UTRECHTSE HEUVELRUG MUNICIPALITY
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For the Legal Affairs, Public Order and Safety, and Procurement team within the “Koers” division, we are seeking a:
Senior Legal Advisor
32 hours per week
from September 1 through December 31, 2026 (with an option to extend for 2 x 4 months)
What will you do?
- advises management and organization on general public and private law issues focused on legal quality assurance and legal risk management
- advises on complex issues from administrative law, spatial domain (Environmental Law), social domain, APV, Public Order and Safety, Public Space and (European) procurement law
- Handling and representation in objection and appeal cases
- If necessary, writing draft opinions for the appeals committee
- What do you have in the house?
- Extensive experience working within a municipal organization
- Knowledge of and extensive experience in legal consulting
- Knowledge of and extensive experience with administrative law( Awb), municipal law, spatial domain (Environmental law), sustainability and procurement law
- Knowledge of and extensive experience handling and representing in objection and appeal cases
- Knowledge of and room experience writing draft opinions for the appeals committee is a plus
- Knowledge of and experience with other areas of law within a municipal organization is a plus
- University education in Dutch law/college law
Competencies > will be tested during the interview
- Proactively and independently advise
- Sense of working in a political-administrative environment
- Planning and writing
- Switches easily between styles of communicating and advising so that you can influence conversations and adapt smoothly to different interlocutors.
- Finds its way around the organization quickly
- Hands on
- Works both independently and in collaboration with others to achieve results