Consultant

Climate adaptation advisor who integrates climate adaptation into municipal policymaking and implementation, acting as a connecting link between policy, implementation, and external partners, and addresses both strategic and practical issues.

• Completed education at least at HBO level, preferably in Climate and Environmental Sciences, Sustainability, or Environmental Science.
• Recent experience in drafting and implementing implementation agendas and climate adaptation projects within a municipal organisation.
• Demonstrable experience integrating climate adaptation into policy and implementation, including experience with applying for and accounting for subsidies.
• Experience in the past five years as a climate adaptation advisor within a municipal organisation.
• Knowledge of and experience with We4Climate; experience with stress tests or heat maps for climate adaptation.
• Experience with policy or implementation regarding biodiversity, green management, or water management, and with stimulating or guiding resident initiatives or greening projects.
• Demonstrable experience with project management for campaigns or municipal projects.
• Excellent communication skills (oral and written), administrative and political sensitivity, networking skills, and the ability to make complex issues understandable.
• Proactive, solution-oriented attitude; ability to work independently and take initiative within an administrative organisation.

• Embedding climate adaptation in municipal policy and instruments, such as JOR/HIOR and frameworks for the design and management of public space.
• Drafting, revising, and implementing implementation agendas and action plans to make the climate adaptation strategy concrete.
• Establishing frameworks for climate adaptation and applying them as assessment criteria for new developments and spatial interventions.
• Contribute to the policy and implementation of the Green and Sustainable Construction Program.
• Translating themes such as heat, flooding, drought, and biodiversity into concrete measures and projects.
• Providing early advice on spatial developments and redesigns to make projects climate-adaptive.
• Identifying bottlenecks in public spaces and collaborating with management and project teams on solutions.
• Project management for campaigns and municipal policy, for example the National Tile Removal Championship and municipal fisheries policy.
• Updating and supplementing existing stress tests in preparation for climate change.
• Strengthening regional cooperation through We4Climate and contributing to knowledge sharing with other municipalities and regional partners.
• Encouraging and supporting initiatives by residents and organisations; acting as a point of contact for residents' inquiries.
• Collaborating with internal teams such as public space management, spatial development, sustainability, and communication to structurally embed climate adaptation.
• Applying for, managing, and accounting for subsidies, with a focus on the provincial subsidy for the Integrated Heat Action Plan.
• Contribute to communication with residents regarding projects and residents' initiatives.
• Active commitment to the greening of public grounds, schools, and other municipal locations.

Assignment location: Municipality of Altena, Province of North Brabant. Assignment period: 01-05-2026 to 31-12-2026.

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