Planner III

DESCRIPTION

Michael Baker International is seeking an energetic early career planner to support hazard mitigation planning, resilience, and community engagement in the western United States.

As a Planner III, you will provide direct technical assistance and support community engagements that help state, local, tribal, and territorial partners build their capacity to plan for and reduce their disaster risk.

This is an exciting opportunity to work with a national network of risk communications, community outreach, partnership building, hazard mitigation, and environmental experts to tackle multiple hazards and build a safer, more prepared nation.

This position requires knowledge and enthusiasm for hazard mitigation, community outreach, mitigation and resilience planning.

We are looking for a planner who thrives on a team but is comfortable taking ownership of tasks under supervision.

Plain language writing, clear and consistent communication, and research and analysis skills are essential.



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*This role is remote but will support and FEMA Region 10 (Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska).

Candidates must live in FEMA Region 10.

RESPONSIBILITIES:


* Provide direct technical assistance to drive engagement, integrate hazard mitigation into community planning decisions, and support implementation of mitigation activities.


* Work with local and tribal governments to identify, get buy in, and implement hazard mitigation actions that reduce vulnerability to floods and other natural hazards.


* Translate complex technical information about grants and mitigation projects into plain language, accessible resources for local/tribal officials and the public.


* Provide planning and community engagement support in a variety of community meetings that advance a community's selected resilience vision.


* Build state, local, tribal, and territorial capabilities to understand natural hazard risk and options to reduce that risk.


* Act as a task manager with project management responsibilities (under supervision).

This includes both project initiation, including working with peers and clients to develop scopes of work, budgets, and schedules, and project execution and monitoring, including tracking, resourcing, reporting, quality management, and risk and issue identification.


* Ability to occasionally travel throughout Regions 8, 9, and 10 is required (estimated at under 8 trips per year).


* Collect and analyze data to support the delivery of community planning efforts related to any of the following efforts, including hazard mitigation planning, climate adaptation planning, risk assessments, disaster resilience and recovery, floodplain management, and urban and regional planning.


* Support stakeholder outreach and engagement efforts to promote inclusive engagement.


* Research and advise on community planning best practice standards and guidelines.


* Participate in client meetings and follow through on assigned actio...