Assistant Planner
About The Position
The Assistant Planner supports public-sector planning departments by providing professional-level assistance on a variety of planning, zoning, and policy-related activities. This role focuses on assisting with day-to-day planning functions, supporting agency staff, and contributing to a range of current and long-range planning projects. The Assistant Planner works collaboratively with planners, agency staff, and community stakeholders to help ensure planning initiatives are implemented in accordance with applicable regulations, policies, and best practices. The position is well-suited for an early-career planning professional seeking hands-on experience in municipal and agency-based planning environments, with exposure to development review, policy implementation, and community planning efforts.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with a major in Urban Planning, Environmental Science, Biology, or a related field
- Minimum of 1 year of experience in planning
- A high energy, passionate, results-oriented team player
- Ability to handle critical conversations with internal staff, managers and leaders
- Anticipative and forward thinking
- Valid California Class C driver's license and an acceptable driver’s record are required
Responsibilities
- Manages and supports front counter planning efforts with various public planning departments
- Writes staff reports, resolutions, ordinances, and presents them to commissions, boards, and councils
- Assists in support of a range of planning projects and/or multi-agency/multi-jurisdictional planning efforts
- Support the development of long-term and short-term plans, programs, goals, and policies involving city/region wide planning initiatives, public transportation systems, economic development, etc.
- Participates in the development and maintenance of the General Plan and other specialized city plans and ensures planning programs/projects are consistent with city planning principles/criteria, applicable regulations, and other relevant factor
- Serves as a consultant to citizen groups, and other stakeholders related to planning policies/standards, issues, processes, procedures, zoning/rezoning issues, ordinance changes, and environmental regulations
- Facilitates meetings and/or presentations to bring together interested stakeholders to discuss proposed planning initiatives, assess obstacles, evaluate opposing views and interests, and determine areas of support
- Designs and conducts research to collect and assemble original data from land use maps, plans, reports, and surveys and uses data to define issues, assess trends, make recommendations, and identify relationships among disparate data, issues, and positions
Benefits
- Competitive salaries
- profit sharing
- 401k
- Generous paid time off packages
- 9 Paid Holidays
- Flexible schedules
- Education reimbursement
- Paid annual dues for professional and societal organizations
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
