MRDH Investment Program Project Evaluator

Your role

What’s great about your role? As a grant reviewer, you have a varied job. Together with your colleagues, you assess whether grant applications are sound in terms of improving accessibility and determine the amount of funding they are eligible for. This allows our board to make informed decisions about awarding grants.

With your critical eye, you gather the right information to initiate process improvements in our learning organization. You evaluate grant applications based on your expertise in traffic engineering, civil engineering, and finance. The range of grant applications is wide: constructing roundabouts, organizing traffic education, and improving regional bike paths. But also building new tram tracks, expanding metro stations, and constructing substations for power supply.

Sometimes you’ll be tasked with handling grant applications for large-scale projects or programs, such as the Binckhorst urban development project in The Hague or the construction of the new city bridge in Rotterdam.

You’ll regularly visit the municipalities that are preparing the projects. Fortunately, you won’t have to assess applications or maintain your network on your own. The various departments and teams have a wealth of knowledge and experience and help each other whenever possible and necessary. Of course, we carefully document everything in a workflow system (AFAS), including applications, progress, and payments. In this varied role, you’ll work with your colleagues to improve accessibility within our region.

This is you

A relationship builder who masters the art of listening and connecting. You engage openly with colleagues and stakeholders both within and outside the organization to discuss how we can bring projects to fruition. You also make complex issues easy to understand. With an eye for the social and administrative context, you arrive at effective solutions. And when the pressure is high, you remain calm and maintain a clear overview, setting the right priorities. In addition, you have:

• at least an associate's degree;
• specific knowledge and experience in the fields of traffic engineering, civil engineering, and SSK cost estimates.

Our offerings

• A gross monthly salary between €3,396 and €5,009 (pay grade 10) based on a 36-hour workweek. The exact salary depends on your experience and qualifications.
• A one-year contract. If we’re both happy with the arrangement, we’d be happy to convert your contract into a permanent employment contract.
• A high degree of autonomy: you have the freedom to set your own work hours and can work in a hybrid model.
• Full reimbursement of public transportation costs for commuting (2nd class) and business travel (1st class).
• 27 days of vacation per year based on a 36-hour workweek.
• An individual flexible spending allowance equal to 17.05% of the gross monthly salary.
• A loaner laptop and a phone allowance.
• Good ABP pension plan.

This is where you'll be working

You’ll be joining our Traffic Department. Here, you’ll work alongside 25 enthusiastic professionals: a great mix of women and men, each with their own area of expertise in grants, policy, or projects. Our work also overlaps in many ways. Every Thursday, we hold a team meeting at the office where colleagues discuss current issues, the workload, and the agenda for the coming weeks in an open and collaborative atmosphere. We work in a hybrid model, both from home and at the office on Westersingel in Rotterdam.

About the Rotterdam-The Hague Metropolitan Region

The Rotterdam-The Hague Metropolitan Region is a voluntary joint arrangement among 21 municipalities. As an extension of local government, we have been granted the status of a transport region by the national government. This means we have statutory responsibilities in the area of traffic and transportation. For example, we formulate regional traffic and transportation policy. And as the contracting authority for regional and urban public transportation in the Rotterdam-The Hague Metropolitan Region, we grant concessions to transportation companies. We also provide subsidies for various traffic and transportation projects and for the management, maintenance, and replacement of public transportation infrastructure. For this purpose, we receive approximately €600 million per year directly from the national government.

In addition, it is our responsibility to improve the business climate in areas such as work locations (industrial parks, retail, offices), economic innovation (field labs, startups), and the alignment between education and the labor market. To this end, we receive a contribution—€6.8 million in 2023—from the 21 municipalities.

Do you have any questions?

Do you have any questions or would you like to know more about the position? Please contact Jan Willem Immerzeel, Traffic Manager, at 06 – 52343405 or j.immerzeel@mrdh.nl.

Is this position really the right fit for you?

Please email your cover letter and resume to werkenvoor@mrdh.nl by January 10, addressed to Jan Willem Immerzeel.

Good to know

• We are advertising this position both internally and externally. Internal candidates will be given priority.
• A Management Drives profile is part of the application process. We ask that you complete a questionnaire for this purpose.
• An assessment may be part of the application process.