Urban Planner | Regional Development Analyst

Role overview

Planning and analysis

• Develop urban strategies, regional frameworks, land-use plans, zoning recommendations, and development proposals.
• Analyze urban expansion, population and demographic trends, housing demand, economic indicators, employment, infrastructure capacity, and land requirements.
• Evaluate proposed residential, commercial, industrial, and mixed-use developments against plans and policies.
• Assess land suitability, infrastructure needs, development feasibility, and opportunities for regeneration, brownfield reuse, and transit-oriented development.
• Use GIS and spatial data to analyze parcels, corridors, transport networks, population patterns, maps, satellite imagery, cadastral data, and demographic datasets.
• Assess infrastructure needs for roads, public transportation, utilities, drainage, healthcare, education, and public amenities.
• Analyze regional economic performance and identify investment, employment, and business development opportunities.
• Assess social, economic, environmental, and spatial impacts; incorporate climate resilience, green infrastructure, sustainability, and resource efficiency.
• Review planning regulations, zoning, development controls, and policy; monitor legislative, population, and economic changes.
• Review development submissions, identify conflicts and constraints, and recommend responses to congestion, housing shortages, uneven growth, and infrastructure gaps.
• Coordinate environmental assessments and specialists; maintain planning data, records, project documentation, consultation findings, and analytical assumptions.
• Prepare forecasts, growth models, indicators, GIS maps, dashboards, reports, feasibility assessments, policy briefs, and recommendations; coordinate schedules and deliverables.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in urban planning, regional planning, geography, urban studies, regional development, economics, public policy, or a related discipline.
• Relevant experience in urban planning, regional analysis, land-use planning, economic development, or infrastructure planning.
• Strong understanding of urban development, zoning, land-use regulation, planning frameworks, demographic analysis, forecasting, and regional economic indicators.
• Experience preparing planning reports, development assessments, research papers, or policy recommendations.
• Proficiency in GIS software such as ArcGIS or QGIS; familiarity with spatial data analysis and geographic information management.
• Ability to interpret maps, planning documents, cadastral data, and infrastructure plans; understanding of transport, housing, amenities, and infrastructure coordination.
• Strong analytical, written and verbal communication, stakeholder engagement, collaboration, problem-solving, and project coordination skills.
• Understanding of sustainability, climate adaptation, environmental planning, resilient development, regional economics, investment planning, and relevant planning legislation.
• Familiarity with statistical analysis, forecasting, scenario planning, spatial modeling, or data visualization is advantageous.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint; ability to manage assignments and deadlines with accuracy and integrity.
• Experience with government agencies, planning consultancies, developers, or infrastructure organizations is an advantage; professional membership or eligibility for registration is advantageous.

What the employer offers

• Competitive salary and comprehensive employee benefits; the salary cadence and amount are not specified.
• Professional development, planning software and research resources, and exposure to urban transformation, regional policy, and diverse development projects.
• Opportunities to collaborate with authorities, developers, economists, engineers, and policy specialists and contribute to strategic studies and investment projects.
• The posting describes career advancement pathways toward senior planner, planning manager, consultant, director, or head of urban and regional development.