Pay Range: $85,000 to $98,850
Job Posting Closing on: October 25, 2024
Workdays & Hours: Monday – Friday 8am – 5pm; Some evening/weekend work required.
Benefits for this position include: 11 Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Pension Plan, Professional Development Opportunities, and much more.
The City of Fort Worth is the 12th largest city in the U.S. and the fastest growing among large cities. Fort Worth has received multiple accolades, including number one Downtown (Livability), and the second-best City in the nation for Job Seekers (Forbes). Our employees serve the needs of over 900,000 residents. The Development Services Department seeks to make Fort Worth the most livable city in Texas by promoting orderly growth and development, safe construction and neighborhood vitality. We are looking for individuals that reflect our values of exceptional customer experience, mutual respect, embracing our diversity, continuous improvement, ethical behavior, and accountability.
A Senior Development Project Facilitator position is available in the City of Fort Worth Development Services’ Project Facilitation team. This position is responsible for performing highly interactive project management and facilitation for developers of large and complex private development projects through the City’s development review processes. Develops project plans, objectives and timelines to ensure projects meet deadlines. Coordinates project meetings, project specific requirements and offers solutions to achieve project deadlines, builds relationships with developers, other departments and development community stakeholders such as chambers of commerce, commissions and committees. Identifies risks and strategies to mitigate, as well as communicates with stakeholders to keep them informed of progress and issues. The Senior Development Project Facilitator serves as the developer’s liaison and champion throughout the development review process, advocates for expedited project delivery while ensuring that the City’s regulations and project requirements are still met. Additionally, this role is charged with supervising the Project Facilitation team, including Development Project Facilitators and a Development Project Coordinator.
Minimum Qualifications:
- A Master’s degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in Urban or Regional Planning, Urban Design, Civil Engineering, Architecture, Public Administration, Business Administration or a related field
- Four years of increasingly responsible experience in project or program management, civil engineering, architecture, urban planning or development plan review/consultation
- One year of experience in a supervisory capacity
- For this job description, there is no applicable education substitution for the minimum qualifications
Preferred Qualifications:
- A minimum of 5-years’ experience working for a municipal government in a development or capital delivery role
- Completion of leadership programs or courses
- Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt or higher
- Proficiency in Accela permit software, Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping tools, as well as the Microsoft Office suite including OneNote and SharePoint
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
The Senior Development Project Facilitator job responsibilities include:
- Project manage large and complex private development projects through the City’s development review processes, including developing project plans in conjunction with city review timelines, milestones, and identifying risks and steps to mitigate. Evaluating and identifying when facilitated projects are eligible for early addressing, early grading, permit release prior to plat, etc. and coordinating with our alliance partners in T/PW, Water, Storm Water, IPRC, DSD to forge the path to achieve project deadlines, and negotiating special review accommodations as needed. Updating project database on a regular basis.
- Supervising staff, which includes identifying, prioritizing, assigning and monitoring facilitated project responsibilities.
- Lead and host Pre-Development Conference meetings for specific projects as assigned by the Development Support Administrator, as well as manage staff assignments, pre-meeting reviews and post-meeting operations.
- Initiating and conducting periodic project specific meetings on a reoccurring basis with stakeholders to ensure successful completion of projects (weekly, monthly, etc), and updating project database and schedules accordingly.
- Coordinates administrative support services for the Department and pursues resolutions involving other departments and external stakeholders, includes leading inter-departmental and inter-jurisdictional project meetings
- Identifying procedural issues/problems within the broader “development review process” and working with the correct individuals to discuss the issue, devise alternatives/solutions, and implementing those corrections to streamline the development review and permitting process.
- Responding to City Manager and Mayor/Councilmember special requests to investigate and facilitate projects.
- Responsible for the creation and update of various “development guides” such as the “Commercial Development Guide” and the “Infill Development Guide”.
Working Conditions and Physical Demand as stated on official City job description
Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically require touching, talking, hearing, seeing, grasping, standing, walking and repetitive motions.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Sedentary Work – Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, a negligible amount of force frequently, and/or or constantly having to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are me
Conditions of Employment
The City of Fort Worth is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is the policy and practice of the City to recruit, hire, train and promote a diverse workforce without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, military service, or another non-merit factor.
The City of Fort Worth is committed to full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.
Candidates who do not meet the Education requirement, may be considered if they have more relevant work experience than the position requires. Those selected for employment will be required to pass Pre-Employment checks depending on the position requirements. Those could include, but are not limited to: criminal background check, drug screen, education verification, etc. criminal convictions will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Employees are paid by direct deposit only.