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4 weeks ago


Edmonton, Alberta, Canada CareerArc Full time
Interested in strategic foresight for Edmonton's growth? A unique opportunity to apply your urban planning, modeling, data science, and storytelling skills all at once.

The City of Edmonton is looking for a passionate Urban Growth Modeler to join our Urban Systems Assessments (USA) team. In this role, you will play a key part in shaping the future of our city by developing, maintaining, and implementing advanced spatial economic, land use, and transportation system models. These models are decision support systems essential for evaluating growth strategies, analyzing housing affordability, supporting mobility planning, and guiding infrastructure investments. If you are a highly skilled and motivated individual with a passion for urban development and a strong understanding of urban growth modeling, we encourage you to apply

As a Planner, Urban Growth Modeling, you will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and implementing complex models that simulate urban development patterns. You will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of engineers, economists, urban and land use planners, and other specialists to ensure the accuracy and effectiveness of these models. Your work will directly impact the City of Edmonton's decision-making processes regarding growth strategies, infrastructure investments, and housing affordability. This is a challenging yet rewarding opportunity to contribute to the sustainable and efficient growth of our city.

What will you do?

1. Develop, implement, update, calibrate, and validate Edmonton's Urban Growth Model.
2. Establish processes for designing experiments and running many combinations of growth and mobility policies in an automated fashion.
3. Develop techniques, algorithms, and machine learning models to create synthetic data for hard-to-find data items such as residential and non-residential market prices and rents.
4. Develop routines to derive sensitivities among key variables and their influences on residential and non-residential development patterns, housing demand, and affordability for different population segments.
5. Engage with colleagues to develop future scenarios considering population growth, economic development, transportation infrastructure investment, and growth management policies to provide strategic foresight.
6. Respond to analytics service inquiries and provide insights on urban growth patterns under different growth projections and policy actions such as zoning, infrastructure investments, levies, subsidies, fees, land release, and targeted incentives.
7. Engage with stakeholders, including colleagues, other departments, and external agencies through reports, presentations, and visualizations.
8. Provide subject matter expertise and insights to the business areas, leadership team, and decision-makers on how to manage urban growth in a sustainable and efficient manner.
9. Manage workload, develop proactive work plans, and establish the urban growth modeling platform as a trusted tool for achieving city plan goals and targets.

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