This assignment concerns the preparation for the renewal of an existing community facility. The building will be given a new purpose as a socio-cultural meeting place for young and old, where associations, foundations, and institutions will have space for exercise, culture, information, education, sports, and well-being. The goal is to create a place where they collaborate, strengthen each other, and bring residents together. The concept has been approved, and a proposal for the building layout is available.
What you will do. As a project manager, you will lead the construction preparation phase, consisting of 3 sub-projects:
- Preparing the renovation
- Attracting future users
- Organizing the new management
You are ultimately responsible for the overall result and monitor planning, risks, and finances. You will coordinate the renovation with the involved sub-project leader. You will take on the future use and new management yourself. Your activities include:
- Creating a project plan with a clear project structure and distribution of roles, tasks, and responsibilities.
- Ensuring that the renovation preparation, user agreements, and future management are aligned.
- Attracting suitable associations, foundations, and institutions that wish to share spaces and collaborate, and formalizing agreements in a realization agreement.
- Guiding the tender process for an operator who will manage future operations and exploitation, and ensuring a contract that aligns with social and commercial goals.
- Organizing the transition to the new management form and ensuring connection with the dismantling of the current managing entity.
- Ensuring clear communication and coordination with users, social partners, residents, board, and involved departments.
- Compiling the results into a final report for decision-making regarding the definitive continuation to the renovation.
What they ask You are energized by a large-scale project with many involved parties. You easily connect with social partners and residents and know how to handle political and administrative interests. You bring people together, ensure coordination, and clearly explain choices. You work independently, take responsibility, and stay on course. You set priorities and quickly switch between main lines and details. You are convincing, work in a structured and planned manner, and adapt your approach when necessary.
You take initiative to advance the project.
Profile
- Extensive experience as a project leader and/or program manager, preferably in a political-administrative environment.
- Knowledge of and experience with the development of multifunctional accommodations and possible management and exploitation forms.
- Knowledge of the social domain and cultural domain, with insight into current issues and a personal perspective.
- Knowledge of public procurement procedures.
Practical
- You will be part of the Social Development and Citizen Power department and report to the department head.
- Close collaboration with other departments, including Physical and Economic Development and Public Space.
- The position can be filled as a freelancer (ZZP) or as an employee (scale 11).
- Travel allowance that encourages sustainable travel, including full reimbursement for public transport, €0.25 net per kilometer for cycling, and €0.15 per kilometer for driving.
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