Planning Manager Position Available In Wake, North Carolina

Planning Manager 
Salary $70,257.00

• $129,977.00 Annually Location Raleigh, NC Job Type Full-Time Job Number 2025-00404 Department Comp and Long Range Planning Opening Date 04/17/2025 Closing Date 5/8/2025 11:59 PM Eastern Work Hours Monday
• Friday; 8:30 am
• 5:15 pm Hiring Range $70,257.00
• $100,117.

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Job Description The City of Raleigh is seeking a Planning Manager to join us as the lead member of our Comprehensive Planning team. This team primarily manages long-range citywide, neighborhood, and corridor planning projects and staffs the rezoning, annexation, and demographic programs. Comprehensive Planning is a 12-member team that includes two supervisors, a principal planner, six senior planners, and two planners in addition to the advertised position. Current projects include station area planning for Raleigh’s western and southern BRT corridors and an upcoming new comprehensive plan. The individual in this role will make interpretive decisions on behalf of the organization regarding the means for executing the goals established by the relevant Director subject to constraints imposed by available technology and resources. Such interpretive decisions provide context for the work to be accomplished by subordinates supervised within the units managed. Based upon assignment, Managers may serve in lieu of Assistant Directors or Directors as needed. Duties and Responsibilities Supervises staff including conducting performance evaluations, coordinating training, and implementing hiring, and discipline and termination procedures. Provides management and oversight of land use planning and zoning for the promotion of public welfare, security and safety; oversees the maintenance and enforcement of zoning code, defnitions and districts for all areas within the City’s jurisdiction and is responsible for preparing zoning code amendments
Serves as a representative and meets with City departments, Board, Commission and Council members; provides and presents requested information; responds to technical inquiries and provides updates related to zoning code, amendments and enforcement
Provides official interpretation of the zoning code; reviews and applies code in the context of development plans and projects; performs research and prepares departmental position communication materials; makes determinations of code violations by property owners
Identifes, develops, implement and maintains processes and practices that encourage, support and promote effective, comprehensive and meaningful citizen engagement

Typical Qualifications Education and Experience:

Bachelor’s degree in planning or public administration or degree related directly to assignment area, six years of related professional planning experience and two years of supervisory experience OR An equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties of the job such as those listed above, unless otherwise subject to any other requirements set forth in law or regulation.

Additional Information Knowledge of:

Supervisory principles, practices and techniques
Practices and methods of coaching and leading the work of others
Techniques and methods for organizing, prioritizing, assigning and monitoring work
Business methods, principles and practices
Project management principles and practices
Principles and practices of program administration and management
Practices and methods of zoning code enforcement
Best practices, trends and emerging technologies
Principles and methods of qualitative and quantitative research
Principles and applications of critical thinking and analysis
Principles and practices of budget development and administration
Principles and practices of group facilitation and building consensus
Principles and practices of confict resolution
Applicable federal, state and local laws, codes, regulations
Customer service principles
Specialized equipment relevant to area of assignment

Skill In:

Supervising and evaluating staff performance
Training and coaching staff
Coordinating deadlines, prioritizing work demands, and assigning/monitoring work performed
Managing and overseeing enforcement of zoning code
Providing consultation and serving as a program liaison and subject matter expert. Interpreting and applying zoning code and communicating position statements
Monitoring compliance with zoning code. Researching industry trends, solutions and best practices
Researching operational issues and articulating recommendations
Facilitating group discussions and building consensus using persuasive reasoning
Exercising political acumen, tact and diplomacy
Monitoring, evaluating and assessing program and functional operations
Reading, analyzing, evaluating, interpreting and summarizing written materials and statistical data.
Interpreting and applying applicable laws, codes, regulations and standards
Providing customer service
Utilizing a computer and relevant software applications
Utilizing communication and interpersonal skills as applied to interaction with coworkers, supervisors, the general public and others to sufficiently exchange or convey information and to receive work direction

ADA and Other Requirements:

Positions in this class typically require: fingering, grasping, talking, hearing, seeing and repetitive motions.

Sedentary Work:

Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met.

Working Conditions:

Work is routinely performed in an indoor, office environment.

Note:

This job classification description is intended to be generic in nature. It is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities. The essential duties, functions and responsibilities and Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) designation may vary based on the specifc tasks assigned to the position. Employer
City of Raleigh North Carolina
Address
222 W. Hargett St. Raleigh, North Carolina, 27601