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The City of Redwood City Invites Applications for: Associate Planner - Long Range
WHY JOIN THE REDWOOD CITY TEAM?
We offer a wide range of meaningful career opportunities with potential for growth, training and development, competitive salaries, flexible work schedules, paid time off, and robust benefits. The Redwood City team is guided by core values of excellence, integrity, service, collaboration, inclusion, and innovation. Inherent in these values is a great organizational culture based on trust, strong and supportive leadership, respect, risk-taking, empowerment, and effective communication.
The community is known for its inclusivity, strong engaged neighborhoods, and civic pride. The City works diligently to maintain positive and productive relationships with community partners, together providing outstanding services, programs and opportunities for residents and businesses. This mix of tradition and progress, community and diversity, makes Redwood City an extraordinary place to work and call home. If you’re looking to grow your career as a part of a hard-working and fun Community Development Department team that fosters innovation, creativity and collaboration, we hope you’ll apply.
ABOUT THE POSITION
The City of Redwood City invites you to apply for the position of Associate Long Range Planner within the Community Development Department’s Planning Division. This position, which will be focused primarily on long range planning activities, is an excellent opportunity for a motivated professional to lead or participate in numerous long range efforts underway including:
- Greater Downtown Area Plan, an update of the City’s vision for Downtown and adjacent neighborhoods
- Update to the City’s Historic Preservation Ordinance
- Development of objective design standards
- Implementation of the City’s Housing Element
- Research, tracking, and implementation of new State laws
- Development of policies and standards to address climate change risks in coordination with Engineering and Public Works Departments
- Regular maintenance and updates to City’s zoning code and General Plan
In addition to long range planning activities, this position will be assigned a limited number of current planning projects depending on Planning Division needs. The position allows for a hybrid work schedule (3 days in office and 2 days working remotely).
Under general direction from the Assistant Community Development Director, the Associate Long Range Planner performs a variety of complex technical planning activities and completes work related to assigned areas of responsibility.
Duties may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Supports development of City policy related to land use, urban design, housing, transportation, and related topics to support long range planning initiatives;
- Conducts research and analysis supporting planning studies and assists in preparation of planning reports and documents;
- Analyzes and prepares amendments to the General Plan and Zoning Ordinance;
- Provides technical assistance to other City staff and to the public in planning and development matters;
- Evaluates and analyzes small- and medium-sized development projects and proposals for compliance with City goals, policies, and ordinances and, as needed, facilitates environmental analysis;
- Facilitates applications for planning permits and environmental review, project manages their review by City staff, and prepares associated staff reports and presentations for the Zoning Administrator, Planning Commission, City Council, and other boards, commissions, and committees;
- Meets with applicants, professionals, citizens, organizations, etc. related to their projects and/or long range policy;
- Attends meetings of and makes presentations before community groups, the Planning Commission, City Council, boards, commissions, and committees, and other governmental bodies in coordination with supervisory staff, as required;
- Staffs the planning counter as needed;
- May be designated as liaison for the Architectural Advisory Committee or Historic Resources Advisory Committee at the direction of the Planning Manager or Community Development Director;
- Performs related duties as assigned.
Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate will embrace the City’s emphasis on excellent customer service and have demonstrated experience and/or skills in the following areas:
- Both physical planning and policy development, including formulation of reasoned policy recommendations;
- Project management or assisting in the project management of one or more long range policy/planning projects;
- Design and implementation or, at minimum, coordination of a community engagement process for one or more long range planning/policy projects;
- Excellent analytical skills and strength in synthesizing, summarizing, and clearly communicating complex information;
- Excellent organizational and time management skills and experience managing and meeting multiple, overlapping project timelines and deadlines;
- Excellent writing, presentation, and oral communication skills and experience clearly communicating complex planning concepts to diverse audiences;
- Experience translating regional and State policy into local regulations;
- Working with consultant teams;
- Experience processing development applications.
- Additionally the ideal candidate will be someone who:
- Can see the big picture while remaining detail-oriented;
- Is highly motived, self-directed, accountable, and demonstrates initiative and independent judgment;
- Is a team player with strong interpersonal skills who likes working with a variety of City staff and the public.
Benefits
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Special Instructions
Submit your application via: www.CalOpps.org by Sunday, January 5, 2026 by 11:59 pm. Zoom oral board interviews are tentatively scheduled for the week of January 19, 2026.
A City application, a cover letter and responses to the supplemental questions are required. Applications must be filled out completely. Failure to complete the application, attach a cover letter and responses to the supplemental questions will disqualify the applicant from the recruitment process. Failure to list work experience, and education or training or stating “See Resume” in the work experience section of the application will be considered an incomplete application and subject to disqualification. Resumes may be attached separately, but resumes will not be accepted in lieu of a City application.
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