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Now Hiring: This Week’s Job Postings

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While you’re all snowed in, nothing better to do than apply for some jobs!

1) Director of Community Engagement – New Kensington CDC – Philadelphia

2) Managing Director – Impact Hub – Philadelphia

3) Senior Director, Development – Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust – Philadelphia

4) Director, Research & Quality Assessment – Freire Charter School – Philadelphia

5) Director of External Affairs – Cultural Data Project – Philadelphia

6) Project Manager – Fairmount Park Conservancy – Philadelphia

7) Project Manager – Penn Institute for Urban Research – Philadelphia

8) Summer Intern – Philadelphia Water Department – Philadelphia

9) Assistant/Associate Professor, Urban Design and Infrastructure Planning – College of Architecture and Design at New Jersey Institute of Technology – Newark, NJ

10) Summer Internship – Partnership for Public Service – Philadelphia

11) Director of Lending and Training – Women’s Opportunities Resource Center – Philadelphia

12) Chief External Affairs Officer – Opportunity Finance Network – Philadelphia

13) Director, Case Manager – People’s Emergency Center – Philadelphia

14) Planning Director – Bethlehem Township – Bethlehem Township, PA

15) Director of Community Development – Lower Providence Township – Eagleville, PA

16) Planning Director – Borough of State College – State College, PA

Full descriptions after the jump!

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Announcing the APA PA Annual Conference Call for Presentations – Deadline February 28

Has your community undertaken an innovative planning initiative that you’re really excited about? Has your firm designed a project that was greeted with enthusiastic approval by your client? Have you recently come upon new solutions to age-old land use and transportation problems? Have years of work finally paid off and you’re just itching to share your story with the world??

Then submit a proposal for a session at the 2014 APA PA Annual Conference, October 12-14, 2014 in Philadelphia!

This year’s conference theme is “Innovation from Historic Foundations“ in recognition of the way Philadelphia has used its rich history and legacy of planning to position itself to be a green, global city in the 21st Century. We want to hear how everyone in Pennsylvania, as well as our neighbors in New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland, is meeting the challenges of today while preserving resources for future generations.

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Early Registration for APA National in Atlanta

Come to Atlanta April 26-30, 2014 for the biggest, brightest, boldest event in planning! Take this opportunity to advance your skills, your career, and the future of your community. New this year are sessions, events, and resources  designed for emerging professionals, including the Emerging Professionals Institute which provide you with very hands-on, interactive, small group access to top professionals.  Register by February 27 to save! For more information, visit www.planning.org/conference.

Call for Presentations – 2014 Delaware/Maryland Regional Planning Conference – Deadline February 10

Organizers of the 2014 Delaware/Maryland Regional Planning Conference, “Planning for Healthy & Sustainable Places,” have extended their search for conference sessions and presentations through February 10. The two-day event, co-sponsored by Nemours, will be held at the Embassy Suites in Newark, Delaware on October 28 and 29, 2014.

Click here to learn more and submit an idea: http://delawareapa.wordpress.com/2014-conference/

Sign up to Volunteer With Future City Philadelphia

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Happy New Year from Future City Philadelphia!  We are pleased to announce a new location for this year’s regional competition – SAP America, 3999 West Chester Pike, Newtown Square, PA.  Our 41 participating schools are hard at work on their models and presentations and are getting ready for the big event.  We need volunteers for the following positions:

 

PRELIMINARY JUDGE:  be a member of a judging team that listens to, asks questions of, and judges the preliminary teams.

Time commitment – Saturday, January 26, 8:00AM – 12:00PM.  Preliminary Judges are required to attend a training session if you have not judged before.  The training session will be a teleconference at 12pm on1/22.

 

SPECIAL AWARDS EVALUATOR: talk with teach team’s members to determine which team best meets the criteria of your organization’s special award.

Time commitment – Saturday, January 26, 8:00AM – 12:00PM.

 

GENERAL VOLUNTEER:  help run the competition by volunteering to help with registration, act as a team escort, take photos, update our website, etc.

Time commitment – Saturday, January 26, 8:00AM – 1:00PM.   A few volunteers are needed starting at7:00AM and a few more to help during the afternoon.

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Now Hiring: This Week’s Job Postings

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2014 and new hirings are in full swing!

1) Manager of Corporate and Community Relations – Transportation Management Association of Chester County – Malvern, PA

2) Assistant/Associate Professor – Urban Design and Infrastructure Planning – College of Architecture and Design at New Jersey Institute of Technology – Newark, NJ

3) Block Programs Coordinator – New Kensington CDC – Philadelphia

4) Resident Services Coordinator – New Kensington CDC – Philadelphia

5) Real Estate Development Associate – New Kensington CDC – Philadelphia

6) Director of Communications – AIA Philadelphia – Philadelphia

7) Roots to Re-Entry Project Coordinator – Pennsylvania Horticultural Society – Philadelphia

8) Urban Designer – Lehigh Valley Planning Commission – Allentown, PA

9) Director of Community Planning – Lehigh Valley Planning Commission – Allentown, PA

10) Director of Planning & Zoning – Ferguson Township – State College, PA

11) Urban Design Intern – Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission – Philadelphia

Full descriptions after the jump!

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Now Hiring: This Week’s Job Postings

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A mess of job postings right before the new year. Go get ’em!

1) Program Manager – Philadelphia Housing Authority – Philadelphia

2) Superstorm Sandy Planning and Policy Analyst – Fair Share Housing Center, Inc. – Cherry Hill, NJ

3) Environmental Transmission Line Permitting Project Manager – CH2M HILL – Philadelphia

4) Senior Director, Development – PREIT – Philadelphia

5) Investigative Team – Office of the Inspector General – Philadelphia

6) Deputy Director of National Service Programs – Mayor’s Office of Civic Engagement and Volunteer Service (MOCEVS) – Philadelphia

7) Transportation Planning Intern – Office of Transit, Bicycle, and Pedestrian Planning – Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission – Philadelphia

8) Senior Planner for Natural Resources – Brandywine Conservancy – Chadds Ford, PA NO LONGER ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS

9) Senior Transportation Planner / Utility Planner – SEDA-Council of Governments – Lewisburg, PA

10) County Planning Specialist – Cumberland County Planning – Carlisle, PA

11) Resiliency Managers – The College of New Jersey – Ewing, NJ

12) Planning Director – Borough of State College – State College, PA

13) Natural Lands Intern – Winterthur Museum & Gardens – Winterthur, Del.

14) Park Manager – Central Philadelphia Development Corporation – Philadelphia

Full descriptions after the jump!

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Friday Funny: They’ve Gotta Point

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Planners Pointing. Sometimes, the Internet just wins.

Dec. 11: Geospatial Technology and Open Source event

Geospatial Technology and Open Source event

Wednesday, December 11, 2013, 10:30 AM – 5:00 PM

DVPRC, 190 N Independence Mall West, 8th FL, Philadelphia, PA 19106

The 89th meeting of the DVRPC Information Resources Exchange Group (IREG) will be a special full-day event focused on Open Source and Geospatial Technologies.

We are having presentations by those who are actively developing and providing amazing applications, tools, and data. From Web Maps to data APIs, from data visualization to GitHub, and even the cloud! We are hoping that people will walk away with a better understanding, skill, or interest in these areas. There will also be a CartoDB workshop from 4-5 following the presentation. So please come join us and be ready to learn!

This FREE event will run from 10:30 am to 5 pm and include lunch. Seating is limited to 75. Please register at: http://dvrpc.ticketleap.com/ireg/

DVRPC’s Public Participation Task Force Meeting: Vacant Land, Land Banks, and Urban Gardens

Wednesday, December 4 at 6:00 P.M.

6:15 P.M.             A Philadelphia Land Bank: An Approach to Addressing Vacant Property … Jill Feldstein, Organizing and Advocacy Coordinator, Women’s Community Revitalization Project

A land bank is a public authority created to efficiently handle acquisition, maintenance, and sale of vacant properties. Land banks are a best practice that more than 75 governments have adopted, including Cleveland, Louisville, and Atlanta. The creation of a land bank authority is currently being discussed in Philadelphia; on October 28, the Public Property and Public Works Committee of Philadelphia City Council held a hearing on the Philadelphia Land Bank legislation. The Committee voted to give the bill a favorable recommendation meaning that it can now move to the full Council. Ms. Feldstein, one of the authors of the Philadelphia land bank legislation, will discuss issues surrounding land banks and next steps for Philadelphia.

 

6:45 P.M.             The Urban Garden Initiative… Aissia Richardson, Vice President of Operations, Uptown Entertainment & Development Corp

The Urban Garden Initiative transformed a vacant lot with rampant dumping, prostitution, and drug dealing to a meeting space for Philadelphia’s Broad Street community. Ms. Richardson will present the history, challenges, and issues surrounding the revitalization of this formerly vacant lot on North Broad Street.

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