Associate City Planner

About the role

The City and County of Denver offers a competitive salary commensurate with education and experience. The salary range for this position is $68,773-113,476/year. New hires are typically brought into the organization with a starting pay between $68,773-86,000/year, based on experience and education.

We also offer generous benefits for full-time employees which include but is not limited to:

• Five (5) Medical Plans, Dental, Vision Insurance (effective within 1 month of start date)
• Pension Plan for Life (Employee contributes 8.45%, Employer matches at 17.95%)
• 457 (b) Retirement Plan (no early withdrawal fee!)
• PTO (over 3 weeks in your first year) and 14 paid holidays
• Merit Increases
• STD, LTD, HSA, FSA, Life Insurance
• CARE Bank, Family Leave Benefits
• Employee Assistance Program, Employee Volunteer Program
• Tuition Reimbursement (up to $2000/year), We Qualify for Student Loan Forgiveness Program
• Learning and Development Opportunities; Courses and Career Development Resources
• EcoPass (unlimited free RTD bus/train rides)

Responsibilities

In this position, you will participate on interdisciplinary teams for a variety of exciting and complex regulatory and planning projects that advance Denver’s vision of great, inclusive places. Your work is typically performed with the direction and mentorship of team leaders and project managers such as senior and principal city planners in a collaborative, team-based environment.

This Associate City Planner position will report to the rezoning supervisor, and will primarily focus on regulatory planning projects, such as rezonings (also known as map amendments) and text amendments to the zoning code to implement our adopted plans.

You will engage with internal and external partners, including facilitating meetings, making effective presentations, and bringing together stakeholders to anticipate and resolve issues.

You will contribute to efforts to improve city processes to make them more efficient, equitable and transparent.

You will collect and analyze socioeconomic, land use, transportation and demographic data for planning and regulatory projects.

You will support public meetings and other stakeholder engagement events, including planning, preparation, and participation, and facilitation.

Requirements

Education requirement: Bachelor's Degree in City or Regional Planning, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Historic Preservation, Engineering, or a related field.

Experience Requirement: Three (3) years of entry-level professional planning experience which includes participating and assisting in developing planning projects, goals, and guidelines and conducting planning studies and research in a variety of social, economic, and physical areas.

Qualifications

Commitment to integrating equity in planning

Experience working with long range plans, zoning codes and other land use regulatory tools

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Outstanding interpersonal and customer service skills

Previous experience with community outreach/engagement

Familiarity with software used in Denver’s planning and regulatory implementation efforts, including Adobe Creative Suite (especially InDesign); GIS applications and Sketchup or other similar design visualization/evaluation software

Proficiency in speaking, reading and writing in Spanish is preferred but not required

Government experience preferred but not required

Skills

Commitment to integrating equity in planning

Experience working with long range plans, zoning codes and other land use regulatory tools

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Outstanding interpersonal and customer service skills

Previous experience with community outreach/engagement

Familiarity with software used in Denver’s planning and regulatory implementation efforts, including Adobe Creative Suite (especially InDesign); GIS applications and Sketchup or other similar design visualization/evaluation software

Proficiency in speaking, reading and writing in Spanish is preferred but not required

Benefits

We offer a competitive salary commensurate with education and experience. The salary range for this position is $68,773-113,476/year. New hires are typically brought into the organization with a starting pay between $68,773-86,000/year, based on experience and education.

We also offer generous benefits for full-time employees which include but is not limited to:

• Five (5) Medical Plans, Dental, Vision Insurance (effective within 1 month of start date)
• Pension Plan for Life (Employee contributes 8.45%, Employer matches at 17.95%)
• 457 (b) Retirement Plan (no early withdrawal fee!)
• PTO (over 3 weeks in your first year) and 14 paid holidays
• Merit Increases
• STD, LTD, HSA, FSA, Life Insurance
• CARE Bank, Family Leave Benefits
• Employee Assistance Program, Employee Volunteer Program
• Tuition Reimbursement (up to $2000/year), We Qualify for Student Loan Forgiveness Program
• Learning and Development Opportunities; Courses and Career Development Resources
• EcoPass (unlimited free RTD bus/train rides)

Pay

The salary range for this position is $68,773-113,476/year. New hires are typically brought into the organization with a starting pay between $68,773-86,000/year, based on experience and education.

Schedule

This position is located at the Wellington Webb Building, located at 201 W Colfax Ave. Denver, CO 80202. The City and County of Denver supports a hybrid workplace model. Employees’ physical work location is based upon the position’s job duties and requirements, customer service and responsiveness, team and individual performance, and business needs and requirements. Our current practice requires in-office work for all employees for a minimum of three days per week. Business needs and initial onboarding may require additional days in the office. Please note: Downtown parking expenses are the responsibility of the employee. We offer a flexible spending account option specifically for parking; if you elect this option, you can use pre tax dollars for parking. We also offer an RTD ‘eco pass’ to all City employees– allowing the use of public transportation for free as a City Employee.