SR MANAGER, TRANSPORTATION PLANNING - RCTEST
About Metro
Job Summary
Oversees, manages, and executes work activities in assigned organizational unit and coordinates the work of assigned staff on related projects. For OEI (Office of Extraordinary Innovation) Oversees, manages, and executes work activities that may have broad, organization-wide impact and coordinates the work of assigned staff on related projects.
Minimum Qualifications
A combination of education and/or experience that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the essential functions of the position. Additional experience, as outlined below, may be substituted for required education on a year-for-year basis. A typical combination includes
Education
- Bachelor′s Degree in Urban or Transportation Planning, Civil or Transportation Engineering, Business, Public Administration, Political Science, Urban Design, Public Policy, Economics, or a related field; Master's Degree in a related field preferred
- For OEI Bachelor′s Degree in Engineering, Urban Design, Economics, Political Science, or a related field; Master's Degree in a related field preferred (Existing Spec has no OEI Education)
Experience
- One or more years of management-level experience in transportation planning, project management, urban design, transportation system design and research, and travel simulation and demand modeling, transportation finance, operations planning, or a related area with increased responsibility over time (Questionnaire has "5 years of experience") (Existing Spec has "5 years' experience"); some positions in this class may require specialized experience in area of assignment
- For OEI Five or more years of experience in relevant area with increased responsibility over time, requiring at least two years specialized experience in area of assignment; Master′s Degree in a related field may substitute for 1 year of the required experience (Existing Spec has no OEI Experience)
Certification/Licenses
- None required Note The above minimum qualifications reflect best practices. The blue highlights indicate a difference between the draft job spec, the original job spec and/or the questionnaire.
Preferred Qualifications
Example of Duties
- Manages assigned projects and programs
- Conducts complex transportation planning, implementation, funding and analytical projects and programs
- Leads and facilitates development of strategies, processes, and policies
- Develops, negotiates, and executes major cooperative and service agreements, Memorandum of Understanding, and interagency funding plans to include scopes of work, financial plans, schedules, and contracts with other agencies and private developers
- Provides technical support and policy guidance to management on Metro plans, programs, and projects
- Applies, develops, and evaluates analytical, quantitative, and statistical tools and their results
- Represents Metro and makes presentations before various public/private audiences
- Participates and takes a leadership position in committees, forums, interagency task forces and/or technical advisory groups
- Coordinates with municipal partners and ensures compliance with relevant policy guidelines and regulations
- Oversees solicitation processes and consultant contracts; manages schedules, staffing, technical deliverables and budget
- Develops, forecasts, and monitors budgets for plans, programs, and projects
- Evaluates proposed legislation for impact on specific plans, programs, and projects
- Evaluates the costs, benefits, and risks of alternative funding plans, programs, and projects
- Prepares comprehensive reports, correspondence, and cost estimates
- Manages and coordinates the work of assigned staff and/or consultants
- Communicates and implements safety rules, policies, and procedures in support of the agency's safety vision and goals; and maintains accountability for the safety performance of all assigned employees
- Contributes to ensuring that the Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) policies and programs of Metro are carried out
- For OEI Guides work plan, staff and resource allocation, and stakeholder engagement strategy to advance implementation of pilot projects and to implement Metro's Vision 2028 Strategic Plan
- For OEI Coordinates with municipal partners to pilot new mobility concepts and to implement Metro's Vision 2028 Strategic Plan May be required to perform other related job duties
Knowledge and Abilities
Essential Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Knowledge of (defined as a learned body of information that is required for and applied in the performance of job tasks)
- Applicable local, state, and federal laws, rules, and regulations governing transportation policies, funding, and planning for a public agency
- Theories, principles, and practices of project and program management, transportation and land use planning and regulations, contracts, and funding
- Financial, analytical, statistical and reconciliation methods and practices.
- Organization and processes of local, regional, state and federal government, including legislative and funding processes and policies
- Modern management theory
- Applicable business software applications
- For OEI Political, socioeconomic and environmental issues that influence transportation
Skill in (defined as the proficient manual, verbal, or mental utilization of data, people, or things)
- Managing the activities of a major transportation mode, project, or program
- Effective project management
- Determining strategies to achieve goals
- Conducting studies, research and analyses
- Understanding complex planning concepts
- Analyzing situations and issues, identifying problems, recommending and implementing solutions, evaluating outcomes, and making course corrections
- Exercising sound judgment and creativity in making decisions and solving complex problems
- Preparing reports and correspondence
- Establishing and implementing relevant policies and procedures
- Communicating effectively orally and in writing
- Interacting professionally with various levels of Metro employees, outside representatives, and the public
- Writing and editing documents for diverse audiences, including complex, technical documents and translating complex concepts to layman's terms
- Mediation and negotiation
- For OEI Managing multidisciplinary professionals to achieve goals
- For OEI Contract procurement, negotiations and management
- For OEI Building consensus and support around new concepts and innovations
Ability to (defined as a present competence to perform an observable behavior or produce an observable result)
- Work independently or in teams
- Think and act independently
- Negotiate consensus solutions
- Understand, interpret, and apply laws, rules, regulations, policies, procedures, contracts, budgets, and labor/management agreements
- Represent Metro before the public
- Make financial decisions within a budget
- Compile, analyze, and interpret complex data
- Supervise, train, and provide expert technical assistance to assigned staff
- Read, write, speak, and understand English
- For OEI Promote and build support for innovation with internal and external stakeholders
- For OEI Effectively navigate complex political, controversial, and challenging subjects to build consensus and achieve desired outcome
Special Conditions
The physical demands described are representative of those that must be met by the employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Metro provides reasonable accommodation to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Working Conditions
- Normal office situation (Constantly)
- Close exposure to computer monitors and video screen (Constantly)
- Stockroom or warehouse (Occasionally)
- Work irregular hours, split shifts, weekends, holidays, or 24-hour-a-day on-call assignments (Occasionally)
- Work after designated regular hours in case of special assignments or emergencies (Occasionally)
- Available for overtime work when necessary (Occasionally)
- Travel, without overnight stays (Occasionally)
- Travel, including overnight stays (Occasionally)
- Travel out of state (Occasionally)
Physical Effort Required
- Sitting at a desk or table (Constantly)
- Operate a telephone or other telecommunications device and communicate through the medium (Constantly)
- Type and use a keyboard and mouse to perform necessary computer-based functions (Constantly)
- Standing (Occasionally)
- Walking (distance 5′ to 100′) (Occasionally)
- Repetitive motion (e.g., typing, calculator, stapling, stamping, filing, sorting, operating equipment, writing) (Constantly)
- Communicating through speech in the English language required (Constantly)
- Good hearing (Constantly)
- Good close vision to read typed or hand-written material (Constantly)
- Understand, remember and apply verbal and/or written information (Constantly)
- Organize thoughts and ideas into understandable terminology and to complete tasks (Constantly)
- Communicate, exchange and/or explain information (Constantly)
- Count, compute, analyze and/or interpret numerical data (Constantly)
- Make decisions that have an impact on the individual′s work and/or others (Constantly)
- Conduct research, analyze data and/or document findings (Constantly)
- Prioritize and manage workload (Constantly)
- Control one′s own emotional reactions (e.g., frustration) (Constantly)
- Work in a high-pressure environment with the ability to manage potentially dangerous situations (directly/indirectly) (Occasionally)