The position works closely with business development and may assist with reviews of land use change cases, ordinances, rules, and regulations, storm water and/or transportation projects and planning studies/reports relevant to economic development and redevelopment.   The incumbent reports to a division director and is highly independent.

They will manage the Employment Sites Program (ESP), a Penny for Pinellas funded grant program to develop/redevelop office and industrial spaces. Generate new ESP projects, manage existing ESP projects to completion and monitor completed ESP projects for compliance.  Duties may include but are not limited to the following: 

• Conducts outreach to recruit eligible private and/or public sector capital projects that produce new office and/or industrial space or public infrastructure that meets the needs of modern target industry end users. 
• Reviews applications and proposals for completeness, eligibility, cost-benefit, regulatory compliance, and performs follow up activities with proposers as needed. 
• Engages third party consultants as needed for various technical needs regarding financial, legal or other real estate development analysis in order to make staff recommendation for project selection. 
• Negotiates contracts, agreements or other forms of financial assistance for funding awards and monitors project implementation. 
• Assists with planning and development of County-sponsored infrastructure and site-readiness projects. 
• Assists with redevelopment efforts of County owned properties. 
• Assists with reviews of land use change cases, ordinances, rules, and regulations, storm water and/or transportation projects and planning studies/reports relevant to economic development and redevelopment. 
• Conducts or engages consultants to conduct market research to understand current market fundamentals, values, rates, absorption, trends, and recent developments to align county programming with private sector investments. 
• Monitors and Reports on Development Projects; Real Estate Sites and Trends; and Transportation and Infrastructure projects. 
• Provides professional economic development and redevelopment technical support to stakeholders and serves as an advocate for redevelopment efforts related to targeted economic redevelopment. 
• Builds and maintains development community relationships, reporting and/or presenting to groups, and serving on various committees as assigned. 
• Convene design workshops with municipal and community stakeholders to convey countywide redevelopment efforts. 
• Performs duties as needed for presentations and reports for the Board of County Commissioners, County Administration and special projects/task force committee. 
• Documents, tracks and generates reports regarding programmatic efforts and performance metrics. 
• Performs related work as required.
• Possession and maintenance of a valid Florida Driver’s License at the time of appointment. 
• Assignment to work a variety of work schedules including compulsory work periods in special, emergency, and/or disaster situations. 

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