This role is within a government organization that implemented an organization-wide reorganization in 2025. The organization is currently in a next phase of development, focusing on strengthening client and contractor roles, budget ownership, role stability, and role adoption. The Sustainability and Compliance department falls under the Spatial domain and consists of the Energy, Environment and Circularity, Environmental Permits, APV and Special Laws, and Public Space Enforcement teams.
The department works towards a sustainable, safe, and livable environment and contributes to the implementation of legislation, permit issuance, supervision and enforcement, energy transition, circular economy, and the realization of sustainability objectives.
What you will do.
- Lead four team leaders and report to the Director of Spatial Affairs.
- Provide direction for the strategic and substantive development of your department.
- Be a member of the management team within the Spatial domain and collaborate closely with other department managers to achieve integrated policy and service delivery.
- Be responsible for the strategic development and coherence of tasks in the areas of sustainability, energy transition, permit issuance, supervision and enforcement within the Spatial domain.
- Actively contribute to the further development within the Spatial domain and help shape roles, responsibilities, leadership, and collaboration.
- Coach and motivate team leaders, monitor coherence, and ensure structured and well-designed processes.
- Act as a connecting link between the board, management, and employees.
- Monitor quality and set the strategic course for substantive issues within the department and the Spatial domain.
- Drive organizational development and change processes.
- Be responsible for parts of the P&C cycle.
- Chair the portfolio holder consultation and manage the main lines.
- Serve as a sounding board for team leaders, offering perspective on content, process and context.
- Act as official client for projects at a tactical-strategic level.
- Be responsible for prioritizing and deploying capacity.
- Actively participate in external networks and collaborations.
- Play a role in the escalation of complaints, escalations, and/or sensitive situations where the societal reputational risk can be significant.
What they ask
- Demonstrably completed education at a minimum of HBO bachelor level.
- Minimum of 3 years demonstrable work experience in the past 10 years as a department manager / strategic level manager within a government institution.
- Demonstrable work experience in translating strategic goals and administrative ambitions into concrete results, priorities, and guidance for managers and teams.
Wishes.
- Demonstrably completed education at a minimum of WO bachelor level.
- Demonstrable work experience in guiding or directing the nature and content of policy areas within the department without taking over the content.
- Demonstrable work experience within the municipal spatial domain.
- Demonstrable skill in connecting people, teams, and domains.
- Demonstrable work experience with process and change management, preferably within an organization that has undergone a reorganization or continuous development.
- Demonstrable work experience with steering and accountability within the municipal P&C cycle.
Profile
- Skill in connecting people, teams, and domains.
- Knowledge and experience with process and change management.
- Experience with organizational development.
- Experience in guiding teams and managers in a changing organization.
- A structuring and connecting leader.
- Sharp strategic and tactical vision.
- Provides direction for change and stimulates innovation.
- Embodies core values – engaged, responsible, and decisive.
- Quality-conscious and drives well-structured processes.
- Smoothly switches between strategic leadership and operational insight.
- Moves easily within a political-administrative environment.
- Collaborates effectively with various stakeholders.
- Strong coaching and directing qualities.
- Knows how to motivate and develop team leaders.
- Organizationally sensitive and environmentally aware.
- Quickly makes connections and strategic choices that contribute to broader organizational goals.
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