Development Liaison​/Senior Development Liaison

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Depending on experience, education, and qualifications, applicants may be hired as either a Development Liaison or Senior Development Liaison

Development Liaison Salary Range - If hired as Development Liaison

$54,118.99 - $78,474.38/Annually

$26.02 - $37.73/Hourly

Senior Development Liaison Salary Range - If hired as Senior Development Liaison

$57,636.52 - $83,574.92/Annually

$27.71 - $40.18/Hourly

Working for the City of McKinney is more than a job. It is an opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of others. It is also an opportunity to have a hand in the development of one of the fastest growing communities and one of the best places to live in the nation. Proudly recognized on the Top Workplaces USA list by USA TODAY, our team is dedicated to making McKinney one of the best places to work, live, and raise a family.

That’s why we exist. Join us and start making a difference today.

City of McKinney employees work hard and at a very fast pace. However, we also look after and support one another. All of us are guided by four employee-inspired values – Respect, Integrity, Service, and Excellence (RISE). We are also supported by servant-based leaders who foster and support a healthy, family-oriented culture. All new employees are expected to embrace and live by our core values and commit to helping us sustain our exceptional work environment as a high-performance organization (HPO).

This strategic and critical role in the continued success of McKinney’s development process facilitates construction activity in a proactive and collaborative relationship-focused manner. This position serves as a liaison between the Development Services Division including its four departments (Building Inspections, Code Services, Engineering, and Planning), the Fire Department, and our various development partners. The position is also responsible for: effectively and proactively establishing strong interpersonal relationships which may be utilized to facilitate the creation of high-quality developments;

proactively monitoring and assisting the progression of ongoing projects through the development process with white-glove service; providing single-point-of-contact project assistance to a variety development partners; using high levels of creativity and problem solving skills to diagnose abstract and sometimes highly complicated project and process related issues, identifying potential solutions, and helping implement said solutions; and striving to provide customer experiences that consistently exceed expectations.

• Acts as a single-point-of-contact/development liaison to assist customers with project status updates and resolution of both standard and nonstandard project issues or procedural/regulatory questions that may arise throughout the development process.
• Represents the Development Services Division at various meetings such as pre-development or pre-construction meetings to provide guidance and information to help customers understand development processes.
• Serves as an ambassador of the City’s core values of Respect, Integrity, Service, and Excellence (R.I.S.E.).
• Facilitates the proactive sharing and coordination of development-related information with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders via meetings, calls, and written correspondence.
• Manages, coordinates, and expedites high priority projects through the development process.
• Coordinates time-sensitive information requests for potential economic development projects and the exchange of information between Staff and external agencies or customers.
• Serves as the primary point of contact for economic development corporation personnel and works to address their issues and needs accordingly.
• Proactively reaches out to customers at various milestones (i.e. plan approvals, permit issuance, or Certificate of Occupancy issuance) throughout the development process to provide guidance and…