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Strategic advisor for administrative cooperation

North HollandHybrid16 hours/week<3months

Supporting two municipalities in determining their position and decision-making regarding the future of an intermunicipal cooperation arrangement.

  • Within this cooperation, work is being done on the future of the collaboration, the associated tasks, and the properties/plots.
  • Various development directions are being investigated, including the continuation of the cooperation in an adapted form, the transfer of tasks and plots, or the termination of the cooperation.
  • Need for an independent strategic advisor to support the municipalities throughout the process with strategic analysis, scenario development, balancing interests, and process management.

What you will do.

  • Mapping action options and the associated administrative, legal, organizational, and financial consequences and risks.
  • Advising on whether or not to acquire land and properties, the conditions under which this can take place, and how the associated tasks, costs, and responsibilities can be safeguarded within the municipal organizations.
  • Involving the necessary internal expertise and directing the administrative and political coordination and the preparation of decision-making.
  • Developing and elaborating future scenarios and action options.
  • Making administrative, legal, organizational, and financial consequences transparent for the different scenarios.
  • Advising on the desirability and feasibility of acquiring, possibly temporarily, land and properties by the participating municipalities.
  • Assessing the conditions under which any acquisition can take place, including financial consequences, existing obligations, maintenance, management, liabilities, and risk distribution.
  • Identifying risks, opportunities, and dependencies.
  • Organizing and coordinating internal alignment with involved disciplines, including land affairs, legal affairs, finance, spatial development, and public space management.
  • Preparing administrative decision-making and managing the process for administrative and political coordination.

What they ask

  • A completed relevant university degree, preferably in public administration, law, or business administration.
  • Demonstrable experience with complex administrative partnerships.
  • Experience with intermunicipal cooperation arrangements.
  • Experience with administrative decision-making processes.
  • Experience with strategic advising of administrators and management.
  • Experience with governance and organizational issues.

Wishes.

  • Understands the political and social context in which the project takes place and can respond effectively to it.

Profile

  • Strong analytical skills and ability to translate complex information into concrete choices.
  • Easily switches between strategic thinking and practical implementation.
  • Communicative, strong in planning, and organizationally sensitive.

Practical

  • At the end of the assignment, you will deliver:
  • Scenario analyses, risk analyses, and impact analyses.
  • Integrated advice on whether or not to acquire land and properties, including the conditions and consequences of any acquisition.
  • Advice on the internal safeguarding of ownership, management, responsibilities, required capacity, and financial coverage.
  • Administrative advisory notes and decision documents.
  • Administrative proposals and decision-making documents.
  • Strategic advice to administrators and administrative clients.
  • Process planning, progress reports, and decision-making calendars.

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