Application Deadline - 4/27/2025: The Planning and Development Services Division of the Department of Land Use & Transportation is recruiting for two Associate Planners for the Community Planning Section! Washington County includes rural farms and forests as well as an extensive urban unincorporated area with more people than Oregon’s second largest city. Here you’ll experience land use planning for both sides of the urban growth boundary, and projects at the core of Oregon’s commitment to goals like ensuring diverse housing options, balancing natural resource protection with housing provision, and sustaining thriving farmlands.

As an Associate Planner in Community Planning, your work will support the development and implementation of the County’s Comprehensive Plan, working on medium- to long-range planning studies or projects of varying complexity. The role includes research and compiling data, critical thinking and analysis, writing, and interfacing with decision makers, the public, partner agencies and staff. Projects may include amending and/or assisting with amendment of development code standards on a range of urban and rural topics, amendments to community plans, processing applications for annexations and changes to land use designations, developing issue papers on policy topics such as housing, floodplain management or natural resources, representing LUT on various committees, and other land use related assignments. You may at times work with different supervisors and staff – we have a great team and emphasize collaboration.