With competitive pay, great benefits, and endless opportunities, working for the City and County of Denver (CCD) means seeing yourself working with purpose — for you, and those who benefit from your passion, skills and expertise. Join our diverse, inclusive and talented workforce of more than 11,000 team members who are at the heart of what makes Denver, Denver. Click here to find out about all the amazing benefits and reasons to work for CCD!  

What We Offer 

The City and County of Denver offers a competitive salary commensurate with education and experience. The salary range for this position is $78,337-129,256/year. New hires are typically brought into the organization between $88,000-103,000/year. We also offer generous benefits for full-time employees which include but is not limited to:

• Four (4) Medical Plans, Dental, Vision Insurance

• Pension Plan for Life (Employee contributes 8.45%, Employer matches at 17.95%)

• 457 (b) Retirement Plan (no early withdrawal fee!)

• PTO (over 3 weeks in your first year) and 14 paid holidays

• Yearly Merit Increase

• STD, LTD, HSA, FSA, Life Insurance

• CARE Bank, Family Leave Benefits

• Employee Assistance Program, Employee Volunteer Program

• Tuition Reimbursement (up to $2000/year), We Qualify for Student Loan Forgiveness Program

• Learning and Development Opportunities; Courses and Career Development Resources

• EcoPass (unlimited free RTD bus/train rides)

Location 

This position is located at the Wellington Webb Building, located at 201 W Colfax Ave. Denver, CO 80202.

The City and County of Denver supports a hybrid workplace model. Employees’ physical work location is based upon the position’s job duties and requirements, customer service and responsiveness, team and individual performance, and business needs and requirements. Our current practice requires in-office work for all employees for a minimum of three days per week. Business needs and initial onboarding may require additional days in the office.

Please note: Downtown parking expenses are the responsibility of the employee. We offer a flexible spending account option specifically for parking; if you elect this option, you can use pre tax dollars for parking. We also offer an RTD ‘eco pass’ to all City employees– allowing the use of public transportation for free as a City Employee.

What You’ll Do

BUILDING COMMUNITY: Denver Community Planning and Development is responsible for visionary city planning and ensuring safe, responsible, sustainable building. CPD regulates planning, zoning, development and maintenance of private property in Denver. We're working hard to make Denver a great place to live, work and play! Visit DenverGov.org/CPD.

The City and County of Denver’s Community Planning and Development Department (CPD) is seeking a highly motivated and creative individual to fill a Senior City Planner position with a focus on rezonings and plan implementation in our Planning and Policy Division’s Regulatory Planning Team. The ideal candidates will offer experience in project management, development regulations, and implementing plans through regulatory tools with a strong commitment to advancing equity and advancing the City’s adopted plans.

The Senior City Planner will primarily focus on leading complex rezonings, also known as map amendments, to city council decisions. The position will manage a wide range of rezonings from privately initiated rezonings to councilmember- and CPD-led legislative rezonings. The planner may also support other regulatory implementation efforts.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Lead rezoning applications, including customer support, management of internal and public review, drafting staff reports, presenting to Planning Board and City Council, and ensuring outcomes further the City’s adopted plans.

• Coordinate review of rezonings with ongoing initiatives in other work groups, such as text amendments, development and infrastructure review of large sites, and neighborhood plans.

• Assist with negotiation of development agreements and other commitments related to rezonings, related to topics such as housing, open space, and/or community serving uses.

• Proactively engage with internal and external partners, including facilitating meetings, making effective presentations, and bringing together stakeholders to anticipate and resolve issues.

• Contribute to efforts to improve the rezoning process to make it more equitable and transparent, including implementation of the recently adopted Advancing Equity in Rezoning text amendment.

• Support efforts to implement adopted plans, such as identifying rezoning implementation opportunities, writing zoning regulations and design guidelines, reviewing of development projects and comprehensive sign plans, and working with other implementing agencies and organizations.

We value diversity of ethnicity, race, socioeconomic status, sexual identity, gender, religion, language, ability, and experience and exemplify this through the makeup of our team at all levels. You'll be right at home here if you cultivate strong relationships and push yourself, your work, the people around you and Denver to the next level.

Our ideal candidate has some or all the following experience, skills, and characteristics:​

• Experience in the regulatory planning, ideally with direct experience managing rezonings

• Experience with development regulations, especially zoning code, and implementing plans

• A solid understand of how regulatory implementation comes together with long term planning

• Experience leading interdisciplinary teams and engaging with a wide range of staff and departments

• Political savvy; experience with negotiating positive outcomes and navigating complex political contexts

• Experience with integrating equity into planning/regulatory work

• Strong Leadership skills; Project Management skills

• Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including public speaking

• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills

• Self-motivation and is motivated to help others

• Proficiency in the Spanish language- speaking, reading and writing (helpful, not required)

• Familiarity with GIS helpful

Required Minimum Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree in City or Regional Planning, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Historic Preservation, Engineering, or a related degree

• Experience: Five (5) years of professional planning experience

• Education/Experience Equivalency: One (1) year of the appropriate type and level of experience may be substituted for each required year of post-high school education

• Additional appropriate education may be substituted for the minimum experience requirements

Application Deadline

To be considered for this position, you must include the following on your job application (upload the attachment(s) to the Resume/CV section on the My Experience tab):

• Resume/CV

• Cover Letter

Please submit your application as soon as possible and no later than Monday, May 5th, 2025, at 11:59pm to ensure consideration.