Impactful work - Director of Urban Planning Downtown Denver Partnership Employee Review

We are at the forefront of everything happening downtown and regardless of your role, you have the opportunity to make an impact that can be seen and felt across the city. There is so much opportunity for growth/learning (including in areas that might be outside of your specific role). We work hard but also have a lot of fun and get to experience downtown, our city and its people in so many unique ways.

Our work moves fast and, like any smaller nonprofit organizations, we get things done with limited resources (time, $, people). That environment is not the right fit for everyone, but can be tremendously rewarding at the end of the day if it is.

Enthusiastic and focused on mission. Good relationship-builders. Effective at marketing and promoting.

Big gulf between senior management and worker bees in terms of both salary and recognition. Very demanding and stressful work at times. Not a good work/life balance. Many junior staff have no idea what senior leadership does to merit their high salaries. Senior management does not plan well for the longer term (more than a year). Some senior leaders are not good at giving kudos to junior staff for successes or accepting responsibility for their own mistakes. Lots of turnover at the junior level in the last year.