Housing advisor

• Translates the OPV for the agreed areas into tactical implementation paragraphs: which instruments, partners, and agreements are needed to realize the task.
• Advises on process agreements with housing corporations and tenant organizations, the connection to performance agreements, and the safeguarding of the housing program in environmental plans and agreements.
• Develops, in consultation with involved colleagues, the area and neighborhood profiles into a reusable working method, with a specific neighborhood as the first elaboration.
• Elaborates a qualitative housing program for the neighborhood(s) to be delimited in the assignment, specifying target groups, segments, housing types, and living environments, substantiated with housing research and neighborhood data.
• Connects this with flow-through, better utilization of the existing stock, facilities, and social challenges, and clarifies how the neighborhood-oriented choices align with the urban task and the long term.
• Provides independent, written housing advice for complex area developments to be delimited in advance.
• Assesses plans from the initial note against the housing program, evaluates feasibility, and develops applicable alternatives where bottlenecks arise.
• Coordinates where necessary with area and project teams, developers, and corporations.
• Records the developed methodology, assessment frameworks, and working agreements in a transferable document and provides a substantive transfer to the permanent Housing team.

Deliverables and scope.

• A written tactical implementation elaboration of the OPV for the area(s) to be defined at the start, including instruments, involved parties, and proposed agreements.
• A detailed neighborhood profile and qualitative housing program for a specific neighborhood as the first application, with substantiation and a reproducible methodology for other neighborhoods.
• Written housing advice and assessment frameworks for a determined number of area developments, with attention to the program, feasibility, and solution directions.
• A transfer document with the working method, principles, and recommendations, supplemented with a knowledge session for the permanent team.
• Within the first month after commencement, the contractor will develop a plan of approach within this scope, including quality requirements, third-party dependencies, and interim delivery moments.
• The client assesses the products based on the agreed substantive requirements.
• The delivery of advice is not dependent on subsequent administrative decision-making.
• The contractor is not used for general, ongoing policy capacity, regular portfolio occupation, or structural activities outside this scope.

Competencies.

• Administrative sensitivity
• Strong analytical skills
• Results-oriented
• Environmentally aware and connecting
• Independent and proactive
• Political-administrative antenna
• Strong in stakeholder management
• Planning and organizational talent

What they ask

• Minimum 10 years of demonstrable work experience as an advisor in the spatial domain.
• Minimum 10 years of demonstrable work experience with a government organization.
• Demonstrable completed education at a minimum of HBO bachelor level in the direction of spatial development, real estate (management), or civil engineering.

Preferences.

• Demonstrable work experience in the past 3 years with preparing or elaborating a housing program (environmental housing program) in the context of the Act on Strengthening Housing Policy Control, particularly the translation into implementation.
• Demonstrable work experience with qualitative programming at neighborhood or area level: translating housing policy into a housing program per neighborhood (target groups, segments, housing types, living environments), substantiated with housing or needs research.
• Demonstrable work experience in the past 5 years with collaboration between a government organization, housing corporations, market parties, and residents, including making and safeguarding agreements about the housing program (e.g., performance agreements, anterior agreements, or cooperation agreements).
• Demonstrable work experience with connecting the physical and social domains in neighborhood development, for example, regarding liveability, health, facilities, or social cohesion.
• Minimum 5 years of demonstrable work experience in the past 10 years as a housing or area development advisor with or for a government organization.
• Demonstrable work experience as an advisor in (complex) area developments, including assessing feasibility, for example, with real estate concepts, location analyses, feasibility studies, and exploitation calculations.