Planning Technician II Job Listing at City of Edmonton in Edmonton, AB (Job ID 51284)

Description

Are you interested in gathering, processing, and analyzing data using statistical methods and spatial analysis to support urban form and demographics research in the Planning and Environment Services branch at the City of Edmonton? If so, read on!

Whether you're analyzing data, creating reports or researching responses to inquiries, you'll play a key role in monitoring growth and providing analytics to support evidence-based decision making. As a Planning Technician, you will work as part of a multidisciplinary team under the supervision of the Senior Planner, to analyze, visualize, and present data for publications, City Council inquiries and reports. You will support a diverse range of urban planning analytics, using a wide range of indicators, data sources, and tools.

What will you do?

• Assemble and analyze large, complex data sets in support of research projects related to land use, corporate performance measures, neighbourhood indicators, development and building permits, lot registration, lot servicing and other relevant information needs of the unit, section and branch and corporation
• Evaluate data sets for consistency, completeness, accuracy and reasonableness
• Perform data collection and management activities, including routine processing, documentation, storage, and validation
• Analyze data on land supply, subdivision activity, building permits and other indicators, using R, SQL, SAS and Excel among other GIS data analysis tools
• Write scripts to automate data processing and cleaning, and calculate indicators and metrics
• Oversee and undertake the provision of technical materials to support regular reporting through static and interactive products, Council reports and presentations, public and internal meetings, in alignment with corporate and department strategic documents and direction
• Evaluate and advise on new tools, technologies, and techniques to improve effectiveness of the unit's work, seeking new and/or improved data sources and visualization techniques to advance the section's analytical capabilities
• Related duties as required