Planning Manager

About the position

The City of Raleigh is seeking a Planning Manager to join us as the lead member of our Comprehensive Planning team. This team primarily manages long-range citywide, neighborhood, and corridor planning projects and staffs the rezoning, annexation, and demographic programs. Comprehensive Planning is a 12-member team that includes two supervisors, a principal planner, six senior planners, and two planners in addition to the advertised position. Current projects include station area planning for Raleigh's western and southern BRT corridors and an upcoming new comprehensive plan. The individual in this role will make interpretive decisions on behalf of the organization regarding the means for executing the goals established by the relevant Director subject to constraints imposed by available technology and resources. Such interpretive decisions provide context for the work to be accomplished by subordinates supervised within the units managed. Based upon assignment, Managers may serve in lieu of Assistant Directors or Directors as needed.

Responsibilities

• Supervises staff including conducting performance evaluations, coordinating training, and implementing hiring, and discipline and termination procedures.
• Provides management and oversight of land use planning and zoning for the promotion of public welfare, security and safety; oversees the maintenance and enforcement of zoning code, definitions and districts for all areas within the City's jurisdiction and is responsible for preparing zoning code amendments.
• Serves as a representative and meets with City departments, Board, Commission and Council members; provides and presents requested information; responds to technical inquiries and provides updates related to zoning code, amendments and enforcement.
• Provides official interpretation of the zoning code; reviews and applies code in the context of development plans and projects; performs research and prepares departmental position communication materials; makes determinations of code violations by property owners.
• Identifies, develops, implements and maintains processes and practices that encourage, support and promote effective, comprehensive and meaningful citizen engagement.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in planning or public administration or degree related directly to assignment area.
• Six years of related professional planning experience.
• Two years of supervisory experience.
• Knowledge of supervisory principles, practices and techniques.
• Knowledge of practices and methods of coaching and leading the work of others.
• Knowledge of techniques and methods for organizing, prioritizing, assigning and monitoring work.
• Knowledge of business methods, principles and practices.
• Knowledge of project management principles and practices.
• Knowledge of principles and practices of program administration and management.
• Knowledge of practices and methods of zoning code enforcement.
• Knowledge of best practices, trends and emerging technologies.
• Knowledge of principles and methods of qualitative and quantitative research.
• Knowledge of principles and applications of critical thinking and analysis.
• Knowledge of principles and practices of budget development and administration.
• Knowledge of principles and practices of group facilitation and building consensus.
• Knowledge of principles and practices of conflict resolution.
• Knowledge of applicable federal, state and local laws, codes, regulations.
• Knowledge of customer service principles.
• Knowledge of specialized equipment relevant to area of assignment.