Welcome to the very first The Black Urbanist Jobs and Opportunities Roundup. Today is September 15, 2018. For now, this will replace my weekly dispatch, but I’ll still include announcements and fun stuff at the very end. There’s always a version of this linked at www.theblackurbanist.com/job-board and I will do my best to make sure that this hits all the major social media sites as well. Please forward to your friends!
To add your job, opportunity, or scholarship to this list, please shoot me a direct message on Twitter or Instagram @blackurbanist or email me at kristen@theblackurbanist.com with a clear link to your announcement, whether or not you can be a recommendation or resource about the opportunity and if the link doesn’t include it, the close date, salary and compensation information, materials required to apply and to whom any cover letters need to be addressed. If you want to make the weekly cutoff for next week’s list, it needs to be in by midnight on Thursday, as I will be waking up on Fridays to do this list, with the goal of releasing Friday, Saturday or Sunday of each week.
So I have to give my mentee and longtime follower Marcus Slade a shoutout. He’s one of the first people I helped with resume prep and strategy for figuring out what sustainable life looks like for a black person from North Carolina who has an MPA in this space. When I wrote my post announcing just the new resources page, I got a direct message from him with this position, a Planning and Inspections Director, with the Rockingham County, North Carolina Planning Department.
This position appears to only require a bachelor’s degree, with COURSEWORK in planning, not a full masters of any kind or even a bachelor’s in planning, as long as you can prove that you can do the tasks on the job description. Also, there’s a rolling close date. However, the salary will depend on how much you know and do and can agree upon. I would make sure you research the minimum and maximum requirements for a planner in the Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point area and make sure you are comfortable with that range. Rockingham County is just north of Greensboro.
Oh, and yes, you’ll be working with Marcus. You can email him at marcus_slade@outlook.com with any questions, including how to submit using the form on the site, which looks to be the standard that many local governments use when applying to jobs.
Meanwhile, I also want to give another shoutout to Jessica Roberts, who’s done an excellent job rounding up transportation specific jobs over the past few months. Note, I trust her judgment on this list, that there are clear guidelines on how to apply when to apply by, and who to apply to. I’ll be including her roundup each week as well.
The Oregon DOT is hiring a Region 1 (Portland Metro) Active Transportation Liaison. Portland, OR. Source: emailed to me. Salary listed.
MORPC is hiring an Active Transportation & Safety Planner. Columbus, OH. Source: APBP list serve. Salary listed.
The City and County of SF are hiring a Senior Community Development Specialist I. SF, CA. Source: A Jobs Jawn. Salary listed.
The City of Bloomington is hiring a Transportation & Traffic Engineer. Bloomington, IN. Source: emailed to me. Salary listed.
National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) is seeking a full-time Program Associate for its Global Designing Cities Initiative (GDCI). Source: National Center for Biking and Walking. Salary not listed.
Phoenix Bikes is hiring an Executive Director and an Education Program Manager. Arlington, VA. Source: emailed to me. Salary listed.
MassDOT is hiring a Multimodal Planner. Boston, MA. Source: National Center for Biking and Walking. Salary listed.
DVRPC is hiring a Transportation Implementation Engineer. Various cities, NJ. Source: National Center for Biking and Walking. Salary listed.
McMahon Associates is hiring a Multimodal Transportation Professional. Boston, MA or Lincoln, RI. Source: National Center for Biking and Walking. Salary not listed.
U.S. PIRG is hiring a Transportation Advocate for the national 21st Century Transportation program. Washington, DC. Source: National Center for Biking and Walking. Salary not listed.
VHB is hiring a TDM Planner. Watertown or Boston, MA. Source: National Center for Biking and Walking. Salary not listed.
The City of Boca Raton is hiring a Transportation Analyst. Boca Raton, FL. Source: National Center for Biking and Walking. Salary listed.
District Department of Transportation, (DDOT), Infrastructure Project Management Division (IPMD) is hiring a Supervisory Civil Engineer. Washington, DC. Source: NACTO jobs board. Salary listed.
She also forwarded me this notice from Becca Wolfson from the Boston Cyclists Union on the City of Boston’s initiative to hire 20 people across disciplines:
There has been a lot of advocacy that led to allocation of funds for the city to add these jobs. They’re intended to help the city of Boston more rapidly implement GoBoston 2030 — the latest transportation plan which includes buildout of the network of protected bike lanes, greenway paths, BRT, complete streets, policies around emergent transportation technology, as well as implementation of vision zero, and more. There is a mix of planners, engineers, policy folk and operations staff. All positions and a description of this significant hiring initiative can be found at this link:
Finally, my Baltimore friend and colleague Eva Wingren forwarded from Bethany Quinn from the Street Investors Exchange (SieX), a new startup focused on increasing women and African-Americans in venture capital, their open Director of Communications and Director of Finance positions. These could be remote positions, but it’s preferred that you’re based in their Downtown DC (Farragut Square) office space. Also, this is a startup, so salary and stock options are dependent on fundraising. However, if you’re in a place where you could take on a position building a startup company, especially with time spent in DC and possibly traveling to other areas feel free to apply.
Likewise, I myself am looking for volunteers to serve as a joint advisory and editorial board. As I begin the process of growing this site into a full platform, I could use some awesome folks that are great with thinking through finances; engineers, researchers, and planners who are great at technical advisory and finally writers. Be sure to fill out the reader’s survey and let me know how you would like to contribute.
***Other Things***
Still praying and hoping for the best over those who are in the path of Florence. Yes, we get these things in North Carolina and on the coasts, but they’re never easy to bear, especially when damage is involved and routines are interrupted. Also, please take the right safety precautions and make the right decisions for you and your loved ones when it comes to this storm. I would follow WRAL for local coverage.
My Congressional Black Caucus Annual Leadership Conference Panel went great, the live stream is here.
Finally, for those in the Boston area, it’s not too late to see my keynote at YIMBYtown on Saturday morning September 21 at 9 a.m. at Roxbury Community College- register at www.yimby.town.