Head of the Urban Land Use Planning and Environmental Assessment Division

Municipal Development and Housing Authority, State Planning and Urban Development Office Job ID: J000040246 Start date: as soon as possible Type of employment: full-time/part-time (unlimited) Payment: EGr. 15 TV-L BesGr. A15 HmbBesG Application deadline: 20.03.2026 About us Do you want to shape Hamburg's future? Then you are right with us in the Office for Regional Planning and Urban Development. We create sustainable strategies and innovative concepts for the growing city and accompany outstanding urban development projects. We give impulses, set standards and ensure implementation. We are looking for a state-of-the-art personality for the management of construction planning and environmental testing. With a total of 15 employees, you are responsible for the supervision of the district planning procedures and conduct your own building plan procedures for the Senate. This includes the processing of all basic questions as well as consulting in all technical topics of construction planning and environmental testing, in climate concerns and in legal innovations.

You manage an interdisciplinary unit (personal and resource responsibility, development of targets and coordination of workflows) and represent the department management; clarify independent legal and procedural issues, develop expert requirements for the implementation of building plans (factory instructions, hand-applications, guides and instructions etc.) and guide the working groups for all Senate building plan procedures, advise planning services on all issues relating to the construction plan procedure and the environmental audit and have the technical supervision of the district planning plans; the authority for urban development and housing to the outside represent events, regional specialist bodies and specialist meetings.

Required Higher education (master or equivalent degree) in the field of urban planning, urban planning, architecture or a comparable discipline As official or official: Qualification for category 2, second entry office of technical services and you are already in a position of grade A 14 Advantages many years of administrative experience versatile experience in urban planning, urban planning, project development and thorough and deep knowledge of building and planning law and experience in building control planning, analytical skills and a high level of creativity for the development of sustainable solutions and compensation proposals, capable of being enforced and have negotiating skills, a keen decision and commitment, first leadership experience and possess high social and professional competence in the motivation and promotion of employees and teams.

a place, indefinitely, as soon as possible Payment by category E15 TV-L or by grade A 15 extensive training programme in the city's own Centre for Training good work-life balance, among other things with flexible and family-friendly working hours, possibility of home office and 30 days holiday per year at a five-day week modern workplace with good transport connections (S-Bahn Wilhelmsburg and StadtRAD-Station) and staff restaurant on site as well as other benefits from the employer Freie and Hansestadt Hamburg