Planning & Development Review Manager

Join a workforce where innovation and teamwork provide support to the community and citizens of Monroe County.

Compensation:

$94,527.77 - $151,244.44

Job Description:

The primary function of this role is to ensure that development permitted in unincorporated Monroe County is well-designed and consistent with the Comprehensive Plan and the Land Development Code, and other applicable community master plans and regulatory documents. Additionally, this position supports the Director of Planning and Environmental Resources in overseeing development review activities, evaluating staff reports, managing current planning staff, drafting code amendments, implementing the Comprehensive Plan and Land Development Code, and conducting data collection and other technical services for planning projects.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• Provides leadership for the Current Planning Section.
• Supervises professional staff and manages the section's work program, ensuring timely progress and completion of work.
• Oversees responsibilities of current planners, including public intake and questions about zoning and development regulations.
• Assigns planning applications and other projects to staff and monitors the progress of multidisciplinary reviews and assignments through the development approval process for clients.
• Supervises current planning programs, including concurrency management and the development review program (including committee management).
• Administers and maintains a concurrency management system.
• Coordinates processes for amending maps to the County Land Development Code, including land use district mapping.
• Prepares and oversees the preparation of Land Development Code text amendments.
• Leads, initiates, and completes current planning projects, including developing master plans and strategic plans and implementing those plans.
• Develops, oversees, and administers planning projects with consultants and other agencies.
• Prepares and supervises the preparation of technical policy reports and studies, including staff reports for proposed development.
• Reviews proposed development projects to ensure quality design and site planning standards have been met and that community character is not negatively impacted.
• Analyzes planning applications to determine completeness and correct application of procedures, policies, and regulations.
• Reviews staff determinations and findings to ensure accuracy and consistent application of regulations.
• Facilitates pre-application conferences for proposed projects, beneficial use determinations, and determinations of vested rights, which require highly technical review.
• Staffs and facilitates advisory boards and meetings.
• Represents the County at public hearings and meetings.
• Administers grants programs, including grants application preparation for programs relative to current planning issues.
• Supervises planning record management and the department-wide filing system.
• Assists with coordination and maintenance of the tier system.
• Assists or coordinates with the Comprehensive Planning Section.
• Reviews and assimilates internal memos and documents and external reports and accounts of actions of various government and regulatory agencies, including assisting Code Compliance with determinations of violations of County regulations. This may include presenting determinations at Code Compliance hearings and expert witness testimony.
• 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 a related field is required, OR a bachelor's degree and seven (7) to ten (10) years of progressively responsible experience in a related field. Five (5) to seven (7) years minimum amount of prior related work experience is required, with at least two (2) years of experience at the supervisory level.

Special Qualifications:

American Planners Association (APA) Member. American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) preferred.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Ability to oversee the work of a team engaged in providing specific services, completing specific projects, or assisting other units.
• Ability to perform work that encompasses advanced technical, scientific, legal, or mathematical concepts.
• Ability to oversee numerous functions and staff; responsible for determining policies and procedures that will ensure the success of operations.
• Ability to oversee and manage work involving multiple units.
• Ability to work regularly with other managers to successfully meet the goals and objectives of our organization.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The work is light and requires exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force to move objects. 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.
• Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles.
• 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.
• Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.
• Repetitive Motion: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers.
• 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.
• Standing: Particularly for sustained periods of time.
• 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 dynamic environment that requires sensitivity and responsiveness to changes that include goals, priorities, and needs of the organization and position.

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, gnero, religin, edad, discapacidad o servicio militar en el empleo o la prestacin 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 cnyuges 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 estn llenando.