Assistant and Associate Planner
County of Siskiyou
Contact person:
Phyllis Gibbons
Phone:
530-842-8006
Fax:
530-842-8013
Email:
pgibbons@co.siskiyou.ca.us
Location:
Yreka, CA
Assistant: $18.06 - $21.94/hr
Associate: $19.92 - $24.19/hr
Under direct supervision (Assistant Planner) or general supervision (Associate Planner) performs a wide variety of professional planning assignments in the County Planning Division; works on current and long-range planning applications and environmental reviews; assists with planning policy formulation and implementation; provides front counter and applicant assistance; and manages other planning assignments, which may include work in zoning enforcement and grant programs.
Associate Planner - This is the journey-level working level in the professional Planner class series. Incumbents are expected to perform a broad range of complex current- and long-range planning and zoning enforcement assignments, and customer service delivery. Incumbents may be given responsibility for a specialized work area, as well as perform the full scope of regular planning work. This class is distinguished from the Assistant Planner in that Associate Planners are expected to have the qualifications that will allow them to perform more complex, specialized planning work and utilize project management skills in completing assignments with limited support and supervision from senior staff.
Education equivalent to graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with major coursework in rural, urban, environmental, or resource planning, political science, public administration or a related field (Assistant and Associate Planner). In addition, for the Associate Planner two years of work experience performing professional assignments equivalent to that of an Assistant Planner with Siskiyou County. A master’s degree in urban, regional or resource planning is desirable and may be substituted for one year of planning related experience.
In addition to your employment application, please answer the supplemental questionnaire (attached to the job announcement) which will be used to evaluate your qualifications and experience. Please limit your response to no more than one, single-spaced, 12-pt typed page. You may include as an attachment work examples that you solely prepared to help describe your experience and training.
Candidates invited to be interviewed will also be asked to participate in a brief planning exercise the day of the interview.