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(MP) Hiring Desk
Communications Officer
Communications Officer
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Function
Communications OfficerLocation
ThornHours per week
4 hours per weekDuration
February 9, 2026 - February 9, 2027Application number
SRQ177522DAS
MPClosing date
31.01.2026
00:00
Role description and task arrangements
Additional housing is needed to ensure the long-term vitality of our villages. Many people in our municipality are looking for a (different) home. In addition, the number of households in our municipality is growing. There is a particular need for social housing and mid-range rental properties. That is why we are exploring the possibility of building flexible housing in collaboration with initiators. For more information, see Flexible housing | Heuvelrug.
Over the coming year, the project will focus on transforming the golf course into a green residential area. Achieving this will require many steps, discussions, and a number of studies. The sensitivities involved in this process were highlighted during the public council meetings in May-June 2024 and May-July 2025.
Within the project, you will work closely with the project manager and advise the initiators on participation. The project has multiple dimensions with a corresponding number of officials, amounting to around 15 different experts. This knowledge needs to be properly safeguarded for different target groups in both administrative decision-making documents and accessible texts for the public and on the website.
What skills are we looking for in you?
Job Profile
Over the coming year, the project will focus on transforming the golf course into a green residential area. Achieving this will require many steps, discussions, and a number of studies. The sensitivities involved in this process were highlighted during the public council meetings in May-June 2024 and May-July 2025.
Within the project, you will work closely with the project manager and advise the initiators on participation. The project has multiple dimensions with a corresponding number of officials, amounting to around 15 different experts. This knowledge needs to be properly safeguarded for different target groups in both administrative decision-making documents and accessible texts for the public and on the website.
What skills are we looking for in you?
- Good communication skills in both administrative matters and administrative decision-making documents, and the ability to convert these into accessible public texts.
- Contribute constructively and proactively to the drafting of documents, even outside office hours and under pressure, both live and digitally.
- Administratively sensitive and knowledgeable about sensitivities within the municipality of Utrechtse Heuvelrug, particularly regarding the intended locations for flexible housing in this municipality.
- In addition to experience within the municipality of Utrechtse Heuvelrug, you can also contribute knowledge and experience gained from working in other municipalities, which can fuel a proactive attitude.
- Being able to handle confidential information, but also being able to explain it in communications if desired.
- Knowledge of participation policy and experience with this municipal policy, and ability to advise third parties on this so that they can implement what is necessary in the permit application.
- Advising on the drafting of letters to residents (door-to-door), flyers, and the project website
- Fitting into the core project team
- Active listener
- Unsolicited and solicited advice to directors
- Quickly translating what has been heard into readable texts
- Experience with politically sensitive projects
- Continuity of the project with a tight schedule to ensure smooth completion.
Job Profile
- You have demonstrable work experience as a communications officer
- You are a strategic and tactical thinker
- You have a practical mindset and writing texts comes easily to you.
- You have an affinity with politics, governance, and people looking for housing, as well as with civil service, political, and administrative relationships.
- You have work experience within a municipality; this is a must.
- For you, collaboration is a matter of course, both within and outside the municipality.
Company data
Company data
(MP) Hiring Desk
Role description and task arrangements
Additional housing is needed to ensure the long-term vitality of our villages. Many people in our municipality are looking for a (different) home. In addition, the number of households in our municipality is growing. There is a particular need for social housing and mid-range rental properties. That is why we are exploring the possibility of building flexible housing in collaboration with initiators. For more information, see Flexible housing | Heuvelrug.
Over the coming year, the project will focus on transforming the golf course into a green residential area. Achieving this will require many steps, discussions, and a number of studies. The sensitivities involved in this process were highlighted during the public council meetings in May-June 2024 and May-July 2025.
Within the project, you will work closely with the project manager and advise the initiators on participation. The project has multiple dimensions with a corresponding number of officials, amounting to around 15 different experts. This knowledge needs to be properly safeguarded for different target groups in both administrative decision-making documents and accessible texts for the public and on the website.
What skills are we looking for in you?
Job Profile
Over the coming year, the project will focus on transforming the golf course into a green residential area. Achieving this will require many steps, discussions, and a number of studies. The sensitivities involved in this process were highlighted during the public council meetings in May-June 2024 and May-July 2025.
Within the project, you will work closely with the project manager and advise the initiators on participation. The project has multiple dimensions with a corresponding number of officials, amounting to around 15 different experts. This knowledge needs to be properly safeguarded for different target groups in both administrative decision-making documents and accessible texts for the public and on the website.
What skills are we looking for in you?
- Good communication skills in both administrative matters and administrative decision-making documents, and the ability to convert these into accessible public texts.
- Contribute constructively and proactively to the drafting of documents, even outside office hours and under pressure, both live and digitally.
- Administratively sensitive and knowledgeable about sensitivities within the municipality of Utrechtse Heuvelrug, particularly regarding the intended locations for flexible housing in this municipality.
- In addition to experience within the municipality of Utrechtse Heuvelrug, you can also contribute knowledge and experience gained from working in other municipalities, which can fuel a proactive attitude.
- Being able to handle confidential information, but also being able to explain it in communications if desired.
- Knowledge of participation policy and experience with this municipal policy, and ability to advise third parties on this so that they can implement what is necessary in the permit application.
- Advising on the drafting of letters to residents (door-to-door), flyers, and the project website
- Fitting into the core project team
- Active listener
- Unsolicited and solicited advice to directors
- Quickly translating what has been heard into readable texts
- Experience with politically sensitive projects
- Continuity of the project with a tight schedule to ensure smooth completion.
Job Profile
- You have demonstrable work experience as a communications officer
- You are a strategic and tactical thinker
- You have a practical mindset and writing texts comes easily to you.
- You have an affinity with politics, governance, and people looking for housing, as well as with civil service, political, and administrative relationships.
- You have work experience within a municipality; this is a must.
- For you, collaboration is a matter of course, both within and outside the municipality.
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