Hello, we’re Metro! Metro is dedicated to shaping a better future for the greater Portland region. The work the people of Metro do every day benefits the lives of the people who live here, today, and tomorrow.

Metro’s Planning, Development and Research department convenes people across the greater Portland region to think about the future of transportation and land use. Metro manages the boundary that separates urban land from rural land in the Portland region and works with communities to plan for future population growth and meet needs for housing, employment, transportation and recreation. This includes planning for major transit investments and supporting transit oriented development, local land use planning, community and economic development through grants and partnerships.

Metro serves as the Metropolitan Planning Organization for the metropolitan area that includes Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington County. As an MPO, Metro works collaboratively with cities, counties and transportation agencies to decide how to invest federal highway and public transit funds within its service area. It creates a long-range transportation plan, leads efforts to expand the public transit system and helps make strategic use of a small subset of transportation funding that Congress sends directly to the MPO.

Metro’s P,D&R department also serves as the regional clearinghouse for land information and coordinates data and research activities with government partners, academic institutions and the private sector. Metro's Research Center provides:

• independent, reliable spatial data and science-based research
• custom mapping and analysis
• travel demand and air quality modeling and analysis
• economic and land use forecasting

The Planning, Development & Research department is looking for multiple internship positions:

Internship Announcement Links:

• Community Investment Internship
• GIS and Cartographic Internship
• Land Use Planning Internship
• Regional Planning Internship
• Resource Development Internship
• Transit-Oriented Development Internship

Visit: https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/oregonmetro to learn more and apply. Closes: 5/1/24