Outdoor Recreation Planner

The work we do matters! Hiring Agency: Game & Parks Commission - Agency 33 Location: Lincoln, NE Hiring Rate: $29.979 Job Posting: JR2025-00021247 Outdoor Recreation Planner (Open) Applications No Longer Accepted On (If no date is displayed, job is posted as open until closed): 12-17-2025 Job

Description:

Candidates are highly encouraged to submit a resume and cover letter.

DESCRIPTION:

Do you have a passion for the outdoors and a talent for turning ideas into action plans? Join our team as an Outdoor Recreation Planner and help shape the future of outdoor recreation

experience:

s across the state! In this role, you will: • Lead statewide planning efforts with the Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan (SCORP), bringing together research, collaboration, and creativity.

• Design the future of recreation and conservation by developing innovative plans that connect people with natural resources and outdoor recreation.
• Analyze and apply data to understand recreation trends, protect natural spaces, and create meaningful opportunities for outdoor adventure.
• Engage communities and partners through interactive public participation processes, ensuring every voice helps guide the vision.
• Support key funding programs like the Land and Water Conservation Fund and Recreational Trails Program, making transformative projects possible.

Under direction of the assistant division administrator, this is your chance to blend data, planning, and passion for the outdoors into work that makes a real difference. Every day, your work will help create vibrant parks, accessible trails, and lasting memories for generations to come. We can offer you: • Abundant opportunities for professional development and training • Flexible work schedule • A varied workload with time in the field and office • Take part in agency outreach to learn more

about:

what we:

offer on the landscape • Access to the state’s comprehensive

benefits:

package • 156% match for the first 4.8% contribution to retirement plan • 13 paid holidays • Vacation and sick leave that begin accruing immediately • Employer-paid $20,000 term life insurance.

• Student loan forgiveness or tuition reimbursement

JOB DUTIES:

Compiles and maintains State Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan (SCORP) planning and data analysis.

• Assists or leads planning processes for park planning endeavors such as state park master plans, park development plans, park tactical plans, trail plans, and recreation resource planning.
• Assists or leads natural resource planning endeavors such as species plans, species recovery plans, lake management planning, and rivers and streams planning.
• Assists in agency-wide planning endeavors such as strategic planning, division tactical planning, and recruitment/retention/reactivation planning.
• Designs and supervises surveys, other data gathering, and analysis efforts needed to provide administrators with adequate information to assist in decision-making process.

Serves as agency representative on a variety of inter-agency planning and coordinating committees and provides agency input to recreation and resource related management and planning efforts.

• Facilitates public participation processes for agency-wide efforts.
• Coordinates review functions on outdoor recreation, fish and wildlife portions of local, county, regional or state agency comprehensive or special purpose plan.
• Participates in writing of division reports, agency review comments and input to inter-agency planning.

Other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

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Qualifications:

Minimum

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in resource management, economics, social science, ecology, outdoor recreation or planning plus four years

experience:

in outdoor recreation or planning or Master's degree plus two years

experience:

in outdoor recreation or planning.

KNOWLEDGE,:

SKILLS:

, & ABILITIES: Knowledge of planning principles, public participation principles, consensus building, organization and analysis of special studies, projects, and survey results. Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing; work effectively with other agency staff; set articulate clear goals and objectives, evaluate and analyze research, make critical and constructive reviews, maintain working relationships with federal, state and local officials, other agency personnel and the public.

Ability to utilize online or digital survey and public participation tools. If you're currently employed by the State of Nebraska, please don't apply through this external career site. Instead, log in to Workday and open the Jobs Hub - Internal Apply app from your home landing page. You can access Workday anytime through the Link web page: https://link.nebraska.gov/

Benefits:

We offer:

a comprehensive package of pay,

benefits:

, paid time off, retirement and professional development opportunities to help you get the most out of your career and life. Your paycheck is just part of your total

compensation:

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benefits:

, please visit: https://statejobs.nebraska.gov/index.html#

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Equal

Opportunity:

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