A government organization is looking for a strategic spatial planning policy advisor. You are a strategic thinker who maintains an overview of complex spatial issues, concretizes them, and plans them over time. You also fulfill a mentoring role for new talent within the organization. The activities are an integral part of regular operations and are carried out within the existing organizational structure. This is a structural role within the team that requires full integration into the organization.
What you do
- Contribute to the development, further development, and updating of strategic spatial programs
- Advise the board, portfolio holders, policy advisors, and management on complex spatial issues within a political-administrative context
- Identify social, political, and administrative developments and translate them into strategic opportunities and risks for the organization
- Make a significant contribution to spatial tasks in the fields of Landscape, Recreation, heritage, sustainability, energy transition, mobility, and living environment
- Draft administrative documents, including proposals for the board and council
- Coordinate the coherence between policy, implementation, and policy within and outside the Spatial Management department
- Operate effectively within the administrative playing field and ensure connection between administration, organization, residents, developers, social partners, and regional partners
- Connect diverse interests and create support for policy choices and spatial developments
- Actively contribute to administrative decision-making and the Planning & Control cycle
Profile
- You understand administrative relationships, can connect diverse interests, and know how to operate in a political-administrative environment
- With your administrative sensitivity, you recognize opportunities, risks, and interests early on and translate them into clear advice and workable solutions
- The employee is part of the team, participates in internal meetings, and works under the daily guidance of the responsible manager
What they ask
- Demonstrable completed education at a minimum of HBO bachelor level in the field of spatial planning, public administration, urban planning, social geography, or a comparable field
- Minimum of 5 years of demonstrable work experience as a policy advisor within a municipality, province, or other public organization
Preferences.
- Demonstrable work experience with strategic advice within a political-administrative environment
- Demonstrable work experience with administrative decision-making processes and drafting proposals for the board and council
- Demonstrable work experience within a complex administrative playing field where various interests converge
- Demonstrable work experience with translating complex issues into clear and convincing administrative advice, policy documents, and proposals for the board and council
Competencies.
- Administrative sensitivity: you understand political and administrative relationships and know how to act effectively within a complex administrative environment
- Strategic ability: you oversee developments, make connections between tasks, and translate these into a clear course and concrete advice
- Connecting leadership: you bring people, interests, and professional disciplines together and create support for policy choices and developments
- Coaching and developing employees: you guide and support policy advisors in their professional and technical development and stimulate knowledge sharing within the team
- Persuasiveness: you know how to clearly and convincingly involve administrators, colleagues, and external partners in your advice and proposals
- Results-oriented: you translate strategic goals into concrete results and manage progress, quality
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