Senior Planner - Long Range Regional Planning

DEADLINE TO APPLY IS SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2026, AT 11:55 PM

HOWEVER, THIS JOB POSTING MAY CLOSE EARLIER IF WE RECEIVE 75 APPLICATIONS BEFORE THE 10/25/26 CLOSING DATE, WHICHEVER COMES FIRST

FIRST ROUND INTERVIEWS ARE TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED FOR THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2026

Be ready to rethink your assumptions about the public sector. Dedicated and motivated colleagues? Beautiful, high amenity building for on-site work and collaboration? Flexible schedules and hybrid work options? Yes, yes, and yes!

ABOUT THE SECTION

The Senior Planner will be a member of the Transportation Planning team, one of four teams within the Regional Planning Program section serving MTC and ABAG. The Regional Planning Program leads regional planning activities related to housing, land use, resilience, and transportation to create an affordable, connected, diverse, healthy, and vibrant Bay Area for all. The section collaborates extensively with local and regional partner agencies, non-profits, advocacy organizations, business and labor groups and community organizations.

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Transportation Planning team leads long-range initiatives that shape the Bay Area's transportation future. The team develops the Transportation Element of Plan Bay Area-establishing strategic policy and investment priorities for MTC/ABAG and partner agencies-as well as modal plans for transit, goods movement, road pricing, and other regional priorities. With an interdisciplinary focus, the team's work portfolio extends to topics related to the transportation-land use connection, environmental resilience, economic vitality and equity. In addition, the team plays a central coordination role with federal, state, and local partners on transportation planning.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Senior Planner will play a lead role within the Transportation Planning team. In the near term, the position is anticipated to lead a portfolio of initiatives such as performance planning and equity analyses for Plan Bay Area 2060 and white papers on specific topic areas. In the longer term, this position would be expected to lead planning studies on topics related to goods movement, road pricing, transit and other relevant transportation priorities for the region.

The individual would collaborate closely with policy and planning staff across the agency as well as technical staff in the forecasting and modeling team. Further, the individual would play a major role in engaging and coordinating with key transportation partners throughout the Bay Area, including county transportation agencies, transit operators and non-profit organizations, as well as relevant federal and state agencies. While this position is envisioned to focus on transportation-oriented projects and policies, it will require a cross-functional and interdisciplinary lens.

The ideal candidate would be a versatile team player with robust technical, communications and project management skills who can seamlessly work with internal and external transportation partners, and who would have knowledge on a wide range of transportation, land use, environmental resilience and equity issues. The candidate should be self-driven and adept at creative problem-solving under tight deadlines, with strong interpersonal skills, flexibility to take on new topic areas, and the ability to learn quickly and advance complex projects successfully.