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Location: Nashville, TN

Planning Manager 1 – Project Management

Salary: $101,000

Closing: April 15, 2023

Description
The Metro Nashville-Davidson County Planning Department is seeking an experienced individual to lead its Project Management section, overseeing and coordinating complex planning and infrastructure studies with consultants. The Planning Department, comprised of planners and designers with expertise in land use, architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design, is engaged in identifying opportunities, developing strategies, and recommending infrastructure and other improvements to address the challenges associated with growth and change. It is an exciting time to be a part of a team that is shaping Nashville’s future!

The Planning Manager 1 – Project Management position will work closely with the Project Management team, Executive Director, and Deputy Director to lead and manage planning and infrastructure studies at a variety of scales, from site feasibility studies to countywide regulatory analyses. The position will perform and coordinate professional level work and include supervisory duties.

The successful candidate for this position should have a background in project management and project contracts, as well as land use planning, landscape architecture, transportation planning, or civil engineering. A successful candidate will be comfortable working in a procurement process, managing consultants, and with visioning and implementation strategies.

The successful candidates for this position should also possess strong communication and leadership skills and a demonstrated ability to work with various stakeholders in a lively, interactive, and sometimes challenging environment. This candidate should be able to effectively negotiate outcomes that consider issues that are important to all stakeholders, including Metro Government, development professionals, residents, businesses, and elected officials.

Responsibilities

  • Supervises activities of staff in scoping work, defining deliverables, identifying tasks and processes, developing work methods, identifying resource needs, and monitoring progress.
  • Leads efforts in developing, validating, and negotiating project scope of services and fees for professional planning and engineering services contracts.
  • Evaluates and coordinates projects and programs and serves as project manager overseeing major planning and visioning projects or the implementation of plan recommendations through infrastructure projects.
  • Monitors project issues and reviews plans and strategies for future project and program planning requirements.
  • Assists in ensuring work meets management and elected officials’ expectations, and ensures work is completed within specified budget and time frame.
  • Coordinates closely with other Metro agencies and departments, and with partner agencies and organizations at the local, regional, state, and federal levels, to identify needs and goals, resolve technical issues, identify funding opportunities and partnerships, and follow applicable application or permitting processes.
  • Leads staff in the identification of stakeholders and developing of a dynamic and inclusive engagement strategy for communicating project goals and outcomes and accepting community input.
  • Oversees and provides direction on Quality Assurance/Quality Control procedures for the Project Management team.
  • Leads staff in developing tools, processes, and procedures to streamline project management.
  • Presents information and recommendations to appropriate parties including executive leadership.
  • Performs various administrative duties such as writing correspondences, processing paperwork, assisting in the preparations of materials for the Metropolitan Planning Commission, and attends or speaks to the public at meetings.
  • Serves as a project team leader as needed coordinating activities, assisting team members, and providing progress updates to management.

Qualifications

  • Knowledge of project management and the delivery of professional planning and engineering services contracts.
  • Knowledge of the principles, practices, and trends in community and land planning, urban design, and multimodal transportation planning, including the effective use of data.
  • Skill in facilitating general agreement among various internal and external stakeholders, including the public, with differing visions and objectives.
  • Ability to read and interpret complex materials including contractual language.
  • Ability to process paperwork according to established procedures.
  • Ability to collaborate effectively in a team setting, including in-person and/or virtually.
  • Ability to multi-task effectively on a variety of project types, and across time sensitive deadlines.
  • Professional self-awareness and an ability to ask for and receive support from peers, management, and executive staff.
  • Skills such as attention to detail, problem solving, and motivation to learn.
  • Ability to communicate clearly and timely both orally and in writing with a variety of stakeholders.
  • Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships and support peers in collaborative work.

Required Skills

  • MS Office suite: required
  • GIS – ArcMap or ArcGIS Pro: preferred
  • Adobe suite – InDesign, Acrobat: preferred

Education and Experience Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Planning, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Civil Engineering, or a related field, from an accredited college or university and ten (10) years of related experience, or a Master’s degree in Planning, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Civil Engineering, or a related field from an accredited college or university, and seven (7) years of related experience

How to Apply
Qualified applicants should send (preferably via email) a letter of interest and resume to: Randi Semrick at randi.semrick@nashville.gov OR 

Randi Semrick
Metro Planning Department
800 President Ronald Reagan Way
P.O. Box 196300
Nashville, TN 37219-6300
(No Phone Calls Please)