Grant Program Senior Officer

What We Need

Cascade Bicycle Club (CBC) is seeking a strategic, highly organized, equity-driven, and collaborative leader to serve as the Grant Program Senior Officer
. Reporting to the Education Director, the Grant Program Senior Officer will steward one of the most significant statewide active transportation education investments in Washington by providing senior leadership for a 15-year, approximately $216 million WSDOT-funded statewide bicycle education grant program.

This senior role holds primary responsibility for managing CBC’s operational relationship with WSDOT, translating agency expectations into clear program requirements, coordinating grant-funded implementation efforts across internal teams, directly supervising two Program Officers, and ensuring that statewide program design reflects both ground-level realities and the legislative intent behind the grant.

This role will support and help facilitate strategic roundtable meetings with WSDOT involving the Education Director, Executive Director, and Finance & Operations Director to ensure unified organizational messaging and shared oversight. Crucially, the Grant Program Senior Officer will also exercise sound judgment in identifying when issues should be elevated to senior leadership.

The Grant Program Senior Officer provides the critical connection between statewide implementation and state oversight, ensuring that Program Officers can focus on portfolio management, quality assurance, and operational execution while the Senior Officer takes on strategic interpretation, escalation, and diplomatic communication with WSDOT.

Cascade Bicycle Club, the nation's largest statewide bicycle nonprofit, is 9,500-members, 56-years old, and 51-staff strong, serving bike riders of all ages and abilities throughout the state of Washington. We teach the joys of bicycling, advocate for safe places to ride, and produce community rides and events. Our signature programs include the Seattle to Portland ride, the Pedaling Relief Project, advocacy for connected trail networks and on-street bike networks in Seattle and across the Puget Sound Region, Your Streets Your Say, Free Group Rides, Adult Classes, Let’s Go, and the Major Taylor Project.

Washington Bikes promotes the health, safety, environmental, and economic benefits of bicycling. We advocate for people who bike, endorse political candidates, and hold officials accountable. We collaborate with community members and public officials to shape policies and investments in active transportation that create equitable, sustainable, and thriving communities across Washington state.

• Equity - We lead with a racial equity lens to eliminate inequities in community health outcomes and in mobility and transportation access. Bicycles are a tool for liberation.
• Climate Justice & Clean Air - Bicycles are clean, healthy, and an affordable solution to help solve the climate crisis, clean our air, reduce transportation pollution, and create sustainable communities.
• Community - We create opportunities for people to come together by removing barriers and fostering a sense of belonging. Bicycles are an integral part of creating connected, equitable and thriving communities.
• Safety - Safety is a right; we champion spaces that foster physical and emotional wellbeing.
• Collaboration - We share power, resources, and knowledge as a means to enrich lives and form mutually beneficial partnerships. We celebrate the existing strengths of our partners and participants and seek to be an accessible asset for others.

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• Serve as CBC’s primary operational liaison to WSDOT for all aspects of the statewide bicycle education grant program, ensuring consistent communication, clarity, and responsiveness.
• Coordinate with the Education Director, Executive Director, and Finance & Operations Director on issues that require senior-level attention, ensuring that CBC’s response to WSDOT reflects organizational alignment and…