A government organization is looking for a casemanager who can independently and integrally handle complex environmental permit applications and manage the process. The assignment involves guiding applications from the intake and preliminary consultation phase up to and including decision-making. The casemanager ensures a thorough substantive assessment, monitors progress and deadlines, and organizes the necessary coordination with internal and external advisors.
Additionally, the candidate is expected to contribute to the further development of the team, act as a substantive sparring partner, and contribute to improving work processes and services.
Expected results. The deployment of the casemanager contributes to:
- Timely and careful processing of complex permit applications
- High-quality and legally well-founded decision-making
- Effective integral cooperation between involved disciplines
- Clear and expert advice to initiators
- Good coordination with internal and external chain partners
- Knowledge sharing and strengthening of professional quality within the team
- Further professionalization of permit granting processes
What you will do.
- Independently manage the process for complex and integral environmental permit applications
- Assess and process applications based on the Environmental Act (Omgevingswet), the Bbl, the environmental plan, and other relevant laws and regulations
- Assess building plans regarding, among other things, spatial quality, sustainability, feasibility, and legal frameworks
- Coordinate the necessary internal and external advice
- Maintain contacts with initiators and advise on possibilities and points of attention within the applicable frameworks
- Prepare administrative advice and (draft) decisions for the college of mayor and aldermen
- Coordinate with, among others, the aesthetics committee, safety region, water board, and other involved parties
- Monitor progress, quality, completeness, and legal deadlines of dossiers
- Advise on the handling of objection and appeal cases within own dossiers
- Identify bottlenecks in implementation and propose solutions
- Contribute to the further development of processes and working methods related to permit granting under the Environmental Act
- Serve as a substantive point of contact and sparring partner for colleagues
- Guide and substantively support junior and less experienced employees
- Handle substantive information requests via, among others, email, phone notes, and contact forms
Profile
You independently and integrally handle complex environmental permit applications and manage the process from intake and preliminary consultation up to and including decision-making. You contribute substantively to the team and act as a sparring partner for colleagues. You are an integral part of the team, participate in internal meetings, and work under the daily hierarchical supervision of the responsible manager. Priorities, activities, and desired results are determined by the organization.
The role is structural in nature and requires full integration for continuity and knowledge retention.
What they ask
- Demonstrably completed education at a minimum of HBO bachelor level in the field of Architecture, Public Administration
- Minimum 8 years of demonstrable work experience as a permit grantor/casemanager at a government organization or environmental service
- Demonstrable work experience in the past 2 years with the Environmental Act (Omgevingswet), the Bbl, and the environmental plan
- Demonstrable work experience with independently handling complex and integral environmental permit applications
- Demonstrable work experience with preparing advice and (draft) decisions for administrative decision-making
- Demonstrable work experience with coordinating internal and external advice
Wishes.
- Demonstrably completed ABW I training
- Demonstrably completed ABW II training
- Demonstrable work experience with complex residential construction and area development projects
- Demonstrable work experience with preliminary consultation and advising initiators
- Demonstrable work experience with objection and appeal procedures in the field of environmental permits
- Demonstrable work experience with process optimization and the implementation or further development of the Environmental Act
- Demonstrable work experience with the CLO system
- Demonstrable work experience with guiding, coaching, and substantively supporting colleagues
Competencies.
- Process Management: Able to organize complex permit processes, monitor progress, and connect different interests and disciplines
- Analytical ability: Can assess complex issues from different angles and translate relevant laws and regulations into concrete advice
- Communication skills: Communicates clearly and professionally with initiators, colleagues, administration, and external parties
- Political-administrative sensitivity: Has insight into administrative relationships and knows when and how administrative coordination is necessary
- Judgment: Able to independently arrive at careful, balanced, and well-founded advice and decisions
- Collaboration: Actively collaborates with different disciplines and external parties and contributes to professional team cooperation
- Coaching ability: Shares knowledge and experience and supports colleagues with substantive questions and complex dossiers
- Result-oriented: Focused on achieving results and monitors quality, progress, and legal deadlines
- Language and writing: Good command of the Dutch language in speech and writing
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