Applications Due: February 18, 2025

Hiring Range: $57,309 - $74,503

Description

The City of Wilmington is seeking an urban design professional to assist in developing and implementing plans, policies, and initiatives associated with place making and achieving the city's vision for the future. Upcoming projects include: updating the city's Comprehensive Plan, implementing the Greater Downtown Plan, and piloting asphalt art for traffic calming, community building, and place making. If you are passionate about building a better city every day and thrive in a collaborative team environment, please consider joining us on the beautiful southeastern coast of North Carolina.

Typical Tasks

• Provides urban design support in the development of various plans, including but not limited to the City's Comprehensive Plan, special area plans, neighborhood plans, and corridor plans.
• Conducts and manages studies in areas such as land use, housing and urban development, transit-oriented development, and downtown and neighborhood revitalization.
• Develops regulations and guidelines to implement urban design policies and strategies, including form-based codes.
• Develops conceptual and schematic designs for placemaking projects.
• Provides design guidance to City capital projects.
• Assists in the review of development projects for compliance with form-based codes and other urban design criteria.
• Manages and collaborates with other City departments and external partners on programs and initiatives focused on placemaking, neighborhood revitalization, and the public realm
• Researches, investigates, and prepares recommendations, graphic illustrations, and oral and written reports on a wide range of urban design issues with an emphasis on the public realm.
• Develops charts, maps, renderings, diagrams, illustrations, and other materials for inclusion in presentations.
• Participates in and facilitates community engagement meetings.
• Collects and analyzes demographic, land-use, and economic statistics to update mapped information and inform policy development.

Minimum Requirements

• Education. Bachelor's Degree in landscape architecture, architecture, historic preservation, urban design, urban planning or a closely related field with three years of experience OR Master's degree in one of the above fields and 1 year of experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

**A Certificate in Urban Design from an accredited university will be counted as 1 year of experience.**

• Certifications. At least one of the following certifications or ability to obtain within three (3) years of hire: Certificate of Urban Design from an accredited university; LEED-Green Associate; LEED-AP; or American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP), AIA, or PLA.