Spatial Project Leader

A municipal organization is working in the coming years on extensive spatial and social challenges that are decisive for the quality of the living environment. These projects are in various phases of development, preparation, and implementation and require strong project-based management, administrative sensitivity, and the ability to bring diverse interests together.

For these challenges, the organization is looking for an experienced Area Development Project Leader who will be integrally responsible for a number of strategically important housing projects. The project leader ensures the progress, administrative decision-making, preparation, and realization of various housing projects.

The project leader guides this process on behalf of the organization, manages progress and decision-making, organizes internal coordination, and ensures that initiatives are assessed and advanced within the applicable policy and spatial frameworks.

What you will do.

• Integrally responsible for the preparation, execution, and realization of assigned projects.
• Responsible for achieving project objectives within planning, budget, and quality.
• Client and point of contact for internal project teams, external advisors, developers, and contractors.
• Director of participation and communication processes with residents, associations, entrepreneurs, and social organizations.
• Responsible for administrative advice and preparation of decision-making for the college and municipal council.
• Responsible for drawing up and monitoring project schedules, risk analyses, and financial estimates.
• Responsible for contract management and procurement processes insofar as they are part of the projects.
• Responsible for creating support and connecting diverse interests.
• Point of contact for management, administrators, and external stakeholders.
• Monitoring the organization, communication, finances, risks, quality, and progress of the projects.
• Work closely with involved policy areas and colleagues in spatial development, civil engineering, real estate, sports, and permit granting.

What they ask

• Minimum five years of demonstrable experience as an area development project leader within or for a municipal organization.
• Demonstrable experience with complex spatial projects or area developments.
• Demonstrable experience with administrative decision-making within municipal organizations.
• Demonstrable experience with participation and stakeholder processes.
• At least a relevant HBO degree.
• Provide two references including name, function, organization, phone number, and email address.

Preferences.

• Demonstrable experience as a project leader of complex area developments within or on behalf of a municipal organization, preferably having been responsible for multiple projects from the initiative or planning phase through to realization.
• Demonstrable experience with projects involving administrative sensitivity, participation processes, resident interests, and diverse stakeholder interests, with a clear role in these.
• Demonstrable experience with (facilitating) area developments, collaboration with project developers, housing initiatives, and public-private partnerships.
• Experience with guiding spatial procedures and administrative decision-making is a plus.
• Demonstrable knowledge of municipal decision-making processes.
• Preferably a relevant network within municipalities, regional partnerships, social organizations, and market parties in Central Brabant.