Urban & Regional Planning > Jobs

JOB OPPORTUNITY

Posted on:  2/4/08

The City and County of Honoluluís Department of Planning and Permitting (DPP) is now actively recruiting paid student interns for two of our divisions, the Land Use Permits Division (LUPD) and the Planning Division. The job location is the DPP office on the 7th floor of the Frank F. Fasi Municipal Building, 650 South King Street, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Employment will be via a Personnel Services Contract as a Planner I (entry level), paying $16.66 per hour, 19 hours per week, for a period ending June 30, 2008; and, which may be extended. (Note: This is a non-civil service position.) A monthly parking pass is available at an employee rate for the Blaisdell Center, which includes a limited bus pass between Blaisdell Center and the Fasi Municipal Building.

Those selected for the intern positions ideally should have an undergraduate degree and be enrolled at UH; preference will be given for matriculated graduate students enrolled in programs with the Schools of Urban & Regional Planning and Architecture. They must be U.S. citizens or otherwise have the right to work in the U.S., e.g., permanent resident alien status or have valid work visas.

Students interested in the positions with the LUPD (Zoning) Division should contact:

Jamie Peirson, Chief, Land Use Approvals Branch, at 768-8014.

Students interested in the positions with the Planning Division should contact:   Kathy Sokugawa, Chief, Planning Division, at 768-8053.

Position descriptions are as follows:

LUPD Intern Job duties:

• Performs as a trainee in zoning and other relevant regulatory processes involving orientation, instruction and fact finding fundamental to municipal land use regulation.
• Under direct supervision, performs research and gathers information from various sources, including city, state and/or federal records and documents, libraries, the Internet, and direct personal interviews on land use regulatory topics, such as permitted and conditional uses, development standards, special district requirements, Special Management Area and shoreline setback issues, and affordable housing projects.
• Under direct supervision, assists in the preparation and maintenance of land use permit and zoning information files and records.
• Under direct supervision, prepares responses to relatively simple requests for zoning confirmation and land use information.
• Under direct supervision, assists in the review of environmental disclosure documents.
• Under direct supervision, assists in the preparation of updated city zoning and land use regulatory documents and publications, e.g., Permit Register, Land Use Ordinance.
• Performs other related duties as required.

Planning Division Intern Job duties:

• Performs as a trainee in long range planning, involving orientation, instruction and fact finding fundamental to city planning work, particularly in the areas of long range community plans, urban design plans, regulatory land use reviews and inter-relationships between land use and infrastructure.
• Receives orientation and training in the functions of municipal planning.
• Under direct supervision, gathers information from various sources, including libraries, the internet and direct personal interviews on current land use planning topics, such as agriculture preservation, transit-oriented development, infrastructure financing and affordable housing.
• Attends and logistically helps to supports division-sponsored public meetings on planning topics, as they arise;
• Assists in maintenance of existing data files, both hard copy and electronic.
• Assists in the review of environmental documents.
• Performs other related duties as required.

An Equal Opportunity Employer