Community Planner
Years of Experience: 5-10 years
Compensation: Variable with aptitude, skills and enthusiasm
Description: Are you passionate about creating vibrant, healthy, and livable spaces? Are you interested in creatively solving issues within our towns and cities? Do you want to create places that inspire and benefit all users? If so, we are looking for someone like you to join our team as a Community Planner in our Kansas City office.
Why join Vireo?
At Vireo, we’re working to create thriving spaces for people of all abilities. Our staff of 18 landscape architects, designers, planners, and conservation ecologists in the Midwest region are passionate about making a difference in our communities both big and small. The pace of work is fast, our team is creative and collaborative across disciplines in and outside of our firm.
As a community planner with Vireo you will contribute to projects, enhance your knowledge of the profession, work directly with clients, represent Vireo in stakeholder engagements, and take part in crafting the future of our region. You’ll work with other landscape architects, planners, urban designers, and ecologists at Vireo to deliver a wide variety of project types focused on making communities more inspiring, inclusive, functional, and innovative.
Vireo is passionate about building a diverse and welcoming team. We are a highly collaborative group that thrives with collective creative problem solving where ideas come together to build a better solution. We are an equal opportunity, woman-owned business. Our Kansas City and Omaha offices work closely on similar project types.
You’ll be a great fit if:
You are passionate about community engagement, city planning, and design as well as creating livable, thriving environments for communities and clients.
You want to deepen your skills in community planning, engagement, and design.
You enjoy inspiring and collaborating with other disciplines, between offices, among community members, and in cities across the Midwest.
You engage and inspire using verbal, written and graphic representation of ideas and concepts.
You are detail oriented with strong organizational skills.
You have a solution-focused approach to engagement, planning, and design.
You are interested in working with some of the best folks around! We may be biased, but we feel our people are pretty great.
What you’ll need:
A bachelor’s or master’s degree in urban/regional planning or related field.
5 or more years of community planning and engagement experience.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Strong facilitation skills.
Experience in design software including Adobe Creative Suite, GIS software (ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online, QGIS), and Microsoft Office.
Experience thoughtfully collecting and analyzing data.
Experience developing planning and engagement processes.
Experience leveraging qualitative and quantitative data to write planning documents.
Experience working with multidisciplinary teams and multi-phased projects.
Experience managing multiple, community planning and engagement projects at once.
Experience with public and stakeholder engagement.
It would be even better if you have:
Certification as an AICP
Experience in various stages of project pursuits including opportunity tracking, proposal writing, and interviewing.
Business development, marketing skills, social media experience.
You excel at engaging communities in the public outreach process.
Spanish or other foreign language abilities.
Working knowledge of ArcGIS Story Map, Lumion (or other rendering software), and Deltek Vision.
How to Apply:
If you would like to be considered for this position, please send your info!
Vireo is an equal opportunity employer and encourages women and people of color to apply. No phone calls, please. For more information on Vireo please visit our website (www.bevireo.com).
Send Resume and Portfolio (no larger than 10 MB total) to:
Robin Fordyce robin@bevireo.com
