Sustainability Planner

Job Description

Dewberry is currently seeking an enthusiastic and talented Sustainability Planner to join our Sustainability group. The group is in the Northeast Environmental, Planning Department. This is an excellent career opportunity to join our team of outstanding environmental sustainability professionals as we support our clients in the assessment of their environmental footprint and climate impacts, the development of sustainability goals, and the identification of carbon reduction solutions combined into comprehensive sustainability plans.

The successful candidate will have technical, project management, and marketing responsibilities to support environmental sustainability projects related to the transportation, resilience, urban development, and alternative energy industry. Personnel with a background in environmental planning for transportation, energy, and resilience projects are highly encouraged to apply.

Dewberry is a leading, market-facing professional services firm with more than 50 locations and 2,000 professionals nationwide. What sets us apart from our competitors are our people. At Dewberry, we seek out exceptional talent and strive to deliver the highest quality of services to our clients. Whether you’re an experienced professional or a new graduate, you’ll have the chance to collaborate with the best and brightest and work on innovative and complex projects at the forefront of the industry. Our commitment to excellence stems from our personal integrity and from other defining attributes, which we call “Dewberry at Work,” that have inspired our employees to be successful for more than a half-century.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

The position involves performing environmental analyses and sustainability planning in support of energy, transportation, resilience, and urban infrastructure projects.

Duties may include:

• Conducting extensive research, data collection, analysis and the preparation of written technical documentation pertaining to land use, policy, demographics (including Environmental Justice populations), hazard risk and vulnerability, transportation and transit, among others.
• Writing and developing comprehensive planning documents and sustainability strategies.
• Supporting Project Managers and task leaders.
• Working collaboratively with other Subject Matter Experts to complete comprehensive environmental documents.
• Conducting community and stakeholder engagement activities associated with various planning and engineering projects. These activities can include stakeholder identification and contact information collection, letter/invitation/announcement drafting and mass mailing, presentation development and delivery, outreach material creation, mapping, press release development, and various other media outreach creation.
• Assisting with planning and facilitating meetings, workshops, stakeholder outreach, public meetings and open houses.
• Experience with MS Office suite, InDesign, data visualization and electronic survey tools desirable
• Experience with GIS a plus

Required Skills & Required Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Planning or a related field; MS preferred
• Minimum 5 years of environmental and/or transportation planning experience.
• Strong written and oral communication and data management/visualization skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills and customer focus.
• Ability to be self-motivated and function both independently and in a collaborative team environment.
• Well-developed time management skills, especially the ability to complete high-quality, detail-oriented deliverables on tight timelines amid competing deadlines within a diverse work group.
• Ability to exercise initiative, resourcefulness, and tact in obtaining and analyzing information.
• Ability to collaborate and work effectively with coworkers, clients, and our clients’ stakeholders.
• Experience researching, planning, and developing plans, policies, procedures, and/or guidance.
• Ability to synthesize, analyze, and organize complex information into a clear and coherent description.

Don’t meet every single requirement? At Dewberry we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace for our employees. So if you’re excited about this role, but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the position description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may just be the right candidate for this or other opportunities.

*At this time, Dewberry will not sponsor a new applicant for work authorization.

*Dewberry is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

*Only recipients of an offer of employment from Dewberry, will be required to submit to a background screening which may include, but is not limited to, employment verification, educational and other credential verification, driving record check, criminal background check, and an investigative consumer report. These screenings will be conducted by Dewberry’s background vendor of choice and will be conducted in compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local law.

Notice to Third Party Recruiters:  Dewberry only compensates job placement recruiters that have a valid Dewberry-approved written agreement in place for recruiting services. Dewberry does not compensate third party recruiters for unsolicited job placement candidate information.