Senior Planner - Current Plans

EXAMPLES OF WORK PERFORMED:

• Meet with and advise architects, developers, builders, attorneys, contractors, engineers, and the general public regarding City and County planning and development policies and standards.
• Manages and provides analysis of zoning, CUP, PUD, vacation, annexation or platting cases.
• Prepares staff reports for advisory and elected officials.
• Write legal notices, create property owner notification letters, prepare agendas, and write minutes for various meetings.
• Review development proposals and applications for compliance with appropriate regulations and policies; negotiate solutions that balance the community’s values and private property owner concerns.
• Prepares land use control regulations, often based on previous examples.
• Prepares planning research analysis and related reports using professional judgment and a wide variety of data sources dependent upon the task, property, or development proposal.
• Coordinates professional and technical personnel in the gathering of information, data analysis, plans preparation, and resulting policy recommendations.
• Makes public presentations to boards and other groups.
• Assists citizens with questions and issues regarding processes and programs.
• Meets with neighborhood, community and development groups as part of the planning process.
• Maintains and analyzes complex databases and creates mapping applications using GIS software.
• Assists with management of neighborhood, area and special plan preparation projects.
• Assists with developing elements of functional plans contained within the framework of comprehensive, neighborhood or transportation plans.
• Facilitates the implementation of comprehensive plan elements into specific initiatives/projects for public or private action.
• Develops grant applications.
• Coordinates the preparation of reports for presentation and publication.
• Monitors, administers and evaluates third party contracts.
• Completion of work assignments may require the operation of a vehicle.
• The examples of work performed are not intended to be all-inclusive.
• The City of Wichita reserves the right to assign additional duties as needed.

REQUIREMENTS OF WORK:

• Considerable knowledge of current land use trends and of landmark court cases on planning issues.
• Considerable knowledge of research methods and sources of information relating to metropolitan growth and development.
• Thorough knowledge of the principles and practices of metropolitan planning.
• Knowledge of municipal government administration.
• Knowledge of computer keyboards and ability to access, interpret, and record information through use of a video display terminal and electronic keyboard.
• Ability to effectively plan, organize, and supervise the work of others.
• Ability to lean and reach as needed to read and interpret plans and specifications from a print that may be as large as 36 by 48 inches with information printed as small as twenty characters per inch.
• Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with associates, employees of other Departments, representatives of outside agencies, City/County officials, and the public.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in oral and written forms.
• Ability to collect site photos, conduct site visits, and hold site meetings on a regular basis.
• Must be able to transport files and materials.
• May require ability to acquire and maintain a valid Kansas driver's license.
• An employee shall not pose a direct threat to the health or safety of other individuals in the workplace.