SUMMARY

The City of Charlotte’s Department of Transportation (CDOT) is seeking a leader to work within the department’s Strategic Mobility Division, with a demonstrated commitment to collaboration and innovative thinking to help shape our mobility planning initiatives. The Transportation Planner III is part of a team of planners and engineers responsible for advancing transportation policies, and planning for Charlotte’s future mobility investment. This position will collaborate across departments, partner agencies, and the community to achieve multimodal solutions that shape our rapid growth and development.
Among its many responsibilities, this position will support the Department in project development and prioritization, Vision Zero planning and advancement, and continued implementation of the Strategic Mobility Plan. This position requires a high level of technical, project management, and communication skills.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

Transportation Planning:

• Leads the development of long-range transportation policy, plans, programs, projects, and initiatives
• Maintains and expands collaborative relationships with other City and County departments and agencies (including the Charlotte Planning, Design and Development Department and the Charlotte Area Transit System) and other CDOT Divisions/staff to advance ongoing initiatives to integrate transportation and land use planning
• Represents the Strategic Mobility Division on interdisciplinary teams with internal and external stakeholders
• Participates in regional transportation planning activities associated with the Charlotte Regional Transportation Planning Organization (CRTPO)
• Develops and conducts, as necessary, public involvement processes related to plans and policies
• Performs all other duties as assigned

Community & Stakeholder Engagement:

• Engages and develops collaborative relationships with stakeholders, community groups, and public/private agencies to successfully implement the City’s transportation policies and programs
• Supports CDOT leadership in responding to City Council and the City Manager’s Office on transportation planning initiatives and projects
• Makes presentations to the community, civic boards, and/or professional peers on transportation initiatives and growth-related transportation issues

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

• Demonstrated working knowledge of the principles and practices of urban and transportation planning
• Demonstrated working knowledge of policy development, particularly policies that integrate mobility, land use, urban growth, and equitable transportation components
• Knowledge of ordinance development
• Familiarity with land development principles and practices
• Working knowledge of transportation facilities and project design
• Ability to manage multiple complex projects and tasks simultaneously
• Ability to prepare comprehensive plans and reports
• Ability to establish and maintain effective public and working relationships
• Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing
• Ability to integrate land use, urban design, and multimodal transportation perspectives in the review, coordination, and development of mobility projects and plans
• Ability to understand and effectively use data for mobility-related analyses
• Proficiency in ArcGIS
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, including InDesign

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in urban planning, Transportation Engineering, Landscape Architecture, Geography, or a related field
• Certified Planner (AICP), Professional Engineer (PE), and/or Professional Landscape Architect (PLA)

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree with five years of relevant work experience

OR

• Master's Degree with three years of relevant work experience