Program driver for business park sustainability

• Collaborate with municipalities, local entrepreneurs, and other stakeholders to strengthen the organizational capacity and make selected business parks more sustainable.
• Bring parties together and ensure an appropriate collaboration structure for joint sustainability initiatives.
• Build relationships with entrepreneurs, entrepreneur collectives, and municipalities.
• Explore which sustainability challenges are most appropriate to address and support in setting priorities.
• Guide the process to achieve a suitable organizational form and help set it up and strengthen it further.
• Guide and advise the (to be formed) partnerships in inventorying opportunities, wishes, and priorities for joint sustainability projects (e.g., energy consumption, energy-saving measures, generation/storage possibilities, sustainable mobility issues).
• Establish contact with the relevant colleagues at the municipalities and/or the government organization regarding climate adaptation, waste management, or greening measures.
• Investigate interest in an energy hub in relation to grid congestion and connect entrepreneurs, the municipality, and relevant provincial colleagues to explore this further.
• Support in drafting initial (concept) project plans for the main sustainability challenges.
• Help develop an action plan with goals, stakeholders, necessary resources, planning, and phasing.
• Explore financing possibilities (subsidies, funds) and establish connections with relevant partners.
• Deliver a (concept) plan of approach for the desired organizational form and a (concept) project plan for the prioritized sustainability challenges per selected business park.
• Provide semi-annual progress data and achieved results in accordance with the prescribed format.
• Participate in progress meetings and knowledge sessions, report on efforts, and contribute to knowledge sharing.

• Proactive: proactively approach entrepreneurs, municipalities, and stakeholders.
• Communicative: be a strong and accessible discussion partner for both entrepreneurs and authorities.
• Collaborative: connect parties and be mindful of different interests.
• Results-oriented: work purposefully towards concrete results and their embedding.
• Solution-oriented: translate complex issues into feasible solutions.
• Networker: actively build and utilize a relevant network.
• Process and project skilled: organize, plan, guide processes, and monitor progress and results.

What they ask

• Minimum 3 years of demonstrable work experience in setting up, organizing, and guiding collaboration between companies (in business parks) in the past 5 years.
• Demonstrable business network and/or entrepreneurial experience (with a clear example in the CV).
• Minimum 3 years of demonstrable work experience in initiating and realizing integrated sustainable projects for companies (in business parks) in the past 5 years (with reference projects in the CV).

Preferences.

• Demonstrable current network of entrepreneurs, entrepreneur associations, and municipalities in the relevant region (with a clear example in the CV).
• Demonstrable current and deployable network in one or more of the mentioned municipalities (with a clear example in the CV).
• Minimum 3 years of demonstrable work experience collaborating on sustainability themes in public-private partnerships between government and entrepreneurs in the past 10 years.
• Minimum 3 years of demonstrable work experience in initiating, guiding, and realizing change processes or projects where entrepreneurs with diverse interests are brought together in the past 10 years.

• The contractor is expected to use their own (ICT) resources.
• Additional business resources that prove necessary during the assignment must be funded by the contractor themselves.
• The activities belong to the regular tasks of the function and concern an existing function within the organization's job framework.
• Full integration into the organization is required, and the activities must be performed personally; free replacement is not permitted.