Resource Planner Job Description

A planner gathers information on resources to make recommendations for their management and oversight.

A resource planner works with all sources of available assistance to plan for allocation, management and protection of agency resources. For example, a natural resources planner managing public lands writes grants to secure funding for maintaining those lands.

Function

A planner must be able to collect information from all appropriate sources and organize this information to make planning recommendations to senior managers.

Data Collection

A planner arranges for studies and surveys to collect data. This responsibility includes deciding whether internal or external professionals will perform the work.

Presentations

A planner makes presentations to the agency and to the public. Each presentation shows how a plan for resources will be in the agency's best interest and, if appropriate, the public's best interest.

Financial

A planner studies the financial implications of resource allocations before choosing the best plan to recommend to an audience. She must prepare to explain the benefits and costs of each project.

Considerations

A resource planner justifies plans, showing why any recommendation would be the best allocation of resources. A planner works with any type of resource, not just land, such as equipment, intellectual property, technology, financial assets, human capital, real estate property and business structures.

Communications

A planner communicates with many parties and negotiates services or conditions that facilitate resource allocation and management. Examples are government agencies, customers, suppliers, competitors, investors and internal employees.

References

• Central Council Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska: Natural Resource Planner Job Description
• Michigan Civil Service Commission: Resource Analyst