Full-Time Regional Planner
Job Description
- Provide technical assistance to multimodal transportation, planning, assistance to local/regional governments.
- Coordinate with Regional Planning Organizations (RPOs), Municipal Planning Organizations (MPOs), and public transportation systems within your geographic area that includes a 25-county region of urban and rural locales.
- Regularly coordinate with MPOs, RPOs, and local transportation groups.
- Lead planning assistance.
- Provide programmatic guidance.
- Coordinate and implement activities related to federal and state planning programs.
- Administer multimodal/bicycle/pedestrian plans, management and conduct planning projects for local governments and transportation systems.
- Assist with technical research projects.
- Create planning best practices, quarterly report reviews and tracking.
- Understand federal and state program areas
- Lead research, policy, and related projects.
- Research state/federal laws and policies regarding multimodal, bicycle, pedestrian and transit travel.
- Ensure our Division meets federal/state programmatic requirements.
- Provide guidance to other NCDOT business units
- Deliver public presentations about IMD’s work.
- Provide strategic leadership and support to our Planner I when leading projects and facilitating complex assignments.
- Work under our Regional Planning Manager in the Planning and Programming Section.
- Travel throughout the Western NC Mountains region for partner and stakeholder engagement.
- General knowledge of multimodal, bicycle, pedestrian, and transit planning principles, techniques, and procedures and their interrelationships.
- General knowledge and understanding of Federal & State laws, guidelines, and funding programs related to multimodal, bicycle, pedestrian, and public transportation infrastructure and systems.
- Demonstrated ability to concurrently manage multiple planning and research projects and studies.
- Demonstrated ability to direct, organize, and oversee activities of consultants and research partners.
- Demonstrated ability to maintain effective working relationships with state, federal, and local officials.
- Bachelor’s degree in urban and regional planning, transportation planning, engineering, business administration, or economics, and
- 2+ years experience in the collection and analysis of economic and social data; or
- An equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Your office can be in Raleigh or at an NCDOT facility agreed upon by IMD and the Division of Highways Division Engineer in any of these counties: Yancey, Mitchell, Avery, Watauga, Ashe, Alleghany, Wilkes, Burke, Caldwell, Alexander, Catawba, McDowell, Rutherford, Polk, Haywood, Madison, Buncombe, Transylvania, Henderson, Jackson, Swain, Graham, Cherokee, Clay, or Macon.
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