Senior Planner

The City of Concord is now hiring for Senior Planner. The purpose of this position is to provide planning services for current and long range planning projects.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provides development assistance and review by interpreting zoning and codes, advising developers on appropriate measures and processes, coordinating with reviewing departments to ensure compliance with development ordinance, issuing development permits, and conducting zoning inspections.
• Creates and implements long-range plans and participates in a variety of meetings to gather and disseminate information related to applicable planning projects or programs.
• Creates, manages, and edits geographic information system data by utilizing software to maintain and update existing data, including zoning layers and city limits, and creates custom map products and analytical reports
• Advises consultants on various issues related to projects and reviews planning documents to ensure adherence to applicable guidelines, standards, and provisions.
• Prepares a variety of reports for various Federal, State, and local agencies by gathering, preparing, editing, and disseminating information; drafts resolutions, ordinances, reports, memorandums, and other professional documents to elected officials, administration, business leaders, internal staff, and members of the community.
• Coordinates planning projects by creating conceptual site plans, preparing maps, communicating with developers and investors, organizing and participating in community input sessions, seeking grant opportunities, conducting site analysis on potential community development properties, and serving as main point of contact for development projects.
• Prepares a variety of marketing materials, including newsletters, advertisements, brochures, and other related collateral material.

Job Specifications and Qualifications (Knowledge areas):

• Modern planning principle and practices
• Social, economic, and business implications of planning
• Available community services
• Construction and/or development procedures
• Research methods and techniques
• Project management principles and practices
• Applicable local, state and federal laws, rules, and regulations
• Customer service principles
• Applicable Federal, State, and local programs and their requirements, specifically HUD
• Community development and housing issues
• Public and private funding sources of community development programs
• Federal program administration regulations and reporting procedures
• Technical writing methods and techniques
• Home marketing concepts
• Operating a computer and applicable software applications
• Preparing comprehensive plans and studies
• Compiling and analyzing data
• Composing technical reports
• Managing projects
• Preparing a variety of business correspondence
• Communication, interpersonal skills as applied to interaction with coworkers, supervisor, the general public, etc. sufficient to exchange or convey information and to receive work direction
• Marketing new and existing houses that are for sale
• Conducting research
• Developing plans
• Preparing reports
• Coordinating citizen activities
• Preparing agreements and contracts
• Analyzing real estate sites

Bachelor’s Degree in Planning, Political Science, Geography, Public Administration, Architecture, or Economics from an accredited college or university, with at least three (3) years of experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties of the job.

Apply online at http://concordnc.gov