• Meets regularly with residents and development teams to assist in the review of development proposals to minimize neighborhood impacts and ensure compliance with land development regulations and other established City rules and procedures.
• Gathers, analyzes, and presents data in the form of written, graphic or oral reports and recommendations for use before neighborhood and civic organizations, citizen appointed boards, and the City Commission.
• Assists in the preparation, review, and updating of the City's Comprehensive Plan and Land Development Code.
• May serve as technical advisor to the Planning & Zoning Board, Zoning Board of Adjustment and Appeals, Historic Preservation Board and/or Neighborhood Association Coalition.
• Performs research, planning and technical analysis for complex planning projects and prepares reports, including demographic and statistical information for specific projects and for general distribution to the public.
• Participates in public neighborhood meetings.
• Makes recommendations on zoning, land use, variances, or other use requests.
• Attends neighborhood association meetings and community events which routinely require alternate work hours as necessary.
• Serves as a primary point of contact to develop registered neighborhood associations and to align residents with city services.
• Administers grant funding application intake and disbursement of funds in support of registered neighborhood associations.
• Provides a coordinated response to problems, issues, and/or opportunities that are of concern to the neighborhoods.

• Performs related work as required.
• Position may be designated as Mission Critical by Department Director.

• Bachelor's degree in Community Planning or a related field, such as Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urban Studies, Geography, Sociology, Public Administration, or other allied arts from an accredited college or university.
• Four (4) years of progressively responsible experience as a planner, designer, and/or project manager.

• Must possess a valid driver’s license.
• Must maintain a valid telephone number.

• Thorough knowledge of the principles and practices of urban planning.
• Thorough knowledge of the principles and practices of site planning and urban design as applied to urban planning.
• Ability to present ideas and findings clearly and concisely in both written and verbal form.
• Ability to establish and maintain an effective working relationship with the general public, peers, supervisors, other city departments, officials, and government agencies.
• Ability to carry assignments to completion through the formation of creative solutions.
• Ability to plan, assign and supervise the work of employees and participate in technical research on economic, sociological and development issues and solutions.

• Requires sedentary work that involves walking or standing some of the time, exerting up to ten (10) pounds of force on a recurring basis or routine keyboard operations.
• The job risks exposure to no significant environmental hazards.
• The job requires normal visual acuity, field of vision, hearing, speaking, color perception, depth perception, and texture perception.

All City of Lakeland positions are subject to testing (e.g. written, oral, performance, computerized, interview, and/or any combination). Candidates selected for testing will be notified via email or telephone. Please check your e-mail and telephone messages regularly, including "junk" folders. Test times and locations to be announced.

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