Within a legal department, an experienced legal advisor for objection and appeal is sought. You advise colleagues on various legal issues and are an important sparring partner for policy, implementation, and legal procedures. You advise on multiple policy areas and support colleagues with complex issues concerning policy development, vision formation, and decision-making. You think along about legal risks, advise on developments within your field, and help teams to act legally carefully and practically.
You also advise on the handling of objections, appeals, and higher appeals, and ensure that legal issues are clearly translated into usable advice. You work closely with other legal advisors and the secretary of the objection committee. Through your broad legal perspective, service-oriented attitude, and proactive approach, you contribute to a strong legal foundation within the organization. The activities are an integral part of regular operations and are performed within the existing organizational structure.
This is a structural role within the team, focused on continuity, knowledge retention, and close collaboration with internal stakeholders. Working for a public organization means contributing to society, where professionalism, creativity, and service-orientation are stimulated. The organization offers opportunities for professional development and contributes to society with enthusiasm, short lines of communication, commitment, integrally, and with pleasure.
What you do
- Handling complex objection and appeal cases (from preparing a procedural file, statement of defense to representing the administrative bodies at hearings)
- Providing legal advice (internal and external) in the field of administrative law and occasionally in the field of private law
- Drafting clear and legally sound administrative advice, memos, and decision-making documents for management and the board, with a concrete assessment of legal risks, action options, and actionable advice
- You are a point of contact for colleagues regarding administrative law issues
- Contributing to careful decision-making and legal quality assurance
What they ask
- Demonstrable completed education at a minimum of HBO bachelor level in a legal field
- Minimum of 3 years of demonstrable work experience as a legal advisor for objection and appeal in the past 7 years at a public organization
- Demonstrable work experience with legal advice within administrative law, including environmental law
- Agreement with the stated secondment conditions
Preferences.
- Demonstrable work experience with legally, administratively, or socially complex objection and appeal files
- Demonstrable completed education at a minimum of WO bachelor level
- Demonstrable work experience in the past 10 years in the role of legal counsel for objection and appeal at a public organization
Profile
- You are analytically minded
- You have excellent written and oral communication skills
- You have persuasive power
- You have political-administrative sensitivity
- You are results-oriented
- You are independent
- You have critical judgment
- You have independent judgment
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