Chief Executive Officer

At Regional Transportation District (RTD), We make lives better through connections! When you join RTD, you will be among dedicated employees exhibiting RTD's values of passion, respect, diversity, trustworthiness, collaboration, and ownership. RTD is committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of our diversity value statement, we encourage our employees to honor diversity in thought, people, and experience. Come join RTD on this great journey to be the trusted leader in mobility, delivering excellence and value to our customers and community.

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The Chief Executive Officer ("CEO") is responsible for implementing policy set by the Board by overseeing and directing the daily operations of RTD’s services.

• Manage a multi-modal, complex customer-centric, taxpayer-financed transit organization with an emphasis focused on increasing ridership by delivering safe, reliable and high-quality services.
• Work in tandem and collaboratively with the board to unify the agency with a common vision, message and approach to delivering services to the customer.
• Build strong collaborative trusting relationships and partnerships with the local, regional and state elected and appointed officials including the Governor and Colorado General Assembly, Mayors, Managers and Council Members as well as other stakeholders (i.e. customers, advocacy groups, community leaders and the business community).
• Serve and lead the organization as the public face, cheerleader, champion and voice of RTD by instilling trust, confidence and brand positivity.
• Oversee a strong, positive and effective marketing and public outreach program that promotes RTD.
• Represent RTD publicly and effectively communicate agency priorities to the media, public, elected officials, and other stakeholders.
• Foster, instill, promote and maintain a culture that embraces diversity, multi-culturalism, inclusion, equity, and equality at all levels of the organization.
• Encourage, empower, and challenge the executive leadership team and their departments to think “outside the box” and offer customer‑centric solutions that are innovative, effective, efficient and properly respond to customer needs.
• Foster an open, collaborative, professional, and safe work environment that promotes innovation, teamwork and positivity.
• Provide leadership to encourage employees to take initiative and develop within the organization.
• Attract, mentor and empower high‑performing C‑level staff to successfully lead others.
• Take action to advance the goals of Equal Employment Opportunity, Small/ Disadvantaged Business Enterprise, Title VI and ADA Plans, thereby ensuring RTD's hiring programs, work environment, contracting and procurement practices, and transit services/programs are fair, equal, and non‑discriminatory.
• Promote and develop innovative and equitable solutions to first‑and‑last‑mile challenges.
• Oversee an asset management program for RTD’s aging fleet of vehicles and infrastructure.
• Evaluate and appropriately use emerging and existing technologies to enhance operations, service delivery, and customer needs.

The successful candidate will have a minimum of ten (10) years management experience with at least five (5) years of executive leadership experience working at a transit agency or another public or private entity of significant complexity and size. Success leading an organization with both union and non‑union employees is highly desired. A bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university and an advanced degree are highly desired.

An equivalent combination of education and experience consistent…