Back to all jobs
Visible on IKONS todayNewPopular
UtrechtHybrid22 hours/week3-6months
This role is part of a Permits, Supervision, and Enforcement (VTH) department within a governmental organization. This department primarily deals with enforcement, supervision, and permit granting in the physical living environment. Due to a shift in focus towards a major housing development task, there is a temporary need for an experienced senior environmental permit officer.
The assignment focuses on a combination of substantive permit granting, progress monitoring, prioritization, and coordination within the permit process.
What you will do.
- You will independently handle complex permit applications and principle requests.
- You will carefully assess applications and monitor procedural progress.
- You will ensure a sound legal and spatial balance.
- You will practically apply knowledge of the Environmental Act (Omgevingswet) in municipal practice.
- You will focus on enabling initiatives within the applicable frameworks.
- You will perform coordinating activities within the Permit Granting team.
- You will coordinate progress, prioritization, workload, and process approach.
- You will monitor the progress of ongoing applications and identify bottlenecks.
- You will ensure alignment with colleagues, advisors, and other involved disciplines.
- You will help maintain an overview of workload and deadlines.
- You will contribute to prioritization and a consistent and efficient working method.
- This is explicitly not a formal leadership role, but rather process management and support.
What they ask
- Minimum 3 years of demonstrable work experience as an environmental permit officer within a municipal organization.
- Minimum 5 years of demonstrable legal work experience in the past 7 years within the physical domain.
- Agreement with the stipulated secondment conditions.
- Possession of own mobile phone including subscription and laptop for business contacts.
Preferences.
- Completed education at a minimum of HBO bachelor level in the field of law, spatial administrative law, or urban planning.
- Demonstrable work experience with independently handling complex permit applications and/or principle requests within environmental law.
- Current knowledge of the Environmental Act (Omgevingswet), environmental law, and/or urban planning and its application in municipal practice.
- Demonstrable work experience with coordinating permit processes, work distribution, progress monitoring, prioritization, or process alignment within a municipal VTH environment.
- Demonstrable work experience with advising the College, portfolio holder, or administrative decision-making.
- Demonstrable legal work experience within the physical domain.
Profile
- You are focused on collaboration, easily make contact, and naturally involve colleagues in agreements, priorities, and deadlines.
- You are a strong communicator, easily switching between content, process, and interests.
- You timely recognize administrative or legal sensitivities.
- You think and work integrally, identify different interests, and weigh them carefully.
- You maintain an overview of multiple complex plans and procedures and can respond to new developments.
- You are well-versed in laws and regulations concerning environmental law and the Environmental Act (Omgevingswet).
- You think with legal diligence and connect this legal basis with the spatial field and municipal practice.
- You possess good advisory skills, are decisive, and accurate.
- You are resilient and able to maintain an overview of ongoing permit procedures, deadlines, and dependencies.
- You are strong in planning, prioritizing, and process monitoring.
- You timely identify bottlenecks in capacity, planning, or alignment.
- You can support colleagues and address them on progress without a formal leadership role.
- You easily switch between substantive handling, process coordination, and administrative or political sensitivities.
- Your work style is characterized by collaboration, ownership, consistent action, and decisiveness.
- You are environmentally aware and know how to respond to developments, signals, wishes, and expectations.
How to apply
View the full assignment text and application details once your tailored application is ready.
Order a tailored application to view the full assignment and application details.
More context, less searching.
You get enough context to judge whether this job is relevant. The full brief, client details and next steps stay available inside the app.