Senior Manager - Multimodal Planning

• Provides strategic leadership across the Regional Planning and Subregional Planning teams by promoting cross-functional collaboration, integrating planning initiatives, and aligning work efforts to support achieving the regional transportation vision.
• Provides leadership, direction, and oversight to multiple planning teams through subordinate managers, fostering a collaborative, high-performing, and customer-focused work environment.
• Supports executive leadership in developing long-range organizational strategies, planning priorities, and policy recommendations.
• Ensures compliance with applicable federal and state statutes, regulations, and guidance governing MPO activities, including applicable provisions of Title 23 and Title 49 of the United States Code, 23 CFR Part 450, and related federal planning requirements.
• Interprets evolving federal guidance and recommends policy or procedural changes necessary to maintain compliance.
• Coordinates with federal and state partners regarding planning requirements, reviews, certifications, and regulatory compliance.
• Thorough knowledge of metropolitan transportation planning principles, practices, and federal planning requirements applicable to MPOs.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, supervise, mentor, and develop managers and multidisciplinary professional staff.
• Strong understanding of long-range transportation planning, multimodal transportation systems, corridor planning, transportation mobility planning, resilience planning, and planning studies.

• Bachelor's degree in Urban Planning, Transportation Planning, Engineering, Public Administration, or a closely related field.
• Five (5) years of progressively responsible transportation planning experience, including experience managing complex planning programs.

• Experience working for a Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO).
• Master's degree in Urban Planning, Transportation Planning, Public Administration, Engineering, or a related field.
• American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) certification.
• Experience managing a federally required Metropolitan Transportation Plan/Regional Transportation Plan; monitoring, reporting and integrating performance measures; and developing transportation planning studies.
• Experience working with FHWA, FTA, TxDOT, local governments, transit agencies, and regional transportation partners.
• At least four (4) years of supervisory experience leading professional planning staff, including experience supervising managers or equivalent leadership responsibility.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex transportation planning projects involving multiple stakeholders, consultant teams, budgets, and schedules.
• Extensive knowledge of metropolitan transportation planning regulations and processes.

Salary Range: $120,000.00 - $150,000.00

All employees of H-GAC are required to reside within the agency’s region of service to support our commitment to excellence in service of our region.