Data Specialist Real Estate & Living Environment

Work at the intersection of data and policy. As a Data Specialist, you directly contribute to the continuous operational deployability of locations belonging to a government organization. You develop and improve information provision within the real estate and living environment domain and support information-driven decision-making, policy development, and program management.

What you will do.

• Guide, manage, and coordinate management information and real estate data for the real estate and living environment domain.
• Contribute to data activities focused on steering information.
• Assess data issues for feasibility and implementation routes.
• Coordinate with contacts within various organizational units and a real estate manager regarding the application of products.
• Support the development and maintenance of dashboards and reports within projects and programs, including GIS and IGIM.
• Optimize data collection and processing processes, such as a shared data room or portal for the organization and the real estate manager.
• Analyze data from various sources.
• Visualize bottlenecks within projects using GIS.
• Monitor data standards, data quality, and consistency.
• Advise the department head and real estate colleagues on KPIs and data-driven decision-making.
• Prepare steering information, for example, on the maintenance status of the real estate portfolio or geographical overviews of real estate projects.
• Present insights during meetings and decision-making moments.
• Facilitate collaboration in the field of data and information provision.

What they ask

• HBO (higher professional education) work and thinking level, preferably in an information science and/or GEO or urban planning direction.
• Experience with information management, converting data from various sources into usable management and steering information.
• Ability to comprehend complex information and translate it into clear dashboards, insights, and steering tools.
• Experience with project-based work and ICT tools.
• Preferably, experience with the organization, culture, and client areas of a government organization.
• Knowledge of real estate data and management information.
• Experience with GIS, Power BI, or similar tools.
• Familiarity with data processes, data quality, and data governance.
• Plus: experience with GIS, Excel (Power Pivot/pivot tables), Python/R for data preparation and validation, Power BI (Desktop/Service), Power Query & DAX, data modeling (star schema), and dataset security.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Meticulous, proactive, and results-oriented.
• Good command of Dutch and English, both verbally and in writing.