The Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) is seeking a qualified individual to serve as a Transportation Planner II – III to join our team. This planner position has a focus on environmental resilience and hazard mitigation. The role is ideal for someone who is passionate about the intersection of transportation and environmental planning and thrives in a collaborative, data-driven environment. The planner will play a key role in bringing together local officials, community stakeholders and the public to advance integrated regional transportation and environment planning initiatives, both with each other, and with local government and statewide plans.

Responsibilities

• Lead Transportation Resiliency KC, a planning effort to assess the resilience of the region’s transportation system to natural hazards and support investment priorities.

• Develop and support transportation and environmental benchmarks, performance measures, modeling applications and targets.

• Support MARC’s process for programming transportation funding.

• Support activities of MARC committees and roundtables, with a focus on connecting transportation and environmental planning goals.

• Support MARC’s Planning Sustainability Places program and other local government transportation, sustainability and resilience planning initiatives.

• Write and support grant applications for various environmental/transportation opportunities.

• Support procurement and management of consultant or vendor contracts.

• Participate in internal staff workgroups and cross-departmental initiatives.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications
Minimum of a bachelor’s degree (master’s degree preferred) in regional, environmental or transportation planning, environmental studies, geography, public administration, or closely related field.

• Demonstrated experience using data and data tools to drive decisions in innovative directions.

• Successful and progressively responsible work experience in transportation, resilience planning, or closely related field

• Project management experience

• Certification from American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) is highly preferred

Salary Range: $50,600.00 To $71,400.00

Qualified? Fill out the application!