Senior Manager of Transit Planning & Mobility on Demand

Position: Senior Manager of Transit Planning & Mobility on Demand

Location: 525 Vine Street

Suite 500

Job : 705

# of Openings:1

Reporting to Senior Director of Transit Development and Innovation, the Senior Manager of Transit Planning is responsible for the management of all short and long-range planning activities at SORTA Metro. Additionally, this position will lead the planning, implementation, and monitoring of Metro Now, SORTA’s Mobility on Demand (Metro Now) service.

• Contribute to the development of Metro’s corporate strategy by providing input and plans in line with the overall business objectives.
• Oversee the development of Metro’s Short-Range Service Plan and all related activities including service improvements, bus stop infrastructure enhancements, including future phases of Reinventing Metro.
• Lead and manage all long-range planning activities including preparation and updating the SORTA Metro Long-Range Transportation Plan.
• Continuously improve planning processes and procedures.
• Develop plans to bring transit innovations to SORTA Metro’s service area.
• Forge and lead a team of local officials to work on urban planning initiatives to make region more conducive to transit service.
• Assist in the development of SORTA’s Bus Rapid Transit system.
• Serve as an Essential Employee to continue the Authority’s operation during an emergency or weather-related event.
• Assist in the preparation of grant applications for state and federal funding for grants to study or construct transportation projects.
• Represent SORTA at various city, county, state, federal, and public meetings.
• Interact with, and make presentations to, community organizations, nonprofits, and private businesses to support SORTA’s Public Outreach Programs.
• Lead coordination with internal stakeholders/customers and external entities to communicate SORTA’s long range goals, understand stakeholder needs and concerns, and seek consensus in design solutions while working within defined budget and schedule.
• Responsible for coordination on all aspects of Metro Now service.
• Coordinating, scheduling, and reviewing work assignments for planning projects when acting as technical and policy advisor to assigned staff or consultants.
• Stimulate subordinates and contribute to the identification of opportunities for continuous improvement of the Metro Network monitoring operations, processes and practices taking into account best practices, improvement of business processes, cost reduction and productivity improvement.
• Brief members of the public and representatives from the community on Metro Now as community development matters.
• Assist in the development of SORTA’s strategy development by providing input and plans on Planning and community priorities, challenges and requirements in line with overall strategic objectives
• Assist in the development of scopes of work for planning & engineering services for Metro Now service.
• Administer contract changes, including scope revisions, amendments, and maintain project control; manage scope, schedule, and budget of Metro Now contracts.
• Monitor performance of Metro Now service against plans during execution in order to deliver the performance targets and achieve the departmental objectives
• Assist in the update of department budget.
• Monitor financial performance versus budget to keep track of costs, ensure areas of unsatisfactory performance are identified/ rectified promptly and improvement opportunities are acted upon
• Based on service demands and requirements, provide input and support the long and medium development of transit networks’ capacity expansion plans and capacity review to determine requirements in terms of capacity changes and bus fleet requirements
• Collect, analyze and interpret transportation data for short and long-range planning time frames in order to provide sound basis for demand and capacity planning
• Ensure constant review of network performance as well as recommendation plans to improve the network performance
• Liaise, coordinate, and negotiate with different public and private entities, e.g. Engineering and Planning departments at the City, local MPO (OKI), local municipalities and developers…