyzes the housing market and assesses housing development plans and initiatives.
• Advises the board, management, executive committee, and council on strategic housing issues.
• Establishes, monitors, and evaluates performance agreements with housing corporations.
• Identifies opportunities and challenges in the housing market and translates them into policy, with an eye for current themes such as affordability, suitable housing forms, grid congestion, and liveability.
• Plays an important role in establishing, monitoring, and evaluating performance agreements with housing corporations.
• Works closely with colleagues in the Spatial team and other internal and external partners.
• Contributes to substantive themes such as performance agreements with housing corporations, caravan site policy, re-evaluation of a Housing Deal, an experimental scheme under the housing ordinance, a Realization Incentive, the establishment of an Equalization Fund, and the implementation of a new Public Housing Program.

• Insight into complex societal processes and issues.
• Knows how to seize opportunities and propose solutions.
• Link between housing corporations, project developers, governments, and tenant representatives.
• Builds strong collaborations and ensures ambitions are translated into concrete results.
• A strong discussion partner with knowledge and experience.
• Good understanding of political-administrative relations.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Proactive, quickly grasps the field, and can deliver results.

What they ask

• Demonstrable completed education at a minimum of HBO bachelor level.
• Minimum of 5 years of demonstrable work experience as a housing/public housing policy officer at a government organization.
• Demonstrable work experience with two or more of the following topics: drafting performance agreements, regional cooperation, public housing programs, housing programs, and housing ordinances.
• Candidate agrees to the stated secondment condition.

Preferences.

• Demonstrable completed education at a minimum of HBO bachelor level in the direction of spatial planning/urban development, social geography, or public administration.
• Demonstrable work experience in collaborating with residents and partners.
• Demonstrable work experience with political-administrative relations.
• Demonstrable work experience with advising the board, management, executive committee, and council on strategic housing issues.
• Demonstrable work experience with and knowledge of the following relevant regulations and developments: public housing fund, housing construction impulse, realization incentive, national liveability and safety program.

• Workdays: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
• Interviews with the client are scheduled for Thursday, November 12, 2026.