Civic Data Analyst (Sustainable Mobility)

About the role

Alta Planning + Design seeks a Civic Data Analyst (Sustainable Mobility) for our Minneapolis office. This position is a great opportunity for someone who believes in the importance of active, multimodal, and sustainable transportation and who is interested in growing their career as a professional working at the intersection of civic data and sustainability.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical expert and analyst across various disciplines, project types, and regions.
• Develop prototypes of repeatable analysis in R, Python, and GIS to advance place-based sustainable transportation solutions.
• Foster an entrepreneurial approach to analysis through staff training, research, tool development, and custom web applications.
• Engage across Alta’s disciplines to understand data analytics needs, priorities, and expectations, fostering a data-informed decision-making culture.
• Lead the development of new analytical products that align with the firm's objectives and the multidisciplinary nature of the practice.
• Collaborate closely with planners, designers, and engineers in tasks related to data analysis and visualization, ensuring the developed solutions bring valuable mobility insights and can scale organization wide.
• Delve into data analysis and visualization components of client projects and R&D efforts, employing complex methodologies.
• Address mobility and access challenges through innovative analytical solutions, and articulate data-driven narratives effectively through reports, technical memos, and presentations.
• Be proactive in identifying labor-intensive processes and analysis, exploring avenues to streamline and automate them to create organization-wide value.
• Work on a range of projects including active transportation plans, safety action plans, complete streets planning, safe routes to school, new mobility plans, and economic benefit studies.
• Keep a community-focused perspective by pushing forward solutions that help communities inform narratives about people, address multifaceted community goals, prepare communities for change, and build a more just transportation system.

Qualifications

• Required:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or another quantitative field with demonstrated experience in the transportation planning field, OR a Bachelor’s Degree in Planning, Landscape Architecture, Environmental Sciences, or Engineering with some experience in the software development and/or data science fields.
• Proficiency in Python and/or R, SQL.
• Strong understanding of databases, GIS, coding, and familiarity with transportation planning at an advanced level.
• GIS Proficiency - both open-source (PostGIS, QGIS, geopandas, etc.) and the ESRI suite (ArcGISPro, Spatial Analyst, Network Analyst, etc.).
• Ability to create informative data visualizations through code (e.g. D3, ggplot, matplotlib, plotly, kepler.gl, etc.).
• Experience designing, implementing, and documenting analytical solutions using code. Ability to execute an analysis entirely with code.
• Data specifications & database acronyms like OSM, MDS, GTFS, GBFS, GPS, CDS don’t scare you.
• Proficient in MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint, similar products.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Preferred:
• A Master’s Degree in Urban Planning, Statistics, Data Science, Engineering, Math, or Social Sciences.
• 1+ years of experience in a consulting environment or public entity. Experience working on responses to public sector requests for proposals.
• AICP Certification.
• Experience using Deltek VantagePoint.
• Active participation in industry-relevant professional associations and committees.
• Demonstrated work of applied statistics or machine learning techniques to transportation challenges.
• Basic familiarity with deploying analytical solutions over the web with the use of Flask, Django, Fast-API, Tableau, PowerBI, ArcGIS Enterprise, or R-Shiny.

What We Offer

• Flexible Schedule: Alta offers a flexible, hybrid work schedule where most employees work from home three days per week. In-office days support our collaborative culture, one of our core values.
• Compensation: The pay range for this job in Minneapolis is $65,000-$77,000 annually. Placement within the range is based upon experience, skill-sets, and qualifications.
• Benefits: Alta offers comprehensive benefits to all full-time employees: Medical: PPO or HSA medical plans, Alta pays 75% of the cost Dental/Vision: PPO, Alta pays 90% of the cost Life Insurance: Alta pays 100% of the premium for life and AD&D, equal to your base compensation 401(k): Alta provides a match up to 3% PTO: 21 days accrued annually to start Holidays: 11 total company paid holidays Paid Parental Leave/Short-Term Disability Additional Benefits: Wellness reimbursement up to $800 annually, Alta Gets Around benefit of up to $900 annually, 5-year travel award, and professional development opportunities