Transportation Impact Fee - Sr Capital Projects Officer

Pay Range: $64.90 - $7637/hr. | $135,000 to $158,843 annual compensation

Job Posting Closing on: Wednesday, October 15, 2025 📅

Workdays & Hours: Monday – Friday 8am – 5pm; Occasional evening work required

Benefits for this position include: 11 Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Pension Plan, Professional Development Opportunities. Find Out More!

The City of Fort Worth is one of the fastest growing large cities in the U.S. Our employees serve the needs of over 1,000,000 residents, promoting our values of exceptional customer experience, mutual respect, embracing our diversity, continuous improvement, ethical behavior, and accountability. 🌆

The Development Services Department seeks to make Fort Worth the most livable city in Texas by promoting orderly growth and development, safe construction and neighborhood vitality.

A Sr. Capital Project Officer role is available with the City of Fort Worth’s Development Services Department to administer the Transportation Impact Fee Program.  The Fort Worth Transportation Impact Fee Program is of great significance to the City and is the largest program of its kind in the State with 19 active service areas.  The program represents a budget of over $200M in collected fees used to construct capital transportation projects such as arterials, intersections, and signals in conjunction with high profile projects throughout the City.  The City is seeking a seasoned professional who can review building permits, traffic impact assessments, annexations, plats, and site plans to determine traffic land use classifications; manage fee assessment, expenditures, refunds, discounts, credits, exemptions, and account reconciliations; prepare and execute public-private-partnerships and credit agreements; evaluate appeals; apply the governing City Ordinance in accordance with State Law; and identify and prepare ordinance updates when required.  This role also leads a team of two and often presents the program’s features and benefits to City leadership, City staff, the public, and the development community.  The position is the administrator for the Capital Improvement Advisory Committee appointed by the City Council to oversee the program.  Responsibilities to the committee include the preparation of bi-annual reports and the presentation of the report’s findings to the committee.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in project / program management, engineering, landscape architecture, planning, public administration, business administration, or a related field
• Five (5) years of increasingly responsible administrative experience preferably within a local government environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Two (2) years of supervisory responsibility
• Ten (10) years of increasingly responsible in project / program management, engineering
• Strong customer service skills and strong oral and written communication skills
• Demonstrated proficiency in capital project management and development review
• Proficient in PeopleSoft and financial data analytics
• Proficient in the principles, methods, and practices of managing municipal funds
• Experience in Accela Automation and GIS
• Demonstrated knowledge of various municipal and other regulatory requirements related Transportation Impact Fees and public infrastructure projects.

The Transportation Impact Fee (TrIF) Senior Capital Projects Officer job responsibilities include:

• Lead, direct and coordinate activities of the section, which include the assessment and collection of transportation impact fees; determine the appropriate land use classification for projects and evaluate appeals; verify the applicability of discounts; initiate and review agreements for TrIF credit
• Direct and manage the development and implementation of the TrIF program goals, objectives, policies, ordinances, and priorities in coordination with partner City departments, City commissions and committees, the community, and partner agencies
• Perform the more complex and technical studies and evaluation including but not limited to: transportation impact fees study updates and amendments, evaluation of appeals, and working with all stakeholders in the leveraging of transportation impact fees for eligible projects via term sheets and contracts
• Represent and present on the Transportation Impact Fee Program at Pre-Development Conferences and Development Advisory Committee (DAC) meetings; with other departments, developers, outside agencies and