Team Leader, Sprint Team
About The Position
The Department of City Planning’s Sprint Team is a project management team focused on advancing the City’s affordable housing goals by streamlining pre-certification review of eligible land use applications. It aims to move applications into public review more quickly, predictably, and transparently while preserving technical, zoning, and public review requirements. The Team Leader supervises project managers assigned to one or more boroughs who manage land use applications through pre-certification. The role oversees application assignments, team capacity, review milestones, application comments, schedule risks, deadlines, staff development, quality control, reporting, and day-to-day workflow. The Team Leader also serves as an escalation point and coordinates with borough offices, review divisions, applicants, and senior management to resolve bottlenecks and support consistent implementation of Sprint Team priorities.
Requirements
- Permanent Civil Service status in the City Planner title, reachability on the City Planner active list (exam #5045), or service in a comparable civil service title.
- Authorization to work in the United States; sponsorship is not offered.
- Meet the City Planner minimum qualifications: a bachelor’s degree and two years of satisfactory full-time experience in city planning, or an equivalent combination of education and/or experience. Graduate education in specified or related fields may substitute for experience at 30 graduate semester credits per year, but all candidates must have a bachelor’s degree.
- For Assignment Level III, one additional year of qualifying professional experience after meeting the minimum requirements.
- For Assignment Level IV, two additional years of qualifying professional experience after meeting the minimum requirements.
Responsibilities
- Supervise project managers managing land use applications through pre-certification.
- Oversee application assignments and monitor team capacity and review milestones.
- Assist with application review comments.
- Identify schedule risks and maintain accountability to deadlines.
- Support consistent implementation of Sprint Team priorities.
- Serve as an escalation point for application review issues.
- Coordinate with borough offices, other review divisions, private and public applicants, and senior management to resolve bottlenecks.
- Support staff development, quality control, reporting, and day-to-day workflow management.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
