LIAA seeks Community Planner
LIAA is seeking an experienced, highly-creative professional with strong leadership and strategic thinking skills for our Community Planner position based at our Traverse City office. The Community Planner will help LIAA provide the best land-use planning and community development services available in Michigan. The person in this position will help cities, townships, villages and counties across the state work together in developing more sustainable, healthy communities that preserve Michigan’s cultural and natural resources while building greater community resilience.
We provide a reasonable salary (salary range: $40K–$50K+, depending on experience and education), good benefits, great colleagues, a comfortable work environment, and meaningful causes worth working for, all in one of the most beautiful locations on Earth.
The ideal candidate is a creative and engaging person with truly excellent writing and communication skills, a willingness to travel, and passion for the work. We prefer a person with some experience and an advanced degree in urban planning or a related field. Experience and expertise in areas such as ecosystem and natural sciences, landscape architecture, and/or community development and design are also desirable. Differentiators include proficiencies in InDesign, SketchUp, Photoshop and AutoCAD, and experience facilitating community meetings.
How to Apply
Please send an email to search_committee@liaa.org, attaching a well-written cover letter, a résumé, and three professional references as soon as possible. All documents should be provided in PDF format. Applications will be accepted immediately and until the position is filled.
LIAA Engages Petoskey on Community Resilience
LIAA’s team traveled to the City of Petoskey to talk to local residents about a range of community resilience topics, part of an ongoing project that will lead into the City’s Livable Petoskey Master Plan update. Speakers included Harry Burkholder, Executive Director of the Land Information Access Association; Derek Shiels, Director of Stewardship for the Little Traverse Conservancy; Roger Racine, an infectious disease epidemiologist with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services; and Rebeca Otto, Director of Events and Community Engagement for Char-Em United Way. The public meeting took place at North Central Community College and was attended by around 40 people who provided input on their community’s current situation and its future, and identified local assets and challenges.
Information about the project, including all meeting dates and times, presentations and other important information can be found at the Livable Petoskey project website.