Parks Planning Manager

The City of Redmond is a thriving, culturally diverse community and home to over 80,000 residents.  Redmond is the hub to an array of commerce and industry ranging from technology, aerospace and gaming to biomedical and innovation start-ups.
 
We are seeking skilled and motivated individuals to join our team as a Parks Planning Manager. As a Parks Planning Manager, you will have a crucial, strategic role in helping our department look toward the future of our parks and facilities. Passionate about sustainability and tree canopy work, this role will work collaboratively across the City to help reach envision and accomplish goals. 
 
As a Planning Manager, you will oversee the Parks, Trails, & Recreation Commission as well as represent the City on the Eastrail team to help look toward the future. As a collaborative partner in the Parks Leadership Team, the manager will ensure the department has up to date plans, a smoothly running CIP process, and will work across all divisions in the department to create and maintain a beautiful, equitable, accessible, sustainable system. 
 
In this role, you will be joining a Parks and Recreation Department with a vision of protecting and enhancing the community’s quality of life by delivering exceptional services. Parks and Recreation embraces their mission to build community through people, parks, arts, recreation, and conservation.

Note: Hybrid work schedule eligible after a 2-month onboarding period, with a minimum of 3 days required on-site each week.As we evaluate candidates, we are not just looking for your experience with Parks Planning and planning principles, practices, and techniques. We are also looking for skills vital to the work we do. 
 
Inspired & Skillful Collaboration: How do you build trust with internal and external groups? This position works across the department, the city and with the public to help resolve issues and envision a future for the City of Redmond Parks & Recreation system. Collaboration and trust are vital. 
 
Visionary & Strategic Leadership: How have you made tough but balanced decisions, while displaying wisdom, empathy and resilience to overcome difficult challenges, diffuse conflict and facilitate buy in? 
 
Creativity & Innovation: How do you display creativity and innovation as you tackle the complex problems in parks, conservation, trails, and facilities? 
 
Building & Nurturing Relationships in a Diverse Community: The City of Redmond is committed to being a leader and fostering a socially-just community with cultural humility. How do you effectively enable positive collaboration with diverse communities, ensuring genuine inclusion in the decision-making process? 
 
Sharing Expertise & Learning from Others: How do you share your planning expertise with those who may not know how to navigate the planning process? How do you learn from them to ensure the plans encompass their expertise and solves the problems at hand?  

About the Job:

• Manages Parks planning activities, including master planning, and development projects.
• Manages the Parks' Capital Improvement Program and collaborates with CIP Portfolio team on behalf of the department.
• Manages and oversees the department's functional plan, the Parks, Arts, Recreation, Culture and Conservation (PARCC) Plan and prepares and advocates the park element of the City's comprehensive plan.
• Manages land acquisition activities of the department, through identification of strategic needs and opportunities for parks, open spaces and natural areas; negotiates property acquisitions, works with staff to ensure preparation of purchase and sale agreements for identified properties.
• Evaluates land use policies affecting public parks, trails, open spaces, and recreational facilities.
• Responsible for supporting the Parks and Trails Commission.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Planning, Landscape Architecture, Park Management or closely related field; Master's degree preferred;
• Five (5) years of progressively responsible supervisory experience with work experience directly related to park planning and development activities, parks planning as applicable, and experience in leading project management;
• Any combination of education and experience that would likely provide the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.
• Demonstrated leadership in a community setting involving diverse populations with knowledge of best practices in equity and inclusion.

LICENSES and CERTIFICATES: 

• Valid Washington State Driver's License and a driving record that meets city standards
• American Institute of Certified Planners designation preferred

Other
This class description describes the general nature of the work performed, representative duties as well as the typical qualifications needed for acceptable performance. It is not intended to be a complete list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of the job.

Please review the Planning Manager classification description for more information about the knowledge, skills, abilities, working conditions, and physical requirements.
 
Selection Process

• Top candidates will be contacted to participate in the next phase of the selection process, which may include a pre-screening phone interview. 
• All applicants will be notified of their application status. 
• Note, the City may review existing application pools to fill this position or use this pool to fill future vacancies.
• A cover letter and resume must be submitted with your application.

Offers of employment are conditional based on the candidate successfully passing both background and reference checks. Internal candidates are subject to passing a new background if the previous check was conducted more than six months ago.
 
Additionally, new hires relocating to the area are required to have Washington State residency within 30 days of their start date to comply payroll tax purposes.Our employees earn competitive wages and enjoy an exceptional benefits package that includes:

• MEDICAL INSURANCE - Choice of two plans for employees and their eligible dependents: Premera or Kaiser Permanente. All employee healthcare premiums paid for by the City of Redmond.
• PRESCRIPTION DRUG INSURANCE - Included with each medical plan
• DENTAL INSURANCE - For employees and their eligible dependents
• VISION INSURANCE - For employees and their eligible dependents
• OTHER INSURANCE - Life, accidental death & dismemberment insurance, short and long-term disability, optional employee-paid voluntary life insurance
• FLEXIBLE SPENDING ACCOUNTS - For tax savings on healthcare and dependent care expenses
• PAID VACATION & HOLIDAYS – with (13) paid holidays per year
• EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (EAP)
• RETIREMENT PLANS - Department of Retirement Systems (DRS) plus additional options that include: Municipal Employees Benefit Trust (Social Security replacement plan) and MetLife 457 Plan
• Annual COLA adjustments
• Annual merit increases of up to 5%

 To learn about benefits at the City of Redmond, please visit C2MB (ajg.com) 

Salary : $128,736 - $173,808