Borough Certification Manager​/Senior Planner

Borough Certification Manager/Senior Planner

The Department of City Planning (DCP) plans for the future of New York City, working to create thriving and dynamic neighborhoods with access to housing and jobs, resilient infrastructure, and a vibrant public realm. The Department engages communities to develop inclusive plans, expands housing access and economic opportunity, and plans for long-term sustainability. DCP supports the City Planning Commission in its annual review of hundreds of land use applications.

The Department also advises on citywide strategic and capital planning, analyzes data, conducts policy analysis, and creates open data and civic engagement tools. The Department of City Planning offers staff meaningful opportunities to help shape the future of New York City and address some of its most pressing challenges. The Department values public service, collaboration, and creativity, and supports professional development.

The Bronx Office has a diverse and dynamic work program focused on ensuring the borough has great neighborhoods, affordable housing, vibrant commercial and institutional centers, rich transit opportunities, and high-quality open space and waterfronts. The Office is made up of a team of planners and urban designers who work on a wide variety of studies, rezonings, and developments, across a large and diverse borough.

The Bronx Office coordinates the review of numerous private and publicly sponsored requests for land use and zoning changes and manages the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP), including presentations to the City Planning Commission and coordination with Community Boards. Bronx Office staff also work on a wide range of land use, zoning, urban design, and transportation issues in communities across the borough, and staff are the local experts on their communities, providing essential knowledge to policy makers and elected officials.

The Bronx Borough Office is seeking a Borough Certification Manager (BCM)/Senior Planner. The selected candidate will be responsible for oversight of the division's application pipeline, including internal process management in coordination with staff, coordination with interdivisional pipeline team to ensure that division projects are appropriately prioritized and advanced, reinforcing and refining agency standard operating procedures, management of data quality across the Office and internal divisions, and development and implementation of tools and practices to assist borough staff and division management in awareness and oversight of project pipeline.

The responsibilities of the BCM role may utilize up to 50 percent of the selected individual's time, while the remainder of their time will be spent on duties and responsibilities related to their core position as Senior Planner.

Application Pipeline Management
- Work closely with central divisions including Land Use Review, Technical Review Division, Environmental Assessment & Review Division to ensure BXO's projects are reviewed and advanced in a timely and appropriate manner;

- Maintain oversight of BXO's Zoning Application Portal (ZAP) records to ensure planners are maintaining quality and legibility for both internal DCP use and public record-keeping;

- Monitor incoming project initiation materials (PIF, PAS, etc), ensure they are routed to the appropriate planners, and provide awareness and updates to division management as necessary;

- Maintain through knowledge of DCP Standard Operating Procedures, and contribute to their consistent utilization by staff;

- Provide recommendations for process improvements and participate in Agency efforts to refine and define processes;

- Regularly communicate with division management on pipeline, project status, and troubleshooting;

- Identify and help resolve bottlenecks in application review, monitors application workload across staff, and recommends adjustments in workload and staffing to the Borough Director/Deputy Director.

- Provide mentorship, training, and guidance to colleagues, and help establish office-wide best practices;

- Perform other related tasks.

Senior Planner
- Review, analyze, and make recommendations on land use…