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Immovable Heritage Expert

East FlandersHybrid38 hours/week<3months

Do you have a passion for historical heritage and want to contribute to preserving and strengthening a heritage city? Within a department specialized in urban archaeology and monument conservation, you will contribute to the preservation and future of valuable buildings and areas in a city where past and future meet. As an immovable heritage expert within the monument conservation team, you will provide advice on architectural heritage.

In addition, you will keep the inventory of architectural heritage up-to-date and expand it further in the local territory. This way, you contribute to realizing the recognition of the organization as an immovable heritage municipality.

What you do

  • You provide (pre)advice on environmental permit applications related to buildings or areas with heritage status (protected, included in the inventory of architectural heritage, located within the UNESCO World Heritage buffer zone, or in residential areas colored on the regional plan with cultural, historical, and/or aesthetic value). You ensure a correct and balanced assessment of heritage values.
  • You process applications for permits for interventions on protected heritage and formulate well-founded advice according to the immovable heritage decree and associated implementing decisions.
  • You provide information to other departments about the heritage values of buildings or areas where projects are planned. This way, you contribute to high-quality urban development with respect for heritage.
  • You are able to independently assess the heritage value of immovable heritage and think solution-oriented about its preservation and appropriate adaptation, so that the heritage has a sustainable future.
  • You formulate advice clearly, correctly, and customer-oriented, and ensure that dossiers are processed timely within the applicable deadlines. To do this, you dare to take independent positions.
  • You work closely with colleagues within the urban archaeology and monument conservation department and receive guidance to familiarize yourself with the subject matter and the local heritage context.
  • In the long term, you ensure that the information in the inventory of architectural heritage is as correct as possible by making or signaling annual adjustments. You also investigate how the inventory of architectural heritage can be systematically expanded and work on this. This way, you contribute to an inventory that serves as a working instrument for a locally embedded heritage policy.

What they ask

  • Master's degree in architecture or civil engineering architect, with a specialization in heritage studies or 1 year of experience in the immovable heritage sector.
  • Or master's degree in history or art history, with a specialization in heritage studies or 1 year of experience in the immovable heritage sector.
  • Meet the general conditions at the start of the assignment.

Practical

  • Attractive gross monthly starting salary from € 4,020 (with 1 year of experience).
  • A varied job with a lot of personal contact and many responsibilities.
  • Opportunity to develop your career.
  • Meal vouchers of €8 per worked day.
  • Eco-vouchers (€200 per year).
  • An attractive second pension pillar.
  • Full reimbursement of public transport or bicycle allowance.
  • Free hospitalization insurance.
  • End-of-year bonus.
  • An attractive leave scheme: 35 days of leave.
  • Hundreds of benefits and discounts through the social service.

Selection procedure.

  • A short oral part where you present your motivation and demonstrate a limited number of competencies in an interview (may be omitted if there are fewer than 15 valid candidates).
  • An oral part where you present your motivation and demonstrate a number of competencies. A case or presentation may be requested prior to the interview.
  • Additional advisory computer-aided selection tests may be administered.

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