Planner/Senior Planner

City Of Westminster Planner / Senior Planner Westminster, Colorado

Job Type : Full-time Benefited, 40 hours / week (1.0 FTE)

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Job Number : 24-00225

Department : Community Services

Division : 23 Planning

POSITION PURPOSE

The Planner position is a professional and technical planning position responsible for advanced level work involving both long-range and current planning (plan implementation) activities. Job duties include :

• Preparing comprehensive plans and sub-area plans.
• Coordinating the City's review and analysis of annexation and rezoning requests and development proposals.
• Administering the Growth Management Program.
• Developing land use regulations.
• Developing and maintaining a statistical database.
• Coordinating information between various elements of the City Staff.
• Developing plans, policies, and programs for review.
• Making presentations to the Planning Commission and City Council.

Work is performed with a reasonable degree of latitude for independent, mature judgment, and action is reviewed by the Principal Planner or the Planning Manager through observation, conference, reports, and achievement of desired objectives.

The Senior Planner position is a high-level professional and technical planning position responsible for advanced level work involving both long-range and current planning (plan implementation) activities.

A high emphasis is placed on design and urban design issues with current planning, including a strong knowledge of architecture, landscape architecture, and sound site planning.

Responsibilities include :

• Preparing comprehensive plans and sub-area plans.
• Coordinating the City's review and analysis of annexation and rezoning requests and development proposals.
• Administering the Growth Management Program and developing land use regulations.
• Developing and maintaining a statistical database.
• Coordinating information between various members of the City Staff.
• Developing plans, policies, and programs for review.
• Making presentations to the Planning Commission.

Work is performed with a reasonable degree of latitude for independent, mature judgment, and action is reviewed by a Principal Planner and / or the Planning Manager through observation, conference, reports, and achievement of desired objectives.

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS

In order to be considered for this position, it is required that a writing sample that you have done, preferably a staff report to Planning Commission or City Council regarding a land planning item, rezoning, comprehensive plan amendment / adoption, annexation, or significant land use matter, be attached to your online application.

The full salary range for this position is stated above. The starting range of pay is dependent on qualifications and experience of each individual candidate.

The City of Westminster has a Multilingual Stipend Program to encourage and reward benefited employees who are conversationally fluent in languages other than English.

Benefited employees have the opportunity to test their language proficiency skills and qualify for a bi-weekly stipend that will vary based on the employee's level of proficiency and usage.

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