Senior Neighborhood Planning Coordinator, Cycling & Micromobility

Senior Neighborhood Planning Coordinator, Cycling & Micromobility Full-time Agency: DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Job Category: Engineering, Architecture, & Planning Salary Band: $125,000 to $150,000 Compensation: USD 86,749 - USD 127,143 **To be considered for this position candidate must be serving permanently in the title of Transportation Specialist, or be reachable on the civil service list. ** Transportation Planning and Management (TPM) is responsible for the safe, efficient, and environmentally responsible movement of people and goods on the City's streets, supporting the larger goals of economic and social vitality for people living, working, and doing business in New York City. The Division’s responsibilities include planning, street design, curb management, technical analysis, signs, transit development, freight mobility, and markings, ensuring the safety of motor vehicle occupants, pedestrians, and cyclists. The Office of Livable Streets (OLS) is tasked with prioritizing strategic planning, community engagement, research, policy, design, implementation, and long-term management. Their goal is to create streets that are livable, supporting safety, accessibility, inclusion, resiliency, active modes, community cohesion, and economic vitality citywide. Additionally, they aim to enhance New York City's pedestrian, bicycle, and micromobility networks, providing comfortable, connected, green, and reliable transportation options across the five boroughs. They place special emphasis on Priority Investment Areas, mode shift, and reimagining streets. The office also develops innovative new programs, design typologies, project delivery, and analysis tools to meet the demands of a rapidly changing population with evolving needs and technologies. The Cycling & Micromobility Unit is responsible for the nation’s largest network of on-street bicycle facilities (1,200+ lane-miles), enhancing street safety for all users, and increasing bike ridership in the five boroughs. The team’s focus is the innovative redesign of city streets to expand and improve the bike network, with emphasis on improving connectivity between neighborhoods, increasing access to safe bicycle infrastructure across the city, and creating a more equitable transportation network that serves all New Yorkers. Reporting to the Deputy Director of Planning in the Cycling & Micromobility Unit, the Neighborhood Planning Lead will support the Planning team’s scope of work. In this role, the candidate will support the identification and prioritization of neighborhood planning areas to advance the agency’s goals to build a safe, connected, equitable, and high-quality bicycle network across all five boroughs that encourages more New Yorkers to cycle and supports increased ridership. Responsibilities associated with this role include managing short- and long-term planning studies; analyzing and visualizing datasets; developing outreach strategies; and presenting planning initiatives to senior leadership and the public. Support and participate in the Unit’s public engagement efforts, including workshops, community events, and stakeholder meetings, and engage with communities to support planning initiatives and project development. The selected candidate will develop planning graphics and materials, including renderings, illustrative plans and sections, maps, diagrams, and reports, to support the Planning team’s work. The Neighborhood Planning Lead will also work closely with staff across Cycling & Micromobility to develop planning and policy recommendations that support the expansion of the city’s cycling and greenway network and inform neighborhood planning priorities. The Department of Transportation’s (DOT) mission is to provide for the safe, efficient, and environmentally responsible movement of people and goods in the City of New York and to maintain and enhance the transportation infrastructure crucial to the economic vitality and quality of life of our primary customers, City residents. DOT is an equal opportunity employer, committed to recruiting and maintaining a diverse workforce in an open and inclusive environment.

TRANSPORTATION SPECIALIST - 22316

1. A master's degree in transportation engineering, mathematics, urban planning, architecture, landscape architecture, urban studies, or related physical and social science fields; or
2. A baccalaureate degree in engineering from an accredited college and one year of full-time satisfactory experience performing technical work on roadway transportation and traffic studies and area-wide traffic programs; or
3. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and two years of full-time satisfactory experience as described in "2" above; or
4. An associate degree or completion of 60 semester credits from an accredited college and four years of full-time satisfactory experience as described in "2" above; or
5. A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and six years of full-time satisfactory experience as described in "2" above.

SPECIAL NOTE:

In addition to meeting the minimum Qualification Requirements above: To be assigned to Assignment Level II, the candidate must have an additional year of experience as described in the "Qualification Requirements" listed under "2" above. To be assigned to Assignment Level III, the candidate must have an additional two years of experience as described in the "Qualification Requirements" listed under "2" above. The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy. By clicking the link above or any third-party link within this posting, you are leaving this site and going to a third-party website where the third-party website's terms and privacy policy apply #J-18808-Ljbffr City of New York