A government organization is working on one of the largest area developments in the Netherlands. On a former military airfield, a new urban district will be realized with approximately 5,600 homes, social facilities, new infrastructure, nature development, and space for economic growth. Within this development, diverse interests converge in the fields of housing, accessibility, climate adaptation, biodiversity, sustainability, and future-proof management of public space.
The organization collaborates intensively with developers, consulting firms, authorities, and the municipal management organization. For this challenging task, the organization is seeking an Asset Manager Area Development and Management who will ensure that the interests of management and maintenance are systematically incorporated into the area development from planning through transfer.
What you will do.
- Act as a link between area development and the management organization.
- Represent the interests of Management & Maintenance within the area development.
- Ensure that choices made today are manageable, maintainable, and financially responsible in the long term.
- Focus on specific sub-areas within the development.
- Compile an up-to-date and integrated overview of all issues and interfaces between area development and Management & Maintenance.
- Report monthly on the progress of identified issues.
- Contribute to concrete agreements on future management, maintenance, ownership, and transfer of new areas.
- Advise on the design, quality, manageability, and future-proofing of public space.
- Review and have plans and designs reviewed against municipal policy frameworks, management principles, and maintenance objectives.
- Coordinate the input of various management departments within the area development.
- Monitor the coherence between design, realization, management, and maintenance.
- Identify and manage risks in the field of future management and maintenance.
- Advise management on integral considerations and consequences of design and implementation choices.
- Coordinate with project managers, developers, consultants, and other stakeholders.
- Guide the transfer of new areas to the management organization.
What they ask
- Demonstrably completed education at a minimum of MBO4 level.
- Minimum of 2 years of demonstrable work experience as an asset manager for area development or public space management advisor within a government organization.
- Agrees to the stated secondment condition.
Preferences.
- Demonstrably completed education at a minimum of HBO bachelor's level in civil engineering, urban planning, spatial planning, built environment, or technical public administration.
- Minimum of 4 years of demonstrable work experience in the past 8 years as an asset manager for area development, public space management advisor, or similar role within a municipality or other government organization.
- Minimum of 2 years of demonstrable work experience in the past 4 years within a complex area development, involving coordination between multiple disciplines, stakeholders, and interests.
- Demonstrable work experience advising management, executive board, and/or administration within area development, public space management, or similar projects.
- Personal motivation addressing suitability for the assignment, demonstrable knowledge of climate adaptation, biodiversity, and future-proof design of public space, and motivation for this assignment.
- Minimum of 1 year of demonstrable work experience in the past 4 years with area adoption, transfer of projects to management, and/or drafting maintenance plans, multi-year plans, or annual plans.
Profile
- Environmental sensitivity: able to recognize different interests of management, area development, administration, and external parties, respond carefully to them, and bring diverse interests together into workable solutions.
- Connecting ability: easily builds relationships and creates collaboration between different disciplines, departments, and stakeholders, builds support, and keeps people involved in common goals.
- Analytical ability: can quickly grasp complex issues, risks, and dependencies, distinguish main from secondary issues, and translate analyses into concrete advice.
- Advisory skills: provides clear, well-substantiated advice to management and stakeholders, clarifies the consequences of choices, and knows how to involve others.
- Organizational sensitivity: operates effectively within an administrative and official environment, understands decision-making processes, and acts with an eye for the different interests within the organization.
Practical
- 'Bring your own device' applies. No IT resources will be provided for the execution of the assignment.
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