The SF Survey is a multi-year effort supported by the San Francisco Planning Department to identify and document places and resources of cultural, historical, and architectural importance to San Francisco’s diverse communities. These places and resources include tangible aspects of our environment, such as buildings, structures, objects, sites, and districts, as well as intangible aspects, such as oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, festivals, and traditional crafts.
The Planner I’s will help collect data, carry out technical analysis, draft planning narratives, and support public outreach efforts. This candidate must be a self-starter, receptive to feedback and learning new skills, and enjoy working in a team environment.
The Planner I’s would assist with the following tasks:
- Community outreach and engagement
- Helping plan and staff SF Survey events, including social media planning and publication
- Meeting people and recording personal histories
- Field survey, research and evaluation of historic buildings and neighborhood history, including
- Primary and secondary research into building, architectural styles, community, and neighborhood histories
- Identifying and researching people and places important to San Francisco communities
- Evaluation of properties under significance criteria of the California Register of Historical Resources
- Data analysis
- Identify places that are important to SF communities by reviewing existing information collected by the team
- Using GIS or other tools to analyze property data
- Inputting field survey or evaluative frameworks into specialized database