Senior Planner

Join a workforce where innovation and teamwork provide support to the community and citizens of Monroe County.

Compensation:

Job Description:

The primary function of this position is to provide planning services, including reviewing proposed development permits to ensure compliance with the Land Development Regulations and Comprehensive Plan Policies, as well as other applicable community master plans and regulatory documents. The Senior Planner represents the Planning & Environmental Resources department to the public in a professional manner, providing accurate guidance and assistance with planning procedures, policies, and land development regulations.  This position also assists with data collection and other technical services for complex current planning projects, trains and advises entry-level planners, and completes special projects as needed.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• Acts as a member of the Planning team, providing planning services to the community.

• Explains planning-related policies and regulations to the public; offers customer service to the community and developers by providing information, guidance, and assistance, including research regarding prior County actions as they relate to zoning, such as conditional uses, amendments, and County resolutions.

• Reviews proposed development projects to ensure consistency with the Comprehensive Plan/Land Development Regulations, as well as to ensure that quality design and site planning standards have been applied.

• Analyzes planning applications to determine completeness and the correct application of procedures, policies, and regulations.

• Prepares reports, analyses, and recommendations for the Director of Planning & Environmental Resources, advisory committees, the Planning Commission, and the Board of County Commissioners.

• Collects, analyzes, and updates County baseline statistical data; provides and updates regional data (including demographics, transportation, and GIS) to communities.

• Drafts language and guides proposals through public hearings and other administrative processes.

• Represents the department and presents staff reviews of development proposals at public hearings and meetings.

• Provides expert testimony and cross-examination at quasi-judicial hearings.

• Handles customer requests for research on properties within Unincorporated Monroe County.

• Prepares maps, background materials, and presentations for public hearings and workshops.

• Leads and facilitates public workshops.

• Performs ROGO eligibility and application review.

• Provides technical assistance to community projects.

• Creates public relations materials and guidebooks.

• Staffs and facilitates advisory boards and meetings.

• Assists and/or trains other planning staff regarding development review, comprehensive planning questions, and other issues as they arise.

• Conducts research and prepares reports for long-range and strategic planning projects.

• Prepares analysis, review, and professional recommendations on proposed map and text amendments to the Comprehensive Plan and the Land Development Regulations.

• Performs other related job duties as assigned.

• In the event of special, emergency, or disaster situations, employee may be required to work schedules other than those for which they are regularly scheduled in any capacity deemed appropriate.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education and Experience:

Bachelor’s degree in Urban Planning or related field, with four (4) years of prior related work experience; or a Master’s degree in Urban Planning or related field, with one (1)  year of prior related work experience; AICP certification preferred.

Special Qualifications:

None.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Ability to organize work around broad organizational goals and processes.

• Ability to perform professional-level work dealing with data, people, and technology that relates to administrative, technical, scientific, engineering, accounting, legal, or managerial skills.

• Ability to make decisions that govern activities as well as others.

• Ability to oversee and manage work involving multiple units. Ability to work regularly with other managers to successfully meet the goals and objectives of the organization.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The work is light and requires exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force to move objects. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:

• Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing, or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces. The amount of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.

• Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.

• Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.

• Handling: Picking, holding, or otherwise working, primarily with the whole hand.

• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination in sound.

• Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.

• Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles.

• Manual Dexterity: Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.

• Mental Acuity: Ability to make rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes.

• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.

• Repetitive Motion: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers.

• Speaking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word, including the ability to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately and concisely.

• Standing: Particularly for sustained periods of time.

• Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires full motion of the lower extremities and back muscles.

• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word, including those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.

• Visual Acuity: Have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; and/or extensive reading.

• Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Work is performed in a safe and secure work environment that may periodically have unpredicted requirements or demands.

Monroe County has the right to revise this job description at any time. This description does not represent in any way a contract of employment

Equal Opportunity Employer: Monroe County does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age, disability, or military service in employment or the provision of services.

Empleador de Igualdad de Oportunidades: El Condado de Monroe no discrimina por motivos de raza, color, origen nacional, género, religión, edad, discapacidad o servicio militar en el empleo o la prestación de servicios.

Veterans Preference according to Florida State Statute 295.07: Certain service members and veterans, and the spouses and family members of the servicemembers and veterans, receive preference and priority in employment by the state and are encouraged to apply for the positions being filled.
Preferencia de Veteranos de acuerdo con el Estatuto del Estado de Florida 295.07: Ciertos miembros del servicio y veteranos, y los cónyuges y familiares de los miembros del servicio y veteranos, reciben preferencia y prioridad en el empleo por parte del estado y se les alienta a solicitar los puestos que se están llenando.