Transportation Planning Coordinator

The Policy, Planning and Research (PPR) Bureau of the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) has an exciting opportunity to work as a Transportation Planning Coordinator in a progressive, creative, transportation planning group that encourages innovation, with an excellent work life balance and opportunities for professional development and growth.

As a member of the Policy and Planning team, you’ll have the opportunity to help shape the future of transportation in Vermont. You will work collaboratively with colleagues across all five divisions of the Agency, and other state agencies, regional, municipal, and international partners to create and evaluate policy options and prepare planning documents that inform Agency investments, activities, and legislation. The Policy and Planning team is respected as VTrans’ catalyst of change where innovative transportation studies, policies, and processes are imagined, incubated, and take form, before being implemented within the Agency and across Vermont.

In this role, you will be working with leadership and colleagues with a focus on:

• Relationship building and management within the agency and with external partners; this specific role will focus on a longstanding, collaborative relationship with the state’s eleven regional planning commissions; duties may also extend to participating in interagency policy initiatives and discussions, providing legislative testimony, and liaising with municipalities on behalf of VTrans.
• Creating, overseeing, and administering transportation planning grant programs and strategic initiatives; this will involve creative problem solving and working closely with Agency staff to execute, review and manage consultants, grant agreements and contracts.
• Preparing and managing transportation planning projects and special studies pertaining to highway, rail, air, bicycle and pedestrian, land use, climate, energy and environment, resilience, public transportation, rail trails, and freight; note this may involve either your own work or the management of consultants executing this work.

At VTrans, you’ll be working in a collaborative, creative, and social environment with a strong emphasis on work life balance. Remote/hybrid/telework options are available and encouraged. Most importantly, you’ll be living in Vermont, which boasts an endless list of amenities including access to all season outdoor activities, a progressive, inviting civic culture, and proximity to many of the US and Canada’s most dynamic cities including Montreal, Boston, and New York.

This position is being recruited at multiple levels.

• AOT Planning Coordinator I (Job Req #48794) – https://careers.vermont.gov/job/Barre-AOT-Planning-Coordinator-I-VT/1100289300/
• AOT Planning Coordinator II (Job Req #48792) – https://careers.vermont.gov/job/Barre-AOT-Planning-Coordinator-II-VT/1100289200/

Please feel free to reach out to Matthew Arancio at matthew.arancio@vermont.gov with any additional questions. Resumes will not be accepted via e-mail. You must apply online to be considered.
Application Deadline Date: 12/07/2023.