City Planner Supervisor of Catalytic Projects

The City and County of Denver is hiring a City Planner Supervisor for Catalytic Projects, responsible for overseeing large-scale development and adaptive reuse projects. This role involves leading interagency workgroups for site plan review and infrastructure planning. The position is based in Denver, CO, with a hybrid model requiring at least three days in the office weekly.

Competitive salary and extensive benefits are offered.

About Our Job

With competitive pay, great benefits, and endless opportunities, working for the City and County of Denver (CCD) means seeing yourself working with purpose — for you, and those who benefit from your passion, skills and expertise. Join our diverse, inclusive and talented workforce of more than 11,000 team members who are at the heart of what makes Denver, Denver.

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What We Offer

The City and County of Denver offers a competitive salary commensurate with education and experience. The salary range for this position is $98,682 – $162,826. New hires are typically brought into the organization between $116,000-135,000/year. We also offer generous benefits for full-time employees which include but is not limited to:

• Five (5) Medical Plans, Dental, Vision Insurance
• Pension Plan for Life (Employee contributes 8.45%, Employer matches at 17.95%)
• 457 (b) Retirement Plan (no early withdrawal fee!)
• PTO (over 3 weeks in your first year) and 14 paid holidays
• Merit Increases
• STD, LTD, HSA, FSA, Life Insurance
• CARE Bank, Family Leave Benefits
• Employee Assistance Program, Employee Volunteer Program
• Tuition Reimbursement (up to $2000/year), We Qualify for Student Loan Forgiveness Program
• Learning and Development Opportunities; Courses and Career Development Resources
• EcoPass (unlimited free RTD bus/train rides)

Location

This position is located at the Wellington Webb Building, located at 201 W Colfax Ave. Denver, CO 80202.

The City and County of Denver supports a hybrid workplace model. Employees’ physical work location is based upon the position’s job duties and requirements, customer service and responsiveness, team and individual performance, and business needs and requirements. Our current practice requires in-office work for all employees for a minimum of three days per week.

Business needs and initial onboarding may require additional days in the office.

Please note: Downtown parking expenses are the responsibility of the employee. We offer a flexible spending account option specifically for parking; if you elect this option, you can use pre tax dollars for parking. We also offer an RTD ‘eco pass’ to all City employees– allowing the use of public transportation for free as a City Employee.

What You’ll Do

BUILDING COMMUNITY: Denver Community Planning and Development (CPD) is responsible for visionary city planning and ensuring safe, responsible, sustainable building. CPD regulates planning, zoning, development and maintenance of private property in Denver. We're working hard to make Denver a great place to live, work and play! Visit DenverGov.org/CPD.

CPD is recruiting for a City Planning Supervisor of Catalytic Projects for our Site Design and Neighborhood Development Catalytic Projects team within our Development Services Division. The Catalytic Projects team is responsible for coordinating the citywide development review response across a multitude of project scales focused primarily on large scale development and Adaptive ReUse projects.

This position will be responsible for leading and working across interagency workgroups responsible for site plan review and approval, large development frameworks, infrastructure master plans, and adaptive reuse projects.

The varied work programs, project deliverables, associated timelines, and desired outcomes result in a dynamic environment focused on delivering great customer service and built outcomes that shape the future of Denver.

We need a forward-thinking, innovative, well-organized leader with experience navigating competing internal and external pressures to supervise and support current functions and embrace opportunities to build our team culture and service.

Key responsibilities will include

• Work directly within our leadership structure to support, encourage, and grow our highly skilled team
• Coordinate with City Agencies to facilitated coordinated development review outcomes
• Directly supervise workgroups responsible for Large Development Review and Adaptive ReUse, which includes: supporting professional development and training, overseeing schedules and workloads, setting goals and evaluating performance, recruiting and retaining staff
• Manage individual and team workload and performance management, including quality assurance
• Sustaining and celebrating a workplace culture built on supportive camaraderie and meaningful work
• Leading your team(s) in creating and updating processes, procedures, guides, or other supportive documents to effectively carry out our workprograms and processes
• Developing, tracking, and reporting on performance metrics to measure the success of the workprogram and other process improvement
• Support customer service efforts and initiatives to ensure accurate, timely, and helpful responses to inquiries

We value diversity of ethnicity, race, socioeconomic status, sexual identity, gender, religion, language, ability, and experience and exemplify this through the makeup of our team at all levels. You'll be right at home here if you cultivate strong relationships and push yourself, your work, the people around you and Denver to the next level.

Our ideal candidate has some or all the following experience, skills, and characteristics:

• Strong problem-solving skills; Reliability, dependability, and ability to maintain confidentiality
• Ability to manage time and workload effectively which includes planning, organizing, and prioritizing with attention to details as well as the big picture
• Good understanding of the development and development review process including customer motivation and navigation of the regulatory environment
• Ability to be both customer centric while managing partnerships with City review agencies; Successfully balancing needs of both internal and external stakeholders
• Experience that demonstrates a multi-disciplinary approach to land use planning and development
• Experience documenting and/or creating process and procedures
• Focus on delivering continuous process improvements
• Strong leadership and project management skills
• Creative and strategic approach to solving unique project challenges
• Experience with Microsoft Office Suite, BlueBeam, Adobe Acrobat, and permit processing software such as Accela
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and ability to present to diverse audiences; Excellent strategic communication skills

Required Minimum Qualifications

• Education requirement: Bachelor’s Degree in City or Regional Planning, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Engineering, Public Administration, or a related degree
• Experience Requirement: Seven (7) years of professional planning experience
• Education/Experience Equivalency: One (1) year of the appropriate type and level of experience may be substituted for each required year of post-high school education
• Additional appropriate education may be substituted for the minimum experience requirements

Application Deadline

To be considered for this position, you must include the following on your job application (upload the attachment(s) to the Resume/CV section on the My Experience tab):

• Cover Letter
• Resume

Please submit your application as soon as possible and no later than Wednesday, June 18th, at 11:59pm to ensure consideration.

About Everything Else

Job Profile

CE1566 City Planner Supervisor

To view the full job profile including position specifications, physical demands, and probationary period, click here.

Position Type

Unlimited

Position Salary Range

$98,682.00 - $162,826.00

Target Pay

$116,000-135,000/year, based on experience and education

Agency

Community Planning & Development

Redeployment during Citywide Emergencies

City and County of Denver employees may be re-deployed to work in other capacities in their own agencies or in other city agencies to support core functions of the city during a citywide emergency declared by the Mayor.

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