Assistant Vice President, Transportation Planning

Job Description

This Opportunity is for a locally based Assistant Vice President, Transportation Planning who provides technical planning support and leadership for the WSP New England Planning team in helping win and deliver planning projects across the transportation, environmental, regional, and urban planning disciplines. A successful candidate in this role will have a working knowledge of consultant capture planning processes, experience in proactively engaging clients about potential work, and a strong grounding in typical planning processes and project development.

Past planning experience can range from transportation, environmental, regional, and/or urban planning, or similar experience. This position will be a leadership position helping the Senior Vice President of New England Planning manage a growing team of 7 to 10 people, being a guide and mentor in coordinating capture planning for projects across the New England Planning team and demonstrating by example strong proposal development skills.

This position will also be expected to support projects at various levels as subject matter expert, a project manager, task lead, or any other needs as available. In these roles, they will be responsible to ensure planning-related project elements and processes are conveyed and acted upon with a high level of quality and compliance to accurately address impact, long-term risks, and future ready solutions by applying and integrating transportation, environmental, urban, and regional planning.

Responsible for providing situational guidance to project managers and managers ensuring that responsibilities are delivered and adhered to with a level of quality that meets or exceeds acceptable industry standards.

Your Impact

• Identify and position for project opportunities early to create a winning strategy for the award of work for the New England Planning team.
• Mentor a team in best practices for developing winning proposals and provide support and review in helping our team members draft winning proposals.
• Collaborate across WSP business lines to identify project opportunities and potential work on existing projects or contracts, including collaboration with Transportation & Infrastructure, Earth and Environment, Property & Buildings, Energy, and other groups within Advisory and Planning.
• Provide oversight of data collection efforts for identifying and compiling observational, spatial, and data concerning a variety of matrices for projects, research, and surveys.
• Prepare, complete, and/or review general plans, specific/master plans, community plans, zoning codes, comprehensive plans, permitting policies and/or development standards for assigned projects, with a particular emphasis on transportation and multimodal accommodation. Ensure technical reports and presentations explain research, findings, and recommendations to plan, address, prevent, control, or restore larger-scale planning challenges and complex problems.
• Perform professional transportation, environmental, regional, and/or urban planning work and conduct investigations, inspections, studies, and surveys to gain further information on a particular problem or issue, verify site characteristics, and/or to plan for future needs.
• Prepare data and visualizations such as tables, charts, reports, models, infographics, cross-sections, and 3D illustrations for the interpretation or presentation of more complex and larger scale data, findings, or analyses.
• Prepare applications and represent clients in the approval process with local and regional jurisdictions.
• Prepare, coordinate, and facilitate public involvement and consensus-building meetings in support of client project work, answering public questions on behalf of the client, and assisting with planning efforts on larger-size or more complex projects.
• Read, interpret, compose, and review planning reports, studies, and other technical documents.
• Oversee and monitor cross-functional teams in executing project work, including project budgets, tracking hours and expenses, and task completion.
• Provide high level oversite for desk-based and on-site study efforts, including measurements, data interpretation, demographics, patterns and trends, and computer modeling.
• Provide analysis, evaluation, and interpretation of facts and data obtained during field and site investigations, offering input with developing action plans for more significant to high-level challenges and development activities to minimize impacts on the community, population, local economy, and environment.
• Coordinate with clients, resource agencies, and planning and technical staff, providing a high level of strategic advice, consultancy, and subject matter expertise.
• Develop a client base for providing high level transportation planning services including identifying additional business development opportunities and engaging in proposal writing and submission.
• Mentor staff to support their growth and professional development.
• Collaborate with professionals from a…