Salt Lake County…A career with a purpose in the community you love!

Salt Lake County invites you to explore our exciting career opportunities. We seek highly enthusiastic individuals to enrich our County with your experience and talent. If you enjoy working in a team environment that is committed to changing the lives of its community, please keep reading.

What it is like to work here:

At Salt Lake County our culture is woven into all aspects of our work and our employees’ lives, from the way we treat each other to the way we support the community. To promote and foster a fun and healthy work environment, we appreciate employees through great benefits, a healthy work life balance and room to grow and develop.

Surround yourself with:

Peers who are motivated to make a difference in the lives of those we serve. We serve Salt Lake County and envision a safe and beautiful place for all to live work and have fun. Salt Lake County is about connecting people and championing our community. Community is more than a place…. it’s our heart and service that bring us together.

We encourage a work life balance:

• Retirement options for hybrid pension/401(k) or 401(k) only with a 10% contribution

• Health Savings account with a county contribution up to $1200/year, Flexible Spending Account
• 100% county-paid Long-Term Disability and Short-Term Disability option
• Professional Development
• Plus: Onsite medical clinic, childcare and gym; hospital insurance, pet insurance auto and home insurance and discounts at County facilities.

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  Assists in strategic planning, developing and implementing administrative procedures.
• Prepares and manages the preparation of a variety of planning statistics, data, plans, designs, charts, records and reports.
• Public engagement and outreach including presentations to residents, interested parties, and government officials at the local, regional, state, and federal levels.
• Manages day to day regional planning initiatives.
• Partner and coordinate with organizations such as the Utah League of Cities and Towns (ILCT), the Governor’s Office of Economic Opportunity (GOEO), Unified Economic Opportunity Commission (UEOC), and Property Rights Coalition to promote jointly agreed upon goals and policy.
• Oversees the work of consultants retained to work on projects.
• Reviews consultant invoices and billing statements and prepares purchase requests.
• Assists in the preparation of the Regional Planning & Transportation annual budget.
• Works with regional partners to present training and educational workshops on planning topics of regional significance.
• Prepares reports and briefing memorandums for presentation to the Mayor and County Council and other elected officials and interested parties.

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  Methods, practices, and procedures involved in system planning, operations, and management
• Methods, practices, and procedures involved in local government planning, regional planning, and transportation planning, and active transportation
• County jurisdictional boundaries
• County-wide development patterns
• Effective public relation principles, methods, and application
• Graphic design and layout
• General plans
• Land use and related ordinance
• Local government operation and structure
• Local, regional, State and Federal offices having responsibilities relating to land use and transportation

• Apply general planning principles to specific conditions
• Communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing
• Make decisions based on thorough review, knowledge, experience, and sound judgment
• Make public presentations of complex and controversial issues
• Organize and track multiple assignment(s), meeting all required deadlines
• Perform effectively in highly stressful situations
• Prepare visual aids
• Prepare written and oral instructions and procedures
• Read and interpret engineering plans, drawings, and specifications
• Read and interpret written laws, policies, regulations, and procedures
• Recognize specific site restraints during field visits
• Relate to individuals from diverse social and economic backgrounds
• Work and act independently