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Job Description
Pay Range: $85,611 - $111,295 annual compensation
Job Posting Closing on: Thursday, November 21, 2024
Workdays & Hours: Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm; Some evening/weekend work required.
Benefits for this position include: 11 Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Pension Plan, Professional Development Opportunities, and much more.
The City of Fort Worth is one of the fastest growing large cities in the U.S. Our employees serve the needs of nearly 1,000,000 residents, promoting our values of exceptional customer experience, mutual respect, embracing our diversity, continuous improvement, ethical behavior, and accountability.
We are looking for a dynamic Planning Manager to join the Planning Division of the Fort Worth Lab (FWLab), an initiative launched by City Manager David Cooke in February 2023 to enhance the City’s capacity to make data-driven policy decisions. The FWLab includes Long-Range Planning, Budget, Strategy & Performance and Data Analytics. This newly imagined position will play a critical role in shaping the future of Fort Worth by overseeing diverse city-wide planning efforts and leveraging data to inform policy, capital planning, and community engagement.
As the Planning Manager, you will lead a team of professionals and guide critical planning initiatives such as the 2050 Comprehensive Plan, planning sector plans, bond planning and prioritization, land use planning and capital improvement projects. You will collaborate across departments, engage community stakeholders, and ensure that planning efforts align with Fort Worth’s long-term vision of becoming the most livable and best-managed city in the country. The ideal candidate will bring strong leadership and planning expertise, with experience in both planning and GIS applications. You should be a strategic thinker, an effective communicator, and someone who thrives in a collaborative environment that values innovation and community engagement.
The Planning Manager - Strategy and GIS job responsibilities include:
- Lead and Manage Planning & GIS Teams: Direct and supervise the Planning Division and its GIS functions, ensuring effective coordination of projects and service delivery to both the public and City staff. Provide mentorship, guidance, and professional development opportunities for staff.
- Strategic Planning & Data Analysis: Oversee the development of long-range plans, including the 2050 Comprehensive Plan and area plans. Lead GIS and spatial analysis efforts to inform land use, transportation, and environmental planning projects, and provide data-driven insights to support policy development.
- Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement: Partner with various City departments, external stakeholders, and community organizations to ensure planning efforts align with the City’s goals. Facilitate public engagement processes, including workshops, meetings, and outreach activities, to gather community input and foster collaboration.
- Project Management: Oversee the successful execution of multiple planning projects, ensuring that work plans are developed, priorities are set, and deadlines are met. Track progress, evaluate outcomes, and provide regular updates to leadership.
- Communication & Reporting: Prepare and present high-quality reports, maps, and presentations that effectively communicate planning strategies, GIS analysis, and project outcomes to City leaders, stakeholders, and the public.
- Capital Improvement & Policy Planning: Support strategic capital project planning, including analysis of fiscal impact and return on public investment. Guide the enhancement of the City’s Capital Improvements Plan (CIP) and contribute to budget planning efforts.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in Urban Planning, Public Administration, or a related field
- Five (5) years of experience in urban planning or a related field
- Two (2) years of supervisory experience
- Valid Driver’s License
Preferred Qualifications:
- Expertise in GIS, spatial analysis, and data visualization/BI-tools (e.g., ArcGIS, Tableau, Power BI, Looker).
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- Familiarity with planning software (e.g. ArcGIS, Adobe CreativeSuite) and standard office software (MS Office)
- Work with programming tools (e.g. Python, R, Julia, Java, Rust), query language (e.g. SQL).
- Proven experience in public engagement, including facilitating workshops, meetings, and outreach efforts to involve diverse communities in planning processes.
- Strong knowledge of land use, transportation, and environmental planning principles.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience preparing reports, presentations, and planning documents for a variety of audiences.
- Project management experience, with the ability to oversee multiple projects simultaneously while ensuring high-quality outcomes.
- Membership or certification from professional organizations (e.g., APA/AICP, GISP, etc.) is a plus.
Conditions of Employment
The City of Fort Worth is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is the policy and practice of the City to recruit, hire, train and promote a diverse workforce without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, military service, or another non-merit factor.
The City of Fort Worth is committed to full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.
Candidates who do not meet the Education requirement, may be considered if they have more relevant work experience than the position requires. Those selected for employment will be required to pass Pre-Employment checks depending on the position requirements. Those could include, but are not limited to: criminal background check, drug screen, education verification, etc. criminal convictions will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Employees are paid by direct deposit only. -
ABOUT THE COMPANY
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City of Fort Worth
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The City of Cowboys & Culture is known for its Texas hospitality. The stunning and sprawling City of
Fort Worth is one of the fastest-growing cities in the U.S. And it’s no wonder — With great neighborhoods, scenic terrain and a rich history of arts and culture, paired with world-class opportunities for business and education, it’s not only fun to visit Fort Worth, it’s even more rewarding to call it home.Fort Worth truly offers all the benefits and amenities of a bustling metropolitan city, while keeping the small- town charm that keeps it unpretentious and charismatic in all the right ways. Designated as one of America’s “Most Livable Communities” by the Partners for Livable Communities, the city truly offers a melting pot of culture, commerce, community and yes, cowboys.
There are over a dozen remarkable districts full of treasured history among modern luxuries and unique places to have fun, making it the No. 1 tourist destination in Texas and welcoming more than 9.4 million visitors annually.
Being one of the fastest-growing among large cities in the country, Fort Worth has received multiple accolades, including number one downtown (Livability), and the second-best City in the nation for job seekers (Forbes). Our employees serve the needs of over 900,000 residents representing culturally diverse communities.
Exciting Growth & Future Development
One of the most fascinating aspects of the City of Fort Worth is its almost unprecedented growth over the past several years. Both in terms of population and industry, and as the 12th largest city in the United States, Fort Worth is truly booming — which presents both challenges and opportunities to truly develop this city in the right way. Every 30 minutes a new person moves to Fort Worth, so we’re looking for candidates who can embrace an evergrowing and changing environment and improve on it with solutions that work for the entire community of Fort Worth.
Mission
We are working together to build a strong community that others can look to as a pillar of unity and excellence. Through grassroots efforts within the community, and large scale construction and transportation plans that continue to add the infra- structure a growing city like Fort Worth needs, we’ll provide the public services our community requires to continually cultivate the unique city we call home.
Vision
Fort Worth’s vision is to be the most livable and best managed city in the country. We’ll do this by taking care of our citizens, implementing the highest quality standards in our schools, continually improving the neighborhoods we thrive in and the facets of the city that make our town so unique.
Benefits That Are Well Worth It
The City of Fort Worth continues to be dedicated to its employees’ well-being by providing competitive health benefits, a well-rounded wellness program and a Zero Accident Philosophy® workplace. All regular full-time employees and those employees who work 30–39 hours per week are eligible for all City of Fort Worth Benefits. Part-time employees who work 20–29 hours per week are eligible for dental, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, flexible spending accounts, 457 Deferred Compensation plan and other voluntary benefits.
Medical Program
The City offers two plan options through Meritain Health, an Aetna company.
The Health Center Plan – Offers employees and their family’s
primary health care services that are 100% completely free and unlimited. Employees can visit any one of the three City of Fort Worth Employee Health Centers and receive guaranteed same or next day appointments for sick visits. Also, services are available at any one of the five satellite locations that serves employees across the city.
The Consumer Choice Plan – Is offered to employees at no cost or low monthly premiums to cover eligible dependents and provides the financial benefits of a Health Savings Account (HSA).
• Preventative services are covered at 100% on both plans.
• Prescription Drug coverage including mail order pharmacy are also included.Vacation
Eligible for 3 weeks of vacation: After successful completion of probationary period (usually
6 months), employees may take time off for rest, relaxation, vacation, illness, religious observances, and personal business.Holidays
Available on the first day of employment, the city provides employees with paid holidays, including two personal holidays.
Wellness Program
The city’s Healthy Challenge Wellness Program rewards all full-time, benefit-eligible employees on the city’s health insurance. The Healthy Challenge Program utilizes a points system. Participants may earn points throughout the year (Jan. 1-Dec. 15) for completing specific program activities and participants can redeem points at the end of the year for a cash reward. By participating, individuals can earn $150, $200 or $250 by accumulating program points.
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