Senior Planner
LTD Lane Transit District
- Eugene, OR
- $90,297-122,163 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Leading mobility efforts for sustainable and equitable transportation options. Work is complex and will require interdepartmental and external agency coordination. Activities will include collaborating with agencies to develop and implement mobility strategies that strengthen and build beyond the traditional fixed-route operation.
- Provides high-level and responsive customer service on sensitive transportation problems and neighborhood concerns; receives, reviews, and investigates requests for mobility and safety; coordinates with other organization staff; analyzes findings; and prepares reports, recommendations and follow-up communication and education to the community.
- Acts as liaison with other local and regional transportation partners and seek opportunities through cultivating relationships to enhance LTD's transportation services.
- Researches funding opportunities for the LTD's mobility management initiatives at the state and national level; drafts grant proposals and supporting documentation and ensures compliance with grant application requirements and deadlines.
- Coordinates and prepares studies, reports, grant applications, analyses, correspondence, and recommendations.
- Coordinates LTD's Long Range Mobility Plan, including monitoring of plan elements and periodic evaluation.
- Periodically collects and analyzes data examining mobility management conditions and develop improvement recommendations.
- Provides input on the short and long-range transit planning efforts.
- Provides public presentations and reports on mobility management projects.
- Assists in the development of the Capital Improvement Project (CIP) for transportation projects.
- Determines scope of work, request for services, and other contractual expectations for services.
- Makes recommendations that impact the budget and allocation of budgetary resources within division.
- Maintain administrative and fiscal records, prepare reports, and collect, interpret, and report statistics relating to regular operation performance metrics.
- Attends and presents at various Board of Directors and advisory meetings.
- 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
- Political, socioeconomic, and environmental issues that influence transportation
- Modern management theory
- Applicable business software applications
- Managing the activities of a major transportation mode, project, or program
- Managing projects effectively
- 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 LTD employees, outside representatives, and the public
- Writing and editing documents for diverse audiences, including complex and technical documents; and translating complex concepts into easy to understand terms
- Mediating and negotiating
- Managing multidisciplinary professionals to achieve goals
- Managing procurement contracts and negotiating
- Building consensus and support around new concepts and innovations
- Work independently or in teams
- Think and act independently
- Compile, analyze, and interpret complex data
- Negotiate consensus solutions
- Promote and build support for innovation with internal and external stakeholders
- Effectively navigate complex political, controversial, and challenging subjects to build consensus and achieve desired outcome
- Understand, interpret, and apply laws, rules, regulations, policies, procedures, contracts, budgets, and labor/management agreements
- Represent LTD before the public
- Make financial decisions within a budget
- Supervise, train, and provide expert technical assistance to assigned staff