Senior Advisor vegetation type and habitat type mapping 

The requested senior consultant provides advice to the Goal Reach program line. There are four projects under Target Reach, each with its own project leader and a team consisting of representatives from the partners and possibly hired experts. You will support one of these teams. The project for which this senior advisor is being recruited is called vegetation type & habitat type mapping. 

What you will do 

As senior content advisor vegetation type and habitat type mapping, you will provide advice on improving the vegetation protocol and methodology document. From years of experience you are familiar with the opinions of other experts and organizations. From your experience you make substantive proposals for improvement and ensure coordination with the organizations involved. You also approach people from your extensive network to give their input and help design any knowledge session. You work independently and advise the project leader. 

The candidate we are looking for possesses: 

• Hbo/wo working and thinking level  

• At least 10 years of demonstrable work experience in conducting vegetation mapping, preparing reports thereof and translating vegetation mapping into habitat type maps 

• At least 10 years of experience validating habitat type maps  

• Preferably experience with nature (law) related projects and supervision of clients.  

• You have a good understanding of the problems and ambiguities that (may) play a role in practice in the creation of habitat type maps.  

• You have excellent landscape ecology knowledge. 

• You provide substantive input and see consistency with adjacent programs and projects.  

Number of hours per week: 0 to 8 hours (partly on location at BIJ12 office in Utrecht, partly at home).  

Renewal options of 2 times 12 months. 

Renewal is on otherwise unchanged contractual terms (including the hourly rate). 

Who we are  

BIJ12 is the implementing organization for the 12 provinces and brings together knowledge and information about the rural area and physical environment in the Netherlands. BIJ12 ensures uniformity in information supply and implementation of provincial regulations. This is done from 4 units:   

• Fauna Affairs and ACSG (Advisory Committee on Groundwater Damage).  

• Nature Information and Nature Management (NiNb).  

• GBO to manage shared information systems.  

• Nitrogen and Natura 2000
    

Context  

Client for the Improving Program for VHR Monitoring (VVM) is the Steering Committee for Nature Monitoring and Information with participants on behalf of the ministries of LVVN (former LNV), IenW, Defense and the cooperating provinces. Its implementation is housed at BIJ12. A program team of project leaders, project staff, a project supporter and a program manager give substance to the program, in close cooperation with a network of staff from the provinces, national government and chain partners involved.  

Background VHR Monitoring Improvement Program.  

BIJ12 is contractor of the Improvement Program for VHR Monitoring (VVM). In it, work is done on the necessary and urgent improvements in the national system of nature monitoring, information supply and reporting, arising from the joint information needs of Program Nature (PN), Program Nitrogen Reduction and Nature Improvement (PSn) and the National Program Rural Area (NPLG). Their implementation is a task for Provinces and the State jointly.     

To be able to support the provinces even better in the longer term with reliable nature information, BIJ12 is committed to a program for the period 2024 - 2030 that is aimed at strengthening existing and new instruments for nature monitoring and at improving the cooperation between the parties that together give substance to the chain of nature information.  

The activities in this program are organized along three substantive program lines, which stem from the various forms of monitoring: Nature Measures, Environmental Conditions and Target Reach. Each program line has a project team. The project team coordinates activities and works together with representatives and experts from the participating organizations to achieve program results. In addition to the three program lines, there is a fourth program line Data and Information, which makes products for the program lines, such as a data infrastructure