Transportation Communications Manager

Job Description:

Transportation Communications Manager

Description

Pay Range: $82,319 - $119,362 annual compensation

Job Posting Closing on: Monday, September 30, 2024

Workdays & Hours: Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm; Some evening/weekend work required.

Benefits for this position include: 11 Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Pension Plan, Professional Development Opportunities, and much more.

The City of Fort Worth is one of the fastest growing large cities in the U.S. Our employees serve the needs of nearly 1,000,000 residents, promoting our values of exceptional customer experience, mutual respect, embracing our diversity, continuous improvement, ethical behavior, and accountability.

A Transportation Communications Manager position is available with the City of Fort Worth Regional Transportation & Innovation Division of the Transportation and Public Works (TPW) Department. This role will be responsible for coordination, outreach, intergovernmental relations, related to the division’s capital programming, active transportation, transit, micro-mobility, complete streets, and other comprehensive transportation planning that lead to a more livable, walkable, and equitable world-class city.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in planning, civil engineering, or a related field
• Five (5) years of increasingly responsible experience in multimodal transportation, land use coordination, NEPA, regional and local planning, engineering, highway or street construction, maintenance, and operational activities;
• Two (2) years of administrative and supervisory responsibility.
• Valid Driver’s License.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in planning or a related field.
• Project Management Professional (PMP), American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP), and/or Congress of New Urbanism credentials.
• Proficient in the use and application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat), and Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Access), eBuilder, Bonfire, Grants.gov and Accela.

A Transportation Communications Manager’s responsibility includes:

• Extensive knowledge of transportation issues, local government, regional planning, funding sources, public outreach, communications, and project development;
• Manage the outreach, engagement, communications, and relationships associated with multi-modal transportation infrastructure projects;
• Ability to develop funding applications, detailed scopes of work, direct and manage consultant contracts;
• Ability to learn and effectively communicate relevant legal constraints, federal and state requirements, including relevant transportation legislation, development trends, land use (including zoning and form-based code), human environment, public health, and capital project development;
• Advise City staff, City Council, the public, and external stakeholders on transportation planning policy issues such as the capital project development, land use policy, state and federal requirements, safety, and equity initiatives using data-driven and inclusive approaches;
• Demonstrated ability to build consensus among competing interests on politically sensitive transportation projects while working with property owners, adjacent jurisdictions, the MPO, TxDOT, senior staff, the public, and City Council;
• Skills in managing people and projects; excellent writing and presentation, decision-making skills, and ability to be flexible and transparent.

Working Conditions

Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically require touching, talking, hearing, seeing, grasping, standing, walking and repetitive motions.

Physical Demand

Sedentary Work - Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, a negligible amount of force frequently, and/or or constantly having to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.

Conditions of Employment

The City of Fort Worth is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is the policy and practice of the City to recruit, hire, train and promote a diverse workforce without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, military service, or another non-merit factor.

The City of Fort Worth is committed to full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.

Candidates who do not meet the Education requirement, may be considered if they have more relevant work experience than the position requires. Those selected for employment will be required to pass Pre-Employment checks depending on the position requirements. Those could include, but are not limited to: criminal background check, drug screen, education verification, etc. criminal convictions will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Employees are paid by direct deposit only.