Strategic Planning Manager

The City of Bellevue is rapidly maturing into a tech-centric, diverse, metropolitan city reputed company the Central Puget Sound Region. The Community Development Department is looking to fill the Strategic Planning Manager position in the department’s Planning Division with a creative, reputed company-thinking individual. The department’s vision is to secure Bellevue’s future as a livable, inspiring, vibrant and reputed company community. The ideal candidate will reputed company a work group of professionals focused on strategic planning and design issues of citywide importance (transit-oriented development, growth corridor planning, placemaking, etc.), implementation of urban design-reputed company capital investments and special initiatives as requested by the City Council and City Manager’s Office. The Strategic Planning Manager reports directly to the Assistant Director for Planning while personally managing a small group of urban design, and planning professionals. The Strategic Planning Manager also collaborates heavily with the Planning Division’s Comprehensive Planning Manager. MANAGEMENT AND SUPERVISION

• In collaboration with the Assistant Director, defines the goals of the Strategic Planning Team to carry out the Planning Division work program.
• Manages budget and staff resources effectively to accomplish work program goals for the Strategic Planning Team.
• Hires, trains, mentors, and motivates a team of professional design and planning staff.
• Provides timely feedback to staff based on project and program performance expectations.

PROFESSIONAL PLANNING EXPERTISE

• Provides expert knowledge of transit-oriented development, urban design, and placemaking along with associated inclusive engagement processes.
• Applies long-term perspective to planning and design issues. Understands interrelatedness of growth issues that reputed company cities and implications for Bellevue’s future.
• Applies appropriate analytical methods to urban design, planning and development issues and projects, draws logical conclusions, and makes well-justified recommendations.

LEADERSHIP

• Demonstrates reputed company, credibility, trust and respect to city staff, council, boards and commissions and the public.
• Provides strategic thinking in developing reputed company and work programs that advance major city initiatives and departmental goals.
• Sets goals and objectives for the Strategic Planning Team and ensures overall results are achieved.
• Works to instill in staff a commitment to the organization and to its principles and goals.

CUSTOMER SERVICE

• Provides clear information regarding substantive issues and the planning process to the community.
• Assures the Strategic Planning Team serves the public interest while providing high quality service and products to city residents, council and other stakeholders.
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT

• Personally manages, or oversees the manager, of the largest, most reputed company city planning projects or initiatives requiring long term focus and attention.
• Develops systems, policies and procedures to produce quality, cost-effective work.
• Builds effective monitoring and evaluation methods into projects/programs/initiatives and uses results to reputed company future improvements.
• Provides effective reputed company of project team members as well as consultants as applicable.

COMMUNICATION, COLLABORATION

• Works with others throughout the city organization and with reputed company stakeholder groups to accomplish project goals through inclusive engagement.
• Presents reputed company technical information in an understandable form to city council, boards and commissions, civic groups, and diverse groups reputed company the community.
• Uses innovative, creative approaches for disseminating information and engaging everyone in the community.

Education, Experience, and Other Requirements

• Graduation from an accredited four-year university with a degree in urban planning, landscape architecture, architecture, environmental studies, or a closely reputed company field. A master’s degree is preferred.
• A minimum of seven years’ progressively responsible experience, with 10 years preferred, in supervising the activities of professional planners, administering, monitoring, and/or developing plans and regulations (including at least three years of project management experience).
• A thorough knowledge of planning principles, practices, and techniques as they relate to reputed company functional areas of land use, urban design, environmental impacts, or other reputed company areas.
• Certification as a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) is preferred.
• Alternatively, a clear equivalent combination of education, experience, and training that provides the required mix of knowledge, skills and abilities.

Physical Demands The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully reputed company the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to reputed company individuals with disabilities to reputed company the essential functions.

• Work involves walking, talking, hearing, using hands to handle, feel or operate objects, tools, or controls and reputed company with hands and arms.
• Vision abilities required by this job include reputed company vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• The employee may be required to push, pull, lift, and/or carry objects up to 40 pounds.
• The noise level in the work environment is moderately quiet.

FLEXIBLE/HYBRID WORKING A hybrid work schedule is available for this position after an orientation period. Remote work for this position is subject to the department's operational needs and will be discussed with candidates during the selection process. Full-time remote work is not an available option. Once hired, employees must reside in the reputed company and reputed company reasonable commuting distance to Bellevue City Hall. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job