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BIJ12
Senior Advisor on Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
Senior Advisor on Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
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Function
Senior Advisor on Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).Location
UtrechtHours per week
24 hours per weekDuration
16.05.2025 - 30.06.2026Application number
SRQ176424DAS
BIJ12Closing date
28.04.2025
10:00
Role description and task arrangements
Are you an experienced policy advisor who likes to be a spider in the web and wants to be the face to provinces, ministries and stakeholders on the challenging issues surrounding the Common Agricultural Policy, agriculture and agricultural nature management? Then you will be right at home within our team. You will work within the Interprovincial Rural Area Program Organization in a close-knit team that works on complex issues in the rural area. These are social issues for which provinces are looked to for solutions. As a policy advisor you will work with provinces, but also with the national government, on solutions and advise our official and administrative advisory committees on the approach. This requires knowledge, administrative experience, creativity and guts!
Who we are
IPLG:
The IPLG team consists of both IPO and BIJ12 staff and is divided into 6 different teams. Each team is managed by one program manager. The 3 program managers together with the program director and the program secretary form the PMT (program management team).
Team Agriculture:
One of the IPLG teams is the Agriculture team. The Agriculture team supports provinces by contributing the provincial vision on agriculture in the development of national agricultural policy as well as in the development of provincial stakes in policy areas that affect agriculture. After all, agricultural entrepreneurs can only contribute to social goals such as nature, water, climate, food security and a strong economy if they can adapt to the future and are able to make choices.
This means that the Agriculture team collaborates a lot with other teams and programs within IPO working on topics such as licensing, the area approach, spatial planning, water, nature, economy, climate and energy. In addition, the team is responsible for provincial input into the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
What you will do
As Senior Advisor CAP you will be concerned with the content of the current CAP (2023-2027), the new CAP period (2028-2032) and the further development of Agricultural Nature Management. You will focus on the highly administrative and managerial aspects of these three subjects, working from the IPO slogan "From, for and by provinces": You ensure coordination and information exchange between provinces, you speak on behalf of provinces, and you ensure exchange with our main partners (the State, FarmersNature and other stakeholders). In addition to your focus on CAP, you will be available on other projects within the agriculture file as needed, either as a backstop for your immediate colleagues or to jump in.
In addition to substantive work, an important part of your focus regarding the CAP is on a number of governance challenges. Provinces are working on strengthening governance in the current CAP, both in the cooperation between provinces and in our partnership with the State. For the new CAP period and Agrarian Nature Management, governance still needs to be largely worked out.
Another challenge is how to better use the possibilities of the CAP in the further development of the Rural Area and the challenges surrounding nitrogen. This requires that we connect these two worlds.
Specifically, you will have the following duties and roles:
In the above tasks, you will be supported by a junior advisor from the Nitrogen and Natura 2000 Unit.
Hours per week: 24 hours on average (maximum 1,260 hours at 14 months and calculating 45 workable weeks per year).
Hours are flexible in the week, taking into account consultations and meetings. Most consultations take place through Teams.
Tuesday is our regular program day, where you are expected to be physically present in Utrecht (BIJ12 office) as much as possible.
Renewal options: 4 x 6 months
Upon renewal, all contractual terms remain the same. Indexation is possible.
Who we are
IPLG:
The IPLG team consists of both IPO and BIJ12 staff and is divided into 6 different teams. Each team is managed by one program manager. The 3 program managers together with the program director and the program secretary form the PMT (program management team).
Team Agriculture:
One of the IPLG teams is the Agriculture team. The Agriculture team supports provinces by contributing the provincial vision on agriculture in the development of national agricultural policy as well as in the development of provincial stakes in policy areas that affect agriculture. After all, agricultural entrepreneurs can only contribute to social goals such as nature, water, climate, food security and a strong economy if they can adapt to the future and are able to make choices.
This means that the Agriculture team collaborates a lot with other teams and programs within IPO working on topics such as licensing, the area approach, spatial planning, water, nature, economy, climate and energy. In addition, the team is responsible for provincial input into the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
What you will do
As Senior Advisor CAP you will be concerned with the content of the current CAP (2023-2027), the new CAP period (2028-2032) and the further development of Agricultural Nature Management. You will focus on the highly administrative and managerial aspects of these three subjects, working from the IPO slogan "From, for and by provinces": You ensure coordination and information exchange between provinces, you speak on behalf of provinces, and you ensure exchange with our main partners (the State, FarmersNature and other stakeholders). In addition to your focus on CAP, you will be available on other projects within the agriculture file as needed, either as a backstop for your immediate colleagues or to jump in.
In addition to substantive work, an important part of your focus regarding the CAP is on a number of governance challenges. Provinces are working on strengthening governance in the current CAP, both in the cooperation between provinces and in our partnership with the State. For the new CAP period and Agrarian Nature Management, governance still needs to be largely worked out.
Another challenge is how to better use the possibilities of the CAP in the further development of the Rural Area and the challenges surrounding nitrogen. This requires that we connect these two worlds.
Specifically, you will have the following duties and roles:
- You will support the provincial portfolio holders (high-level administrative and managerial) in their input into CAP governance (administrative consultations, steering committee, operational and implementation consultations and monitoring committee).
- You are responsible for annotating portfolio holders
- You prepare interprovincial coordination (partly as a penciler of decision notes for the AAC and BAC)
- You are first point of contact for the CAP and LVVN governing organization
- You coordinate coordination on urgent issues
- You are secretary of the CAP Policy Advisory Group (interprovincial),
- You prepare the monthly meetings
- You represent IPO at stakeholder meetings and alignment meetings
- You are project leader of the provincial commitment to CAP 2028-2034
- You chair the core group future CAP
- You are the penciler of decision notes for the AAC and BAC
- You are first point of contact on this issue of LVVN
- You are a CAP advisor in the project team of Agricultural Nature Management
- You will bring agricultural and CAP interests to team consultations.
- You contribute to the development of proposals.
- You will inform colleagues within IPLG about the CAP.
In the above tasks, you will be supported by a junior advisor from the Nitrogen and Natura 2000 Unit.
Hours per week: 24 hours on average (maximum 1,260 hours at 14 months and calculating 45 workable weeks per year).
Hours are flexible in the week, taking into account consultations and meetings. Most consultations take place through Teams.
Tuesday is our regular program day, where you are expected to be physically present in Utrecht (BIJ12 office) as much as possible.
Renewal options: 4 x 6 months
Upon renewal, all contractual terms remain the same. Indexation is possible.
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BIJ12
Role description and task arrangements
Are you an experienced policy advisor who likes to be a spider in the web and wants to be the face to provinces, ministries and stakeholders on the challenging issues surrounding the Common Agricultural Policy, agriculture and agricultural nature management? Then you will be right at home within our team. You will work within the Interprovincial Rural Area Program Organization in a close-knit team that works on complex issues in the rural area. These are social issues for which provinces are looked to for solutions. As a policy advisor you will work with provinces, but also with the national government, on solutions and advise our official and administrative advisory committees on the approach. This requires knowledge, administrative experience, creativity and guts!
Who we are
IPLG:
The IPLG team consists of both IPO and BIJ12 staff and is divided into 6 different teams. Each team is managed by one program manager. The 3 program managers together with the program director and the program secretary form the PMT (program management team).
Team Agriculture:
One of the IPLG teams is the Agriculture team. The Agriculture team supports provinces by contributing the provincial vision on agriculture in the development of national agricultural policy as well as in the development of provincial stakes in policy areas that affect agriculture. After all, agricultural entrepreneurs can only contribute to social goals such as nature, water, climate, food security and a strong economy if they can adapt to the future and are able to make choices.
This means that the Agriculture team collaborates a lot with other teams and programs within IPO working on topics such as licensing, the area approach, spatial planning, water, nature, economy, climate and energy. In addition, the team is responsible for provincial input into the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
What you will do
As Senior Advisor CAP you will be concerned with the content of the current CAP (2023-2027), the new CAP period (2028-2032) and the further development of Agricultural Nature Management. You will focus on the highly administrative and managerial aspects of these three subjects, working from the IPO slogan "From, for and by provinces": You ensure coordination and information exchange between provinces, you speak on behalf of provinces, and you ensure exchange with our main partners (the State, FarmersNature and other stakeholders). In addition to your focus on CAP, you will be available on other projects within the agriculture file as needed, either as a backstop for your immediate colleagues or to jump in.
In addition to substantive work, an important part of your focus regarding the CAP is on a number of governance challenges. Provinces are working on strengthening governance in the current CAP, both in the cooperation between provinces and in our partnership with the State. For the new CAP period and Agrarian Nature Management, governance still needs to be largely worked out.
Another challenge is how to better use the possibilities of the CAP in the further development of the Rural Area and the challenges surrounding nitrogen. This requires that we connect these two worlds.
Specifically, you will have the following duties and roles:
In the above tasks, you will be supported by a junior advisor from the Nitrogen and Natura 2000 Unit.
Hours per week: 24 hours on average (maximum 1,260 hours at 14 months and calculating 45 workable weeks per year).
Hours are flexible in the week, taking into account consultations and meetings. Most consultations take place through Teams.
Tuesday is our regular program day, where you are expected to be physically present in Utrecht (BIJ12 office) as much as possible.
Renewal options: 4 x 6 months
Upon renewal, all contractual terms remain the same. Indexation is possible.
Who we are
IPLG:
The IPLG team consists of both IPO and BIJ12 staff and is divided into 6 different teams. Each team is managed by one program manager. The 3 program managers together with the program director and the program secretary form the PMT (program management team).
Team Agriculture:
One of the IPLG teams is the Agriculture team. The Agriculture team supports provinces by contributing the provincial vision on agriculture in the development of national agricultural policy as well as in the development of provincial stakes in policy areas that affect agriculture. After all, agricultural entrepreneurs can only contribute to social goals such as nature, water, climate, food security and a strong economy if they can adapt to the future and are able to make choices.
This means that the Agriculture team collaborates a lot with other teams and programs within IPO working on topics such as licensing, the area approach, spatial planning, water, nature, economy, climate and energy. In addition, the team is responsible for provincial input into the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
What you will do
As Senior Advisor CAP you will be concerned with the content of the current CAP (2023-2027), the new CAP period (2028-2032) and the further development of Agricultural Nature Management. You will focus on the highly administrative and managerial aspects of these three subjects, working from the IPO slogan "From, for and by provinces": You ensure coordination and information exchange between provinces, you speak on behalf of provinces, and you ensure exchange with our main partners (the State, FarmersNature and other stakeholders). In addition to your focus on CAP, you will be available on other projects within the agriculture file as needed, either as a backstop for your immediate colleagues or to jump in.
In addition to substantive work, an important part of your focus regarding the CAP is on a number of governance challenges. Provinces are working on strengthening governance in the current CAP, both in the cooperation between provinces and in our partnership with the State. For the new CAP period and Agrarian Nature Management, governance still needs to be largely worked out.
Another challenge is how to better use the possibilities of the CAP in the further development of the Rural Area and the challenges surrounding nitrogen. This requires that we connect these two worlds.
Specifically, you will have the following duties and roles:
- You will support the provincial portfolio holders (high-level administrative and managerial) in their input into CAP governance (administrative consultations, steering committee, operational and implementation consultations and monitoring committee).
- You are responsible for annotating portfolio holders
- You prepare interprovincial coordination (partly as a penciler of decision notes for the AAC and BAC)
- You are first point of contact for the CAP and LVVN governing organization
- You coordinate coordination on urgent issues
- You are secretary of the CAP Policy Advisory Group (interprovincial),
- You prepare the monthly meetings
- You represent IPO at stakeholder meetings and alignment meetings
- You are project leader of the provincial commitment to CAP 2028-2034
- You chair the core group future CAP
- You are the penciler of decision notes for the AAC and BAC
- You are first point of contact on this issue of LVVN
- You are a CAP advisor in the project team of Agricultural Nature Management
- You will bring agricultural and CAP interests to team consultations.
- You contribute to the development of proposals.
- You will inform colleagues within IPLG about the CAP.
In the above tasks, you will be supported by a junior advisor from the Nitrogen and Natura 2000 Unit.
Hours per week: 24 hours on average (maximum 1,260 hours at 14 months and calculating 45 workable weeks per year).
Hours are flexible in the week, taking into account consultations and meetings. Most consultations take place through Teams.
Tuesday is our regular program day, where you are expected to be physically present in Utrecht (BIJ12 office) as much as possible.
Renewal options: 4 x 6 months
Upon renewal, all contractual terms remain the same. Indexation is possible.
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