Location: Atlanta, GA

Reports to: Principal Consultant

Hiring Range: $60,000 – $75,000 per year

Full Time

To Apply

Please email a resume and cover letter to Andy Knauer: knauera@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.

Company Description

UrbanTrans North America specializes in innovative transportation solutions. We are a woman operated and owned transportation consulting firm with offices in Atlanta, GA; Denver, CO; Los Angeles, CA; and Toronto, ON.

We focus on multi-modal transportation planning, transportation demand management (TDM) programs, strategic planning, stakeholder outreach, complete marketing services, and TDM program implementation. Our mission is to create sustainable environments by developing and advancing innovative transportation solutions. We believe that increasing the availability and viability of convenient travel choices for all travelers benefits communities, employers, developers, and citizens by reducing transportation infrastructure spending, alleviating congestion, and improving air quality.

UrbanTrans provides a range of marketing services to a diverse clientele across North America, including local, regional, and state governments; developers; property managers; non-profits; and large employers.

Skills, Talents, and Experience

We realize job descriptions often ask you to be great at everything. We’ve broken down the job skills based on what our perfect hire must have versus nice-to-have skills because we can’t all be super-humans (but we sure strive to be). This outline will help us both realize if this is a good long-term match. Our ideal candidate is an expert at:

• Managing 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 goals.
  • Organizational skills and commitment to quality that result in top-notch programs.
  • Strategy development and management to guide projects and/or programs towards the defined finish line.
  • Budgeting skills that can match strategy and prioritization.
  • Stakeholder and client management to help frame and drive these projects successfully.
  • Team-building skills that result in amazing outcomes, happy teammates, and award-winning programs.
• Collaborating and communicating with people: You thrive when working with others and don’t hesitate to engage with your audience. You have:
  • Engaging and persuasive presentation skills (specifically making visually engaging presentations/content/delivery to varied audiences).
  • Experience leveraging exceptional interpersonal communication skills to achieve common goals.
  • Experience contributing to teams of varied sizes, locations, and forms.
  • Experience with building and maintaining strong client and stakeholder relationships.
• Crunching Numbers and Changing Course: You’re not intimidated by data or spreadsheets and the stories they can tell us. You have:
  • Experience monitoring and reporting on program analytics.
  • Experience using data to inform or pivot strategy.
  • Demonstrated ability to develop metric/monitoring efforts to prove value/success.
  • Exceptional analytical, influencing, negotiating, and problem-solving skills.
  • Knowledge of statistics and data analysis.
• Working with tools: You have in-depth knowledge of, and experience with, varying software, including:
  • Project management software (e.g., Asana, Wrike, Basecamp, etc.).
  • Microsoft Office tools (e.g., Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).
  • General understanding of the role of GIS, automation, marketing tools, and other data-rich platforms that directly aid in program delivery.

Other Desired Qualities

• Knowledgeable (or highly curious) about behavior change, sustainability, transportation, TDM, city planning, community development, workforce development, or related
• Desire to positively affect the community, region, and environment
• Hands-on contributor
• Eagerness to build and refine your skills

Job Overview

A typical day will be anything but typical. But it will likely involve collaborating with our smart and talented teammates who are leading up key programs and projects in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Toronto, Denver, and beyond. 

The position will lead projects and/or tasks from strategy development to the delivery of innovative, in-depth commuter transportation projects to key audiences. This will likely include:

• Leveraging transportation demand management (TDM), business and organizational development principles to achieve project goals
• Developing and fostering local stakeholder partnerships to support TMA goals (i.e., municipalities, community organizations, employers, funders, transportation agencies/service providers, partner organizations)
• Implementing programs focused on shifting travel behaviors of key niche audience segments including university students, hospitality, retail, and lower-wage workers
• Leading place-based improvement tasks for TMAs including strategic direction, project delivery, budget management, stakeholder engagement, and milestone reporting
• Curating and communicating relevant and timely transportation information to commuters, employers, and stakeholders such as construction-related updates and information, transportation/transit service attributes, and other mode-specific details
• Playing a critical role in quality control of all deliverables and interactions
• Implementing employer-facing outreach, sales, and partnerships for TMAs in collaboration with existing team members
• 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
• Supporting data collection tasks required to inform program measurement and evaluation, with a strong data-led approach to decision-making
• Supporting public involvement and engagement strategies to effectively reach broad audiences. This may include navigating crucial conversations regarding under-resourced communities, vulnerable populations, and underrepresented demographics

Education & Work Experience Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field
• Four or more years of full-time professional experience, related to program management, customer service, communications, sales, public engagement, and/or community outreach
• Experience working for a consulting firm, or similar multi-client environment
• Ability to pass a Homeland Security background check

To Apply

Please send a resume and cover letter to Andy Knauer, Administrative and Compliance Lead: knauera@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.

Location: Denver, CO; Atlanta, GA; Los Angeles, CA

Reports to: Senior Principal Planner

Hiring Range: $65,000 – $85,000 per year

To Apply

Please email a resume and cover letter to Andy Knauer: knauera@urbantrans.com

Company Description

UrbanTrans North America is a woman owned transportation consulting firm with offices in Atlanta, GA; Denver, CO; Los Angeles, CA; and Toronto, ON.

UrbanTrans specializes in innovative transportation solutions with a focus on multi-modal transportation planning, transportation demand management (TDM) programs, shared-use mobility, strategic planning, stakeholder outreach, marketing services, and TDM program implementation and evaluation. Our mission is to create sustainable environments by developing and advancing innovative transportation solutions. We believe that increasing the availability and viability of convenient travel choices for all travelers benefits communities, employers, developers, and citizens by reducing transportation infrastructure spending, alleviating congestion, and improving air quality. Learn more about us at www.urbantrans.com.

Job Overview

UrbanTrans provides planning services to a diverse clientele including local, regional, and state governments; developers; property managers; non-profits; and large employers. The successful planning candidate will support a broad range of transportation-related planning efforts, strategy development, evaluation, and research.

The senior planner will work on the following types of projects:

• Supporting and project managing TDM plans or related transportation and mobility plans, projects, and research tasks (approximately 60% of time)
  • Often includes regional and local plans that focus on mobility broadly or TDM specifically; site-specific plans to reduce vehicle trips and parking demand; and plans to improve access to transit and manage the use of shared-mobility service.
• Supporting transportation management associations (TMAs) that are managed or supported by UrbanTrans (approximately 30% of time)
  • Typically includes working closely with the TMA program managers on survey development and analysis for program development and evaluation purposes, GIS mapping, and development of TDM recommendations. May also include site visits and field work.
  • TMA support usually includes a variety of related transportation planning work. In the past, the senior planner has worked on first/last mile projects, shuttle assistance, shared-use mobility pilot programs, and research on various TDM and mobility topics.
• Internal projects/tasks and business development (approximately 10% of time)

The senior planner will perform the following activities:

• Develop tools and surveys to analyze the effectiveness of transportation programs and services
• Analyze data using Excel, Microsoft Access, and other analysis tools
• Develop maps and analyze geospatial data using ArcMap
• Conduct best practices research on mobility planning, policies, and programs
• Develop tools and procedures to collect pertinent input from stakeholder groups for the purpose of aiding the development of transportation plans and recommendations
• Collect and analyze data to develop recommendations that improve mobility for all community members and decrease use of single occupancy vehicles.
• Review and understand legislative/land use requirements as they pertain to transportation planning and assist clients with associated compliance
• Write planning reports and studies that summarize research and recommendations
• Create and conduct presentations
• Manage project tasks, timelines, and budgets
• Interact with clients and develop and maintain client relationships
• Support proposal development with scope writing, budgeting, timelines, and general assembly
• Support implementation of and provide input to departmental strategic plans and vision

Desired Talents

This role will be best suited for somebody who:

• Likes working collaboratively with colleagues, clients, and partner firms
• Is flexible and able to accommodate potential last-minute requests
• Genuinely enjoys crunching numbers
• Is self-motivated and likes to solve problems strategically
• Likes the variety of working on several different projects at a time and is able to prioritize
• Wants to positively affect the community, region, and environment

Required Skills

• Computer skills including knowledge and experience in Microsoft Office applications, database management, and GIS
• Data analysis and statistics skills
• Ability to translate complex data into easy to understand reports, maps, and presentations
• Ability to present recommendations using persuasive language
• Ability to deliver oral presentations in an engaging manner

Required Knowledge and Experience

• Master’s degree in urban planning or related field and four or more years of full-time professional experience related to transportation planning

OR

• Bachelor’s degree in urban planning or a related field and six or more years of full-time professional experience related to transportation planning

Desired Knowledge and Experience

• Knowledge of planning principles and practices
• Knowledge of the sustainable transportation industry including TDM, shared use mobility, and first and final mile planning
• Experience managing small to medium sized projects
• Experience developing and analyzing surveys and performing other quantitative data analysis

To Apply

Please send a resume and cover letter to Andy Knauer at knauera@urbantrans.com.