Senior Transportation Planner

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DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS MISSION STATEMENT: Provide the community with quality services, maintain and improve our public infrastructures and facilities, and support the preservation of Marin's unsurpassed beauty.There is currently one full-time (75 bi-weekly hours), two-year fixed term vacancy focused on delivery of Active Transportation projects and a Vision Zero Action Plan in the Traffic Operations and Transportation Planning Division.
The Senior Transportation Planner oversees planning, project and program development, community outreach, and consensus building for a variety of transportation-related initiatives and projects, including but not limited to multimodal transportation plans, roadway safety improvement programs, and active transportation initiatives.
This position will enlist and manage technical consultant services as needed and will collaborate with other County departments and local governmental agencies, community groups, consultants, and other stakeholders in the development and execution of multimodal transportation improvement programs, projects, and initiatives.

Primary roles will include:

• Development and implementation of a Vision Zero program based on the recently adopted Local Road Safety Plan.
• Preparation of transportation planning studies and initial project development focused on Active Transportation.
• Maintenance of and updating transportation planning documents such as Active Transportation Plans, Local Road Safety Plans, and Community-based transportation plans
• Programming and managing consultant contracts as needed for Transportation Division initiatives.
• Conducting community outreach and coordinating with various internal and external stakeholders to build consensus around transportation project and program objectives.
• Seeking funding opportunities and preparing grant applications, and managing grant funding for active transportation and roadway safety projects and programs.

The Senior Transportation Planner will be part of the Traffic Operations and Transportation Planning Division team and will collaborate with many functional divisions within the Department of Public Works, such as engineering, land development, accounting, and disability access. The Senior Transportation Planner is expected to exercise diplomacy, initiative, sound judgment, and expertise in administering projects and programs.
Our highly qualified candidate has:

• Strong educational background in and experience with multimodal and active transportation planning, programs, and current best practices.
• Experience in a multidisciplinary working environment with diverse areas of expertise.
• Experience in consultant procurement and selection; budget, scope, and deliverable development and management.
• Experience in seeking, applying for, and managing grants and grant-funded projects/programs.
• Experience with the federal aid process.
• Experience with community outreach and consensus-building.
• Strong technical writing skills.
• Ability to explain, both in writing and through presentation, technical planning and engineering concepts to the general public.
• Experience working in political environments and making presentations to political bodies.
• Experience and/or familiarity with Vision Zero and Complete Street concepts; roadway, pedestrian, and bicycle facility design standards; general transportation-related construction practices; PROWAG (ADA - as it relates to transportation infrastructure).
• Familiarity with GIS, mapping, illustration, and presentation applications.

The Minimum Qualifications for the position are as follows:
Any combination of education, training and experience that provides the required knowledge and abilities. A typical way to qualify is graduation from a four-year college or university with major coursework in transportation planning, transportation engineering, transportation management, business or public administration or a closely related field and three years of professional transportation planning experience. A Master's degree with major coursework in transportation planning, transportation engineering, transportation management, business or public administration or a closely related field may substitute for up to one year of the required experience.All applicants will receive email notifications regarding their status in the recruitment process. Please be sure to check your spam settings to allow our emails to reach you. You may also log into your governmentjobs.com account to view these emails.
Testing and Eligible List:
Depending on the number of qualified applications received, the examination may consist of a highly qualified review, application screening, online assessment, written examination, oral examination, performance examination, or any combination to determine which candidates' names will be placed on the eligible list.
The eligible list established from this recruitment will be used to fill the current vacancy and any future vacancies for open, fixed-term, full-time, or part-time positions that may occur while the list remains active.
Disaster Service Workers: All County of Marin employees are designated Disaster Service Workers through state and local law (California Government Code Section 3100-3109). Employment with the County requires the affirmation of a loyalty oath to this effect. Employees are required to complete all Disaster Service Worker-related training as assigned, and to return to work as ordered in the event of an emergency.
Employment Type: Full Time, Regular