LaBella Associates

Planning Intern

LaBella Associates  •  $16 - $20/hr  •  Rochester, NY (Onsite)  •  1 month ago
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Job Description

LaBella Associates is seeking a motivated and detail-oriented Planning Intern to join our Planning Team in the Glens Falls and Rochester offices for the summer. This is a paid,part-time summer position offering hands-on experience in community planning, brownfield redevelopment, and downtown revitalization projects throughout Upstate New York. This internship provides an opportunity to work directly with planners, engineers, environmental specialists, and landscape architects on meaningful projects that shape communities.

LaBella Associates is a multidisciplinary architecture, engineering, environmental, and planning firm serving public and private clients across the Northeast and beyond. Our Planning Team works on Comprehensive Plans, Brownfield Opportunity Area (BOA) plans, waterfront revitalization strategies, grant applications, corridor studies, zoning updates, and implementation strategies that help communities move from vision to action.

This internship provides an opportunity to work directly with planners, engineers, environmental specialists, and landscape architects on meaningful projects that shape communities.

As a Planning Intern, you will support a variety of active planning and revitalization projects. Responsibilities may include:

  • Conducting background research, data collection, and demographic analysis
  • Assisting with GIS mapping and spatial analysis
  • Supporting public engagement efforts (meeting preparation, materials, summaries)
  • Contributing to plan writing, graphics, and presentation materials
  • Assisting with grant writing
  • Participating in project team meetings and client discussions
  • Conducting site visits and documenting existing conditions

You will gain exposure to real-world planning challenges and contribute to deliverables used by municipalities and state agencies.

Salary Range: $16 - $20/hr.

The specific salary offered may be influenced by a variety of factors including but not limited to the candidate's relevant experience, education, and work location.

Requirements

  • Currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Urban Planning, Geography, Public Policy, Environmental Studies, or a related field
  • Strong writing, research, and analytical skills
  • Experience with GIS (ArcGIS preferred)
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office; familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite is a plus
  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment
LaBella Associates

About LaBella Associates

At LaBella Associates, our job is to create – structures, plans, ideas, results. As a nationally recognized Design Professional Corporation, that’s a given, right? But here’s what really drives us: creating partnership between our team and our clients. So much so that we become one team, unified in the unrelenting pursuit of exceptional on each and every project. Reliability. Accountability. Collaboration. Respect. Not skills we went to school for, but innate in LaBella team members.

The pursuit of partnership is embedded in our culture—has been since our inception in 1978. And it affects client outcomes in profound ways. It means we’re built to expertly execute projects from start to finish. That we have the talent and resources to take on any challenge. That projects are completed on time, on budget, and beyond expectations. And that we win awards – not just for our talent, but also for our ethics, employee culture, and growth.

Headquartered in Rochester, NY, LaBella is home to more than 2,000 multi-disciplinary consultants who plan, design, engineer, and manage public and private projects that enrich our communities. Our expertise is recognized in infrastructure, buildings, environmental, and energy projects throughout the eastern United States and Spain, with recent expansion into the United Kingdom. Across the breadth of LaBella’s disciplines and services, a legacy of exceptional quality and value are the common threads. Those outcomes are made possible by something even more foundational to our company and our culture—an enduring commitment to client partnership.

Industry
Architecture & Engineering
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
Rochester, New York
Year Founded
1978
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