What will I bedoing?As the Principal Demographer - Land Use & Regional Growth Forecasting, you will lead regional demographic, employment, and land-use forecasting activities that support transportation and regional planning. You will manage the Socioeconomic Modeling Group, oversee parcel- and TAZ-level forecasting and model development, and provide socioeconomic inputs for travel demand modeling, long-range planning, and scenario analysis.
- Manage and lead the Socioeconomic Modeling Group, including work priorities, schedules, technical direction, staff coordination, and QA/QC.
- Lead long-range population, household, employment, and land-use forecasts at regional, county, TAZ, parcel, and other geographic levels.
- Develop growth allocation methodologies, model assumptions, and alternative development scenarios for regional planning applications.
- Maintain and analyze parcel, building, county appraisal, plat, master-planned community, demographic, economic, and land-use datasets.
- Develop socioeconomic and land-use inputs for travel demand models, Metropolitan Transportation Plans/RTPs, corridor studies, and scenario planning.
- Coordinate forecast assumptions, TAZ structures, and socioeconomic datasets with transportation modelers, GIS staff, planners, consultants, and partner agencies.
- Evaluate relationships among transportation investments, accessibility, development patterns, population, households, and employment.
- Develop and improve regional socioeconomic and land-use forecasting models using Python, GIS, SQL, R, SAS, UrbanSim, or comparable tools.
- Prepare technical documentation, reports, presentations, and clear explanations of complex modeling results for technical and nontechnical audiences.
- Provide technical leadership, mentor staff, and respond to technical and data requests from internal teams and external stakeholders.
KeyQualifications- At least five years of related experience in demographic forecasting, socioeconomic forecasting, land-use modeling, regional growth forecasting, transportation planning, or related MPO/DOT forecasting work.
- Experience developing or supporting population, household, employment, or land-use forecasts for MPO, DOT, travel demand modeling, Metropolitan Transportation Plan/RTP, corridor study, scenario planning, or regional planning applications.
- Strong GIS, quantitative analysis, data management, spatial analysis, public-sector data, and technical project leadership skills.
- Experience using Python or similar scripting tools for modeling, automation, QA/QC, debugging, or reproducible analysis.
Do you have... - Bachelor's degree in applicable academic discipline orrelatedfield of study.
- 5years of experienceworking with local government, nonprofit programs, school or in job related duties.
PreferredQualifications- Bachelor's degree in Demography, Urban or Regional Planning, Geography, Economics, Statistics, Data Science, Transportation Planning, Environmental Studies, or a related field.
- Master's degree or PhD in a related field.
- More than 8years of professional experience with an MPO, state DOT, state or local government, Council of Governments, regional planning agency, university, or public-sector partner organization.
- Experience supporting socioeconomic forecasts for travel demand models, Metropolitan Transportation Plans/RTPs, scenario planning, or corridor studies.
- Experience with parcel-level data, county appraisal data, TAZ-level datasets, UrbanSim or comparable land-use models, SAS/R, GIS, and spatial datasets.
- Experience preparing technical documentation, data dictionaries, QA/QC checks, and presentations for planning or modeling audiences.
SalaryRange: $89,000.00 to $99,000.00All employees of H-GAC are required to reside within the agency's region of service to support our commitment to excellence in service of our region.
