Stadt Rheda-Wiedenbrück | Germany | 33xxx Rheda-Wiedenbrück | Permanent position | Full time | Published since: 02.08.2026 on stepstone.de ♿️
Head of Urban Development (Urban Planning) (m/f/d)
The city of Rheda-Wiedenbrück is a modern, service-oriented municipal administration with around 50,000 inhabitants and more than 500 employees. As a versatile service provider for local people, we actively carry out numerous socially relevant tasks – responsibly, citizen-oriented and forward-looking. Rheda-Wiedenbrück is a city with a special profile: two grown city centers, a strong economic region in the district of Gütersloh, historical identity, high quality of life and with the Flora Westfalica an impressive green band along the Ems. At the same time, the focus is on key issues of the future: sustainable urban development, climate change, climate adaptation, mobility, housing, urban development and ensuring high urban quality. We offer you a demanding, sensuous leadership task with special responsibility for the development of our city. It expects an appreciation and open working environment, a dedicated team and the reliability of a modern employer in public service. At the closest possible time, the city administration of Rheda-Wiedenbrück has to occupy an unlimited full-time position as a department manager (m/w/d) urban development (city planning). EC/Insolvency: up to the EC 15 TVöD-VKA or A 15 LBesO NRW Scope: Full time Duration: unlimited Application deadline: 16.08.2026
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Your tasks • Your profile • What we offer
The Department of Urban Development combines the classical tasks of urban planning with the key topics of climate protection, environment, mobility and urban renewal. The department currently comprises 17 employees and is divided into the sections “City Planning” and “Climate, Mobility and Urban Renewal”. In this responsible position, you take over the technical, organizational and personnel management of the department. Your focal points include: management and management responsibility for the entire field of expertise, Deputy Head of Division, strategic and conceptual development of the department in the context of current urban development issues, sustainable urban planning, in particular in the fields of climate protection, housing, urban development and mobility, responsibility for construction planning and urban planning, with particular attention to high urban quality and legal certainty, technical preparation, representation and coordination of subjects of the department in political bodies, civil appointments and in the advisory board; cross-disciplinary cooperation with all urban actors within the meaning of the overall interests of the city; sovereign negotiation with internal and external partners.
We are looking for a professionally convincing, powerful and communication-proof personality that understands urban development as an integrated task for the future and has the pleasure of using design spaces responsibly. You bring with them: the career qualification for the category 2, the second entry office, the subject of higher engineering services, or a scientific university degree, master or diploma, in the field of spatial planning, architecture or civil engineering, with a focus on urban planning, multiannual professional experience in management, ideally in public service, well-founded knowledge and safe application of the relevant legal and administrative provisions, in particular under construction planning law; experience in managing complex urban projects, strong leadership, communication and cooperation capability, the ability to combine different interests from administration, politics, citizenship and external stakeholders; Powerfulness, creativity, resilience and the necessary enforcement capacity to safeguard the interests of the city.
an unlimited and safe working relationship, a responsible leadership position with great design playroom, the opportunity to actively participate in key future topics of an attractive city, a performance-oriented remuneration according to the terms and conditions laid down in the collective agreement or in accordance with the statutory regulations; performance-oriented payment in addition to the table fee, cooperation in a dedicated and professionally broad team, attractive working conditions through flexible working hours and family-friendly regulations and offers for the reconciliation of work and family life, offers for continuing and continuing training, occupational pensions and Additional services. Equal opportunities in accordance with the General Equal Treatment Act and the National Equality Act are part of our lived human resources policy. We therefore welcome applications for persons regardless of cultural and social origin, age, religion, world view, disability or sexual orientation and gender identity. Disabled applicants are preferred for the same suitability, ability and performance, taking into account all circumstances of the individual case. .
Location
![]() | Stadt Rheda-Wiedenbrück | |
| 33378 Rheda-Wiedenbrück | ||
| Germany |
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