City of Bellevue seeks Demographer
Posted: 10/8/2022 (Employment)
The City of Bellevue, Washington is rapidly maturing from a sleepy suburb into a tech-centric, vibrant, and diverse metropolitan city within the Puget Sound Region. The city’s planning team is looking for creative planners with the technical expertise to help us shape and catalyze positive change. This position requires you, the candidate to have a curious mind, technical prowess, research skills, an open, mature, and an inclusive view of prevailing social issues. We also need a demonstrated willingness to think beyond the usual or ordinary. Ability to work across projects requiring knowledge of diverse planning topics from demographics to urban design is a big plus.
This position is part of the Community Development Department’s Comprehensive Planning Team. It requires experience as a planner and experience curating, using and presenting demographic and economic data for community planning purposes. The ideal candidate will have skills in GIS mapping, managing datasets, communicating data, and statistical methods.
In this role, you will work across four broad sets of responsibilities:
- Keeping the community, staff, council, and boards and commissions informed of demographic trends and issues;
- Responding to specific requests for data;
- Contributing expertise in community data to projects as a member of one-time and recurring projects across city departments;
- Leading innovation in data acquisition, organization, analysis and communication.
Location: Bellevue, Washington