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Senior Planner (Comprehensive Planning)

Employer: City of Bellevue
Job Title: Senior Planner
Job Type: Full Time
Job Number: 19-00131
Location: Bellevue, WA
Opening Date: 04/10/2019
Closing Date: 04/29/2019
Salary: $80,051.16 - $110,462.04 

Job Description:The City of Bellevue, Washington is rapidly maturing from a sleepy suburb into a tech centric, vibrant, and diverse metropolitan city within the Puget Sound Region.  The city's planning team is looking for creative planners with the technical expertise to help us shape and catalyze positive change. This position requires you, the candidate, to have a curious mind, technical prowess, research skills, an open, mature, and an inclusive view of prevailing social and community issues. We also need a demonstrated willingness to think beyond the usual or ordinary

This position is part of our Comprehensive Planning Team. We conduct a broad range of work that includes comprehensive planning (annual plan amendments with a periodic update due in 2023), affordable housing, neighborhood area planning, regional policy advisories, and special initiatives as requested by City Council and City Manager's Office. This team also manages the city's Planning Commission.

Job Duties: 
Bellevue's ethos and general work environment supports shared and public oriented values, the opportunity to develop new skills, plus a family friendly, inclusive, and diverse workplace.  The position offers you the chance to be part of the City of Bellevue's core values of excellent public service, stewardship, commitment to employees, integrity, and innovation.

In this role you will have the following responsibilities:

  • Effectively shaping how regional, city and community issues connect coherently.
  • Acting as an effective bridge between stakeholders and the appointed or elected.
  • Help the Assistant Director and Comprehensive Planning Manager work through the implementation and development of each initiative.

Technical Skills and Professional Experience:
We are looking for a mix of experience and skills that provide as much of the following as possible:

  • Manage and carry out planning projects involving complex technical analysis and policy development for potentially controversial issues involving elected and appointed officials and a broad spectrum of interested parties.
  • Develop and execute work programs for projects that have an important level of impact on the city organization and the city. This may include management of budgets and grants and may require participation in securing federal and state grants.
  • Work constructively in teams that span multiple departments and, at times, agencies, using communication and shared leadership skills to successfully collaborate and achieve multiple objectives.
  • Conduct complex technical analysis that may be used for many planning purposes including: updating the comprehensive plan, plan amendments, developing neighborhood plans, affordable housing strategy implementation, regional policy analysis, special initiatives and associated processes (such as land use code development and areawide rezoning).
  • Communicate effectively with peers, City Council, Planning Commission and other stakeholders on planning issues in a manner that develops and maintains positive relationships and advances the understanding of the issues at hand.
  • Represent the city on various committees, at neighborhood organizations and community meetings, at public hearings, and before governmental bodies.
  • Evaluate program accomplishments against established goals and timetables and make recommendations, based upon evaluation, that will be used in future projects.
  • Be responsible for project outcomes.

Qualifications:

  • Think conceptually, observe and evaluate trends; analyze data, draw logical conclusions and make sound decisions.
  • Plan, develop and manage work and budgets in highly complex projects and City Council priority initiatives.
  • Lead staff and consultant teams and deliver project results.
  • Establish and maintain effective working relationships with co-workers, elected and appointed officials, citizen groups, and the public.
  • Create and effectively execute scalable community engagement plans to complement planning initiatives.
  • Communicate effectively, orally and in writing, including preparation and delivery of public presentations.
  • Contribute to the City of Bellevue's core values of excellent public service, stewardship, commitment to employees, integrity and innovation. 

Education and Experience Requirements:

  • Graduation from an accredited four-year university in planning, urban planning, urban geography, environmental studies, or a closely related field. A master's degree is preferred.
  • Seven years of progressively responsible related experience in comprehensive and growth management planning at the state, regional or municipal level.
  • Alternatively, a clear equivalent combination of education, experience, and training that provides the required mix of knowledge, skills and abilities.
  • Certification as a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP), American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), or American Institute of Architects (AIA) is preferred.

How to Apply: https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/bellevuewa