Southwest Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission
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Southwestern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission (SWWRPC) seeks a qualified candidate to assist our staff of six to meet a wide range of planning goals. As a local government unit, SWWRPC serves the five counties of Southwestern Wisconsin (Grant, Green, Iowa, Lafayette, and Richland) in land use, transportation and economic development planning. The Planner-GIS Specialist reports to the Planning Manager and the Economic Development Manager.
The ideal candidate will enjoy being a generalist and be able to work on a wide‐range of planning projects, including, but not limited to, sustainability planning; Safe Routes to School planning; economic analysis and market development planning; farmland preservation planning; local food planning; flood mitigation planning; and hazard mitigation planning. While this is primarily a planning position, the ideal candidate will also possess high-level GIS skills and spend up to 50% of his or her time maintaining our geospatial database as well as developing maps and analysis for a variety of projects. The ability to develop and maintain online mapping applications is a plus.
Eligibility Requirements:
- Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning or closely-related field;
- Minimum 3 years of relevant professional experience (may include part-time work and internships)
- Flexible schedule, ability to attend night meetings, ability to work longer hours certain weeks to meet deadlines;
- Ability to comfortably lead meetings with local government officials and community organizations;
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, comfortable communicating with a wide range of audiences from diverse backgrounds;
- Excellent attention to detail and ability to retrieve, organize, and analyze data
Preferred Qualifications:
- GIS Certification from an accredited program;
- High level of proficiency in ArcGIS 10.x; experience with GIS modeling programs used in Planning;
- Experience with Esri Business Analyst, Reference USA, and other GIS extensions;
- Experience with online mapping/web development
- Familiarity with economic development, transportation and sustainability tools and principles;
- Familiarity with Southwestern Wisconsin or similar rural region
- Experience with Adobe programs (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop), HTML, WordPress, SPSS, and Google Apps a plus.