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This Must Be The Jobs

Title: Programs Manager
Organization: Asian American Arts Alliance (A4)
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $70k - $80k

Title: Marketing & Communications Coordinator
Organization: The Laundromat Project
Location: Brooklyn, NY (hybrid)
Salary: $72k

Title: Public Art Project Manager
Organization: Arts New Orleans
Location: New Orleans, LA (remote)
Salary: $55k - $58k

Title: Director of Communications
Organization: Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Salary: $70k - $80k

Title: Placemaking Strategy Lead for Retail & Experiences
Organization: Streetsense
Location: Washington, DC (Hybrid)
Salary: $72k - $108k

Title: Planning Leader, Cultural + Performing Arts
Organization: DLR Group
Location: Hybrid in Dallas, Houston, New York, LA or Orlando
Salary: $120k - $150k

Title: Economic Development Manager
Organization: City of Arvada
Location: Arvada, CO
Salary: $110.2k - $150.7k

Title: Director of Community Services
Organization: City of Beverly Hills
Location: Beverly Hills, CA
Salary: $241.7k – $349.8k

Title: Urban Designer - Junior
Organization: Gensler
Location: Chicago, IL
Salary: $70k - $82k

Title: Management Trainee (Urban/Environmental Planning)
Organization: City of Philadelphia
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Salary: $49k - $58.8k

Title: Urban Designer/Landscape Architecture Leader
Organization: AECOM
Location: Cleveland, OH (Hybrid)
Salary: $110k - $130k

Title: Salesforce & Business Systems Administrator
Organization: Downtown Denver Partnership
Location: Denver, CO
Salary: $80k - $90k

Title: Public Engagement Specialist & Mobility Coordinator
Organization: NYC DOT
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $62.8k - $97.5k

Title: Open Space and Recreation Project Manager
Organization: City of Boston
Location: Boston, MA
Salary: $90.9k - $128.6k

Title: Keep Santa Fe Beautiful Program Manager
Organization: City of Santa Fe
Location: Santa Fe, NM
Salary: $31.37-$45.49/hour

Title: Part-time Executive Director
Organization: East Tosa Business Improvement District
Location: Wauwatosa, WI (Hybrid)
Salary: From $35k

Title: Manager, Transit Oriented Development
Organization: RTD
Location: Denver, CO
Salary: $100.2k - $141.6k

Title: Director of Partner Projects
Organization: NYC Dept of Parks and Recreation
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $125k - $130k

Title: Community Engagement Manager
Organization: Designing Justice + Designing Spaces
Location: Oakland, CA (Hybrid)
Salary: $95k - $115k

Title: Urban and Community Forestry Program Manager
Organization: The Neighborhood Design Center
Location: Mount Rainier, MD
Salary: $80k - $90k

Title: Assistant Vice President, Development
Organization: NYC EDC
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $110k - $113k

This Must Be The International Jobs

Title: Program Coordinator
Organization: Toronto Community Housing
Location: Toronto, ON
Salary: $69.8k - $76.8k

This Must Be The Internships

And fellowships, and RFPs, and other opportunities…

Internship: Community Engagement Intern
Organization: City of Fort Wayne Department of Neighborhoods
Location: Fort Wayne, IN
Salary: $15/hour

Internship: Economic Development and Advocacy Intern
Organization: Great Rivers Greenway
Location: St. Louis, MO
Salary: $17.50/hour

Internship: SDOT Community Outreach & Public Affairs Intern & Community Engagement Intern
Organization: City of Seattle
Location: Seattle, WA
Salary: $22.56 - $27.67/hour

Internship: Strategic Communication Intern
Organization: City of Arvada
Location: Arvada, CO
Salary: $18/hour

RFI: Development Partner
Organization: City of Poughkeepsie
Location: Poughkeepsie, NY
Salary: $18/hour

Call: For Freelance Designers
Organization: Isenberg Projects

Micro Grant: Bed-Stuy Create & Connect Fund
Organization The Laundromat Projects
Location: Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn
Amount: $1,500

Call for Applications: New City Critics 2026
Organization: Urban Omnibus
Location: New York, NY (Hybrid)
Amount: $7,500 honorarium

RFP: Illuminating Climate Solutions
Organization: National Geographic
Amount: Up to $100k

What I’m Reading (and watching)

🎧 The City as a Canvas, Strangers Need Strange Moments Together
📰 Madrid's Version of Abundance by Diana Lind, New Urban Order
📰 The Invisible Arch by Philip Poon, Urban Omnibus

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