Senior Environmental Urban Planner/Project Manager

Description

• Generate proposals and, with other members of our Team, anticipate, track, and obtain new task orders from existing clients.
• Partner with other leaders in our integrated urban environmental planning practice on business development activities, including proactive outreach to public agencies and private clients in northern California.
• Provide advice, mentor, and enhance the professional development of other members of our team.
• Manage projects through completion in accordance with defined scopes of work and budgets.
• Plan, execute, and deliver environmental planning documents that meet our high-quality standards in collaboration with a broad and diverse range of technical specialists.
• Engage staff, assign project responsibilities, and successfully manage internal teams and subcontractors.
• Manage preparation of technical studies and environmental documents for completeness, clarity, accuracy, and defensibility.

Requirements

• Experience with, and interest in urban planning, community planning, long-range policy planning, urban design, zoning, market feasibility, or economic development strategies.
• Effectiveness in presenting complex environmental documents to planning commissions, city councils, boards of supervisors, and other decision-making bodies.
• Due to the nature of the work, US Citizenship is required.
• A valid U.S. Driver's license is required for this role.
• 8 years of relevant experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education with environmental/urban planning and compliance, including CEQA and NEPA project experience.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills, organizational and time management skills, and flexibility to work on a multitude of diverse projects.
• Experience and interest in business development and client engagement.
• Bachelor's degree in environmental science, biology, environmental planning, natural/biological resource management or other related field experience.
• Able to work both independently and as a part of a project team.
• 10+ years of relevant experience.
• Demonstrated expertise in preparing and overseeing the preparation of California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) documents.
• Excellent problem-solving abilities, exceptional writing and communication skills demonstrating an ability to communicate effectively with members of the project team, clients (in-person and virtually), and an ability to ensure performance of internal technical teams and subcontractors.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance