What would it feel like to be part of a company guided by engaged and empowered employee-owners? To have the encouragement to run with innovative ideas? To know your opinion is valued and your voice is heard? Wouldn't you love to work in an atmosphere of transparency, respect, and accountability?

Then you belong at SEH.

SEH is currently searching for a talented Community Development Specialist to join our team in our La Crosse or Chippewa Falls, WI location!

The Community and Economic Development team at SEH focuses on helping communities become the places where businesses thrive and people live their best lives. This team believes that successful development should be community-minded and benefit everyone. Using a comprehensive approach, this talented group considers land use planning, engineering, and environmental factors and helps clients identify and secure funding ensuring visions become reality.

The Opportunity:

• Our ESOP provides you an opportunity to own part of the company – 100% of our profits are re-invested in our Employee Owners!
• SEH supports you living your best life! We offer flexible work arrangements and schedules, so you have options that work for you.
• Join a fast-paced, collaborative, and growing team for immediate involvement in on-going projects, with the opportunity to expand into new markets
• Grow our office and work from home, flexible hours, and competitive pay
• Participate in continued education, conferences, and technical training

What you will be doing:

• Assists municipal clients with needs assessment processes and prepare applications for funding, including on focus on public infrastructure needs.
• Assist municipal clients with the administration of successfully funded projects.
• Organize and track projects requiring funding, as well as local, state, federal funding sources.
• Assist with the preparation of plans for communities (i.e., comprehensive plans, strategic plans, redevelopment plans), economic development tools (i.e., tax incremental financing) and work with governmental agencies to implement recommendations from the plan

Required Qualifications:

• One (1) year of experience in urban/regional planning, working with local, state, and federal funding sources
• Demonstrated history of successful grant writing
• Experience with community and economic development activities
• Strong written communication skills for report writing and correspondence to clients
• Capable verbal communication skills to coordinate with a variety of clients and team members.
• Experience with GIS mapping
• Must reside in La Crosse or Chippewa Falls, WI or surrounding areas

Preferred Qualifications:

• Five (5) years of experience in urban/regional planning, working with local, state, and federal funding sources
• Knowledge of urban/regional planning
• Work part time from any SEH office in Wisconsin, preference to La Crosse, Chippewa Falls, New Richmond, or Rice Lake SEH office. Remainder of the work week can be done remotely.

Who we are

Better Places. Clean Water. Renewing Infrastructure. Improving Mobility. Together with clients, we’re simplifying the world’s most complex challenges. And we’ve been doing this since 1927. SEH is employee-owned and our 800+ engineers, architects, planners, scientists and a wide array of professionals unite behind our core purpose of Building a Better World for All of Us®. You’ll find our employee-owners located across the U.S. and evidence of our work in nearly every state.

Base compensation is expected to be in the range of $60,000 and $85,000 based on skill set and experience. Check out our full benefits package at, SEH Hiring Journey

For confidential consideration, apply online or send your resume and salary requirements via fax to 651.490.2138. Please refer to the job title if you choose to fax.

Short Elliott Hendrickson Inc. is committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all qualified applicants and employees according to all applicable equal opportunity and affirmative action laws, directives and regulations of federal, state and local governing bodies and agencies. In keeping with this commitment, it is the policy of Short Elliott Hendrickson Inc. to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, genetic information, marital status, familial status, status with regard to public assistance, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or status as a covered veteran. Women and minorities encouraged to apply.

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