Practicum Description: An exciting opportunity to help create structure and momentum for Orange County’s Master Aging Plan (MAP). We are seeking one practicum student to join a team of people this summer who are evaluating Orange County’s 4th Master Aging Plan and developing a strategic plan for the 5th. The Master Aging Plan is a five-year plan that guides “all things aging” in Orange County; Housing, Transportation, Social Inclusion, Civic Engagement, Employment, Outdoor Spaces, Community Supports, Health Services, and Communication.

Practicum deliverables include: (1) Program Evaluation Report for MAP #4 including the Report from the Ripple Effect Mapping event and (2) Plan for Community Engagement and Development of the 5th MAP including a Community Planning Logic Model and Data Collection Instruments. Ideally, the student will be interested in applying evaluation, community engagement, and planning methods that promote age-friendly communities, racial equity, and partnership models.

Sponsoring Organizations: Orange County Government, Department on Aging, UNC Partnerships in Aging Program https://orangecountync.gov/154/Aging
UNC Partnerships in Aging Program https://partnershipsinaging.unc.edu

Brief Organizational Descriptions: The Orange County Department on Aging (OCDOA) is a one-stop resource where older adults can meet their social, mental, physical, financial, and day-to-day practical needs. We offer integrated aging services and programs at our two senior centers including, wellness and education classes, lunches, trips, and much more. We strive to make Orange County a great place to age. Our mission is to provide leadership in planning and operating a system of integrated aging services, supports, and engagement.

UNC’s Partnerships in Aging Program (PiAP) works to foster a vision of later life as a time for continued growth, adaptation, and contribution. We engage students, faculty, and community members to challenge stereotypes about aging and grow together through intergenerational dialogue. We enter into reciprocal relationships with local, state, national, and global partners to promote innovation and inclusion in aging services and programs. We create opportunities to work with and learn from marginalized elders, students, organizations, and communities (e.g., people of color, first generation college students, people with lower incomes, LGBTQ people), as it benefits all of us.

Compensation: $3500 from May through mid-August 2021 (a minimum of 200 hours. approx. 16 hours/week for 15 weeks with some schedule flexibility. Students may start earlier than May if they desire.)

Worksite: Remote meetings or in-person meetings reflecting COVID safety requirements

Project team: Cass Dictus has a master’s degree in public health and is currently a doctoral student at UNC’s School of Nursing. Cass is also a core team member with the Partnerships in Aging Program. For the past two years Cass has been evaluating the 4th Master Aging Plan. Cass will supervise the practicum student and a summer intern.

Kristin Podsiad, Intern, a dual degree student in Public Health and City and Regional Planning.

Cherie Rosemond, Director of UNC’s Partnerships in Aging Program

Janice Tyler, Director of Orange County’s Department on Aging Program

Goal: The ultimate goal is to help Orange County Department on Aging and its many community partners to provide excellent services and supports that meet the highest priority needs of the rapidly increasing population of older adults in the county. Achieving our goal will be accomplished by focusing attention on the cross-cutting aging issues that arise when physical or cognitive impairments require adaptations, or lack of resources compromises safety and engagement with others. Our 5th MAP will also include listening and responding to older adults from racial and ethnic minority populations.

Please send inquiries, cover letter and resume to Cass Dictus: cdictus@email.unc.edu and cc: Cherie Rosemond: crosemon@med.unc.edu

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The Boston Transportation Department (BTD) is seeking a highly motivated Transportation Program Planner to lead a community process for revitalization of Blue Hill Avenue and Columbia Road, two of the City’s most iconic and diverse boulevards.

Reporting to and working directly with the Neighborhood Transportation Planning Director in BTD, the Corridor Planner works with local community groups, neighborhood institutions, local businesses, advocacy groups and public agencies to engage residents in a grassroots effort to design a neighborhood friendly street with facilities that encourage walking, bicycling, and reliable public transportation.

The position requires familiarity with and experience in community outreach efforts including large-scale public workshops, open houses, neighborhood office hours, “pop-up” events, online platforms and other innovative modes with special emphasis  on establishing meaningful connections with populations historically underrepresented in planning processes.

The selected candidate will be committed to public service and exhibit an interest for mobility planning and improving the quality of life of Boston’s residents.

Responsibilities include:

Minimum Entrance Qualifications

We’re hiring for a Bilingual Public Engagement Specialist. We are looking for recent college graduates and I thought you might know some former students who’d be interested in applying. We are looking for someone early in their career, who is connected to the community and passionate about building relationships. Spanish proficiency with an ability to read and write in English required. No previous transportation experience is needed.

The Public Engagement Specialist -Bilingual works under the Public Engagement Supervisor, based in the Communications/Marketing department, to support public engagement activities for various programs. This position works in conjunction with staff to carry out communication strategies and tactics to ensure that the Public Engagement team executes the Public Engagement/Community Relations plans and processes accordingly. This person will support the establishment and maintenance of relationships with project stakeholders that include public officials, property owners and businesses affected by projects.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assisting staff with various community outreach and public engagement activities.
• Assisting, organizing and planning public meetings, information sessions, and special events.
• Recruiting community volunteers; organizing events and public meetings.
• Assisting in keeping sub-consultants on track in supporting project objectives.
• Managing the Ambassadors program
• Coordinating graphics for newsletters, brochures, print media and public meetings.
• Collecting data and producing print materials.
• Supporting project staff that coordinate outreach events and other programs as assigned.
• Assisting in analyzing data to determine the effectiveness of public outreach strategies.
• Assisting with updating content for project websites and maintaining social media platforms.
• Maintaining e-mail, excel tables and lists.
• Keeping the community informed of events and public workshops.
• Other duties assigned.

Minimum Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Public Administration, Public Affairs, and Communications or a related field or commensurate experience.
• Spanish speaking proficiency with the ability to speak, read and write in English required.
• Related experience working in a public engagement capacity and conducting community outreach activities preferred.
• Having the ability to work independently and in team environment, sometimes on weekends and evenings in order to engage the community.
• Must have the ability to understand and communicate complex ideas to diverse audiences.
• Must have an exceptional level of written, visual and oral communication skills to effectively communicate with the marketing audience.
• Strong public speaking and public relations skills.
• Experience in website content development, social media content management and working or volunteering with grass-roots organizations.
• Must have the ability to work independently and display time-management skills.
• Working knowledge and proficiency of basic spreadsheet and Microsoft Office packages.

 

We are the Metropolitan Council, the regional government for the seven-county Twin Cities metropolitan area.  We plan 30 years ahead for the future of the metropolitan area and provide regional transportation, wastewater, and housing services.  More information about us on our website.

The Community Development Division has a vacancy for a long term temporary Associate Data Scientist or Data Scientist.  This position is eligible for benefits.

We are committed to supporting a diverse workforce that reflects the communities we serve.

The Community Development Division is responsible for the Council’s regional long-range planning efforts; planning and technical assistance to local governments; planning for and funding the regional parks and open space system; delivering rent assistance through the Metropolitan Housing and Redevelopment Authority; collecting, analyzing, and providing data about the region, and delivering the Livable Communities Act grant programs.

In Community Development, we have set the following goals to guide our work:

• Our Division builds competency, takes meaningful actions, and creates the necessary infrastructure to advance racial equity.
• Our Division’s workplace culture is diverse, equitable and inclusive.

The Community Development Research team is a unit of sociologists, economists, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) specialists, data scientists, and qualitative researchers who provide information to support equitable policy, planning, service, and investment decisions at the regional and local level that result in tangible benefits and opportunities for all residents of our region. More information about Research is on our website. What you would do in this job

• Perform technical, statistical, and analytic tasks that help illustrate visitation patterns to parks across the state using location-based services data.
• Develop mapping applications and data visualizations of travel data and visitor characteristics
• Process, clean, and code transportation data.
• Analyze, examine and visualize spatial information in static and interactive maps.
• Perform geocoding, spatial data manipulation, and spatial data analysis.
• Collaborate with planners, researchers, and policy makers across all project jurisdictions (Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Greater Minnesota Regional Parks, and the Metropolitan Council).
• Serve as the key data scientist working on an interdisciplinary joint project team with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Metropolitan Council, and Greater Minnesota Regional Parks and Trails Commission.
• Develop public-facing reports and web-based, interactive data visualization, analysis, and dissemination tools in partnership with internal and external partners.
• Explore accuracy and equity implications of using location-based data to analyze visitation patterns by race and ethnicity. Communicate these findings to assist in prioritizing racial and ethnic equity in park and trail visitation throughout Minnesota.
• Make presentations to the Community Development Committee, Metropolitan Parks and Open Space Commission and other Council and statewide committees and boards as needed.
• Review scholarly articles and technical papers in academic and industry databases/journals or other relevant publications.
• Promote a culture of creativity, life-long learning, and continuous improvement.
• Promote a culturally diverse and inclusive work environment that advances racial equity.

What education and experience are required for this job (minimum qualifications)

Associate Data Scientist
Full Salary Range: Annual $62,608/Hourly $30.10 up to $94,474/Hourly $45.42
Union/Grade: AFSCME/Grade F
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Safety Sensitive:  No

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics, Analytics, Data Science or related quantitative field, OR
• Associate’s degree AND two years of related research experience with statistical and/or machine modeling and/or developing web-based interactive data visualization tools, OR
• High School Diploma/GED AND four years of related research experience with statistical and/or machine learning modeling and/or developing web-based interactive data visualization tools.

Data Scientist 
Full Salary Range: Annual $67,683 /Hourly $32.54 up to Annual $102,128 /Hourly $49.10
Union/Salary Grade: AFSCME/Grade G
FLSA Status: Exempt
Safety Sensitive: No

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Analytics, Data Science or related quantitative field AND three years of experience with statistical and/or machine modeling and/or developing web-based interactive data visualization tools, OR
• Associate’s degree AND five years of related research experience.
• High School Diploma/GED and seven years of related research experience with statistical and/or machine learning modeling and/or developing web-based interactive data visualization tools.

Highly desired Qualifications at both levels:

• Experience with spatial data manipulation, analysis, and mapping
• Experience working with transportation data, particularly location-based services data
• Experience in programming and modeling languages (R is strongly preferred)
• Experience in data mining, passive and or ‘big’ data, structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of statistical analysis techniques (regression analysis, survival analysis, time-series modeling, etc.)
• Knowledge of database systems design and maintenance
• Knowledge of web-based interactive tool development
• Knowledge of computer programming (i.e. R, Python)
• Knowledge of passive transportation (i.e. Streetlight Data) and transportation survey data
• Skills in applied mathematics and statistics
• Skills in Data visualization (e.g. ‘ggplot2’ package in R, Shiny, Leaflet, Tableau, Dash/Plotly in Python)
• Skills in version control and collaboration in Git
• Skills in data mining with structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data
• Skills in GIS/Spatial analysis (e.g. ArcGIS, QGIS, ArcPy, Geopandas, Sp)
• Ability to read and understand complex academic and technical papers.
• Ability to write summary reports, technical papers and literature reviews for broad audiences.
• Ability to synthesize technical information in a useable way that facilitates good policy and planning decisions.
• Ability to plan workflow and prioritize work tasks.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to exercise sound professional judgment and to promote an equitable, positive, and respectful professional environment.

What you can expect from us:

• We offer the opportunity to make a difference and positively influence the Twin Cities metropolitan area
• We provide a competitive salary, excellent benefits including free Metro Transit bus and light-rail transportation, and good work/life balance
• We encourage and support staff in bringing the full range of experiences and identities that define them to the workplace
• We encourage and support staff in contributing to a dynamic work culture that improves the Council’s ability to serve the region and strives to effectively support all employees
• We offer the ability to set a flexible work schedule and work remotely when workload and work scope allows

Additional information

What your work environment would be:
You would perform your work in a standard office setting. Work may sometimes require travel between your primary work site and other sites.

What steps the recruitment process involves:
1.    We review your minimum qualifications.
2.    We rate your education and experience.
3.    We conduct a structured panel interview.
4.    We conduct a selection interview.

 

Alta Planning + Design is an active transportation company dedicated to creating active, healthy communities through planning, landscape architecture, engineering, and education/encouragement programs. Alta was founded in 1996 when cities and communities were calling for safer streets for people walking and bicycling as the non-motorized transportation movement developed into a profession in the United States. We pioneered the field of active transportation, evolving our planning and design work into a visionary global practice that empowers people to live active, healthy lives and getting them to where they need to go.

Our core values and work bring about positive change by creating places that are geared toward moving people rather than cars, connecting community members to daily needs and human experience, and empowering every person to live an active healthy life. As a global leader in mobility innovation for over 24 years with 175 people on staff, we are dedicated to connecting people to places by working across disciplines and scale to address social justice, safety, and environmental resilience

Summary + Overview

As a Programs Specialist, you will lead and support projects by designing, implementing, and evaluating active transportation, TDM, and traffic safety programs. This position is based in Alta’s headquarters in Portland, OR, though we may be open to Seattle-based candidates. The position is remote at present but will be located in our office once we can reopen.

This position will lead and support many types of transportation campaigns, including the following:

• Media campaigns
• Outreach, marketing, and communications
• Education programs
• Transportation Demand Management (TDM) programs

A day in the life at this job might involve setting up and preparing questions for focus groups with neighborhood residents; developing a campaign marketing and outreach strategy; coordinating with our graphic design team to produce marketing materials; coordinating and overseeing the activities of remote outreach staff; and writing and implementing social media and other communications activities to support campaigns.

This exempt position is responsible for leading large tasks and small projects, copywriting and content development, managing the creation of print and digital materials, and communicating effectively with our clients and the public.

Position Priorities

The essential priority for this position is to work with a team to support the delivery of transportation programs and campaigns to our clients and their community members by:

• Assisting with project management, including taking responsibility for managing individual tasks and some small projects as assigned
• Helping to lead the development and implementation of communications strategies in the service of our campaigns
• Working with graphic designers, translators, web developers, and our clients to facilitate the creation of high-quality graphic and web products
• Writing communications/marketing content, client communications, memos, and reports
• Engaging community members directly and by directing the work of outreach staff, and public speaking (e.g. at conferences and workshops)

Requirements

This position requires a combination of skills, experience, and education including, but not limited to:

• Bachelor’s degree in planning, communications, marketing, or other related fields of study OR 4 years of equivalent experience
• 3+ years of experience in a similar or transferrable project management role
• Excellent organization and project management skills
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
• Commitment to great client service
• Demonstrated initiative and creativity in work processes and products
• Proficiency in social media, including familiarity with targeting, paid promotion, copywriting, hashtags, and appropriate use of different channels
• Proficiency in clear and creative copywriting for public communications, such as e-newsletters, press releases, outreach materials, and social media
• Experience with web-based email clients and survey tools, such as Mailchimp and SurveyMonkey
• Public speaking experience or experience engaging with medium to large groups
• Ability to travel for work for 1-3 days at a time (by car, public transit, or plane)

Preferred Skills + Certifications

There are a number of additional skills, experience, and education that would be beneficial to this position including, but not limited to:

• Familiarity with active transportation, Transportation Demand Management (TDM), and/or traffic safety
• Experience with digital/traditional media and/or communications strategy
• Social marketing experience and/or experience applying CBSM (Community-Based Social Marketing) principles
• Proven experience designing and/or implementing events, classes, workshops, or campaigns
• Native Spanish proficiency
• Training and insight into racial justice and creating inclusive programs
• Knowledge of behavior change theory and/or behavioral science
• Knowledge of qualitative and quantitative research methods, including surveys

Work Environment and Physical Demands

• This is a largely sedentary role that operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, and fax machines.
• Sitting or standing for extended periods of time may required in an office setting or at public engagements

Reporting + Management Structure

Reports to Programs Principal and will not manage staff

How to Apply

1. Upload your resume and a cover letter, telling us why you’re interested in Alta and why you’d be a good fit.

2. Please upload a writing sample on which you were the primary author, preferably addressing a general (non-technical) audience. If it is about transportation and/or about a desired behavior change, all the better, but this is not required. Tell us about what the purpose of the piece was, and what role you and others played in getting it done.

Due to the high volume of applicants, we will not be able to respond to email or phone inquiries.

Join a leading transportation and transit planning company and advance your career! Foursquare Integrated Transportation Planning, Inc. (Foursquare ITP) is looking for qualified, motivated, and passionate candidates for Transportation Planner / Data Scientist positions. This position provides the opportunity to help build tools and conduct detailed analysis of complex transportation and transit data using code while contributing to a wide variety of transportation planning projects and learning from some of the best and brightest in the industry.

Foursquare ITP’s work is centered on our four core values, and we are looking for someone who lives these every day:

Passion for the Profession 
Our success is rooted in our belief in and passion for our work, meeting all challenges with the appropriate set of skills, knowledge, and the desire to do our best.

Dedication to Our Clients 
We approach our clients with integrity, open communication, and collaboration to ensure that their needs are being met. Each client receives the personal attention, respect, and high-quality work for which we are known.

Investment in Each Other 
We respect all team members professionally and personally. We focus on continuous professional growth and improvement and promote a healthy balance between work and outside endeavors.

Positive Outlook 
Our team is driven by a can-do spirit and a strong work ethic, applying our adaptability and resourcefulness to every task. We truly enjoy our work and bring a positive attitude that is evident in everything we do.

Role
You will work as part of the Transportation Data Science Team and will be responsible for conducting data analysis, GIS-based analysis, and work on data visualization tasks. Some tasks will be for specific transportation and transit planning projects, while some will be for internal tool development that can be applied to a variety of projects. Foursquare ITP projects span a diverse range of contexts and scales, including transit development plans, transportation needs assessments, station access and capacity plans, transit route planning, long range planning, and transit performance monitoring. Responsibilities will include:

• Participating in teams focused on a variety of project types with multiple project managers.
• Conducting basic data loading, cleaning, and analysis in R.
• Developing and applying a variety of methods for analysis of complex transit data sets (including fine-grain bus APC, AVL, and other ITS data).
• Writing code in R to aid in the development of internal tools to be used across multiple projects.
• Producing data visualizations in ggplot2, Tableau, and other programs.
• Conducting GIS-based analysis and making legible maps that convey complex information.

Required Skills and Experience
The selected candidate must have:

• Bachelor’s degree required in planning, GIS, computer science, mathematics, or related field; plus 1-2 years of relevant experience, OR
• Master’s in planning, transportation, data science, computer science, or related field.
• Experience with the R programming language in an educational or professional setting.

Foursquare ITP enjoys a strong reputation and has the opportunity to work on a wide variety of high-visibility, high-impact projects. Our company conducts a broad range of transportation planning studies, with specific expertise in transit service and operations planning, corridor studies, multimodal access planning, transportation demand management, strategic planning and performance measurement, and bike share planning.  This position will begin remotely but the selected candidate should be prepared to join one of our local offices in Washington D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, or Boston by early fall 2021.

A successful applicant will reach out to diverse communities, representing a board cross section of race and ethnicity in the District of Columbia, to paint an essayistic picture of the human impact of traffic violence.

As part of the District’s Department of Transportation (DDOT) cooperative agreement with the Howard University Transportation Research Center (HUTRC), DDOT engages full-time students as interns from universities in the DC Metropolitan Area and all over the country to promote the advancement of engineering and policy research. HUTRC recruits the interns and manages the program on DDOT’s behalf.

Learn about this internship: https://www.hutrc.org/d2019movedc

 

In 2021, the DDOT Internship Summer Program will start around June 1st and run for 10 weeks, while the Semester Program will start on August 17th and run until the end of the year. Applicants for the internship positions must be currently enrolled and in good standing at an accredited college or university and be enrolled full-time in a degree program related to the posted internship.

If you would like to be notified when the next call for interns is announced, please provide your contact information here.
Last day to apply to the 2021 Summer Internship Program: March 26, 2021

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Do you want to begin a career in academic or policy research? Are you interested in contributing to impactful, balanced research that is aimed at improving environmental, energy and natural resource decisions? A summer research internship with Resources for the Future (RFF) might be right for you. The RFF summer internship program provides an opportunity for students to prepare for careers that engage in academic and policy-relevant research. Interns are essential members of the Resources for the Future (RFF) Research and Policy Engagement team. They are responsible for providing technical support that, under the direction of RFF Fellows, allows for the production of compelling and impactful research that aligns with RFF’s mission of improving environmental, energy and natural resource decisions through impartial economic research and policy engagement.

Resources for the Future (RFF) is an independent, nonprofit research institution in Washington, DC. Our mission is to improve environmental, energy, and natural resource decisions through impartial economic research and policy engagement. We work with leading national and global partners—from technologists at NASA to climate scientists at our new European institute—to apply an economic lens to climate change and other global environmental and resource challenges of the 21st century. We’re leaders in our field: RFF was recently named #1 for environmental economics from a field of 8,000 global institutions. RFF’s research and engagement activities center on the economics of: (1) designing smart emissions reduction strategies; (2) Confronting risks and building resilience; and (3) cross-cutting issues and strategies. RFF seeks impact with decisionmakers in key venues, including at the federal, state, and international levels, and with the business community. Much of RFF’s current work is focused on strategies for addressing the climate challenge.

Our research internships are a 10-week program paid at $15 an hour for up to 35 hours a week. Internships this year will be conducted virtually unless otherwise noted.

Applications will remain open until March 8th. We anticipate making hiring decisions by April 16th. Internships will run from June 7, 2021 to August 13, 2021. Start or end dates can be changed with an approved exception.

Projects currently recruiting for interns include:

• Control of Industrial Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• Energy Transition Policy
• Wildfire, Climate Adaptation, and Rural Communities
• Parks, Green Space, and Environmental Justice
• Developing US & Canadian Electric Power Transmission Network Models
• Use of Energy Savings Devices on Heavy Duty Truck Trailers

Duration: Our research internships are a 10-week program paid at $15 an hour for up to 35 hours a week. They will be conducted virtually unless otherwise noted. Internships will run from June 7, 2021 to August 13, 2021. Start or end dates can be changed with an approved exception.

We are seeking an intern to support an ongoing project that will build a used passenger vehicle market equilibrium and scrappage model using a variety of different data sources, including the National Household travel Survey. The project requires merging the used vehicle equilibrium and scrappage model with an existing model of the new vehicle market. The intern will:

• Assist with organizing and compiling datasets required to build the model.
• Code used vehicle equilibrium conditions.
• Calibrate vehicle scrappage schedules.

• Education: Priority is given to candidates enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program that is relevant to RFF’s research and mission. Highly motivated candidates in the social and natural sciences with training in economics and quantitative methods, or with a keen interest in public policy, are encouraged to apply.
• Desirable Skills
  • Strong writing and communication skills
  • Experience and expertise with large datasets
  • Strong information and data gathering skills
  • Strong writing and communication skills

To Apply: All applications must be submitted electronically. Please fill out the application and supplemental questions and upload the following, beginning the name of each file with your last name:

• A cover letter that explains your interest in and how your qualifications match to the specific project.
• Resume summarizing your experiences and qualifications for the position
• Copy of your academic transcript(s) (unofficial transcripts are acceptable at this stage)
• The name, address, phone number and email information for three references

We are looking for a critical Regional Planning Manager to join our Integrated Mobility team, and be a part of our Special Knowledge Group. This leadership role has a direct impact on the effectiveness, efficiency and safety multimodal, bicycle, pedestrian and public transportation services across North Carolina.

In this role, you will

• Supervisor Transportation Planner I and II positions in our Regional Planning section.
• Lead weekly staff meetings, monitor and review your team’s individual and group performance, and coordinate section needs and capacity to managerial staff.
• Provide technical assistance on multimodal transportation planning support to local and regional governments and coordinate with regional planning organizations (RPOs, MPOs) and public transportation systems.
• Deliver planning assistance, program guidance, and coordinate and implement activities relative to federal and state planning programs, initiatives, grants, requirements and policies.
• Administer multimodal/bicycle/pedestrian/transit plans and studies
• Manage and conduct planning projects for local governments and transportation systems
• Manage and conduct special regional studies
• Assist with technical research projects
• Advance our planning best practices
• Perform quarterly report reviews and tracking
• Keep up-to-date with federal and state program areas.
• Lead research, policy and related projects
• Research state and federal laws and policies regarding multimodal, bicycle, pedestrian and transit travel and ensure we meet federal and state requirements
• Provide guidance to other NCDOT units
• Describe the work of the Division in public presentations.
• Represent the interests and position of the Planning and Programming Unit in the absence of the Deputy Director.

What You Bring

• In-depth knowledge of multimodal, bicycle, pedestrian and transit planning principles, techniques and procedures and their interrelationship.
• Deep knowledge of Federal and State laws, guidelines, and funding programs related to multimodal, bicycle, pedestrian and public transportation infrastructure and systems.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate policies and programs and identify areas for modernization.
• Demonstrated ability to direct, organize and oversee the activities of professional level employees, including transportation planners, consultants and technical experts.
• Excellent oral and written communications and skills to build and maintain positive working relationships with a range of state, federal and local officials.
• Ability to work independently, with little supervision.
• Demonstrated attention and accuracy to detail.
• Able to handle special projects from start to finish.

Education & Experience

• Master’s degree in urban and regional planning, transportation planning, engineering, business administration, or economics and
• 3 years experience in public transportation planning, administration, community planning, or transit management; or
• Bachelor’s degree in urban and regional planning, transportation planning, engineering, business administration, or economics and
• 5 years experience in the collection and analysis of economic and social data, 2 of which must have been in public transportation planning or transit management; or
• An equivalent combination of education and experience.

Questions?

Call me: Faye T. McCullen at 919-707-4685

You MUST apply at https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/northcarolina/jobs/3001281/regional-planning-manager by midnight EST on March 17, 2021 to be considered. YOU CANNOT APPLY DIRECTLY ON SIMPLYHIRED.

Planning & Development Interns will assist Charlotte Center City Partners with projects and initiatives that enhance livability and economic development in Center City. 

SUMMARY OF ESSENTIAL TASKS 

• Research — data collection and analysis as needed for reporting in the areas of Transportation and Development 
• Planning & Development — assist with committee meetings, workshops, and projects 
• Community Outreach — tasks related to various projects and soliciting community input 
• Graphics — development of graphics and maps related to ongoing projects 
• Support — ongoing projects, plans and initiatives

CURRENT/ONGOING PROJECTS

• 2040 Vision Plan — development of a new comprehensive vision for the growth and development of Charlotte’s urban core 
• Charlotte Rail Trail — four–mile urban trail in South End & Uptown that connects community, commerce & culture 
• South End Vision Plan — work towards realizing the goals of the recently adopted South End Vision Plan  

REQUIREMENTS & QUALIFICATIONS 

All applicants should be available to work remotely 20 – 30 hours per week during regular business hours (potential per-project weekend work may arise, but this is rare). The ideal contractor works well independently and collaborates effectively with others. Successful applicants will be proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Power Point. Experience with Adobe Creative Suite is strongly desired; knowledge of GIS software is valued but not required.  

Any currently enrolled student who is interested in gaining experience in urban planning/design, real estate, public policy or transportation is welcome to apply. Course credit can be arranged in lieu of payment if desired, otherwise an hourly wage will be paid based on applicant experience. 

Please submit a cover letter, resume and relevant work samples to:
Renay Jefferson, Office Manager
frontdesk@charlottecentercity.org 

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