Planning Manager

Description

Position Title: Planning Manager
Department: Community Development
Reports To: Department Director
Work Schedule: Monday – Friday, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

The Community Development Department is seeking a Planning Manager to serve as a senior-level supervisory professional responsible for overseeing all phases of long-range planning and development review. This position plays a critical role in guiding the City’s growth, ensuring compliance with applicable regulations, and advancing strategic planning initiatives.

The Planning Manager operates under general supervision and policy direction, exercising independent judgment while coordinating planning activities with City departments, divisions, and external agencies.

City Values in Action

• Accountability: Ensures planning processes and development reviews are accurate, consistent, and aligned with regulatory and organizational standards
• Empowerment: Fosters a collaborative environment that supports staff development, cross-functional teamwork, and informed decision-making
• Innovation: Encourages creative and forward-thinking approaches to planning, development, and community enhancement
• Ownership: Takes responsibility for delivering high-quality outcomes that positively shape the City’s growth and long-term vision

This position is ideal for a strategic and collaborative leader who is committed to excellence in public service and plays a key role in shaping the City’s future development.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Supervises, directs, and evaluates assigned staff, processing employee concerns and problems, directing work, counseling, disciplining, and completing employee performance appraisals.
• Coordinates, assigns and reviews work and establishes work schedules; maintains standards; monitors status of work in progress; inspects completed work assignments; answers questions; gives advice and direction as needed.
• Supervise collection and analysis of economic, demographic, land use, and other data for the purpose of conducting planning activities.
• Process updates to the comprehensive plan elements or portions of elements for review by the Community Development Director, Local Planning Agency, City Council, and State of Florida.
• Assists Director in the establishment of strategic direction and objectives for the Community Development Department.
• Assist the Community Development Director in review of planning division expenses for preparation of the annual operating budget.
• Prepare small area plans, for neighborhoods and other sub-districts of the City as requested by Community Development Director, City Manager, and City Council.
• Review proposed and current developments for compliance with the land development code, the comprehensive plan, and decisions made by various City, County, State and Federal authorities.
• Responsible for the management and coordination of the Planning Commission board, agenda, meetings and staff.
• Attend and participate in conferences, meetings, seminars, community meetings and workshops set by the Community Development Director, City Manager, City Council, city advisory boards and committees; participate in selected groups and organizations outside City government that impact City work, including those with intergovernmental regulatory or financial aid impacts.
• Draft, implement and train on policies, plans, standard operating procedures, requirements, and
  instructions that are required to achieve acceptable planning practices.
• Ensure compliance with Florida Statutes and Regulations regarding all planning processes and procedures.
• Coordinate with the state, Department of Commerce, Local Planning Agency, Department of
  Transportation, Osceola County Planning and Transportation, Osceola County School District and other local, regional, State and Federal agencies in matters of interest to the comprehensive plan.
• Draft ordinances, resolutions, development agreements, inter-local agreements, and other documents for legal and administrative review.
• Supervises the work of consultants in the planning field; acts as conduit of information between
  consultants and City staff, facilitates successful consulting contracts.
• Supervise review of applications for annexations, land use amendments, encumbrances, rezonings,
  mixed use districts, planned unit developments and other processes of long-range planning division.
• Working knowledge of the Development Review process
• Ability to interpret land development codes and planning policies.
• Performs related work as assigned.

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to communicate. The employee is frequently required to stand and remain stationary. The employee is occasionally required to remain stationary; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Mathematics:

Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.

Language Ability:

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.

Reasoning:

Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Work Environment:

An Equal Opportunity Employer
The City of St. Cloud is an equal opportunity employer that prohibits discrimination, harassment, or retaliation in all of its employment practices based on race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran or family status, genetic information, or any other status or condition protected by applicable state or federal laws. The City participates in employment eligibility verifications through E-verify. Veteran’s preference is given in accordance with Florida Law.

City of St. Cloud Benefits Package
We believe our City employees to be our most valuable asset. To attract and retain those employees, we offer a competitive wages and benefits package including on-the-job training, seminars, and performance appraisals.

We invite you to look at the benefits the City of St. Cloud has to offer. We think you will find that the rewards of the job are equal to the challenge.

All of our Full-time regular employees are eligible for the city's benefits package, which includes:

• On-Site Employee Health Care Center - free for employees and their dependents on the health insurance plan
• Paid Vacation
• Sick Leave (Ability to roll over from year to year)
• 11 Paid Holidays for General Employees and Police Officers– The Fire department employees can earn up to 156 holiday hours per fiscal year (prorated from the employee’s start date).
• One (1) Floating Holiday for General Employees and two (2) for Police Officers.
• Medical and Dental Coverage
• Pension Plan
• Awards Programs
• Deferred Compensation Plan
• Discounted Automobile Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Flexible Spending Account
• Flexible Work Schedules
• Holiday Bonus – subject to City Council approval
• Indianapolis Plan (Police Officers)
• Life and Accidental Death (One-time annual salary paid by City)
• Long Term Disability Coverage (paid by City)
• Management Leave
• Sick Leave Bank available for all employees - for Fire Union sick leave bank information, see union contract