Job Openings

Planner – Regional Transportation Planner

Position Description
The Northeastern Vermont Development Association (NVDA) seeks a highly skilled, self-motivated, full-time Planner with an interest in transportation to work with a team of dedicated professionals, volunteers, and municipal officials. The Planner works directly with the Executive Director and the Senior Transportation Planner coordinate and implement NVDA’s annual transportation work program in collaboration with other NVDA planning staff and local communities. The position is ideal for an individual who is interested in all aspects of rural transportation planning, as well as the relationship of transportation to land use and settlement patterns, energy usage, protecting water quality, habitat connectivity, and flood resilience.

Job tasks include updating and implementing the regional transportation plan, providing staff support to the region’s Transportation Advisory Committee, regional prioritization of state transportation investments in the region, assisting with transit planning, improving traffic safety, planning for bicycle and pedestrian mobility and related infrastructure improvements, improving the flood resilience of the region’s transportation system, organizing trainings for town road foremen, developing strategies to reduce transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions, improving habitat connectivity across roads and through bridges and culverts, and generally assisting towns in the region with their local transportation needs. Technical aspects of transportation planning, such as conducting counts and infrastructure inventories, are done in coordination with GIS/mapping and planning staff and are important for local and regional efforts. citizens.

Candidates should be familiar with regional and municipal planning tools (regulatory and non-regulatory), and must have excellent writing, public speaking, meeting facilitation, team building, project development and management, grant writing, and GIS/mapping skills. Experience working with volunteers and rural communities is a plus.

Salary and benefits:
This position requires a degree in planning or a closely related field and a minimum of two years’ experience in rural and/or regional planning. A master’s degree in planning or a closely related field may be substituted for one year of required experience. The starting salary range is between $40,000 and $45,000, depending upon qualifications, with a generous benefits package.

Contact:
Please email a letter of interest and resume (with references and contact information) in a single pdf to David Snedeker, Executive Director at dsnedeker@nvda.net. This position will remain open until filled. No phone calls please. NVDA is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Municipal & Regional Planner / Senior Planner

Position Description
The Northeastern Vermont Development Association (NVDA) seeks a highly skilled, self-motivated, full-time Planner or Senior Planner with a municipal and regional planning background and desire to work in a rural context with a team of dedicated professionals, NVDA Commissioners, and municipal officials. This planner works under the direct supervision of the Executive Director in support of regional plan development and strategic implementation, town plan and bylaw development, and the leadership and administration of special projects in support thereof. This is grassroots planning, requiring the ability and enthusiasm to work directly with the public, volunteer planning commissions, and town staff. The majority of towns with which we work have no professional planning staff and limited administrative capacity. Knowledge of planning areas is necessarily broad, and includes land use and working landscapes, community and economic development, natural resources and water quality, transportation, hazard mitigation, climate resilience and adaptation, energy (efficiency, greenhouse gas reduction, and renewable energy siting), and diversity, inclusion, equity, and justice.

Job tasks include supporting a major regional plan update with colleagues and Commissioners, providing planning and bylaw assistance to towns, advising towns on the implementation of their plans and administration of bylaws, and exploring creative solutions to fund and execute plan implementation. Must be able to independently manage multiple projects at any given time. Candidates should be familiar with regional and municipal planning tools (regulatory and nonregulatory), and must have excellent writing, public speaking, meeting facilitation, team building, inclusive public engagement, community organizing, project development, grant writing, and project management skills. Familiarity with planning in rural communities is a plus.

Salary and benefits:
The position requires a degree in planning or a closely related field (including landscape architecture, geography, etc.) and a minimum of 2 - 4 years’ experience in rural municipal and/or regional planning, including at least one year’s experience in staff supervision or as a project manager, or the equivalent experience in the administration and implementation of adopted policies and objectives. A master’s degree in planning or a closely related field may be substituted for one year of required experience. Candidates should also demonstrate experience working with complex regulations and issues.

Our office is located in St. Johnsbury – a community with vibrant downtown. Our workplace is friendly and highly flexible in terms of both workday and location. We offer competitive compensation and excellent benefits. The expected annual salary range for this position is $45,000 and 55,000 depending upon experience.