Planning and Development Director

Summary

Performs administrative professional planning work directing the activities of the Planning and Development Department which involves responsibility for: the efficient operation of the department; formulation of policies and procedures; coordinating the activities of all the department’s functional units; establishing and maintaining liaison with other department heads, governmental officials and community groups.

Essential functions:

• Manages assigned operations to achieve goals within budgeted funds and available personnel
  • Plans and organizes workloads and staff assignments, reviews progress, directs changes in priorities, and schedules as needed to assure work is performed in a timely and efficient manner according to appropriate guidelines, procedures, and legal regulations
• Selects, supervises, and evaluates assigned staff
  • Establishes work rules and performance standards, conducts or oversees performance evaluations, and initiates and implements disciplinary actions as warranted
  • Resolves grievances and other sensitive human resources matters
  • Provides for the training and motivation of subordinates in order to make full use of individual capabilities and to meet changing system demands
• Supervises planning, housing, community and economic development, land and water conservation, land use regulation, emergency management, recycling, land information, surveying, property listing, GIS and special projects programs
  • Enforces Eau Claire County Code Title 18
  • Directs and supervises the development of current and advanced planning programs
  • Acts as technical advisor to and liaison between County departments and committees in plan preparation and implementation
  • Directs the implementation and enforcement of all zoning, subdivision control and other land use regulations
• Provides direct staff support to Committee on Planning and Development and the County Industrial Development Agency
• Oversees, reviews, directs, and coordinates the department’s grant writing and provides technical support to other departments in grant writing
• Directs the County’s economic development program
  • Negotiates public and private partnership agreements involving aspects of economic development
• Makes recommendations regarding the sale of public land and any financial assistance incentives
• Develops and coordinates the implementation of department policies and procedures
  • Assures County compliance with Federal, state, and local laws, rules, and regulations
  • Interprets existing policies
  • Monitors County operations and changing legislation to determine new or modified policies and procedures
• Provides planning leadership and direction and develops short- and long-range plans, goals, and objectives for assigned operations and assists departments in the development of their staffing plans
  • Reviews and updates annual plans
  • Coordinates departmental activities with other County departments and outside governmental agencies
• Prepares and justifies departmental budget, based on staffing and resource requirements, cost estimates, division objectives, and departmental goals
  • Monitors departmental expenditures
• Serves as liaison between the County and other local units of government on planning related matters
• Keeps public advised on planning and development issues
• Performs other planning and community development functions and relevant work as directed
• Oversees recruitment for vacant positions in the department
• Performs other related duties as assigned

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Planning, Urban Studies, or Public Administration, or a closely related field
• Five (5) years of progressively responsible administrative experience in a planning agency at the municipal or county level including three (3) years of supervisory and managerial responsibilities

Licenses, certificates, and other requirements:

• Appointment will be conditional upon successful completion of a criminal background check
• Must possess and maintain a valid Wisconsin driver’s license and acceptable driving record
• Must establish residency within 45 minute response time by automobile to Courthouse prior to completion of probationary period, and maintain such residency thereafter during employment