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Job Summary:
In addition to the responsibilities listed above, this position is also responsible for supporting business strategy and/or initiative planning by contributing to organizational strategy processes and coordinating across teams to facilitate key conversations; facilitating knowledge sharing across functions and entities to support strategic priorities; helping build out frameworks to facilitate strategy development by leveraging Strength Weakness Opportunity Threat (SWOT) and gap analyses to ensure that strategic opportunities are correctly identified; prioritizing strategic choices through enterprise processes and market operational plans to establish management incentives; aligning enterprise strategy plans and performance with operating priorities in markets and functions; and providing ongoing initiative management and prioritization in real time through performance monitoring using relevant tools (i.e., dashboards, scorecards, leader reviews).
Essential Responsibilities:
- Pursues effective relationships with others by proactively providing resources, information, advice, and expertise with coworkers and members. Listens to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; provides mentoring to team members. Pursues self-development; creates plans and takes action to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; influences others through technical explanations and examples. Adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback; demonstrates flexibility in approaches to work; helps others adapt to new tasks and processes. Supports and responds to the needs of others to support a business outcome.
- Completes work assignments autonomously by applying up-to-date expertise in subject area to generate creative solutions; ensures all procedures and policies are followed; leverages an understanding of data and resources to support projects or initiatives. Collaborates cross-functionally to solve business problems; escalates issues or risks as appropriate; communicates progress and information. Supports, identifies, and monitors priorities, deadlines, and expectations. Identifies, speaks up, and implements ways to address improvement opportunities for team.
- Analyzes and interprets market data by: developing and implementing a plan to address standard and non-standard research questions and test hypotheses with comprehensive foundational knowledge of data analysis; performing standard and non-standard quantitative and qualitative analyses and investigating alternative hypotheses independently; and interpreting key findings, collaborating on preparation of conclusions and recommendations for the future independently.
- Facilitates process improvement efforts by: implementing updated processes to improve return on investment (ROI), operations, service quality, and results for initiatives within a team; utilizing comprehensive knowledge of business operations to implement best practices within a team; and promoting adoption of best practices and future innovations.
- Effectively manages projects and programs by: assembling standard and non-standard project proposals, including establishing objectives, key stakeholders, milestones, projecting required resources and timelines independently; independently contributing to progress on project deliverables in alignment with greater business strategy within the team; utilizing existing methodologies to complete initiatives with support from manager; and independently contributing the execution of project plan by enacting assigned duties.
- Proactively maintains open streams of communication by: building trusting relationships with stakeholders; mitigating avoidable issues or risks to strategic program implementation independently; fostering collaborative partnerships primarily within the organization with infrequent outside contacts to develop and refine key priorities and strategy; and facilitating communication of strategic issues and recommendations across teams.
- Contributes to the development and execution of business strategy by: ensuring the delivery of business cases for strategic proposals with comprehensive foundational knowledge of health care marketplace; identifying the scope of the problem to be addressed and the resources needed; contributing to the identification of strategic options based on problem scoping; identifying challenging business goals and the processes and resources needed to accomplish them; promoting alignment around the strategic plan and strategic outcomes, and finding opportunities for collaboration and synergy within a team; applying standard procedures to mitigate standard barriers, constraints, and risks to execution; and contributing to the assessment of strategic direction in response to a changing environment independently.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in Business, Health Care Administration, Public Health Economics, Finance, or related field AND minimum two (2) years of experience in strategic planning, strategy facilitation, execution of large-scope strategic projects or a directly related field OR minimum five (5) years of experience in strategic planning, strategy facilitation, execution of large-scope strategic projects or a directly related field.
Additional Requirements:
- Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs): Business Relationship Management
- One (1) year of Health Care experience.
- Master's Degree in Business, Health Care Administration, Public Health, Economics, Finance, or related field.
PrimaryLocation : Georgia,Atlanta,Regional Office - 9 Piedmont
HoursPerWeek : 40
Shift : Day
Workdays : Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
WorkingHoursStart : 09:00 AM
WorkingHoursEnd : 05:00 PM
Job Schedule : Full-time
Job Type : Standard
Employee Status : Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation : NUE-GA-01|NUE|Non Union Employee
Job Level : Individual Contributor
Job Category : Strategic Planning & Business Development
Department : Regional Office - 9 Piedmont - Proj Mgmt-Innovatn Proj-Rgnl - 2808
Travel : No
Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.
Job Summary:
In addition to the responsibilities listed above, this position is also responsible for supporting business strategy and/or initiative planning by contributing to organizational strategy processes and coordinating across teams to facilitate key conversations; facilitating knowledge sharing across functions and entities to support strategic priorities; helping build out frameworks to facilitate strategy development by leveraging Strength Weakness Opportunity Threat (SWOT) and gap analyses to ensure that strategic opportunities are correctly identified; prioritizing strategic choices through enterprise processes and market operational plans to establish management incentives; aligning enterprise strategy plans and performance with operating priorities in markets and functions; and providing ongoing initiative management and prioritization in real time through performance monitoring using relevant tools (i.e., dashboards, scorecards, leader reviews).
Essential Responsibilities:
- Pursues effective relationships with others by proactively providing resources, information, advice, and expertise with coworkers and members. Listens to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; provides mentoring to team members. Pursues self-development; creates plans and takes action to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; influences others through technical explanations and examples. Adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback; demonstrates flexibility in approaches to work; helps others adapt to new tasks and processes. Supports and responds to the needs of others to support a business outcome.
- Completes work assignments autonomously by applying up-to-date expertise in subject area to generate creative solutions; ensures all procedures and policies are followed; leverages an understanding of data and resources to support projects or initiatives. Collaborates cross-functionally to solve business problems; escalates issues or risks as appropriate; communicates progress and information. Supports, identifies, and monitors priorities, deadlines, and expectations. Identifies, speaks up, and implements ways to address improvement opportunities for team.
- Analyzes and interprets market data by: developing and implementing a plan to address standard and non-standard research questions and test hypotheses with comprehensive foundational knowledge of data analysis; performing standard and non-standard quantitative and qualitative analyses and investigating alternative hypotheses independently; and interpreting key findings, collaborating on preparation of conclusions and recommendations for the future independently.
- Facilitates process improvement efforts by: implementing updated processes to improve return on investment (ROI), operations, service quality, and results for initiatives within a team; utilizing comprehensive knowledge of business operations to implement best practices within a team; and promoting adoption of best practices and future innovations.
- Effectively manages projects and programs by: assembling standard and non-standard project proposals, including establishing objectives, key stakeholders, milestones, projecting required resources and timelines independently; independently contributing to progress on project deliverables in alignment with greater business strategy within the team; utilizing existing methodologies to complete initiatives with support from manager; and independently contributing the execution of project plan by enacting assigned duties.
- Proactively maintains open streams of communication by: building trusting relationships with stakeholders; mitigating avoidable issues or risks to strategic program implementation independently; fostering collaborative partnerships primarily within the organization with infrequent outside contacts to develop and refine key priorities and strategy; and facilitating communication of strategic issues and recommendations across teams.
- Contributes to the development and execution of business strategy by: ensuring the delivery of business cases for strategic proposals with comprehensive foundational knowledge of health care marketplace; identifying the scope of the problem to be addressed and the resources needed; contributing to the identification of strategic options based on problem scoping; identifying challenging business goals and the processes and resources needed to accomplish them; promoting alignment around the strategic plan and strategic outcomes, and finding opportunities for collaboration and synergy within a team; applying standard procedures to mitigate standard barriers, constraints, and risks to execution; and contributing to the assessment of strategic direction in response to a changing environment independently.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in Business, Health Care Administration, Public Health Economics, Finance, or related field AND minimum two (2) years of experience in strategic planning, strategy facilitation, execution of large-scope strategic projects or a directly related field OR minimum five (5) years of experience in strategic planning, strategy facilitation, execution of large-scope strategic projects or a directly related field.
Additional Requirements:
- Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs): Business Relationship Management
- One (1) year of Health Care experience.
- Master's Degree in Business, Health Care Administration, Public Health, Economics, Finance, or related field.
PrimaryLocation : Georgia,Atlanta,Regional Office - 9 Piedmont
HoursPerWeek : 40
Shift : Day
Workdays : Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
WorkingHoursStart : 09:00 AM
WorkingHoursEnd : 05:00 PM
Job Schedule : Full-time
Job Type : Standard
Employee Status : Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation : NUE-GA-01|NUE|Non Union Employee
Job Level : Individual Contributor
Job Category : Strategic Planning & Business Development
Department : Regional Office - 9 Piedmont - Proj Mgmt-Innovatn Proj-Rgnl - 2808
Travel : No
Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.
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Who's Hiring
- Fidelity Investments33
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- Xcel Energy7
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- EY5
Top Industries Hiring
- Consulting & Professional Services
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in planning consultant jobs.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in urban planning, environmental planning, or a related field
- Proficiency in GIS software such as ArcGIS or QGIS for spatial analysis
- Experience preparing or reviewing land use, zoning, or environmental impact documents
- AICP certification or active progress toward certification preferred
- Ability to present findings and recommendations to public bodies and stakeholders
- Familiarity with federal, state, and local regulatory frameworks governing land development
Tips for Your Planning Consultant Job Search
Tailor your resume to project types
Planning consultants get hired for specific project experience, not general credentials. Rewrite your resume's project section to match the engagement type in each listing, whether that's zoning analysis, transit corridor studies, or environmental impact assessments.
Lead with your software proficiencies
Hiring managers scan for GIS tools, CAD platforms, and data visualization software before they read your summary. Put your technical stack in a dedicated skills section near the top so it's visible before the reader reaches your experience history.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists planning consultant openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Show public engagement outcomes, not just tasks
Planning roles involve community outreach, public hearings, and stakeholder facilitation. Interviewers want to see what resulted from that engagement. Describe how you shaped project scope, resolved objections, or built consensus, not just that you facilitated meetings.
Prepare a case study for your interview
Many planning consultant interviews ask you to walk through a past project end to end. Have one ready that covers your analytical approach, the regulatory framework you worked within, your recommendation, and what actually happened after implementation.
Negotiate scope alongside compensation
Planning consultants frequently move between project types and clients. When negotiating an offer, ask which practice areas you'd be staffed on and whether there's room to specialize. Project assignment flexibility often matters as much as the base offer.
Planning Consultant Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most planning consultants?
The most active employers for planning consultants right now are Fidelity Investments, Burns & McDonnell, and Xcel Energy, and the most openings are in California, Illinois, and New York, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is typically strongest at multidisciplinary engineering and environmental consulting firms that hold long-term government contracts.
How many planning consultant jobs are remote?
About 91% of planning consultant openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the field's reliance on site visits, public hearings, and local agency coordination. Policy analysis, report writing, and GIS-heavy roles are the most likely to offer remote flexibility, while project management and community engagement roles tend to require in-person presence.
How do you become a planning consultant?
Start with a bachelor's degree in urban or regional planning, geography, environmental science, or a closely related field, then gain entry-level experience at a local planning department or consulting firm. Build GIS skills and document your project contributions carefully. Pursue AICP certification once you have the qualifying work hours, as it signals professional credibility to both public and private sector clients.
Can I get a planning consultant job with little experience?
Entry-level planning consultant roles do exist, particularly at larger firms that run structured analyst programs and regularly staff junior employees on client projects. Strengthen your candidacy by completing internships with a city planning department or engineering firm, developing a portfolio of academic or volunteer planning projects, and demonstrating GIS proficiency, which is one of the first technical skills hiring managers look for in junior candidates.
What does the planning consultant interview process look like?
Most planning consultant hiring processes include an initial phone screen with a recruiter or HR contact, followed by a technical interview focused on your project experience and analytical methods. A final round typically involves a panel with senior planners or practice leads who may ask you to present a past project or respond to a hypothetical planning scenario. Some firms add a writing or GIS skills assessment before extending an offer.
Where can I find and apply to planning consultant jobs?
You can find and apply to planning consultant jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from employers across the United States. Search for roles that match your specialization and experience level, then apply directly to each listing that fits.
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