About the section

The Omda Office for Strategic Planning and Community Development (OSPCD) is the Planning and Development Agency for the city of Summeril. The OSPCD mission is to improve the life of everyone in Somerville by facilitating and maintaining stable housing, finding high -quality jobs, starting business; Building safe and healthy streets and public spaces; And direct how the neighborhoods can change for the better while maintaining what makes Someller unique. Ospcd consists of seven sections, including economic development, financing and management, housing, housing stability, movement, planning, conservation, public space and urban forests.

The Planning and Maintaining Division of Regions (PPZ) works by the director, deputy director, three senior planners, five planners, communication coordinators and an administrative assistant. PPZ basic functions include:

• Integration with the community of Summerille residents, companies and institutions to develop long -term plans to direct future urban development, government policy, and make decisions to improve capital with the development of the city.
• Employment and management Historical memorization The Committee, Planning Council, Urban Design Committee, and the Appeal Council.
• Coordination of reviewing the requests for permits by OSPCD employees to ensure that urban development is compatible with standards and is compatible with the city’s policy.
• Maintaining Somerville Zoning review, review and update of Somerville to implement the city’s policies and long -term planning.

Duties Statement

PPZ director oversees the strategic direction of the basic functions of the department and general development of employees and operations. the Deputy Director of Planning, Conservation and Division (PPZ) He oversees the daily administrative operations and procedures with the assistance of the manager in overseeing the basic jobs of division.

Basic duties and responsibilities

The basic jobs or duties mentioned below are aimed at only as an illustrations of the various types of work that may be implemented. It is not excluded by neglecting the specific data of the duties from the place if the work is similar, related or a logical task of the situation. (Note: Not all duties are carried out by all job occupants in each section).

• Supervising the review of permits requests by OSPCD employees and other city departments.
• Supporting the city’s coordination efforts related to specialization Redevelopment Projects
• Documenting the standard operating procedures for division and preserving
• Establishing, maintaining and managing the training program on the department
• Create and maintain section division and graphical standards
• Research and developing improvements in division processes and procedures
• Supervising the preparation of the required documents, submitting and maintaining them
• Follow and report the annual department’s work
• The Board of Directors and reports follow the annual business
• It meets regularly with employees, OSPCD managers, elected officials and other city departments.
• Providing strategic advice and recommendations for politics to the department director, CEO of Ospcd and the elected and appointed officials.
• Helping to develop the annual budget for goals, goals, projects and work plan.
• Helping employee management
• Help in holding regular partition meetings
• Providing guidance and guidance for PPZ employees, including innovation, training and guidance

The minimum qualifications

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in architecture, city, or Urban planningCivil engineering, landscape engineering, urban design, or relevant field; It prefers a master’s degree
• Seven (7) years of professional experience
• Aicp favorite certificate
• Experience in employee management prefer
• Experience appears in managing projects based on the team and the ability to give the priorities of work burdens, multiple tasks, and meet the final dates
• Experience showed the division of interpretation and organizational permits

Knowledge, capabilities and skill

• Understanding current urban planning practices and community participation practices.
• Understanding urban development projects in the stages of planning, design, construction and work.
• Understanding planning and division laws in Massachusetts, including MGL CH 40A, 40B, 40C.
• Knowledge of the relevant planning and development issues of Somapel.
• The ability to read, interpret and analyze development plans, drawings, studies and similar technical documents.
• Book and oral communication skills are excellent.

Work environment

The work environment includes the typical daily harassment of offices, with the accidental exposure to external elements. The noise or material ocean may be dispersed, but the conditions are generally unpleasant. The employee may be asked to work after regular working hours to attend evening meetings.

Physical and mental requirements

The material demands described here are a representation of those that the employee must fulfill to successfully perform the basic jobs of this task. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the basic functions of the situation.

Physical skills
Little or non -existent physical demands are needed. The work effort mainly includes sitting to perform work tasks, with intermittent periods of bending, walking and standing. There may also be some accidental lifting of objects such as books, desktop equipment and computer paper (up to 30 lbs).

Kinetic skills
Duties are largely mental, not physical, but the function sometimes may require minimal motor skills for activities such as transferring objects, operating the phone system,/or most other office equipment,/or text processing, lifting, and sorting.

Visual skills
The visual demands include reading documents constantly for general understanding, for analytical purposes, routinely reviewing maps and plans, with the need to see color.

hours: Full -time
FLSA: Exempt
Union: Non -union
salary: $ 110,000.00 annually in addition to benefits
Post date: September 2, 2025