Team Manager Soil
Team leader for a soil, asbestos, and enforcement officers team, responsible for management and development.
Managing process, results, and agility; translating decisions into projects and policy.
Higher professional education (HBO+) working and thinking level and extensive leadership experience, preferably with change management.
Description
You are fully responsible for the management and further development of a team of approximately 30 employees, divided across four clusters: soil supervision, soil consultancy, asbestos, and enforcement officers. You are part of the management team and the broader managers' meeting, and report to the Executive Board. The role is multifaceted and involves tasks at strategic, tactical, and operational levels, with room to exert influence within a relatively flat organization.
Job requirements
- Higher professional education (HBO+) working and thinking level.
- Extensive experience as a manager, preferably in a political-administrative environment.
- Experience with change management and organizational development.
- Coaching and inspiring leadership, steadfast and decisive.
- Strategic and analytical insight with execution power.
- Good communication skills; connecting, persuasiveness, and empathy.
- Ability to inspire and persuade people and provide targeted feedback.
- Subject-matter expertise and a helicopter view; collaborative and people-oriented with accessibility and humor.
- Strong personality who radiates calm, confidence, and natural authority.
Tasks
- Provide comprehensive leadership to the team and ensure the associated business processes.
- Managing for process, results, and agility.
- Ensuring that employees meet legally established quality criteria per position.
- Coaching and stimulating both professional and personal development of employees.
- Promoting collaboration, task maturity, self-management, and ownership within the team.
- Directing and monitoring progress in the realization of team objectives and policy tasks.
- Translating management decisions into organizational frameworks, projects, and programs, and preparing decision-making.
- Identifying new developments and innovations and translating these into service delivery.
- Serve as (delegated) client for organization-wide projects and programs.
- Maintaining contact with participating parties and representing the organization in consultations with municipalities and the province.
Working conditions
- A meaningful position with room for professional and personal development.
- Individual Choice Budget (IKB) that can be used flexibly, for example for extra vacation days or a bicycle.
- Commuting allowance.
- Flexibility in working hours and the possibility to work from home combined with office work in Veendam.
- Opportunities to further develop yourself and contribute to organization-wide projects.
- The vacancy is published both internally and externally; in the event of equal suitability, internal candidates have priority.
Description of the organization
The organization supports municipalities and the province in the application and compliance with environmental laws and regulations and provides specialist advice. It collaborates with regional and national partners on a safe, healthy, and sustainable living environment. Employees work on complex issues such as energy transition, circularity, water safety, and the reduction of emissions. There is an open, informal, and collegial working atmosphere with an emphasis on initiative, development, and ownership.