Alta Planning + Design seeks a Community Engagement Planner I to join our Transportation Demand Management (TDM) Practice in our Atlanta, GA office. This is a great opportunity for someone eager to bring both community engagement and data-driven planning skills to work that supports healthier, more sustainable transportation systems. You’ll collaborate on projects that center people, engaging diverse audiences, shaping programs, and applying analysis to strategies that reduce car dependency and make it easier for people to choose active and shared modes of travel.

If youre excited about using your skills to connect people to places and want to be part of a team advancing social justice, safety, and environmental resilience, we’d love to hear from you. Apply with Alta today!

About Alta

Alta Planning + Design is a sustainable transportation company dedicated to creating active, healthy communities through planning, landscape architecture, engineering, and education/encouragement programs. Founded in 1996, Alta pioneered the field of active transportation, and today, our work empowers people to live active, healthy lives and gets them where they need to go. We are a global leader in mobility innovation, committed to social justice, safety, and environmental resilience.

TDM at Alta

TDM describes the use of strategies to inform and encourage employees and residents to make transportation choices that maximize the efficiency of our transportation system leading to improved mobility, reduced congestion, and lower vehicle emissions. Alta’s TDM practice is one of the largest in North America and as a full service TDM practice encompasses three groups: TDM Planning, TDM Programs, and TDM Marketing. Our TDM planners lead TDM plans ranging in scale from site-specific to regional plans, develop TDM policies, and provide planning, data analysis, and evaluation services to the TDM programs and marketing projects Alta leads, working closely with the TDM Programs and Marketing groups.

Day to Day

The Engagement Planner in our Atlanta office will work on the following types of projects:

Approximately 50% of the time: Supporting planning and implementation of community and stakeholder engagement activities, including preparation of public outreach materials, coordinating and facilitating public outreach activities, including in-person and virtual meetings and events and digital engagement, and evaluating and summarizing engagement activities and outcomes.
Approximately 40% of the time: Supporting three Atlanta transportation management associations (TMAs) and TDM programs in other parts of the country with data analysis and planning tasks.
- This typically includes working closely with a senior planner and TDM program managers on survey development and analysis for program development and evaluation purposes, GIS mapping, and development of TDM recommendations. May also include site visits and fieldwork.
- TMA support usually includes a variety of related transportation planning work. In the past, planners have worked on first/last mile projects, shuttle assistance, shared-use mobility pilot programs, and research on various TDM and mobility topics.
Approximately 10% of the time: Supporting TDM plans or related transportation and mobility plans, projects, and research tasks.

The planner will perform the following activities under the guidance of senior planners, the TDM Planning Group Director, and project managers:

Assist with planning and implementing community engagement activities, including:
- Developing highly effective engagement strategies specific to each planning project or marketing intervention, including both in-person and digital outreach and engagement plans
- Showcasing an understanding of varied stakeholder and community needs and innovative public outreach activities tailored to each of the audiences
- Measuring and reporting analytics on the performance of the engagement tactics
- Refining and executing an innovative, comprehensive, high-impact outreach strategy to under-resourced communities and vulnerable populations
- Designing an inclusive community involvement approach that ensures the people most affected and most marginalized, especially those who have been historically left out of conversations (e.g., low-income people, returning citizens, communities of color, recent immigrants, speakers of English as a second language) are heard and supported
- Managing and overseeing relationships with other organizations focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion in the transportation profession
Support planning projects through preparing all needed public outreach materials and coordinate public outreach activities, including:
- Explaining technical and sometimes complex information both in person and in written communications materials so all audiences understand
- Planning and leading virtual and in-person public meetings, neighborhood and/or community meetings, workshops, and discussion groups
- Representing clients at community and public events
- Understanding when regulatory notices are required
- Seeking and responding to comments from stakeholders and the public, as well as maintaining official records of feedback
Assist with developing tools and surveys to analyze the effectiveness of TDM programs
Analyze data using Excel, Qualtrics, and other analysis tools
Develop maps and geospatial analyses using ArcGIS Pro
Conduct best practices research in the field of transportation planning and transportation demand management
Assist with collecting input from stakeholder groups for the purpose of aiding the development of transportation plans and recommendations
Collect and analyze data to develop recommendations that result in the decreased use of single occupancy vehicles

What We Offer

Flexible Schedule

Alta offers a flexible, hybrid work schedule where most employees work from home three days per week. In-office days support our collaborative culture, one of our core values.

Compensation

The pay range for this job in Atlanta is $60,000-$72,000 annually. Placement within the range is based upon experience, skill-sets, and qualifications.

Benefits

Alta offers comprehensive benefits to all full-time employees:

Medical: PPO or HSA medical plans
Dental/Vision: PPO
Life Insurance: Alta pays 100% of the premium for life and AD&D, equal to your base compensation
401(k): Alta provides a match up to 3%
PTO: 21 days accrued annually to start
Holidays: 11 total company paid holidays
Paid Parental Leave/Short-Term Disability
Additional Benefits: Wellness reimbursement up to $800 annually, Alta Gets Around benefit of up to $900 annually, 5-year travel award, and professional development opportunities

*The following statements pertain to US Candidates Only*

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