About Our Job

Note: This job posting is open to current City and County of Denver employees ONLY and employees, including those impacted by the 2025 layoffs.

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 $115,683-$196,661/year. New hires are typically brought into the organization with a starting pay between $115,683-$148,000/year. We also offer generous benefits for full-time employees which include but is not limited to:

• Five (5) Medical Plans, Dental, Vision Insurance (effective within 1 month of start date)

• 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

• Merit Increases

• 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 & Schedule 

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. 9/80 flex option available after 6 months.

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.

Who We Are & What You’ll Do

BUILDING COMMUNITY: Denver Community Planning and Development is responsible for visionary city planning and ensuring safe, responsible, sustainable building. CPD leads 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.

Denver’s Community Planning and Development Department (CPD) is seeking a talented and collaborative leader to be our Regulatory Planning Manager within the Planning & Policy Division. Planning & Policy is a high-performing team with a strong culture of community consensus building, progressive thinking, and multi-department collaboration.

The Regulatory Planning Manager plays an important role in the leadership of the Planning & Policy Division, with direct oversight of the Regulatory Planning work group. The Regulatory Planning work group oversees a variety of plan implementation and regulatory functions, including amendments to the Denver Zoning Code, rezonings, and development of urban design standards and guidelines. This is an exciting opportunity to lead work that implements the city’s adopted plan goals for equity, affordable housing, climate resiliency, and connected neighborhoods. The manager will directly supervise 2-4 positions and lead a work group with a total of 15-18 employees.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Collaborate with the Planning & Policy Director to set work program and operational goals and strategies to advance regulatory work.

• Provide direct oversight and leadership of Planning & Policy’s entire regulatory work program. This includes zoning code text amendments, rezonings (map amendments), urban design standards and guidelines, and comprehensive sign plans.

• Lead, inspire, and advance the professional development of the regulatory planning work group. This includes supporting career development and training goals, providing coaching and mentoring, and conducting performance evaluations for direct reports.

• Support subject-matter leads and team leads who guide regulatory projects.

• Develop and track performance metrics that measure the success of our regulatory work program.

• Determine resource needs to accomplish work program objectives.

• Build strong relationships with internal (e.g. other departments & agencies) and external partners (e.g. City Council, customers, community members).

What You’ll Bring

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:​

• An experienced leader with strong leadership skills in local government and planning, with a proven record of success in a fast paced, politically sensitive environment.

• A leader committed to proactively addressing equity issues.

• Experience in leading city-planning efforts that successfully integrate land use, transportation, community values, land development, market realities, historic preservation, architecture, and design excellence.

• An excellent communicator -– written, verbal and interpersonal; able to represent the City and the Department in key meetings, tailor communication style to diverse audiences, and present complex information in a clear and understandable manner.

• Skilled in fostering broad consensus and translating community visions to clear strategies for implementation.

• Empathetic, engaging, and responsive.

• Able to thrive in a data-driven environment of innovation, with a high level of business acumen and systems thinking to contribute to the advancement of the organization’s strategic plan.

Required Minimum Qualifications

• Education requirement: Bachelor’s Degree in City or Regional Planning, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Engineering, Public Administration, or a related degree.

• Experience Requirement: Three (3) years of experience at the type and level of functional or operational management, which must have included supervision of professional planners.

• 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.

• Licenses and certifications must be kept current as a condition of employment.

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):

• Cover letter and Resume

Please submit your application as soon as possible and no later than Sunday, June 21st, 2026, at 11:59pm to ensure consideration.

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The City and County of Denver provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, age, or any other status protected under federal, state, and/or local law. 

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