Placemaking Planner
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About The Position
The City of Middleton seeks its first ever Placemaking Planner! If you are looking for an opportunity to chart a course forward in both your own career and for the life and impact of our municipality on its residents this is an incredible opportunity for you. We seek an experienced event planner and manager who can balance both detailed and fast moving work with ongoing, deep, effective, and personable communications and coordination with varied stakeholders throughout the City staff and the community. You will be a key member of our high performing and close Department of Planning and Community Development. If this sounds like the perfect fit for you, we can't wait to meet you! Under the direct supervision of the Director of Planning and Community Development, the Placemaking Planner is responsible for event programming and all coordination of events related to the Downtown Middleton public green space - Stone Horse Green - and other placemaking initiatives including tactical urbanism (low-cost projects such as traffic calming that test ideas and gather input on design changes), streetscaping, and public art throughout the City of Middleton. Placemaking is a process that involves improving public spaces to make them more inviting, accessible, and active to encourage community connections. The Placemaking Planner is an outgoing networker who can guide inclusive and participatory projects by harnessing the strengths of community residents and volunteers. The Placemaking Planner is a connector of people, who can leverage and amplify goals and priorities of the City of Middleton.
