Parks, Open Space, and Trails Planner
About The Position
We have an immediate opening for a regular full-time Parks, Open Space, and Trails Planner to work a hybrid schedule based out of our Fort Collins or Denver, Colorado, Salt Lake City, Utah, or Flagstaff or Tempe, Arizona offices, primarily responsible for park, outdoor recreation, open space, and trail system planning. Logan Simpson is made up of a team of 170+ talented professionals across six offices in the western United States. We are experts in environmental planning, cultural resource management, community planning, and landscape architecture design services. Our mission remains simple: working together to guide responsible change. From the beginning, our founders were focused on protecting natural resources and advancing the wellbeing of our communities. We take pride in adding new staff members to our team who share our values of integrity, creativity, excellence, empowerment, stewardship, and teamwork.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture, Planning, Engineering, Recreation Management, Environmental Studies, or related field.
- 5+ years of experience at a design or planning consulting firm, or in a local government parks, recreation, open space, and/or trails department.
- Knowledge of parks, outdoor recreation, and trail planning principles and practices, including land use planning, site planning and design, and land development codes.
- Experience in local government system plans for parks, recreation, open space, or trails.
- Expertise in Microsoft Office, ArcGIS, and Adobe Creative Cloud, especially InDesign (Photoshop, Illustrator a plus) with example products of mapping and graphics.
- Excellent verbal, interpersonal, and public speaking skills.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, multitask, and be able to adjust to daily changes in priorities to meet deadlines.
- Desire to work independently, yet collaboratively in a team environment.
- Enthusiastic and self-motivated, with a willingness to expand the knowledge base and solve problems covering a wide range of projects and topics.
- Possess a valid driver’s license and a clean driving record.
- Be able to work cooperatively in a team-oriented setting.
Nice To Haves
- Cultivate exceptional relationships with federal, state, and local land managers.
- Demonstrated knowledge of wildlife corridors, comprehensive plans, land development codes, vision documents, and development processes.
- Experience working with social media and website development.
- Self-starters with an eye for detail, a dedication to accuracy, and a passion for not just incorporating best practices, but identifying and testing new planning ideas, practices, and technologies, are encouraged to apply.
Responsibilities
- Maintain overall project schedules, budget, and communication between client and team.
- Perform planning research, documentation, and supporting mapping and graphics in Adobe InDesign and ArcGIS.
- Manage and analyze information collection systems (e.g., assessment, inventory, trends) and the appropriate methods to gather information in a reliable and transparent manner.
- Write planning documents such as system wide parks, recreation, open space, and trails plans, outdoor recreation plans, and others.
- Coordinate, facilitate, and summarize outreach activities, including stakeholder meetings, online outreach, and community public meetings.
- Occasional evening meetings and public events should be anticipated, along with possible travel to visit project sites and public events.
Benefits
- Medical, dental and vision plans
- Paid Life/AD&D
- Short-Term and Long-Term Disability coverage
- Paid Family Leave
- 401(k) with a firm match
- Robust Employee Assistance Program with free counseling and mental health services
- Paid Time Off starting at 18 days per year
- 9 paid holidays
- Support for professional conferences and trainings
- Internal leadership development and innovation program
- Tuition reimbursement
- Bonus programs for peer-reviewed publications and academic achievements
- Wellness program with $125 annual Wellness Bucks allowance
- Paid Costco memberships
- Babies-at-Work program
- Paid parking
- Paid public transit costs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
