About Center for Planning Excellence:

The Center for Planning Excellence champions the power of good planning to build healthy, sustainable communities throughout Louisiana through our work as policy advocates, educators, and planning experts.

Over the past twenty years, the CPEX team has been building a movement dedicated to engaging communities, leaders, and institutions in developing the solutions we need to ensure that Louisiana is a place where our people, culture, environment, and economy can thrive.

Our team of landscape architects, environmental scientists, policy experts, land use planners, and communications professionals are passionate about making our communities safer, healthier, resilient and equitable. CPEX builds partnerships, capacity, and plans that provide inclusive, comprehensive approaches to some of the most pressing issues our state faces: climate change impacts; growing flood risk; and social, economic, racial and health disparities. We are working to create policy environments that facilitate climate change mitigation and adaptation, healthy community design, and smart growth. CPEX works hand-in-hand with communities across the state to implement solutions such as bike lanes, sidewalks, public parks, accessible transit, equitable and sustainable land use, and green infrastructure. Our team works with state and local leaders, nonprofit partners, international thought leaders and Louisiana communities to create a vision for the future and strategies for achieving that vision.  

CPEX offers a competitive benefits package and a flexible, dynamic work environment. Our team is fun, talented, and friendly and we share in one another’s successes and challenges. CPEX is committed to supporting health, well-being, and work-life balance for all of its employees.  

We love our work; we love our communities; and we want to meet some amazing, talented people interested in joining our team.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at CPEX:

CPEX is committed to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion and we aspire to do so intentionally, in every aspect of our work. We recognize that sustainable prosperity and community resilience cannot be realized in the absence of equity and inclusion for all Louisiana residents, and we strive to lift all voices in our efforts to ensure that all Louisianans are included in the decisions that impact their communities, region, and state. CPEX is committed to integrating DEI into the fabric of our organization and our work, from our internal culture to how we partner with communities to how we use our resources, and we are continually seeking ways to expand our impact and improve our performance on these measures. A successful candidate will be equally committed to these goals and values.