Location: Wheaton, MD
Placemaking Planner III
Salary: $74,442.00 - $134,271.00
Closing: 12/12/2025
Description:
The Montgomery County Planning Department is seeking a creative and community-driven Placemaking Planner III to join our Placemaking Team, part of the Design, Placemaking and Policy Division. This role leads public space activations, events, and design interventions across Montgomery County, collaborating with local organizations, agencies, and residents to bring planning ideas to life. From tactical urbanism and public art to small business support and ecological demonstrations, you’ll shape vibrant, inclusive spaces that reflect community identity and advance equity, safety, and sustainability.
Examples of Important Duties:
- Effectively plan, implement, and manage mid-to-large scale special events and programs, ensuring creative components, technical, and logistical elements are coordinated.
- Foster, develop and nurture internal agency relationships and external community partnerships, including property-owners and community members, to implement public space activations and programs.
- Actively pursue, support, and execute innovative new ideas and best practices for place-based improvements and programming that advance Placemaking priorities in the Placemaking Strategic Plan and Planning Department Strategic Plan.
- Develops concepts and framework for countywide placemaking activities ranging from small temporary installations to large multi-day events and semi-permanent builds in consultation with county agencies and community organizations.
- Research and manage permitting related to installations and events.
- Facilitate consultant calls, request for proposals, requests for qualifications, and other consultant selection processes.
- Serve as a liaison between artists, architects, contractors, developers, county agencies, and community groups.
- Pursue, manage, and implement Placemaking related grants and awards.
- Support website maintenance efforts and promote the department’s placemaking initiatives in partnership the Communications Team.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Planning, Geography, Architecture, Parks and Recreation, Transportation, Urban Design, Engineering, Environmental Science, Public Policy, Economics or any related field.
- Four (4) years of progressively responsible professional level planning experience related to specific area of assignment such as transportation planning, environmental planning or urban planning.
- An equivalent combination of education and experience may be substituted, which together total eight (8) years.
- Valid driver’s license (depending on area of assignment) in accordance with both State and Commission rules and regulations. Driver’s license must be unencumbered by restrictions, revocations, suspensions, or points that could limit the employee’s ability to drive Commission vehicles or perform driving duties required by the position of assignment.
How to Apply: