This Senior Planner serves as the Pedestrian and Bicycle Coordinator and manages the planning, funding, and implementation of pedestrian and bicycle facilities and safety initiatives for the Palm Beach Transportation Planning Agency (TPA). Primary responsibilities include developing and advancing a non-motorized transportation system; administering the TPA's Vision Zero Advisory Committee (VZAC) and Transportation Alternatives (TA) Program; supporting the implementation of non-motorized projects; advancing walk & bicycle initiatives, Complete Streets, Vision Zero, and Safe Routes to Schools; maintaining and analyzing non-motorized facility and activity GIS data; and performing other tasks as directed.

Position duties include:

• Lead the development and implementation of the TPA's Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP), including travel demand modeling, participation in regional planning and modeling efforts, and manage all necessary backup materials to support development, implementation, and amendment of the LRTP.
• Create and maintain socioeconomic forecasts based on land use plans and population and employment trends, describe and code desired and cost feasible projects in a travel demand model, and postprocess model outputs for publication to the TPA website.
• Lead TPA participation in Southeast Florida Regional Transportation Plan (RTP).
• Create and maintain GIS datasets, maps and graphics to support transportation-related analysis and web-based presentations of data, and support maintenance of federally required performance measure data.
• Lead the identification and implementation of state road projects in the TPA's funding programs, including maintaining project selection criteria annually, reviewing applications, conducting field reviews of project locations, and analyzing the state roadway system for potential projects that advance the TPA's vision and progress toward selected performance measure targets.
• Oversee the local freight logistics systems and activity levels and lead the TPA's participation in regional freight plan.
• Administer the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) and serve as the staff liaison and compile agenda and backup materials.
• Oversee consultant work orders as assigned.
• Prepare and present information to the TPA Board, advisory committees, outside agencies and the public.
• Review projects on state roadways for multimodal infrastructure to support the TPA's objectives.
• Collaborate with consultants, partner agencies, stakeholders, and the public in transportation planning.
• Participate in corridor planning, multimodal planning, and transportation/land use planning.
• Perform other transportation and land use planning tasks to support TPA objectives and meet state and federal requirements.
• Prepare maps and graphics to support TPA performance management initiatives.
• Maintain and analyze transportation data using the ESRI Suite.
• Create and design maps, data visualizations, graphics, and documents using the ESRI Suite, Microsoft Office Suite, and/or Adobe Creative Suite.
• Provide technical and advisory assistance to local governments and agencies in matters related to transportation planning.
• Perform updates to the TPA website.
• Participate in partner agency committees.
• Participate in public outreach and educational activities to share information and gather public input.
• Perform all other duties as may be assigned to meet agency needs.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in urban/regional planning or a related field and 6 years of experience.
• Master's degree in urban/regional planning or a related field and 4 years of experience.
• GIS experience analyzing transportation data and producing maps.
• Experience working with a Metropolitan Planning Organization is preferred.