Posted: 15-Apr-26
Location: Alliston, Ontario, Canada
Type: Full Time
Salary: 88,512.84 up to 110,636.28
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Internal Number: J0426-0395
The Town of New Tecumseth is looking for a Senior Policy Planner to join our rapidly growing team.
Why work with us?
Our growing community, identified as one of the fastest growing municipalities by Statistics Canada, located about an hour north of Toronto, offers beautiful rural and urban landscapes and diverse opportunities to work in a technologically progressive, public environment.
What we promise:
- flexible work environment, including ability to work from home up to two (2) days per week
- employer paid health and dental benefit packages from day 1
- competitive salaries
- OMERS pension plan
- free gym membership at Town recreation centres
- professional development opportunities
The Town of New Tecumseth is poised for significant growth and transformation over the coming decades. As a community builder and placemaker, you will have a unique opportunity to lead initiatives that shape the Town’s future and contribute to the creation of complete, vibrant, and healthy communities.
Your work will play a meaningful role in guiding the growth and evolution of Alliston, Beeton, and Tottenham, while also strengthening and protecting a thriving agricultural system and rural community. At this pivotal moment in the Town’s evolution, this role offers the opportunity to demonstrate leadership, vision, and strategic planning to help shape the future of New Tecumseth and leave a lasting and positive legacy that will impact the Town’s long-term evolution.
How you contribute to our organization:
- Lead and co-ordinate complex comprehensive studies and research projects to support the strategic evaluation of emerging trends and new planning requirements, including those from the province, and to ensure compliance of the Town’s implementing planning documents including the Official Plan and Zoning By-law
- Facilitate, mediate, and coordinate meaningful engagement and input among Town departments, boards and commissions, Council, provincial and federal agencies, consultants, developers, Technical Advisory Groups and the general public; providing frequent and extensive functional, technical, and professional guidance while negotiating and aligning diverse interests to advance long?range community planning initiatives and the detailed development and implementation of planning policy projects.
- Prepare policy documents including Official Plans, Secondary Plans and Official Plan amendments, Zoning By-laws and Zoning By-law amendments, growth management related studies and policy initiatives related to housing, intensification, secondary planning and heritage matters.
- Review, analyze and evaluate Provincial and other municipally initiated policy initiatives and legislative changes to understand the potential impact to the Town.
- Make professional recommendations, prepare staff reports and other communication materials, in addition to presentations related to strategic policy matters.
- Provide guidance and mentoring to Planners with respect to complex aspects of planning responsibilities.
- Assist the Manager, Policy Planning and/or Director of Planning and Building with the procurement and selection of consultants/consulting teams retained by the Town to complete specific planning studies within an approved budget.
- Provide expert planning testimony before the Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT) and/or Divisional Court; assist Town legal counsel with settlement negotiations and preparing for proceedings including evidence evaluation, testimony preparation, the preparation of logical, cogent, and defensible witness statements and/or affidavits and document collection on Town policy initiatives
What you bring to the team:
- University degree in Planning or a related field from a recognized university or equivalent.
- Full member of the Ontario Professional Planners Institute (OPPI) and the Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP), or equivalent
- Registered Professional Planner (RPP), or equivalent
- Ability to provide an appropriate drivers’ abstract and criminal records check upon hire, a valid Class ‘G’ Driver’s License and reliable vehicle to use on corporate business
- In addition to the above, Master’s degree in Planning or a related field from a recognized university or equivalent and/or related college diploma or additional vocational training.
- Membership in the Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals would be beneficial.
- A minimum of 5-7 years of progressive experience in planning or a related field, preferably with some municipal planning experience.
Salary: $88,512.84 up to $110,636.28, plus employer paid benefits and OMERS pension plan
Hours: 35 hours per week, 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday
Location: Town Hall - 24 Tupper Street West, Alliston
Start Date: June 8th, 2026
To apply, please submit a cover letter, resume and copies of the required credentials (University degree, relevant designations, etc) by May 6th.
We thank you for your interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
Information collected will be used solely for the purpose of candidate selection, in accordance with the Municipal Freedom of Information & Protection of Privacy Act.
The Town of New Tecumseth is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection processes. If contacted for an interview, please advise Human Resources if you require accommodation.
