Public Community Engagement & Partnership Manager

Job Description

This position will support the Transportation Data Equity Initiative project sponsored by the USDOT program for the Taskar Center for Accessibility (TCAT). This innovative data infrastructure project, with a broad partnership among state departments of transportation, transportation service providers, industry and community partners, seeks to enable mobility equity by creating an interoperable, shared data infrastructure to fill in gaps in current transportation data and ultimately, provide travelers needed information they can trust.

Detailed, accurate data about pedestrian networks, travel environments (transit facilities, etc.) and on-demand travel services is crucial for any trip planner, trip concierge, way finding, or exploratory mobile application, in particular applications and mobile experiences serving the needs of people with disabilities, older adults, veterans, suburban and rural populations.

The Public Community Engagement & Partnership Manager will help the Taskar Center TDEI develop a robust cooperative partners program. The PCE&P Manager is knowledgeable about disability and advocacy and curious about access to mobility and transit. In coordination with our team of researchers, the PCE&P Manager will help to unify the services and communication structure we offer to partners; will engage with interested community members;

and will help to expand TDEI’s Transportation Data Equity Consortium network.

Enhance and implement the current development strategy to increase consortium participation

• Enhance the partner process for consortium development from identification to TDEI consortium data tenancy, including tracking and multiple pathways for engagement
• Work to engage partners in consortium and TDEI data tenancy including:
• Contacting project partners or identifying potential partners
• Event promotion (contacting potential attendees, past attendees, writing promotional emails, event
  
  Brites, designing post event surveys)
• Community-friendly, accessible, plain language write-ups about data production tools, data vetting tools, data consumption tools and data tenancy in the TDEI.
• Help facilitate and coordinate stakeholder, partner or funder visits (whether to UW destinations or remote locations)
• Assist coordination of letters of support/commitment for grants and sponsor ships
• Maintain database of consortium members
• Engaging consortium participation around innovation in transportation data production and consumption with specific mobility equity lens

Create and maintain relationships with consortium stakeholders, decision-makers and influencers in the accessible transportation space

• Work with director to coordinate contact and outreach to consortium partners in accordance with the communication pathways schedule
• Review current communications from consortium partners to understand Transportation Data Equity adjacent activities
• Direct and manage attendee and reach out to the Transportation Data Equity Spring Fling event and other TDEI events
• Handle maintenance and onboarding tasks for consortium partners

Help plan and manage events that include consortium partners, and ensure they are accessible

• Create and broadcast event communications to customized distribution lists via email, Mail Chimp, web, slack, and social media
• Assist events manager(s) in identifying appropriate venues, coordinating dates, securing materials, ensuring accessibility, and submitting necessary paperwork
• Assist directors in identifying needed speakers/panelists for events
• Act as liaison for event communications with event participants
• Review any web or printed materials to ensure accessibility
• Put on at least three events to community members related to the three data specifications hosted under the TDEI
• Take the lead on organizing the TDEI Spring Fling

Develop team communications, web site updates, marketing materials for USDOT Outreach Engagements.

• Follow the Outreach Plan engagement flow and record/track all engagements in the Outreach Plan updates to USDOT
• Create and develop accessible documents for TDEI events, projects, and outreach including: all consortium partner communications and TDEI website…