Principal Planner - Alexandria, United States - City of Alexandria, VA

City of Alexandria, VA
City of Alexandria, VA
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Alexandria, United States

3 weeks ago

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Principal Planner

An Overview:


What You Should Bring:


  • Highly motivated team player with strong planning skills, project management experience, excellent judgement, and an innovative approach to complex planning challenges.
  • Demonstrated ability to quickly assimilate complex information, discern challenges, and devise effective innovative solutions.
  • Demonstrated skill and ease in presenting to a range of small and large audiences, and the ability to explain complex concepts in a clear and engaging manner.
  • Experience in local government and communicating with policymakers, senior level managers, interdepartmental staff and intergovernmental entities; and
  • Demonstrated leader who enjoys supervising, mentoring, motivating, problem solving, and providing constructive criticism to an experienced team of professionals.

The Opportunity:


  • Lead planning teams and provide project management on small area plans, plan implementation initiatives, and other special planning policy or analysis initiatives.
  • Design and implement community engagement strategies for planning processes, striving for equitable, meaningful, transparent community engagement.
  • Collaborate with professional planners in P&Z, in other City Departments, and with other agencies to engage the community in creating Small Area Plans that reflect their desires and the City's strategic goals.
  • Write comprehensive and concise narrative for plans, staff reports, and other documents as needed.
  • Create graphics that convey complex concepts in simple understandable ways for presentations and printed materials.
  • Deliver dynamic presentations to community groups, Commissions, and City Council.
  • Supervise junior planners to provide professional guidance, motivation, technical direction, and mentorship.
  • Contribute to high level policy discussions and opportunities for innovation.
  • Manage multiple complex projects and teams at the same time; and
  • Lead and facilitate discussions and Q&A for internal, interdepartmental and community meetings.

About the Department:


P&Z **works closely with communities to carry out the City's Strategic Plan, fostering amenity-rich, service-oriented and equity-balanced neighborhoods; protecting historic and cultural resources; and supporting diverse and creative businesses. In developing neighborhood plans, reviewing development proposals, and promoting economic vitality. We continue our commitment to collaborate with all stakeholder groups to honor the character of each neighborhood and to strengthen and sustain them, and Alexandria as a whole, for now and in the future.


Minimum & Additional Requirements:


  • Four-Year College Degree, at least five years of progressively responsible experience in urban or transportation planning and management of largescale urban projects, and completion of collegelevel courses in urban planning, transportation or transit planning, public administration, engineering, geography, or a related field, or any equivalent combination of experience and training which provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities.

Preferred Qualifications:


Notes:


  • This position requires the successful completion of a preemployment background check.
- **THE STARTING SALARY IS BASED ON EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE AND APPLICANTS CAN EXPECT AN OFFER WITHIN THE SALARY RANGE OF $78,467.48 TO $105,110.20.
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