Senior Planner

Salary : $87,032.04 - $113,794.81 Annually

Location : Tigard 97223, OR

Job Type : Full-time

Job Number : 2025

Department : Community Development

Opening Date : 01 / 14 / 2025

Closing Date : 2 / 9 / 2025 11 : 59 PM Pacific

Overview

OUR PURPOSE

At the City of Tigard, our talented, industrious, and innovative municipal government professionals have been providing essential services and recreational spaces to Tigard's growing community for over 60 years. City of Tigard team members enjoy meaningful work, a diverse and inclusive culture of belonging, job specific flexibilities and opportunities for growth and advancement. Incorporated in 1961, Tigard is Oregon's 12th largest city and is part of the Portland metropolitan area.

OUR VALUES

At Team Tigard, we are the ambassadors of our municipal services to the members of our community. We aspire to treat all people with dignity, respect, and care; to demonstrate the equitable and sustainable practices that are environmentally and fiscally sound, and to engage with each other as trusted colleagues to achieve excellence in all we do. We do the right things, and we get things done.

Examples of Duties

The successful candidate will be a seasoned, self-motivated, and forward-thinking planner with a keen interest in challenging the typical patterns of lower-density development at city edge, a vision for more sustainable urban spaces, and the ability to build consensus around new models of development. The ability to manage large project teams, communicate with a variety of stakeholders, and attention to details will be critical elements of this position.

• Serve as project manager for the completion of a Comprehensive Plan for a 500-acre greenfield development recently added to the regional Urban Growth Boundary. The project manager will see that the city's ambitious goals for housing opportunity, diversity, and affordability as well as climate resiliency are met to the greatest extent practicable. This project has the potential to serve as a regional, statewide, and possibly even national model.
• Manage long-range planning projects, including legislative amendments to the city's Comprehensive Plan, Development Code, and other policy documents.
• Oversee or participate in the oversight of selected city programs related to housing, development, and climate.
• Coordinate with peers across the region and state to understand current best practices and regulatory frameworks.
• Bring a passion for new ideas and fresh perspectives to all areas of planning practice.

Minimum Qualifications

Education and Experience :

Any combination of training and experience, which would provide the required knowledge, skills, and abilities is qualifying. A typical way to obtain the required qualifications would be :

Supplemental Information

Union Representation : not applicable for this job

Schedule : Monday- Thursday (General hours between) 7 : 30 a.m.-6 : 00 p.m. with remote work opportunities

Compensation for Senior Planner The hourly range for this overtime eligible position is $41.84-$54.70 per hour. The starting pay assignment, based on an analysis of the successful candidate's related experience and education in accordance with the City's pay equity policy and the Oregon Equal Pay Act, would be no higher than $49.23 per hour.

How to apply : Please apply online. We do not accept applications via email. Applications must be received by Human Resources by the closing time / date.

IMPORTANT : In lieu of resumes and cover letters, the City of Tigard evaluates each applicant's work history and responses to supplemental questions. Please complete the application and answer the supplemental questions thoroughly to ensure our subject matter experts can appropriately evaluate your experience.

ATTENTION VETERANS : To receive veterans' preference, please upload your DD214 / Separation documentation

In addition to being a , the City of Tigard offers competitive employee benefits for full-time and part-time employees working 20 or more hours per week :

Choice of health and dental plans

Generous retirement plan (non-PERS)

City-paid HRA-VEBA

Paid time off (PTO) program plus paid sick leave

10 paid holidays

Life and disability insurance

Universal transit pass through TriMet

This job classification is not represented by a union

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Salary : $87,032 - $113,795