The City of Virginia Beach Economic Development Department is recruiting a Senior Planner / Urban Designer to manage tasks and coordinate daily activities within the Project Development Division.

The Project Delivery Division's mission is to ensure Virginia Beach's sustainable economic growth through the implementation of strategic developments. A collaborative multidisciplinary team of planners, landscape architects, urban designers and business attraction professionals utilize innovative land use planning, design, transportation, parking, marketing, and financial tools to achieve this mission and work on a number of infrastructure and development projects to create places of sustained community value.

The division oversees the Economic and Tourism Development portion of the City's Capital Improvement Program as well as the City of Virginia Beach Development Authority's business parks and assets. To view some of the active and completed infrastructure and development projects this Division coordinates, please view this website: https://www.yesvirginiabeach.com/resources/infrastructure-and-development-projects

Duties of this position include, but are not limited to:

• Develop maps, plans, exhibits, building massing models, development scenarios, design guidelines, and reports
• Graphically conceptualize land development on a parcel, block, and multiple-block scenario basis, in accordance with relevant regulations and policies, utilizing relevant software applications
• Review, evaluate, and analyze reports regarding property acquisition, redevelopment scenarios, property assessed value, property ownerships, and property development alternatives
• Assist in the review of development-related applications, plans, and proposals for compliance with City Code and policies relating to development
• Serve as a design, planning, and infrastructure liaison to the ViBe Creative District and Resort Area
• Present development projects and programs to the Virginia Beach Development Authority and the Resort Advisory Commission and its subcommittees
• Assist with the preparation of Capital Project budget submittal and presentations, track project milestones and schedules, assist project managers and consultants
• Ability to lead teams and provide creative direction to planning efforts at a variety of different scales, from sites and streetscapes to small area plans and whole community planning efforts
• Develop cost estimates and budgets for public and private development projects

The City offers a generous benefits package, which includes health, dental and life insurance, retirement and savings plans, maternity/paternity and parental leave, holidays and Paid-Time-Off.

The City of Virginia Beach is an Equal Opportunity Employer.