Land User Planner

Venable LLP; Tysons (VA); On-site; USD 75,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Venable LLP's Land Use & Zoning Practice Group seeks a Land Use Planner with experience to join the Tysons, VA or Washington, D.C. office.

The role involves analyzing land use plans, creating development proposals, processing zoning permits, and coordinating with clients on land conversions. Primary responsibilities include due diligence, entitlement applications, collaboration with Real Estate attorneys, and interaction with local government staff.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in planning, environmental studies, or related discipline.
• Five years of substantive experience in the applicable area of law.
• Project management experience in both public and private sectors.
• Prior planning experience with local government preferred but not required.
• Ability to manage multiple projects, meet deadlines, and work with others.
• Excellent writing/editing, research and analysis, communication, critical thinking, and presentation skills.
• Excellent time-management and organizational skills, with a strong work ethic.
• Customer-service mindset and flexibility to work overtime and travel.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Word and Excel.

Responsibilities

• Analyze land use plans to ensure safety, efficiency, and environmental compliance.
• Create development proposals, process zoning permits, and map land use logistics.
• Interact with clients to decide land conversion for commercial or personal use.
• Represent projects before local jurisdictions and assist with entitlement processes.
• Collaborate with Real Estate attorneys on entitlement applications.
• Review architectural and civil engineering designs with local government staff.
• Guide production planning: schedules, forecasting trends and logistics.
• Develop tools to conduct impact analysis on current or area plans.
• Direct inbound or outbound logistics operations and coordinate meetings with executives.

Skills

Writing/editing

Research

Analysis

Communication

Critical thinking

Presentation skills

Time management

Organizational skills

Customer service mindset

Overtime willingness

Travel willingness

Microsoft Office (Word/Excel)

Education

Bachelor's degree in planning

Environmental studies or related discipline

Tools

Microsoft Office (Word/Excel)

Job description

Venable LLP's Land Use & Zoning Practice Group seeks a Land User Planner with a minimum of three years of experience to join the practice in the Tysons, VA or Washington, D.C. office.

In this role the Land Use Planner will analyze recently acquired rural and urban land to ensure that all land use plans are safe, efficient, and environmentally-friendly. As a land use planner, overall, the duties include creating development proposals, processing zoning permits, and mapping out land use logistics. Typically, they will interact with a client to decide how to convert the land for commercial or personal use. After creating a plan, they need to ensure the project's safety and efficiency.

Primary Responsibilities

• Will entail being resourceful and organized, with knowledge of, and experience with, land use entitlement processes, preferably in Northern Virginia.
• Performing due diligence investigation; preparation and processing of land use amendment and zoning applications; and representation of projects at all levels of governmental review.
• Collaborating with Real Estate attorneys on researching, filing, and processing entitlement applications before local jurisdictions.
• Reviewing architectural and civil engineering designs, while interacting with local government staff.
• Guide production planning activities ranging from developing and revising production schedules, forecasting trends and customer demand, and managing logistics.
• Devise appropriate tools to conduct impact analysis on both current planning and area plans for local communities.
• Direct inbound or outbound logistics operations, such as transportation or warehouse activities, safety performance, or logistics quality management.
• Create PowerPoint presentations for meetings in business plans and meetings at executive levels.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in planning, environmental studies, or a related discipline.
• At least five years of substantive experience in the applicable area of law.
• Project management experience in both public and private sectors.
• Prior professional planning experience, ideally working with local government, is preferred but not required.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects, meet deadlines, and work effectively with others.
• Excellent writing/editing, research and analysis (qualitative and quantitative), communication, critical thinking, and presentation skills.
• Excellent time-management skills, so as to demonstrate ability to prioritize, meet deadlines, efficiently mult‑task and produce a high‑end work product in a fast‑paced environment.
• Outstanding organizational and administrative skills.
• Possess high attention to detail, a strong work ethic, and is self‑motivated.
• Team‑oriented and customer‑service mindset, with a willingness to be flexible and work overtime, as needed.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite, especially Word and Excel.
• Handle confidential and sensitive information with the appropriate discretion.
• Ability and willingness to work overtime and travel.

The anticipated base salary for this position is $75,000 to $85,000 per year. The actual salary offered will be based on a number of job related factors including, but not limited to, years of related experience, level of education, skills, credentials and certifications, responsibilities and performance.

Venable LLP does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or on any other basis prohibited by law.