About this role
Provide leadership, day-to-day direction and coordination for metropolitan and rural transportation planning. Coordinate with staff and local and regional planning entities on planning related activities. Support urban and rural planning functions. Coordinate and implement long range plans in the TIPs, STIPs and project development process. Provide technical analysis to support identification and development of recommendations to improve existing transportation deficiencies and ensure future needs are met throughout the district's localities. Oversee, coordinate and support related activities with local governments to enhance on-going communication and coordination of planning activities.
How you will contribute:
- Budget Development: Develop, maintain and monitor SPR budgets and other planning related budgets for assigned program areas. Analyze, track and approve costs and ensure expenditures are within allocations. Work with others to research and resolve discrepancies.
- Customer Response: Respond to public inquiries by phone, e-mail, letter, etc. and attend public meeting and hearings for major studies and construction projects. Develop and make presentations to government and civic groups on transportation planning and land development.
- Planning Activities for Urban, Rural and District Programs: Manage, plan and coordinate district planning activities for urban, rural and district programs. Provide technical assistance, guidance and leadership to district staff, local planning commissions and organizations, and local governments to meet FHWA, CTB/VDOT goals and objectives. Support district's MPO and PDC urban and rural transportation planning programs as VDOT's representative on Boards and Committees. Serve as liaison in planning matters involving internal and external customers.
- Project Coordination, Technical Support, and Forecasting: Coordinate planning efforts across land development, project development, and programming activities. Provide strategic recommendations based on highway needs assessments, long-range plans, and regional studies, ensuring alignment with federal and state funding priorities. Support land development reviews for local jurisdictions—including rezonings, subdivisions, site plans, and record plats—and assist in the development and review of federal discretionary grant applications. Lead the preparation of project-level traffic forecasts, including roundabout analysis and model-based recommendations for scoping meetings, roadway design, and environmental studies. Coordinate with TMPD on National Highway System forecasts and deliver supporting documentation such as transportation impact analyses, land use data, and regional socio-economic context.
- Transportation Planning Studies: Develop, conduct, manage and participate in transportation planning studies to include corridor, access management, crossover and interchange studies, etc. Ensure study deliverables can lead to programmed projects. Review and administer RFPs, scopes of work, contract and vouchers for annual State Transportation Planning Grants, On-call consultants and Rural Transportation Planning and Multimodal grants.
What will make you successful:
- Ability to follow oral and written instructions.
- Skill and ability to interact and communicate effectively orally and in writing with diverse groups, including technical and non-technical staff, citizens and government officials.
- Ability to apply transportation planning principles and practices to a variety of complex projects.
- Ability to focus individuals and teams on goal-oriented solutions.
- Ability to interpret and implement a variety of agency, state and federal laws, regulations, rules and policies.
- Ability to manage financial resources.
- Ability to organize and analyze transportation data.
- Ability to plan, prioritize, coordinate and complete multiple assignments within scheduled timeframes.
- Ability to supervise, lead and coach others.
- Ability to work with diverse groups, including technical staff, elected officials and citizens.
- Knowledge of state and federal regulations governing the transportation planning process, highway programs, policies and procedures.
- Knowledge of transportation planning and the relationship between federal, state and local planning agencies.
- Knowledge of transportation planning to include federal, state and local planning and land use regulations, procedures and policies.
- Skill and ability to interact and communicate effectively orally and in writing with employees, citizens and government officials.
- Skill in maneuvering through complex political situations effectively and demonstrating sensitivity to how people and organizations function.
- Skill in the use of computers and software applications.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Ability to manage financial resources.
- Ability to organize and analyze transportation data.
- Ability to supervise, lead and coach others.
- Knowledge of federal, state, local regulations governing highway programs and transportation planning and land use processes.
- Knowledge of transportation planning, the relationship between federal, state and local planning agencies.
- Skill and ability to interact and communicate effectively orally and in writing with employees, citizens and government officials.
- Skill in applying transportation planning principles and practices to a variety of complex projects.
- Skill in maneuvering through complex political situations effectively and demonstrating sensitivity to how people and organizations function.
- Skill in the use of computers and software applications.
Additional Considerations:
- A combination of training, experience, or education in Civil Engineering, Transportation Planning, Urban Planning, Regional Planning or related field desired.
- AICP certification.
- Progressively responsible management experience in planning and land development.
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Competency Model (https://etgi.fa.us8.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_4005/pages/8012)
Physical Requirements
Physical Requirements
VDOT employees must abide by VDOTs Code of Ethics and the Commonwealths Standards of Conduct.
VDOT Code of Ethics (https://www.virginiadot.org/about/missionandvalues.asp)
Standards of Conduct (https://www.dhrm.virginia.gov/docs/default-source/hrpolicy/pol1-60--standards-of-conduct-eff-1-1-2025.pdf?sfvrsn=7c0d724e_0)
Physical Requirements
Physical Requirements