Spatial Development Policy Advisor

You bring structure to complexity, provide clear advice, and ensure that spatial plans are robust, both on paper and in practice.

• You work at the intersection of idea and implementation, ensuring that plans become reality within a government organization.
• You move smoothly between initiators, management, and colleagues, bringing momentum and diligence to spatial processes.
• The Environmental Act serves as a compass, enabling developments and the organization's ambitions.
• You work in a team of approximately 30 colleagues who collectively focus on the physical living environment.
• The team works on major and current themes, including the creation and updating of environmental visions and plans, the development of landscape policy, and public housing.
• Additionally, the team advises on topics such as tourism and recreation, sustainability and energy transition, economic affairs and business parks, land matters, environment and construction, soil, and land exploitation.

What you will do.

• Ensure that spatial plans do not remain on paper but are implemented.
• Collaborate and coordinate with initiators, management, and colleagues.
• Bring momentum and diligence to spatial processes.
• Apply the Environmental Act as a compass to enable developments and organizational ambitions.
• Support project leaders with complex spatial issues.
• Specific dossiers include:
• Housing development plans
• New construction of social facilities, including a school and swimming pool
• Function change
• Contributing to the transition task of the environmental plan
• Enforcement dossiers

What they ask

• Demonstrable completed education at a minimum of HBO bachelor level.
• Minimum 3 years of demonstrable work experience in the past 5 years in the role of Spatial Development policy advisor.
• Willingness to bring several example college and council proposals to the interview.
• The candidate will use their own IT resources (laptop, phone, and associated accessories) for the execution of the assignment.

Wishes.

• Demonstrable completed education in spatial planning, urban planning, law, or public administration at a minimum of HBO bachelor level.
• Demonstrable work experience with the Environmental Act.
• Demonstrable work experience with administrative advising.
• Minimum 5 years of demonstrable work experience in handling complex Spatial Development cases.
• Demonstrable work experience in the past 5 years in the role of Spatial Development policy advisor.