Planning Director – Statewide and Regional Planning
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Planning Director leading STV’s national statewide and regional transportation planning practice. Shaping strategies, pursuits, and integrated solutions for public-sector transportation agencies.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the growth of STV’s Statewide and Regional Planning Practice nationally
- Shape transportation strategies, capital investment programs, and long-range planning initiatives for state departments of transportation, metropolitan planning organizations, transit agencies, and other public-sector clients
- Develop and implement a national Statewide and Regional Planning strategy aligned with Advisory Services growth objectives
- Create and deploy a practice playbook covering priority markets, service offerings, client engagement, pursuit strategy, delivery model, and success measures
- Develop the value proposition and business plan for statewide and regional planning services
- Identify transportation trends, agency priorities, competitive developments, and policy or funding changes that create opportunities
- Expand capabilities in long-range, multimodal, modal, capital investment, performance-based, strategic business, and related advisory planning services
- Establish and monitor goals for client engagement, pipeline development, pursuits, project delivery, revenue growth, and profitability
- Build and expand executive-level relationships with state DOTs, MPOs, transit agencies, regional authorities, and public-sector transportation organizations
- Serve as a trusted advisor on planning, policy, funding, capital investment, performance, technology, and implementation challenges
- Develop strategic client account plans and lead major opportunity identification, qualification, positioning, and capture
- Direct pursuit strategies, proposals, interviews, pricing coordination, teaming, and technical differentiation
- Lead technical proposals, scopes of work, staffing plans, schedules, and project delivery strategies
- Establish strategic partnerships with consulting firms, technology providers, academic institutions, research organizations, and specialty partners
- Represent STV at client meetings, conferences, professional associations, and external forums
- Support negotiations and contracting for major planning engagements
- Create an operating model connecting Advisory Services with operating groups, regional leaders, functional teams, and client service teams
- Mobilize multidisciplinary professionals across planning, engineering, economics, grants, resilience, sustainability, digital, energy, and program management
- Build and lead a network of statewide and regional planning professionals
- Assess capability gaps and recommend hires, partnerships, investments, and development initiatives
- Mentor and develop planning professionals and support recruiting and retention strategies
- Improve internal processes, tools, data resources, staffing models, and delivery practices
- Lead internal forums, training programs, and collaborative working sessions
- Establish commercially sound project plans and conduct project reviews for quality, risk management, and client commitments
- Capture and share lessons learned, best practices, technical innovations, and reusable planning approaches
- Provide senior technical and strategic oversight for complex planning engagements
- Guide innovative approaches using data analytics, scenario planning, technology, performance measures, policy analysis, and implementation strategies
- Ensure solutions are technically credible, client-responsive, commercially viable, and aligned with planning requirements
- Develop differentiated service offerings and strengthen STV’s industry visibility through conferences, professional organizations, research, policy discussions, articles, and white papers
- Position STV as a recognized national advisor in statewide and regional transportation planning, capital programming, and strategic investment decision-making
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in urban planning, transportation planning, civil engineering, public policy, public administration, geography, economics, or a related field
- A minimum of 15 years of progressively responsible experience in transportation planning, consulting, public-sector planning, or a related field
- Demonstrated experience leading statewide, regional, metropolitan, multimodal, or long-range transportation planning programs
- Extensive experience working with state DOTs, MPOs, transit agencies, regional transportation authorities, or comparable public-sector clients
- Demonstrated success developing and expanding client relationships at the executive, agency leadership, or program leadership level
- Proven experience identifying, shaping, and winning significant transportation planning or advisory engagements
- Experience directing capture strategies, proposals, interviews, teaming arrangements, scopes of work, staffing plans, and fee development
- Strong understanding of long-range transportation planning, modal and multimodal planning, capital investment planning, performance-based planning, strategic planning, and implementation strategies
- Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and coordinating professionals across multiple offices, regions, technical disciplines, or business units
- Demonstrated ability to translate complex transportation, policy, funding, technical, and organizational challenges into practical client solutions
- Experience managing the financial and commercial aspects of consulting engagements, including project budgeting, risk management, profitability, and performance
- Strong written, verbal, presentation, facilitation, negotiation, and executive communication skills
- Ability to travel as needed to support clients, pursuits, projects, industry events, and internal collaboration
- Preferred: Master’s degree in urban planning, transportation planning, civil engineering, public policy, public administration, business administration, or a related field
- Preferred: American Institute of Certified Planners certification or other relevant professional certification
- Preferred: Professional Engineer licensure, where applicable to the candidate’s professional background
- Preferred: Nationally recognized experience in statewide, regional, metropolitan, multimodal, or capital investment planning
- Preferred: Established executive-level relationships with state DOTs, MPOs, transit agencies, regional authorities, or other transportation organizations
- Preferred: Experience developing a national or multiregional transportation planning practice, service line, or center of excellence
- Preferred: Experience leading strategic business planning, market development, annual planning, revenue forecasting, and practice-performance monitoring
- Preferred: Demonstrated thought leadership through conference presentations, professional association participation, publications, research, policy development, or industry committee involvement
- Preferred: Experience integrating planning with data analytics, digital technology, economics, grants, resilience, sustainability, energy, or capital program development
- Preferred: Familiarity with federal transportation planning requirements, funding programs, performance-management frameworks, and public-sector decision-making processes
Benefits:
- Health insurance, including an option with a Health Savings Account
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care and Transit and Parking where applicable)
- Disability insurance
- Life Insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment
- 401(k) Plan
- Retirement Counseling
- Employee Assistance Program
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- Back-Up Dependent Care
- Parental Leave
- Continuing Education Program
- Professional Licensure and Society Memberships
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