Works directly with community associations and stakeholder groups on various initiatives including commercial revitalization and redevelopment, housing initiatives and general community conservation efforts.
Duties
- Assists with project management for community development and planning projects and will be involved in project development, coordination with partner agencies, stakeholder engagement, and fostering partnerships.
- Grant writing and administration experience, including providing grant management support to community partners.
- Conducts and participates in meetings with citizens, advisory groups, representatives of other County and governmental agencies, developers, and others regarding development and planning issues.
- Experience in public speaking including making presentations and answering questions in a public setting.
- Collaborates both with co-workers and with stakeholders, as well as adept at managing multiple priorities in order to meet targeted deadlines.
- Serves as lead planner for special projects inclusive of preparing reports and supporting graphic display materials descriptive of research and recommendations. May be responsible for production of public-facing graphic materials such as one-sheets, reports, informational display boards, signs, and maps. Should be fluent in Adobe software programs and ArcGIS.
- Strong written communication skills, including the ability to prepare complex staff reports.
- Reviews, analyzes, interprets concept, development, landscape and other plans and development proposals for compliance to zoning regulations, planning policies and design guidelines and prepare staff reports.
- Assists in the development, modification, and administration of the master plan, zoning regulations, design guidelines and other policies and legislation.
- Researches, prepares, and presents studies of planning issues such as land use, growth management, site design, and zoning and related legislation.
- Commitment to engaging in fieldwork in diverse communities and working with racial and ethnic minority communities.
- Ability to develop and maintain strong relationships with county agencies, elected officials, non-profit organizations and other community groups.
Required Qualifications and Experience
Graduation from an accredited college or university with a master's degree in planning or a related field*;
Plus
One-year professional planning, zoning, development or land use experience.
OR
Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree;
Plus
Three years' professional planning, zoning, development or land use experience.
Additional planning education beyond a bachelor's degree may be substituted on a year-for-year basis for the required experience.
Additional professional and/or paraprofessional planning, zoning, development or land use experience may be substituted on a year-for-year basis up to a maximum of four years for the required education.
*Related Fields such as: architecture, business administration, civil engineering, landscape architecture, law, public administration, and social sciences (e.g. economics, geography, political science, sociology, urban and/or regional affairs or studies, etc.)
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