Cincinnati Parks is seeking a collaborative, innovative, and motivational leader for our Planning & Design Division. The primary focus of the Planning and Design Division is to manage Parks’ Capital Improvement Program, which is seeing an infusion of funding through the newly created Cincinnati Southern Railway Trust. This position reports directly to the Director of Parks and is part of the Parks senior leadership team.

The new leader of Planning and Design will help develop and implement the plan to preserve, renovate, and improve Parks, greenspaces, facilities, and amenities throughout the city. Future projects include neighborhood park renovations, such as Owl’s Nest, Glenway, Inwood, McEvoy, and MLK Parks; playground replacements; operations facilities renovations; multi-use trail projects; a riverfront marina; stream restoration in California Woods, the restoration of Krohn Conservatory, and other projects that we dream up. Planning and Design also manages smaller ongoing maintenance projects, including sink holes and stormwater, masonry steps, handrails, and accessibility improvements, roofs, water infrastructure, roads, and sidewalks, among others.

The position directs the work assignments and projects of employees such as architects, engineers, planners, and project managers. The ideal candidate is a strong team builder, focused on creating a positive and fun workplace culture that is mission driven and works collaboratively to preserve and improve parks and public greenspaces for the Cincinnati community.