Within a public sector organization, collaboration with residents, entrepreneurs, and partners aims to improve the quality of life. The organization strives to maintain and strengthen broad prosperity by bringing together unique talents and sharing a passion for the city and its inhabitants. There is room for personal development and exploring interests and skills. The organization values diversity and respects everyone.
What you do
Various projects and developments are currently in different phases, where potential (substantive or geographical) combinations can be made. These involve area developments where many themes converge, such as Green, Mobility, Housing, Climate Adaptation, and Energy Transition. As a project manager, you not only add housing but also contribute to a livable city.
- Quickly gain insight into what is needed in an area and be driven to make progress and see results.
- Establish the right connection between internal and external stakeholders and the content.
- Analyze and evaluate information, review different scenarios, and arrive at well-considered strategic and tactical proposals.
- Make decisions and justify them so that people understand and align with your direction.
- Manage project teams based on risks, finances, planning, quality, and dependencies.
- Anticipate problems to adjust in time if necessary.
- Understand that administrative and social support is a success factor in politically sensitive area developments.
This position involves the replacement of a permanent employee and is an embedded role with ongoing core activities under supervision and guidance.
Profile
- Strategic and conceptual insight: Understand how spatial, economic, and social challenges converge in an area.
- Connecting leadership: Maintain an overview of planning, budget, quality, and risks, and manage multidisciplinary teams.
- Negotiation skills and political-administrative sensitivity: Easily switch between official, administrative, and market-oriented levels.
- Solution-oriented and flexible capacity: Adjust when the context or laws and regulations change.
- Environmental awareness: Identify and connect diverse interests of citizens, businesses, and governments in collaboration with the environmental manager.
What they ask
- Completed education at a minimum of HBO bachelor level.
- Minimum of 5 years demonstrable work experience in the past 10 years as a project manager within inner-city area development in a city with more than 100,000 inhabitants.
- Demonstrable work experience within a municipal government organization with more than 100,000 inhabitants.
- Demonstrable work experience in the past 5 years with political sensitivity, illustrate this with an example.
Preferences.
- Demonstrable work experience with administratively and politically sensitive area developments where coordination has taken place with administrators, residents, developers, and other stakeholders.
- Minimum of 7 years demonstrable work experience as an area development project manager within a municipality with more than 100,000 inhabitants.
- Demonstrable work experience as a project manager of complex inner-city area developments, where multiple spatial and social challenges converge.
- Demonstrable work experience leading area development projects with a mixed program of housing, work, and social or commercial facilities.
- Demonstrable work experience with area developments in the planning and/or environmental plan phase under the Environmental Act, explicitly state this in your work experience.
- Demonstrable work experience with the integral management of multidisciplinary project teams on aspects such as planning, risks, finances, quality, and/or dependencies.
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