Transportation Planning Specialist

Location: Hybrid - Arlington, Virginia (2 days/week in office)

Transportation Planner

We are seeking a Transportation Planner to complete projects and tasks related to transportation planning, focusing on transportation investment needs, public transit, transportation demand management (TDM), transportation policy, environmental issues in transportation, and related topics. This position is hybrid, based in Arlington, Virginia or Reston, Virginia.

This is an opportunity to contribute to an important mission and work on emerging planning and sustainability issues, and all while building a great career at ICF.

The successful candidate will have an interest in multimodal transportation systems and innovative approaches to mobility, with experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Transportation planning and policy, addressing issues related to statewide, metropolitan, and/or corridor planning, and performance-based planning and programming.

• Transportation demand management or transportation programs relating to carpooling, vanpooling, bicycling bikeshare, microtransit, electric vehicles, and autonomous vehicles.

• Utilizing data, technological tools, training workshops, and innovative techniques to promote participation in programs.

• Mobility and accessibility analysis, including analyses of the effects of transportation investments, land use development, and other strategies.

• Transportation finance and funding.

• Transportation data analysis and visualization.

• Policy analysis related to passenger and/or freight travel.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Develop preliminary drafts of project materials in collaboration with senior staff team members based on research of transportation-related topics.

• Contribute to the development of innovative, accurate, timely, and high quality products and services, typically working on multiple projects with all levels of staff

• Communicate with clients and external team members and stakeholders to develop project materials.

• Ensure high quality final presentation of project materials such as reports, white papers, presentations, and briefs for Federal, State, and local clients. This includes managing comments and executing suggested edits from project stakeholders.

• Provide meeting support, including preparing materials, on-site attendance (when applicable) or remote hosting and technical support through virtual platforms, taking notes, and assembling post-meeting summary documents.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in urban planning, environmental studies, public policy, or a similar field with 2+ years of experience in transportation planning, TDM, transportation economics, or transportation system management and operations or a Master’s degree in a related field with 1 year of experience.

• Experience with word processing, presentation, virtual meeting software, and web applications (e.g., Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, etc.).

Desired Professional Skills

• Effective research skills.

• Exceptional analytical and organizational skills, including the ability to prioritize tasks or projects and ability to carry out multiple tasks under tight or sometimes conflicting deadlines.

• Ability to capture meeting discussions in writing and synthesize those discussions into trackable actions.

• High level of attention to detail and work quality.

• Ability to work well both in teams and independently.

• Initiative and understanding to anticipate and respond to client and project needs.

• Ability to work on multiple projects under strict deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, with a collaborative mindset and ability to juggle multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred Experience

• Experience conducting transportation projects for US DOT, TRB, state DOTs, MPOs, transit agencies, and/or other public sector transportation agencies.

• Experience with TDM or commute program planning, implementation, or evaluation.

• Strong quantitative skills including spreadsheet analysis, geospatial analysis (geographic information systems), and/or benefit-cost analysis.

• Government consulting experience.

Pay Range - There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final pay for a position, including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location, education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position.

The pay range for this position based on full-time employment is: