You bring professional expertise, and a leadership style focused on support, collaboration, and the growth of others, to a strong team where everyone strives to reach their personal and professional best.
The successful applicant will have:
• Significant experience in planning, assigning, and supervising the work of a group of professional and technical subordinates, and providing advice and guidance on planning matters to a wide range of audience including staff, senior leaders, public, developers and elected officials.
• Considerable experience in coaching for performance for departmental staff, particularly junior staff.
• Excellence in communication, particularly written output, including the ability to review and edit staff written materials. Excellent attention to detail and upholding of high standards for staff work.
• Exercise considerable independent judgement, including strategic and politically sound decision-making abilities.
• Thorough knowledge of the principles and practices applicable to development and land use planning in a municipal setting, including knowledge and practice of land use planning, urban design, economics, municipal and development finance, legal issues, data analytics, transportation planning, and housing policies and practices, etc..
• Significant experience in managing development planning files, including excellence in project management practices.
• Other leadership competencies such as facilitation and conflict resolution, negotiation, and continuous business improvement.
Qualifications
• A university degree in an appropriate discipline and a post-graduate degree or diploma in community, social, regional or urban planning, urban design plus considerable related professional planning experience, or an equivalent combination of training and experience
• A minimum of five years of progressive professional planning experience is required.
• Membership or eligibility for membership in the Canadian Institute of Planners.
• BC Driver’s License.
Details
Salary: The pay range for this unionized position is $61.73 to $73.15 per hour (2024 rates).
Hours of Work: 35-hour work week
The District of North Vancouver is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and accessible work environment. If you have what we’re looking for and have a passion to serve people and the community, and a demonstrated commitment to supporting a healthy and safe workplace, we would like to hear from you. Please apply on-line at careers.dnv.org by March 18, 2025 to be considered.
If you require accommodation to participate in the recruitment process, please inform us when we contact you.
We thank you for your interest in employment with the District of North Vancouver and advise that only those shortlisted for an interview will be contacted.
We respectfully acknowledge the Coast Salish peoples, specifically the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), on whose ancestral lands the District of North Vancouver is located
