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Developement Services Manager
City of Norwalk / City of Norwalk
Posted on: April 10, 2024
Application Deadline: 05/10/2024
Job Description
The City of Norwalk seeks a highly qualified Community Development Manager to join our esteemed Community Development team. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing, planning, and directing the work of the Planning Division of the Community Development Department, with direct oversight of the development process. This includes the development review, grading, plan check, and inspection processes.
Moreover, you will play a crucial role in coordinating the Planning Division’s activities with other City departments, developers, property owners, and public agencies. This ensures that projects are executed seamlessly and efficiently. The ideal candidate should have experience in current and long-range planning and be responsible for administrating, implementing, and monitoring the City’s Successor Agency and economic development.
Additionally, the role requires recruitment, retention, and promotion of business and community marketing. You will also perform related duties as required.
Required Experience / Skills / Education
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Knowledge of: provisions, scope and purposes of the State Planning Law and related municipal ordinances, particularly related to the current planning and redevelopment processes; the theories, principles, goals, objectives, procedures, practices, law, and trends in the field of planning; the methods, plans, systems, forms, maps and tools common to a land use planner’s work, and sources of information that may are used in conducting planning research; office management; principles of supervision; techniques for effectively representing the City in contacts with various agencies, community groups, business, professional, educational and regulatory organizations, and with property owners, developers, contractors and the public.
Ability to: deal effectively with developers, architects, engineers, and the general public; schedule work, set priorities, and monitor work progress; interpret and apply codes, regulations, statutes, and ordinances relevant to city planning and economic development activities, and make oral and written presentations to individuals and groups; prepare clear and concise reports, correspondence, policies, procedures and other written materials; work cooperatively with others; keep current in the fields of planning and economic development; analyze issues and draw logical, supportable conclusions; administer complex, technical and sensitive current planning, development, redevelopment, housing, property acquisition and related programs in an independent and cooperative manner; and provide administrative and professional leadership and direction.
Serve as problem solver, deal closer, advisor and/or negotiator on development projects and confer with City officials, applicants, and community groups on proposed projects. Anticipate and solve for deal complications; remove transaction roadblocks to prevent delays and improve efficiency. Provide assistance on short and long-term development plans, as well as gather information and preparation of studies, reports, and recommendations to achieve such goals. This will involve the preparation and maintenance of information on utilities, taxes, zoning, transportation, community services, financing tools, and incentives, in order to respond to requests for information for economic development purposes, and the coordination with other departments and agencies as needed.
The ideal candidate is collaborative, inclusive, committed to exceptional service and possesses extensive experience in the administration of planning and economic development programs and practices across multiple industries, including industrial, retail, downtown development, hospitality, and across multiple functions, including marketing, promotions, contract and project management, policy development, economic trends and analysis, land use and community development.
Education and/or Experience
A bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year college or university with major coursework in business or public administration, planning, urban design, community development, architecture, or closely related field and five (5) years of increasingly responsible experience in professional land use planning work typically performed in public agencies, including two (2) years in a supervisory capacity. Master’s degree in a related field can be substituted for one year experience.
Possession of a Master’s degree in either city planning or public administration with an emphasis in city planning is highly desirable.
Required Licenses and Certificates
Possession of or ability to obtain an appropriate California driver’s license and a satisfactory driving record. An American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) certification and professional licenses or certificates as an economic development or finance professional are highly desirable.
Application Instructions
Applications must be submitted through NEOGOV. Please use the link below to apply for the position.
https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/norwalkca?
