Associate Planner

Redwood City: Associate Planner - Long Range #25A-54 (20686853)

Please provide answers to the following questions. Failure to answer the questions will result in an incomplete application packet and your application will not be considered for the position. (Questionnaire responses must be submitted with the employment application.)

The supplemental questionnaire is a key component of your application and will be used to assist us in evaluating your qualifications, background, analytical ability and writing skills. While there is not a strict minimum or maximum word count, we encourage you to take your time to reflect on the prompts and submit thoughtful and complete answers. As a rough guide on response length, we anticipate that candidates should be able to answer all three questions in a combined total of 1,200 words (~400 words per question).

1. Describe a specific long range planning project that you have worked on that required collaboration between multiple public, private, and/or community stakeholders. What was your role in the project? What were the key topics under consideration? What challenges did you face and how did you address them?

2. Describe a specific long range planning project that you have worked on (can be the same as response to Question 1 above) that required engagement with local community. What was your role in the community engagement process? How did you engage harder-to-reach populations? What challenges did you face and how did you address them?

3. Describe a time when you had to manage competing deadlines/priorities on one or more projects that you were working on. Indicate in your response: • The type of planning project or tasks you worked on and the competing priorities. • How you prioritized the deadlines. What considerations factored into your approach? • What was the outcome? Describe key takeaway(s) or lesson(s) learned from your experience. In hindsight, would you have done anything differently?