Career Opportunity

2025 Summer Planning Intern (9910)

Recruitment: RTF0152616-01157559

Published: December 20, 2024

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About:

The Summer Internship
The San Francisco Planning Department is currently looking for Fifteen (15) bright and enthusiastic interns to work full-time with staff on a variety of planning projects this summer.

Appointment Type
This position is exempt from Civil Service Commission rules pursuant to the City and County of San Francisco, Charter Section 10.104, and incumbents serve at the discretion of the Appointing Officer.  The duration of the appointment shall not exceed 6 months.

Duration
The duration of this internship is June 16, 2025, thru August 22, 2025.   Upon completing the internship, there is no implied offer of extension.

Specific information regarding this recruitment process is listed below:

• Application Opening – December 20, 2024
• Application Deadline – January 31, 2025, 5:00 PM PST
• Recruitment ID – RTF0152616-01157559
• Compensation - $33.70/hour
• Analyst - Zoey Feng
• Applicants must complete the Supplemental Questionnaire along with completing the online application process. Your application will not be considered without the completion of the supplemental questionnaire.

The Department
The San Francisco Planning Department (CPC) plays a central role in guiding the growth and development in our City. The Department works with other City agencies and the community to help achieve great planning for a great city.   

Our Mission
San Francisco Planning shapes how land is used to meet community needs and guide our city’s future, creating inclusive, sustainable, and prosperous neighborhoods.

Our Racial and Social Equity Vision 
The Department’s racial and social equity vision is:  

• We envision inclusive neighborhoods that provide all with the opportunity to lead fulfilling, meaningful, and healthy lives. We envision a city where public life and public spaces reflect the past, present and future of San Franciscans. We envision a city where a person’s race does not determine their lives’ prospects and success.  
• We envision an inclusive Planning Department and Commissions that represent and engage the communities we serve. We envision a Department that proactively infuses racial and social equity in both internal operations and external Planning work. Together, we are reimagining what the Planning field is and can be – inclusive, diverse and one that centers racial and social equity both as a practice and as an indicator of success.  

In order to achieve this broader city vision, we must do our part and address racial and social equity within the Planning Department’s policies and practices.

Role description

The San Francisco Planning Department is currently looking for fifteen (15) bright and enthusiastic interns to work full time with staff on a variety of planning projects this summer (June 16 thru Aug. 22, 2025). This 10-week program will be a rewarding and valuable experience for those interested in the planning field and desire introductory work experience or college credit. Interns will conduct research, collect, and analyze data, and prepare draft documents for planning work related to housing, historic and cultural resources, social and racial equity, community engagement, youth leadership, transportation, environmental justice, and many more.

PROJECTS:
1. San Francisco Young Planners Program 
2. Mission Forward
3. 3rd St Cultural Corridor
4. Tenderloin Community Action Plan (TCAP) Communications and Engagement
5. Housing Element Equity Priorities Implementation
6. Design Review of Small Sites
7. Implementation of State Housing Law and Planning Process Improvements 
8. Project Equity Landmark Designations
9. San Francisco Citywide Cultural Resources Survey
10. Downtown National Register District Certification & Preservation Incentive Study
11. Zoning Administrator Data Support
12. Yosemite Slough Public Outreach and Communications
13. Transportation Demand Management (TDM) Program Research and Innovation

For complete description of the available internships, please visit:  https://sfplanning.org/internships  

How to qualify

Currently enrolled in or recent college graduate from an accredited university or a community college in the following related field: City, Regional, or Urban planning, or a closely related field such as Architecture, Historical Preservation, Public Administration, Public Policy or Urban Studies.

Every application is reviewed to ensure that you meet the minimum qualifications as listed in the job ad. Please review our articles on Employment Application and Minimum Qualifications and Verification of Experience and/or Education for considerations taken when reviewing applications. 

Applicants must meet the minimum qualification requirement by the final filing date unless otherwise noted.

Verification
Applicants may be required to submit verification of qualifying education and experience at any point during the recruitment and selection process. If education verification is required, information on how to verify education requirements, including verifying foreign education credits or degree equivalency, can be found at http://sfdhr.org/index.aspx?page=456

Note
Falsifying one's education training, or work experience or attempted deception on the application may result in disqualification for this and future job opportunities with the City and County of San Francisco.

Applicants must meet the minimum qualifications requirement by the final filing date unless otherwise noted.

What else should I know?

Additional Information Regarding Employment with the City and County of San Francisco:

• Information About The Hiring Process
• Conviction History
• Employee Benefits Overview  
• Equal Employment Opportunity 
• Disaster Service Worker
• ADA Accommodation
• Veterans Preference
• Right to Work
• Copies of Application Documents
• Diversity Statement

Applicants will receive a confirmation email from notification@careers.sf.gov that their online application has been received in response to every announcement for which they file. Applicants should retain this confirmation email for their records. Failure to receive this email means that the online application was not submitted or received.

HOW TO APPLY

Part I - Online Application

To be considered, please submit a SmartRecruiters application and attach to your application:

• An updated resume

Part II - Supplemental Questionnaire

After you have submitted your online application, please complete the Supplemental Questionnaire here.

Applicants must complete the supplemental questionnaire along with completing the online application process. Your application will not be considered without the completion of the supplemental questionnaire.

Applicants may be contacted by email about this recruitment and, therefore, it is their responsibility to ensure that their registered email address is accurate and updated. Also, applicants must ensure that email from CCSF is not blocked on their computer by a spam filter. To prevent blocking, applicants should set up their email to accept CCSF mail from the following addresses (@sfgov.org, @sfdpw.org, @sfport.com, @flysfo.com, @sfwater.org, @sfdph.org, @asianart.org, @sfmta.com, @sfpl.org, @dcyf.org, @first5sf.org, @famsf.org, @ccsf.edu, @smartalerts.info, and @smartrecruiters.com).

Applicants will receive a confirmation email from notification@careers.sf.gov that their online application has been received in response to every announcement for which they file. Applicants should retain this confirmation email for their records. Failure to receive this email means that the online application was not submitted or received.

For additional information about the application process, please visit this video as this will walk you through the process of filling out a job application on the City and County of San Francisco's new job application portal, SmartRecruiters.

If you have any questions regarding this recruitment or application process, please contact the exam analyst, Zoey Feng, by telephone at 628-652-7628, or by email at yajian.feng@sfgov.org.

The City and County of San Francisco encourages women, minorities and persons with disabilities to apply. Applicants will be considered regardless of their sex, race, age, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition (associated with cancer, a history of cancer, or genetic characteristics), HIV/AIDS status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, military and veteran status, or other protected category under the law.