Job Description

Who We Are & What You’ll Do

BUILDING COMMUNITY: Denver Community Planning and Development is responsible for visionary city planning and ensuring safe, responsible, sustainable building. CPD regulates planning, zoning, development and maintenance of private property in Denver. We’re working hard to make Denver a great place to live, work and play! Visit DenverGov.org/CPD.

The Development Services Division of the Community Planning and Development Department coordinates and administers Denver’s building, fire, and zoning codes through review, permitting, and inspection of all new development projects in Denver. Through each of these critical roles, Development Services helps to implement the city’s vision for an outstanding Denver.

The Affordable Housing Review Team (AHRT) is a successful program originally funded in the Mayor’s 2022 budget focused around getting affordable housing projects to permit faster with an intent to provide a very high level of customer service.  This position will be integral to ensuring consistent and excellent service is provided to projects enrolled in the program. Additionally, the AHRT program is implementing a new expedited review process in compliance with State affordable housing regulations (i.e. Proposition 123). This position is intended to expand the current review capacity of the AHRT team and support more projects through due diligence and permitting. This position was specifically created through a federal HUD PRO Housing grant award.

The successful candidate for the Senior Development Project Administrator position will direct and manage the coordinated review process for new development projects, including the complex coordination of large and multi-phased projects. This position provides a single point of contact (from project inception to completion) that ensures that the entire review and approval process is timely, well-coordinated, efficient, and predictable with the focus on successful project outcomes.

 

Senior Development Project Administrators meet with customers early in the conceptual stages of the development process to provide critical information about milestones and critical paths for the developer.  They are responsible for managing the project, providing project updates, resolving conflicts between policies, codes and regulations across internal city departments and agencies and external entities, such as, Denver Water and Xcel Energy, and to track and document the history of a project through the review and approval process.  Senior Development Project Administrators are not expected to be advocates, but rather project management liaisons leading and managing the review process with an emphasis on achieving successful outcomes as efficiently as possible.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Overseeing the Associate Project Administrator and coordinated multi-agency review team, to ensure design review and approvals are completed accurately and effectively.
• Maintaining a focus on exceptional customer service focused on efficiently assisting development projects through the development review and approval process
• Managing large scale and multi-phased developments through various infrastructure, site planning, and subdivision phases.
• Coordinating with City Agencies and Departments to ensure implementation of city plans, regulations and policies through the review process, including assisting with development of zoning code amendments, Urban Design Standards and Guidelines, open space and parks plans, infrastructure design, Development Agreements, and capital improvement review
• Providing urban design review and guidance for projects within Design Review Districts
• Managing the review responsibilities across a wide variety of assigned projects within the Project Coordination team
• Facilitating the coordinated review process across agencies resulting in conflict resolution and final project approvals
• Be involved with applying relevant codes, focused on successful place-making to create well-designed outcomes through review of development plan proposals
• Reviewing development permit applications for completeness, accuracy, conformance to applicable regulations and coordination/distribution of applications for review by appropriate section/agencies within established timeframes
• Balancing multiple projects of different scopes and scales, ability to work closely with other city departments/agencies and external agencies to manage customer expectations

What You’ll Bring

We value diversity of ethnicity, race, socioeconomic status, sexual identity, gender, religion, language, ability, and experience and exemplify this through the makeup of our team at all levels. You’ll be right at home here if you cultivate strong relationships and push yourself, your work, the people around you and Denver to the next level.

Our ideal candidate has some or all the following experience, skills, and characteristics:​

• Three to five years of direct experience reviewing a multitude of site plan submittals for compliance with building and zoning codes, design standards and guidelines when applicable, and a thorough knowledge and understanding of architectural, site planning/engineering and development principles, practices, and procedures.  This includes experience managing large, multi-phased development projects
• Strong analytic capabilities, experience in development review and development codes
• Knowledge and understanding of architectural, site planning and development principles, practices, and procedures
• Experience with professional city planning and regional planning
• Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills
• Ability to communicate effectively – verbally and in writing
• Efficiently demonstrates excellent time/work management skills
• Works well under pressure and able to multitask
• Self-motivated and motivated to help others
• Ability to work as part of a team to support both internal and external customers

How to Apply

In order to be considered for the position, please apply to the link below: https://denver.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CCD-denver-denvergov-CSC_Jobs-Civil_service_jobs-Police_Jobs-Fire_Jobs/job/Downtown-Denver/Senior-City-Planner---Affordable-Housing_R0078567-1

Job Types: Full-Time. Salaries: 80,000 - 100,000.

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