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Community Planner - Army Pathways Recent Graduates Program - Army Corps of Engineers

Who: Army Corps of Engineers - Position(s) will be filled under the Department of the Army Pathways Recent Graduates Program. Click here for more information on Pathways program participation. After Program completion, Department of the Army Recent Graduates MAY be converted to a permanent position or to a term position (a project-based term of employment lasting between one and four years). 

What: As a developmental Community Planner you will assist in performing duties such as:
-Serve as Technical Planning Leader multi-disciplinary team member
-Coordinates preparation of feasibility reports for the General investigations and Continuing Authority programs
-Collects basic data developed internally and from other agencies and analyze to determine the extend of the water resource problem and formulate possible alternative plans
-Conduct field investigations in the defined study areas
-Maintains knowledge of all available data including: mapping and topographic data, hydrologic and hydraulic data, environmental data, economic data, and related water resource development studies
-Establish and maintain effective working relationships with existing federal, state, county, and municipal government institutions. 

Qualifications: Recent graduates who have completed, within the previous two years, a qualifying associates, bachelors, masters, professional, doctorate, vocational or technical degree or certificate from a qualifying educational institution in community planning; or related field such as urban affairs, architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, sociology, geography, economics, political science, or public administration that included at least 12 semester hours in the planning process, socioeconomic and physical elements of planning, urban and regional economic analysis, and development finance. 

Benefits: Full time, $44,853 to $71,326 per year. 
Job posting closes 12/26/17. Read more and apply here