A government organization is working on the further development of a single integrated environmental plan for the entire municipality in the coming years. Within this task, the organization is looking for an experienced Policy Lawyer Environmental Plan who contributes substantively to the legal quality of the environmental plan and guides spatial developments within the framework of the Environmental Act (Omgevingswet).
The contractor advises on planning and legal issues, guides spatial procedures, and makes an active contribution to the development, implementation, and management of the environmental plan. In addition, the contractor contributes to the further establishment of applicable rules and legal safeguarding within the Digital Environmental Act System (DSO).
What you do
- Provide a substantive contribution to the development, updating, and management of the municipal environmental plan.
- Draft, manage, and optimize applicable rules within the environmental plan.
- Develop and improve legal rules, policies, and work processes within the spatial domain.
- Guide spatial initiatives from planning through legal procedures, including preliminary requests, environmental permits, and amendments to the environmental plan.
- Advise management, board, and colleagues on legal-planning issues.
- Handle objections, appeals, and higher appeal procedures.
- Identify legal risks and opportunities and advise on them.
- Initiate, coordinate, and guide legal processes.
- Represent the organization during administrative consultations and legal procedures.
- Collaborate with internal disciplines and external partners within spatial projects.
- Monitor developments within the Environmental Act and translate them into municipal practice.
- Contribute to the further implementation of the Environmental Act within the organization.
Result.
- The agreed components of the environmental plan are delivered legally complete, up-to-date, and applicable.
- The agreed applicable rules within the DSO are elaborated, validated, and made available for use.
- Legal advice, analyses, and decision-making documents are delivered timely, completely, and with sound justification.
- The assigned legal procedures and spatial trajectories are guided and completed in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
- Legal risks and improvement points are identified and translated into concrete advice for the client.
- A transferable dossier is delivered, enabling the client to independently continue the implementation and safeguarding.
Profile
- Politically and administratively sensitive
- Strong analytical skills
- Result-oriented
- Organizationally sensitive
- Accurate
- Connecting
- Persuasive
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Independent and proactive
What they ask
- Demonstrable completed education at least at HBO bachelor level
- Demonstrable knowledge of the following laws and regulations: environmental law, environmental act, and administrative law. Work experience must explicitly state where this knowledge was gained and applied
- Demonstrable work experience with the VNG methodology for the environmental plan
- Minimum 2 years of demonstrable work experience with Rx.Base and STTR-Builder
- Demonstrable work experience with administrative decision-making within a municipal organization
Preferences.
- Demonstrable work experience with guiding spatial initiatives within a municipal organization
- Demonstrable work experience with guiding, coaching, or training colleagues in the area of planning methodology
- Demonstrable work experience with objection and appeal procedures within environmental law
- Demonstrable work experience with integral collaboration within multidisciplinary project teams
- Demonstrable work experience with the transition from a temporary environmental plan to a definitive environmental plan
- Demonstrable work experience with drafting and managing applicable rules within the DSO
- Demonstrable completed education at least at HBO bachelor level in the direction of Law, Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Urban Planning, or a comparable legal education
- Demonstrable work experience with annotation and rule management within the environmental plan
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