Valley Metro RPTA
Principal Planner #Capital Investment Grant Programs #CIG
Valley Metro RPTA, Phoenix, Arizona, United States, 85003
Principal Planner #Capital Investment Grant Programs #CIG
The Principal Planner performs highly complex professional planning duties in support of studies and projects; serves as project manager for large-scale, complex studies and projects while leading teams of professional staff and consultants. These projects include major capital expansion efforts through which Valley Metro utilizes the Federal Transit Administration’s Capital Investment Grant (CIG) program. The Principal Planner also serves as an Agency resource on land use planning and economic development.
Valley Metro is a Drug Free Workplace and an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Minimum Qualifications & Requirements
Bachelor's Degree in Geography, Urban Planning, Transportation Engineering, Sustainability, or a related field
Five (5) years of transportation planning experience
Three (3) years of applicable experience/knowledge of the Federal Transit Administration Capital Investment Grant Program, and associated regulations and processes, including ADA and Title VI/Environmental Justice
Three (3) years of land use and/or economic development planning experience
Or an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties listed
Desirable
Master's Degree
AICP designation
Human Resources reserves the right to call only the most qualified applicants to the selection process.
Background Investigation Employment is contingent upon the results of a background check.
Licenses And Certifications
Valid Driver's License.
Examples Of Duties / Knowledge & Skills The statements listed below describe the general nature and level of work only. They are not an exhaustive list of all required responsibilities, duties, and skills. Other duties may be added, or this description amended at any time.
Serves as project manager for a variety of complex high-capacity transit projects (Preliminary Engineering and Environmental Phase of the project) and transit planning studies (feasibility studies and alternative analysis).
Prepares and oversees the preparation of FTA’s CIG readiness items and project rating templates.
Provides guidance on land use planning principles surrounding existing high-capacity transit and planned future corridors.
Assists the Agency in economic development evaluations and reporting as related to high-capacity transit projects.
Requires thorough knowledge of the Federal Transit Administration Capital Investment Grant Program, and associated regulations and processes, including ADA, and Title VI/Environmental Justice.
Writes scopes of work and independent cost estimates for projects.
Supervises complex work of consultants, and other transit planning staff; may supervise student interns or junior level staff.
Reviews and approves invoices and monitors budgets. Performs complex analyses, evaluation of findings, and identification of significant or controversial issues.
Prepares requests for proposals, project reports, board memos and white papers of a highly complex nature.
Develops staff recommendations on complex projects.
Leads and represents the agency in efforts to align agency service and projects with community needs.
Provides highly complex planning data to other divisions and departments, making decisions about how data is most appropriately used.
Designs methods for ensuring accurate data are integrated into agency planning activities.
Provides complex financial analyses and estimates costs related to plan implementation.
Attends meetings, serves on committees; makes complex presentations and proposals to internal agency staff, technical working groups, member agency committees; supports and leads public meetings as needed.
Prepares and relays complex agency information at public meetings; presents reports for review and action to applicable committees and the Board of directors.
Facilitates public input processes, summarizes and reports feedback and makes recommendations for incorporation of feedback.
Serves in a leadership role to project planning teams comprising other Valley Metro staff, local government staff and consultants.
Requires basic knowledge of NEPA and associated requirements.
Performs other duties as assigned.
Knowledge Of
Capital planning principles
Transit planning principles and practices
Land use planning principles and practices
Economic development planning principles and practices
GIS concepts
Federal Transit Administration Capital Investment Grant Program(s), associated regulations, and processes including ADA and Title VI/Environmental Justice
Statistical, data and financial analysis principles and methods
Survey methods
Report preparation methods
Public and stakeholder involvement techniques
Customer service principles
Reading and interpreting maps and plans
Environmental concepts and principles
Land use concepts and principles
Detailed knowledge of regulations and laws governing public transportation
Detailed knowledge of federal and state grant programs for public transportation
Transportation modeling techniques
Principles of economic development
Principles of transit-oriented design
Principles of project management
Skill In
Conducting complex transit studies and research
Analyzing, evaluating, and identifying complex transit issues
Providing positive customer service and issue resolution techniques
Writing to preparing a variety of business correspondence and reports
Work is performed with considerable independence within established policies, procedures and practices.
Using a computer and related software applications
Developing and making complex presentations
Speaking in public
Coordinating activities between multiple departments
Communicating in order to interact with coworkers, supervisor, and the general public at a level sufficient to exchange or convey information and to receive work direction.
Comprehending and solving complex transportation problems
Compiling highly complex data, analyzing findings and identifying highly complex issues
Reviewing and providing feedback on plans and reports
Intermediate GIS skills preferred
Identifying, developing and performing complex capital/facilities, service or environmental planning
Supervising and monitoring the complex work of consultants
Basic supervisory skills
Managing projects
Preparing transportation models
Physical Demands / Work Environment Physical ability to perform office and related work, including operating computers and stamina to sit for extended periods of time; vision to read printed materials; and hearing and speech to communicate in person or over the telephone. Accommodations may be made for some of these physical demands for otherwise qualified individuals who require and request such accommodations.
Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.
Seniority level Mid-Senior level
Employment type Full-time
Job function Finance and Sales
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Valley Metro is a Drug Free Workplace and an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Minimum Qualifications & Requirements
Bachelor's Degree in Geography, Urban Planning, Transportation Engineering, Sustainability, or a related field
Five (5) years of transportation planning experience
Three (3) years of applicable experience/knowledge of the Federal Transit Administration Capital Investment Grant Program, and associated regulations and processes, including ADA and Title VI/Environmental Justice
Three (3) years of land use and/or economic development planning experience
Or an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties listed
Desirable
Master's Degree
AICP designation
Human Resources reserves the right to call only the most qualified applicants to the selection process.
Background Investigation Employment is contingent upon the results of a background check.
Licenses And Certifications
Valid Driver's License.
Examples Of Duties / Knowledge & Skills The statements listed below describe the general nature and level of work only. They are not an exhaustive list of all required responsibilities, duties, and skills. Other duties may be added, or this description amended at any time.
Serves as project manager for a variety of complex high-capacity transit projects (Preliminary Engineering and Environmental Phase of the project) and transit planning studies (feasibility studies and alternative analysis).
Prepares and oversees the preparation of FTA’s CIG readiness items and project rating templates.
Provides guidance on land use planning principles surrounding existing high-capacity transit and planned future corridors.
Assists the Agency in economic development evaluations and reporting as related to high-capacity transit projects.
Requires thorough knowledge of the Federal Transit Administration Capital Investment Grant Program, and associated regulations and processes, including ADA, and Title VI/Environmental Justice.
Writes scopes of work and independent cost estimates for projects.
Supervises complex work of consultants, and other transit planning staff; may supervise student interns or junior level staff.
Reviews and approves invoices and monitors budgets. Performs complex analyses, evaluation of findings, and identification of significant or controversial issues.
Prepares requests for proposals, project reports, board memos and white papers of a highly complex nature.
Develops staff recommendations on complex projects.
Leads and represents the agency in efforts to align agency service and projects with community needs.
Provides highly complex planning data to other divisions and departments, making decisions about how data is most appropriately used.
Designs methods for ensuring accurate data are integrated into agency planning activities.
Provides complex financial analyses and estimates costs related to plan implementation.
Attends meetings, serves on committees; makes complex presentations and proposals to internal agency staff, technical working groups, member agency committees; supports and leads public meetings as needed.
Prepares and relays complex agency information at public meetings; presents reports for review and action to applicable committees and the Board of directors.
Facilitates public input processes, summarizes and reports feedback and makes recommendations for incorporation of feedback.
Serves in a leadership role to project planning teams comprising other Valley Metro staff, local government staff and consultants.
Requires basic knowledge of NEPA and associated requirements.
Performs other duties as assigned.
Knowledge Of
Capital planning principles
Transit planning principles and practices
Land use planning principles and practices
Economic development planning principles and practices
GIS concepts
Federal Transit Administration Capital Investment Grant Program(s), associated regulations, and processes including ADA and Title VI/Environmental Justice
Statistical, data and financial analysis principles and methods
Survey methods
Report preparation methods
Public and stakeholder involvement techniques
Customer service principles
Reading and interpreting maps and plans
Environmental concepts and principles
Land use concepts and principles
Detailed knowledge of regulations and laws governing public transportation
Detailed knowledge of federal and state grant programs for public transportation
Transportation modeling techniques
Principles of economic development
Principles of transit-oriented design
Principles of project management
Skill In
Conducting complex transit studies and research
Analyzing, evaluating, and identifying complex transit issues
Providing positive customer service and issue resolution techniques
Writing to preparing a variety of business correspondence and reports
Work is performed with considerable independence within established policies, procedures and practices.
Using a computer and related software applications
Developing and making complex presentations
Speaking in public
Coordinating activities between multiple departments
Communicating in order to interact with coworkers, supervisor, and the general public at a level sufficient to exchange or convey information and to receive work direction.
Comprehending and solving complex transportation problems
Compiling highly complex data, analyzing findings and identifying highly complex issues
Reviewing and providing feedback on plans and reports
Intermediate GIS skills preferred
Identifying, developing and performing complex capital/facilities, service or environmental planning
Supervising and monitoring the complex work of consultants
Basic supervisory skills
Managing projects
Preparing transportation models
Physical Demands / Work Environment Physical ability to perform office and related work, including operating computers and stamina to sit for extended periods of time; vision to read printed materials; and hearing and speech to communicate in person or over the telephone. Accommodations may be made for some of these physical demands for otherwise qualified individuals who require and request such accommodations.
Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.
Seniority level Mid-Senior level
Employment type Full-time
Job function Finance and Sales
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