This assignment concerns the large-scale transformation of a former industrial site into a high-density, mixed-use urban living and working area. Placemaking aims to bring the area to life even before definitive construction, to establish the area's identity, and to contribute to area development, an innovation district, and urban objectives for economy, culture, encounter, and quality of life.
An integrated project plan is in place, coherently organizing the program, spatial and planning elaboration, civil measures, marketing, communication, and participation.
What you will do. The assignment focuses on independently further developing and realizing this integrated approach and delivering the described products and results.
- Responsible for realizing placemaking results within agreed frameworks, planning, and budget.
- The assignment is executed in four result phases: initiation, definition, design, and implementation.
- Collaborate and coordinate with various municipal disciplines and external parties.
- Do not exercise hierarchical leadership over municipal employees.
- Report monthly on the progress of agreed results, products, milestones, planning, budget, and main risks.
- In case of deviations, submit a proposal for adjustment or decision-making to the client.
Results per phase:
- Phase 1: An updated integrated project plan, a recognizable and coherent overarching placemaking concept, an integrated planning, and an updated GROTICK analysis.
- Phase 2: A financial strategy, an administrative roadmap, a detailed stakeholder and participation strategy, a detailed marketing and communication strategy, and an updated integrated planning.
- Phase 3: Decision-ready implementation plans for an innovation park, a public attractor, and the remaining area programming.
- Phase 4: Realization and demonstrable delivery of the agreed placemaking interventions and a complete, transferable project file.
What they ask
- Minimum of a completed HBO (higher professional education) degree in spatial development, urban planning, public administration, economics, culture, area development, or a demonstrably comparable field.
- Minimum of 10 years of demonstrable experience as a project manager for complex urban development assignments.
- Demonstrable experience with integrally connecting programming, community building, positioning, and communication with spatial, planning, legal, and civil engineering preconditions.
- Demonstrable experience with project and program control, including scope, planning, phasing, finances, risks, quality, procurement, participation, communication, and administrative decision-making.
- Demonstrable experience within a governmental and political-administrative environment, with multiple clients and managing multidisciplinary teams, sub-project leaders, and external partners.
Preferences:
- Preferably a completed WO (university) degree in relevant fields.
- Extensive experience as a project manager for complex placemaking and urban development assignments in a political-administrative context.
- Demonstrable experience with an integrated placemaking approach where program, innovation, culture, events, community building, and area positioning are linked to spatial feasibility and implementation.
- In the past five years, demonstrable experience with advising management, college, and/or municipal council, and with independently drafting integrated project plans and decision-making documents for complex urban programs.
- Relevant and verifiable references for comparable project management assignments in placemaking, urban programming, or area development from the past five years.
Profile
- Integral steering on program, space, and implementation.
- Entrepreneurship, energy, and results-orientation.
- Environmental and administrative sensitivity with multiple clients.
- Connecting leadership, networking, and stakeholder management.
- Project control: scope, risks, planning, quality, and finances.
- Clear oral and written communication in a political-administrative context.
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