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Salary: $46,817 - $81,930

The Challenge

We are looking for a Transportation Planner to join our Integrated Mobility team.

In this role, you will

• 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 Eastern Piedmont region for partner and stakeholder engagement.

What You Bring

• Deep knowledge of multimodal, bicycle, pedestrian, and transit planning principles, techniques, and procedures and their interrelationships.
• In-depth 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 establish and maintain effective working relationships with state, federal, and local officials.

Education & Experience

• Master's degree in urban and regional planning, transportation planning, engineering, business administration, or economics, and
• 1+ year experience in transportation or community planning; or

• Bachelor's degree in urban and regional planning, transportation planning, engineering, business administration, or economics, and
• 3+ years experience in the collection and analysis of economic and social data, one of which must have been in transportation or community planning projects; or

• An equivalent combination of education and experience.

Note

• 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: Orange, Durham, Wake, Johnston, Chatham, Person, Granville, Vance, Warren, Halifax, Northampton, Hertford, Bertie, Martin, Beaufort, Pitt, Greene, Lenoir, Duplin, Wayne, Nash, Edgecombe, Wilson, Lee, or Moore.

Questions?

Call me:  Faye T. McCullen at 919-707-4685.

Inspire me to join the Integrated Mobility team

Our team administers state and federal funds for public transportation, bike, and pedestrian programs and provides subject matter expertise related to multimodal transportation planning, innovation, technology, and emerging mobility trends.

Our core mission is to provide leadership for safe, affordable, and innovative multimodal transportation throughout North Carolina. Our team's goals include eliminating transportation barriers, ensuring equal access to opportunities for all North Carolinians, enhancing quality of life by providing safe multimodal transportation choices, and ensuring safety for all road users.

We administer $100M+ annually in state and federal funds for public transportation, bicycle, and pedestrian programs. We review 200+ applications each year for funding, provide grant funding to 150+ subrecipients, processes 1,000+ reimbursement claims, provide performance reports to the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) on 30+ active grants, and provides risk-based oversight of 100+ subrecipients to ensure compliance with federal/state requirements. Ensuring subrecipient compliance with all federal/state requirements is also a core responsibility.

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