Reporting to the Chief Planner, the Senior Policy Planner/Project Manager position is responsible for leading strategic policy planning initiatives and projects including Official Plan updates, Secondary Plans, OP conformity and policy planning studies. As the policy lead, the Senior Policy Planner/Project Manager will provide leadership, guidance and technical competence with respect to research, policy analysis, and recommendation report writing while supervising the daily responsibilities and tasks of both the Planner and planning student positions.  As Project Manager, the Senior Policy Planner is responsible for developing Requests for Proposal to hire external consultants to undertake various policy planning related projects and overseeing the capital budget of consultants.