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Open Positions
Location: Atlanta, GA (Inman Park)
Reports to: Principal Consultant
Pay Rate: $65,000 – $85,000 per year Full time
To Apply
Please send a resume, cover letter, and portfolio of work to careers@urbantrans.com.
In your cover letter, include a paragraph or two about how your unique skill set can be applied to this role and the overall mission of UrbanTrans.
Resumes without a cover letter and portfolio of work will not be advanced to the hiring manager.
We appreciate all applicants; however, only those shortlisted for an interview will be contacted.
Company Description
UrbanTrans North America is a woman-owned and operated transportation consulting firm with offices in Atlanta, Denver, Los Angeles, and Toronto. We specialize in implementing commuting programs in communities across North America. Our clients know us as experts in commute and travel behavior change (also called transportation demand management, or TDM).
Our mission is to create sustainable environments by developing and advancing innovative transportation solutions. Learn more about us.
One of the places UrbanTrans does this work is through the largest transportation management association in metro Atlanta: Perimeter Connects.
Perimeter Connects works with local governments, commercial properties, and employers of all sizes to improve mobility in the Perimeter Center business district (Sandy Springs/Dunwoody).
Job Overview
This position will act as Assistant Program Manager for Perimeter Connects, helping to lead a team of 6+ contributors and act as a chief individual contributor to the program’s goals. This includes leading commuter transportation projects and/or tasks, from the development of strategy to the delivery of high-impact, in-depth projects.
The core functions of the role include:
- Helping shape strategy and implementation for Perimeter Connects
- Leveraging partnerships and project management practices to support change in transportation options and how people get around.
- Implementing employer-facing outreach, sales, and partnerships for employers like UPS, IHG, State Farm, and thousands of others.
- Developing and fostering partnerships to support project goals (i.e., municipalities, community organizations, employers, funders, transportation agencies/service providers, partner organizations)
- Creating and implementing programs focused on shifting travel behaviors of key audience segments including office, hospitality, and retail
- Leading, planning, and staffing outreach efforts such as presentations to large groups, transportation fairs, kiosks/expos, tabling, lunch and learns, and other in-person engagement tactics
Who Is This Job For?
Someone who is knowledgeable (or highly curious) about sustainable transportation, behavior change, sustainability, transportation, transportation demand management (TDM), city planning, community development, or workforce development, and wants to put that passion and knowledge to work every day improving mobility and commuting.
Perimeter Connects is a dynamic and multi-faceted program, with the chance to help real people with real commutes while also getting to work closely with some of the region’s most iconic businesses.
If you want a job that directly and meaningfully improves communities, tackles climate change, and is refreshingly different every day, then you’re in the right place.
Who You Are
We realize job descriptions often ask you to be great at everything. There are lots of other valuable traits, but our ideal candidate is an expert at:
- Building Partnerships: You are good at understanding what issues are facing potential clients/partners and working with them to create relationships and partnerships to help tackle their problems. Skills such as:
- Experience with business-to-business (B2B) sales.
- Researching organizations and working over the short and long term to build contacts in the right places.
- Engaging and persuasive presentations (specifically making visually engaging presentations or other content/delivery to varied audiences).
- Experience with building and maintaining strong client and stakeholder relationships.
- Managing Teams, Programs, and Projects: You have exceptional project management experience and skills such as:
- Building and prioritizing resources, initiatives, timelines, and other variables to meet and exceed project goals.
- Organizational skills and commitment to quality
- Strategy development and management to guide projects and/or programs towards the defined finish line.
- Budgeting skills that can match strategy and prioritization.
- Team-building skills that result in amazing outcomes, happy teammates, and award-winning programs.
- Leveraging Data and Evidence: You’re not intimidated by data or spreadsheets and the stories they can tell us, and you use evidence and insights to evolve your approach. You have:
- Experience monitoring and reporting on program analytics.
- Experience using data and outcomes to inform or pivot strategy.
- Demonstrated ability to develop metric/monitoring efforts to prove value/success.
- Exceptional analytical, influencing, negotiating, and problem-solving skills.
Required Knowledge, Experience, and Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in relevant field or equivalent experience
- Three or more years of full-time professional experience, related to program management, customer service, communications, sales, public engagement, and/or community outreach
- Ability to pass a Homeland Security background check
- Experience/expertise in Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)
Other Desired Qualities
- Knowledgeable (or highly curious) about behavior change, sustainability, transportation, TDM, community development, workforce development, or related
- Experience with project management tools such as Wrike, Asana, Basecamp, etc.
- Desire to positively affect the community, region, and environment
- Hands-on contributor
- Eagerness to build and refine your skills
URBANTRANS NORTH AMERICA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. URBANTRANS HAS AN OPEN WORKPLACE THAT CELEBRATES DIVERSITY.
Location: Atlanta, GA (Inman Park)
Reports to: Principal Consultant
Pay Rate: $65,000 – $85,000 per year Full time
To Apply
Please send a resume, cover letter, and portfolio of work to careers@urbantrans.com.
In your cover letter, include a paragraph or two about how your unique skill set can be applied to this role and the overall mission of UrbanTrans.
Resumes without a cover letter and portfolio of work will not be advanced to the hiring manager.
We appreciate all applicants; however, only those shortlisted for an interview will be contacted.
Company Description
UrbanTrans North America is a woman-owned and operated transportation consulting firm with offices in Atlanta, Denver, Los Angeles, and Toronto. We specialize in implementing commuting programs in communities across North America. Our clients know us as experts in commute and travel behavior change (also called transportation demand management, or TDM).
Our mission is to create sustainable environments by developing and advancing innovative transportation solutions. Working at UrbanTrans means being part of a fiercely collaborative group of small, flexible teams, with lots of opportunities to make a difference for our clients and their people. We’re a place for people who are problem–solvers, enjoy learning something new every day, and believe in leading by doing good. Learn more about us.
Who’s This Job For?
Someone who is knowledgeable (or highly curious) about sustainable transportation, behavior change, sustainability, transportation, transportation demand management (TDM), city planning, community development, or workforce development, and wants to put that passion and knowledge to work every day improving mobility and commuting.
If you want a job that directly and meaningfully improves communities, tackles climate change, and is refreshingly different every day, then you’re in the right place.
Job Overview
The position will lead commuter transportation projects and/or tasks, from the development of strategy to the delivery of high-impact, in-depth projects.
The core functions of the role include:
- Leveraging partnerships and project management practices to support change in transportation options and how people get around.
- Implementing employer-facing outreach, sales, and partnerships primarily for Perimeter Connects, a Transportation Management Association
- Developing and fostering partnerships to support project goals (i.e., municipalities, community organizations, employers, funders, transportation agencies/service providers, partner organizations)
- Creating and implementing programs focused on shifting travel behaviors of key audience segments including office, hospitality, and retail
- Leading, planning, and staffing outreach efforts such as presentations to large groups, transportation fairs, kiosks/expos, tabling, lunch and learns, and other in-person engagement tactics
Who You Are
We realize job descriptions often ask you to be great at everything. There are lots of other valuable traits, but our ideal candidate is an expert at:
- Building Partnerships: You are good at understanding what issues are facing potential clients/partners and working with them to create relationships and partnerships to help tackle their problems. Skills such as:
- Experience with business-to-business (B2B) sales.
- Researching organizations and working over the short and long term to build contacts in the right places.
- Engaging and persuasive presentations (specifically making visually engaging presentations or other content/delivery to varied audiences).
- Experience with building and maintaining strong client and stakeholder relationships.
- Managing Teams, Programs, and Projects: You have exceptional project management experience and skills such as:
- Building and prioritizing resources, initiatives, timelines, and other variables to meet and exceed project goals.
- Organizational skills and commitment to quality
- Strategy development and management to guide projects and/or programs towards the defined finish line.
- Budgeting skills that can match strategy and prioritization.
- Team-building skills that result in amazing outcomes, happy teammates, and award-winning programs.
- Leveraging Data and Evidence: You’re not intimidated by data or spreadsheets and the stories they can tell us, and you use evidence and insights to evolve your approach. You have:
- Experience monitoring and reporting on program analytics.
- Experience using data and outcomes to inform or pivot strategy.
- Demonstrated ability to develop metric/monitoring efforts to prove value/success.
- Exceptional analytical, influencing, negotiating, and problem-solving skills.
Required Knowledge, Experience, and Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in relevant field or equivalent experience
- Three or more years of full-time professional experience, related to program management, customer service, communications, sales, public engagement, and/or community outreach
- Ability to pass a Homeland Security background check
- Experience/expertise in Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)
Other Desired Qualities
- Knowledgeable (or highly curious) about behavior change, sustainability, transportation, TDM, community development, workforce development, or related
- Experience with project management tools such as Wrike, Asana, Basecamp, etc.
- Desire to positively affect the community, region, and environment
- Hands-on contributor
- Eagerness to build and refine your skills
URBANTRANS NORTH AMERICA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. URBANTRANS HAS AN OPEN WORKPLACE THAT CELEBRATES DIVERSITY.
The Who Behind the How
Benefits
UrbanTrans is a community. Our health and well-being is contagious. We invest thoughtfully in our employee benefits.
These include:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance, and Long and Short-Term Disability
- Health Savings Account (HSA)*
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for Health & Dependent Care*
- Personal Time Off, Paid Holidays, and Sick Leave
- 401(k)/RSP Employer Contribution
- Transit/Commuter Benefits
- Paid Parental and Family Medical Emergency Leave*
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Staff Development Training Programs
- Office Celebrations (holidays, birthdays, weddings, baby showers)
- Community Service Opportunities
- Annual Companywide Challenges and Events
- Flexible Work Time/Place
- Donation Matching
*Indicates the benefit is available only to US staff due to the Canadian government provision of similar benefits.