Planning Manager

Planning Manager

This is a professional planning position with primary work assignments focused on managing the Tribe's economic development initiatives, community development work, transportation planning program, public transit, and advancing projects from the planning stages through design and construction. In addition to these responsibilities, the incumbent performs general professional planning duties in the office and in the field. General direction and project assignments are received from the Public Works Director.

The details of the work are independently performed and carried to completion by the Planning Manager, who supervises a Planning Technician, Project Coordinator, Grants Management Officer, and Grants and Contracts Coordinator.

Typical work activities include:

• Implementing projects and plans for economic development and community development;
• Updating Tribal transportation planning documents and ensuring allocations, contracts, budgets, and reporting requirements are kept current;
• Acting as lead staff for various planning activities including land use studies, neighborhood analysis, demographic surveys, parking and transportation, planning, environmental studies, and assisting in the design and implementation of resulting programs and project objectives;
• Performing and supervising studies involving research, investigation, and analysis of sociological, economic, and environmental factors related to tribal, municipal, or community development;
• Participating in the preparation of grant applications for economic development, transportation projects, and public transit;
• Collecting, tabulating, and analyzing data on census statistics and economic indicators;
• Supervising the preparation of the Tribe's Community Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and preparing economic development plans and proposals;
• Researching project requirements to include in project designs; implementing project design standards, understanding, following, and implementing departmental procedures for administering bid processes and assisting in administering contracts for the Tribe;
• Assisting in defining and maintaining planning data in the Tribe's electronic data base in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and performing GIS mapping;
• Supervising consultants and contractors involved with economic development activities and public works projects;
• Participating in meetings with legislative bodies, public officials, citizen advisory commissions, and Tribal Council, to advise them on department projects and priorities;
• Assisting the Public Works Director in coordinating the provision of urban and rural public transit;
• Performing miscellaneous office work and maintaining records of work activities;
• Must have strong customer service skills and the ability to defuse tense situations while maintaining a professional demeanor. Must be culturally sensitive to a diverse customer population and able to interact tactfully and positively with Tribal members, all levels of tribal staff and management. Must show the highest of professional standards and promote a positive image of the Tribe and its administration at all times.
  
  Perform other duties as assigned to promote the efficiency and effectiveness of the department.

Full performance knowledge, skills, abilities, and personal characteristics include:

• Good knowledge of the concepts, principles, methods, techniques, terminology, and practices used in land use planning, economic development planning, and tribal transportation planning;
• Good knowledge of the principles, methods, terminology, and practices used in rural, reservation, and regional planning;
• Good knowledge of accepted methods and techniques for data collection and analysis, cost-benefit analysis, and the interpretation and analysis of statistical data;
• Good knowledge of the sociological, economic, and environmental factors involved in tribal planning and economic development;
• Good knowledge of research methods and techniques;
• Ability to communicate ideas and deal effectively with community groups, landowners, public officials, and the general public;
• Ability to prepare clear and accurate reports and make oral and written…