Review Vacancy
TitleLand Use Training Specialist 1
Occupational CategoryOther Professional Careers
Bargaining UnitPS&T - Professional, Scientific, and Technical (PEF)
Salary RangeFrom $52293 to $66494 Annually
Minimum Qualifications For Provisional Appointment:
• a master's degree in urban, regional, or environmental planning; public policy; public administration; or law; and one year of qualifying experience; OR
• a bachelor's degree in urban, regional, or environmental planning; public policy; public administration; or law; and two years of qualifying experience; OR
• a bachelor's degree in any field and three years of qualifying experience.
Qualifying Experience: Professional experience where your primary responsibilities involve performing land use planning, urban planning, regional planning, or environmental planning; OR involve providing technical assistance and/or training to representatives of local governments in the areas of land use, urban planning, regional planning, or environmental planning.
Duties Description The core responsibility of a Land Use Training Specialist within the Department of State is to function as a direct resource for local government officials, assisting them with technical assistance and training in land use planning, local finance and administration processes, and community development planning and implementation. As a Land Use Training Specialist you will be expected to support municipalities in following functions:
1. Developing and delivering training courses on local government programs, including land use planning, and regulation, community development and a variety of municipal operation and management themes;
2. Assisting with the identification of opportunities to control expenditures and increase efficiencies in the delivery of local services;
3. Analyzing financial and community development plans and documents submitted by local officials for technical review;
4. Providing technical assistance on operational, efficiency and management matters, and municipal consolidation to local officials;
5. Producing written materials to guide local officials on comprehensive planning, zoning, consolidation of services, government efficiency, and other management topics;
6. Assisting local government officials on implementing long-range planning; facilitating inter-agency cooperation; and identifying, analyzing, and proposing solutions to community development needs;
7. Providing technical assistance to municipal officials, planning boards, municipal attorneys, etc.;
8. Preparing research and policy recommendations to offer resolutions to programmatic and public policy issues through the development of intergovernmental partnerships and municipal consolidation;
9. Promoting performance measurement to assess the effectiveness of local governments; and oversee the implementation of new policies and plans that affect New York's local governments; and
10. Managing community development and local government efficiency projects, including review of applications and administration of state contracts for the delivery of local government projects.
This position often works independently in the field and requires regular statewide travel as well as frequent evening hours.
Additional Comments Candidates appointed provisionally must take a Civil Service examination, and their score must be reachable on the resulting eligible list before they can be permanently appointed. Candidates who do not pass the examination or achieve a reachable score may not be retained.
Some positions may require additional credentials or a background check to verify your identity.