What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Planner position at Monroe County, FL?
Join a workforce where innovation and teamwork provide support to the community and citizens of Monroe County.
Compensation:
$79,367.34 - $126,987.74
Job Description:
The primary function of this position is to provide planning services; this includes preparation of staff reports for text and map amendments to the Technical Document, Comprehensive Plan, the Land Development Regulations, and other official County Planning documents; assisting in the monitoring and evaluating progress in implementing the Comprehensive Plan. This position is to ensure that all development permitted in unincorporated Monroe County is well designed, consistent with the Comprehensive Plan and in compliance with all applicable Land Development Regulations, community master plans and design guidelines. This position assists the Comprehensive Planning section with data gathering and other technical services for long-range and strategic planning projects.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
- Acts as a member of the planning team, providing planning services to the community. Explain planning-related policies and regulations with the public and offer customer service to the community and developers by providing information, guidance and assistance.
- Conducts research and prepares reports for long-range and strategic planning projects.
- Prepares analysis, review and professional recommendation on proposed map and text amendments to the Comprehensive Plan and the Land Development Regulations.
- Reviews proposed development projects, mainly those requiring development agreements and conditional use permit approval, to ensure consistency with Comprehensive Plan/Land Development Regulations, as well as to ensure that quality design and site planning standards have been applied and that community character shall not be negatively impacted.
- Analyzes planning applications to determine completeness and the correct application of procedure, policies and regulations.
- Prepares reports, analyses and recommendations for the Director of Planning & Environmental Resources, advisory committees, the Planning Commission and the Board of County Commissioners.
- Collects, analyzes and updates county baseline statistical data; and provides and updates regional data (including demographics, transportation and GIS) to communities.
- Drafts language and guide proposals through public hearings and other administrative processes.
- Drafts letters of understanding.
- Provides expert testimony and cross-examination at quasi-judicial hearings.
- Prepares maps, background materials, and presentations for public hearings and workshops.
- Leads and facilitates public workshops.
- Provides technical assistance to community projects.
- Creates public relations materials and guidebooks.
- Staffs and facilitates advisory boards and meetings.
- Performs other related job duties as assigned.
- In the event of special, emergency, or disaster situations, employee may be required to work schedules other than those for which they are regularly scheduled in any capacity deemed appropriate.
QUALIFICATIONS
Education and Experience:
Master’s Degree in Urban Planning or related field. 7 years minimum of prior related work experience.
Special Qualifications:
None.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Ability to organize work around broad organizational goals and processes.
- Ability to oversee work that involves the use of complex technical, scientific, or mathematical concepts that increases the efficiency and effectiveness of the organization; ability to analyze and make recommendations on how to improve the operational performance of the organization.
- Ability to oversee numerous functions and staff; responsible for determining policies and procedures that will ensure the success of the operation.
- Ability to provide updates to senior managers, elected officials, or other community groups or organizations; ability to work regularly with other Directors or senior managers to ensure the provision of efficient and effective services.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The work is sedentary and requires exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:
- Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination in sound.
- Manual Dexterity: Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
- Mental Acuity: Ability to make rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes.
- Speaking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including the ability to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately and concisely.
- Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
- Visual Acuity: Have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; and/or extensive reading.
- Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
Work is performed in a relatively safe, secure, and stable work environment.
Monroe County has the right to revise this job description at any time. This description does not represent in any way a contract of employment.
Equal Opportunity Employer: Monroe County does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age, disability, or military service in employment or the provision of services.
Empleador de Igualdad de Oportunidades: El Condado de Monroe no discrimina por motivos de raza, color, origen nacional, género, religión, edad, discapacidad o servicio militar en el empleo o la prestación de servicios.
Veterans Preference according to Florida State Statute 295.07: Certain service members and veterans, and the spouses and family members of the servicemembers and veterans, receive preference and priority in employment by the state and are encouraged to apply for the positions being filled.
Preferencia de Veteranos de acuerdo con el Estatuto del Estado de Florida 295.07: Ciertos miembros del servicio y veteranos, y los cónyuges y familiares de los miembros del servicio y veteranos, reciben preferencia y prioridad en el empleo por parte del estado y se les alienta a solicitar los puestos que se están llenando.
Preferencia de Veteranos de acuerdo con el Estatuto del Estado de Florida 295.07: Ciertos miembros del servicio y veteranos, y los cónyuges y familiares de los miembros del servicio y veteranos, reciben preferencia y prioridad en el empleo por parte del estado y se les alienta a solicitar los puestos que se están llenando.
Salary : $79,367 - $126,988
