Associate Planner II - Spokane, WA

Employer: Spokane Regional Transportation Council
Job Type: Transportation Planner
Salary: Range $47,966 to $75,817
Location: Spokane, WA
Opening Date: 11/22/2019
Closing Date: 12/27/2019

Job Description:

The Associate Transportation Planner role involves data collection, analysis, research, modeling, map preparation, monitoring traffic count data, and updating socio-economic and building permit information. Data collection responsibilities are carried out through field surveys, secondary research, and other methodologies, performing analysis of the data using computer modeling and spreadsheet for preparing reports and presentations for distribution. This role will focus on collecting, analyzing, interpreting, and summarizing data; conducting statistical analyses in a variety of areas including demographic, land use, economic, housing, transportation, and to prepare projections/visualizations and mapping tools. This role’s demands are ideal for planners with strong GIS skills. Planners may be assigned management of the Transportation Improvement Program (TIP), working with databases and preparing reports in professional usable formats.

Job Duties:

EXAMPLES OF WORK:

Serve as a team member on the development of key agency planning projects, studies, and programs
Collect and review data for accuracy, usefulness and quality; conduct statistical and policy analysis to formulate recommendations
Visualize data graphically; transforming into information that can be used to guide decision making. Integrate graphic design elements to improve communication methods
Create, modify, maintain, and analyze geospatial data sets, applying analytical tools to manipulate, analyze, query and report information
Provide project support on short and long-range programming functions of the agency including the Transportation Improvement Plan (TIP) and grant assistance for members
Implement established procedures to evaluate and prioritize multimodal transportation improvements, ensuring compliance with federal and state requirements
Review and recommend certification actions for comprehensive plan updates and amendments
Provide mapping and data support for the development of agency reports, studies, plans and programs.
When assigned, develop and provide written and oral reports to elected officials, member agency representatives, transportation stakeholders, and the general public
Participate with discussions and evaluations involving diverse groups of stakeholders to form consensus recommendations

Experience/Qualifications/Knowledge/Skills:

POSITION REQUIREMENTS

Bachelor’s degree in Transportation Planning, Urban and Regional Planning, Engineering, Geography, or related field; and
Two to three years of professional transportation planning experience, or any combination of training, education and experience that would provide the required knowledge and skills
AICP Certification Preferred, or ability to obtain AICP certification within 2 years of hiring
Demonstrated experience in data analytics, visualization, and mapping of planning related data; graphic design skills desirable
Ability to apply statistical, spatial and other technical skills to analyze data to answer planning and policy questions
Skilled with software packages used to analyze and transform planning related data such as Access, ArcGIS, Excel or Tableau
Knowledge of commonly used demographic, land use or other transportation data including census, population, housing, parcel/assessor, zoning, local comprehensive plans, travel surveys, traffic counts, etc.
Skilled with communicating effectively to technical and non-technical audiences, both verbally and in writing
Basic knowledge of planning and policy issues related to growth management, transportation, economics and regional governance is highly desirable
Skilled with creative problem-solving skills to gather relevant information to solve less well-defined problems
Basic knowledge and ability to understand applicable local, state and federal laws, rules and regulations governing transportation policies, procedures, and funding
Ability to attend occasional evening and weekend meetings