Planning Program Manager

This position manages the development and update of the Five Year Construction program, and coordinates with various project selection committees, District Engineers, Council of Governments (COGs), Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs), other agency divisions and local officials. It is responsible for amending, reconciling, and tracking project budget and schedule changes as they occur, and validating transactions made by others. Coordinates and tracks sub-program funding for the State Transportation Innovation Council Incentive Program (STIC) and work with sub-program managers on the status of their programs.

Directs the management of the State Transportation Improvement Program in coordination with the FHWA and FTA, and delivers oral and written presentations to various committees as required.

This position may offer the ability to work remotely, within Arizona, based upon the department's business needs and continual meeting of expected performance measures.

The State of Arizona strives for a work culture that affords employees flexibility, autonomy, and trust. Across our many agencies, boards, and commissions, many State employees participate in the State’s Remote Work Program and are able to work remotely in their homes, in offices, and in hoteling spaces. All work, including remote work, should be performed within Arizona unless an exception is properly authorized in advance.

Creates, amends, reconciles, and tracks subprograms, projects budgets and schedules in Project Tracker including Five Year Program projects, grants, legislative appropriations and federal earmarks. Provides technical assistance on Project Tracker to internal and external customers. Maintains and utilizes databases, spreadsheets, and other software to prepare information, analyses and presentations, letters and other documents. Generates, evaluates and interprets complex analytical reports.

Serves on the ADOT Project Review Board (PRB) and Priority Planning Advisory Committee (PPAC); present to, monitor or attend meetings of COGs/MPOs, City Councils, County Board of Supervisors, Tribal organizations and other stakeholders. Represents the division across various planning forums and functions.

Directs and oversees the development and modification of the Five Year program; coordinate with subprogram managers, district engineers, project managers, regional planners, other divisions and COGs/MPOs. Provide direction related to air quality provisions in the Clean Air Act and other federal, state, and local regulations as related to transportation activities.

• Transportation planning and programming process, including construction project financing, development/design and programming changes.
• Other state/federal, Metropolitan (including TMA’s) and local planning and programming processes.
• Clean Air Act, including knowledge of various air quality pollutants, State Implementation Plans/revisions, fed./state requirements for developing recommendations for non-attainment areas.
• Working with databases, including entering transactions, data cleansing and generating reports/analyses.
• Developing and implementing quality assurance processes for reconciling and managing large data sets.

• Identify, plan and implement complex work assignments and provide information and recommendations to ADOT Executive Management.
• Manage the programming of highly…