Planner - Park Board

Planner I - Park Board

Requisition

Business Unit/Department: Board of Parks & Recreation

Affiliation: CUPE 15 Parks

Employment Type: Regular Full Time

Position

Start Date:

August 2026

Salary Information: Pay Grade GR-029: $55.12 to $65.17 per hour

Application Close: July 19, 2026

Vancouver is consistently ranked as one of the world’s most liveable and environmentally sustainable cities. Recognized among BC’s Top Employers and Canada’s Greenest Employers, the City of Vancouver is seeking colleagues who can help advance our core commitments to exceptional public service, sustainability, equity, and an outstanding quality of life for all residents. With a strong commitment to being a City of Reconciliation, we invite you to join our dedicated team and become part of an innovative, inclusive, and engaging workplace.

A career with the City of Vancouver and within the broader public service, offers meaningful work where you play a key role in ensuring equitable access to services, upholding ethical governance, and supporting the needs of citizens with integrity and dedication.

This position contributes to the development and coordination of major projects, strategic planning efforts, policy initiatives, comprehensive plans or master plans that guide the overall development and delivery of the City’s parks, recreation and natural systems.

• Ensures the integration of recreation and parks interests, strategies, priorities and policies in the development of community plans, official development plans, large-site redevelopments, rezonings, development permits and other city-wide planning initiatives, and rezoning and development permit review processes.
• Investigates problems and identifies issues, supports creation of studies and strategies, assists in the development review process, conducts research and surveys, analyzes results, evaluates studies, and writes reports summarizing moderately complex issues and assists in formulating policies and recommendations and preparing reports for presentation to senior management and the Park Board.
• Works with Planner II and/or Planner III on complex projects including organizing and developing project terms of reference, scope and requests for proposals, oversees consultant teams and supervises professional, technical, and clerical staff engaged on project and administers budget.
• Under supervision of Planner II and/or Planner III, designs and conducts consultation with the public, interest-holders and other departments and agencies on matters related to assignments and answers enquiries from the public.
• Represents parks and recreation interests at various cross-departmental staff technical teams, working groups and internal and external committees.
• Attends Park Board, City Council and staff meetings as required, and other civic and outside meetings to represent the department and make presentations and answer questions. (including weekday evenings and weekends).
• Coordinates project communication channels internally and externally (web, written etc.).
• Other duties/responsibilities as assigned.

• A degree in planning or a related field such as landscape architecture, and a preferred minimum of two years professional experience in the municipal parks and recreation planning or planning field, some supervisory experience preferred, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience with work in interdisciplinary project teams, facilitation, evaluating proposals, communicating complex ideas and making sound recommendations.
• Experience assisting in the development of a range of engagement processes to include a broad range of public and interest-holder groups.
• Desirable: eligibility for membership in the British Columbia Society of Landscape Architects or the Canadian Institute of Planners.

• Considerable knowledge of park planning, landscape architecture, urban planning; policy development; municipal parks and recreation trends; municipal planning and development processes; municipal capital development processes; and environmental…