Who: The City of Santa Fe – Land Use Department
What: MPO Planner to develop and manage projects related to regional transportation, demographic trends, and MPO contracts. Essential functions include:
• Performs and manages major professional and technical transportation planning projects utilizing advanced techniques in gathering, analyzing and presenting of data; develops project budgets; administers bidding process; verifies contract(s) expenditures and compliance.
• Compiles statistical data related to demographics and land use needed in developing transportation plans.
• Develops programs and regulations to implement planning objectives and coordinates implementation of programs and regulations.
• Schedules and conducts meetings with advisory boards and elected officials on transportation planning matters.
• Provides technical assistance to city and county staff, other governmental agencies and the public.
• Carries out long-range transportation planning research/studies and assists in making policy recommendations.
• Monitors transportation planning programs and MPO contracts.
• Assists in ensuring compliance with transportation planning policies of the NMDOT and USDOT.
• Assists in preparation, monitoring and implementation of the 20-year MPO Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP), the Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) and the Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP).
• Workload may involve multiple projects ongoing simultaneously.
• Serves as staff to MPO Technical Coordinating Committee and the MPO Transportation Policy Board.
• Assists in preparation of traffic projections and the traffic count program.
• Assists in preparation of MPO section budget.
Qualifications: Graduation from college with a Master’s degree in planning or related field; and four years of progressively responsible professional experience in planning, preferably in the field of transportation planning, for a local government with one (1) year in project administration and implementation in area of assignment. Experience with transportation demand computer models desirable; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Knowledge & Skills:
Comprehensive knowledge of planning/engineering in a specialized area of research methods, data analysis, report writing, urban design, cultural resources management and development review principals.
Considerable skill effective communication and interpersonal relations with department heads, other employees, public officials, federal, state and local agencies, developers, neighborhood associations, and the general public; team building and conflict resolution; providing planning project development and
management involving highly technical, complex work in physical, economic, social and/or planning in a specialized area.
Ability to manage large and complex projects, budgets and multidisciplinary project teams; to apply planning /engineering principles to create plans and procedures to implement those plans; to work with others in the preparation of oral and written reports; to effectively present observations and recommendations; to meet rigid time-lines.
Benefits: $26.74 - $46.03
View the full job description here.
Submit City of Santa Fe Application by one of the following methods: Fill out application at Human Resources Department, City Hall, 200 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM; mail application to P.O. Box 909, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-0909; or fax application to (505) 955-6810. Applications may be downloaded from our website or apply online. Application period ends 2/7/18.
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