Planner Transportation

**Job ID**: 50706

**Job Category**:Policy, Planning & Research

**Division & Section**:City Planning, CP Transportation Planning

**Work Location**:Metro Hall, 100 Queen St. West

**Job Type & Duration**:Full-time, 1 Temporary (24 month) Vacancy

**Hourly Rate and Wage Grade**:$65.01 -71.22, TFS282, Wage Grade 15

**Shift Information**: Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week

**Affiliation**: L79 Full-time

**Number of Positions Open**: 1

**Posting Period**: 28-Oct-2024 to 12-Nov-2024

We are seeking qualified and experienced transportation planning professionals to fill several current vacancies in the Transportation Planning section of the City Planning Division. Transportation Planning is comprised of specialized planning professionals who combine transportation and land-use planning skills and expertise to provide a number of services, including the following:

- Planning sustainable and interconnected transportation networks to improve people's mobility choices, to create vibrant public spaces and to support economic prosperity, improving the overall quality of life in the City of Toronto.
- Leading and being champions of the transportation vision in the City's Official Plan, including development of leading-edge policies on major transportation initiatives.
- Providing evidence-based transportation planning technical analysis and best practices, supported by research and analysis of transportation and travel trends in the City and surrounding regions.
- Communicating and educating people in a clear and compelling way in undertaking inclusive and transparent engagement and collaboration with stakeholders and the public, and providing an important liaison to all related transportation agencies.

**Major Responsibilities**:
Reporting to the Program Manager, Transportation Planning, the Transportation Planner will be responsible for investigating and analyzing a variety of city-wide and/or area specific transportation planning issues and initiatives and contributing to review and implementation of large, complex development projects, including transit initiatives, to help achieve the City's multi-modal transportation and planning policy objectives.

In addressing these responsibilities the individual will be required to:

- Prepare planning, research and policy studies, secondary plans, precinct and master plans, transit planning studies, and undertake environmental assessments for multi-modal transportation initiatives.
- Prepare requests for qualifications/proposals, terms of reference and study designs to support planning, research and policy studies, environmental assessments, and transit initiatives.
- Compile and analyze socio-economic and geospatial data associated with transportation planning studies.
- Prepare reports on multi-modal transportation issues affecting the City of Toronto.
- Design, conduct and/or coordinate research and analysis activities and surveys.
- Design, develop and maintain transportation planning information systems, data banks, and computer models to monitor transportation planning issues, trends and policies.
- Assist in developing Official Plan and Zoning By-Law amendments and prepare reports.
- Evaluate the implications of transportation planning initiatives of other municipalities, jurisdictions and agencies.
- Consult with other City Divisions, municipalities, and agencies to coordinate, plan, develop and implement transportation policies, programs and projects.
- Monitor projects and the progress of consultant studies, including day-to-day coordination and liaison with consultants, to assist in ensuring that studies are completed on time and within budget.
- Provide work direction on research, analysis, surveys, and report writing assignments to Assistant Planners.
- Maintains an awareness of developments and advancements in the transportation planning field. Provide information and advice in response to enquiries from elected officials, representatives of Provincial/Federal ministries and other municipalities, other government agencies, consultants, stakeholders and the public.
- Assist the Senior Transportation Planner or Program Manager in representing the Division on inter-departmental and intergovernmental working groups and technical advisory committees
- Maintain positive working relationships with other City Divisions (including Agencies, Boards and Commissions) as well as other levels of government and key stakeholders to foster effective partnerships.
- Carry out specific Transportation Planning tasks as assigned.
- Prepare for, and act as an expert witness before, the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal.

**Key Qualifications**:

- Post-secondary education in transportation planning/engineering, or in a professional discipline pertinent to the job function, or the equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
- Considerable experience working on complex transit/transportation planning projects, such as transportation policy development, Transport