• The City of Long Beach is hiring an Advance Planning Officer. Long Beach, CA. Source: LinkedIn. Salary listed.
• SMART is hiring a TDM Technician with a strong focus on youth including SRTS activities. Apply here. Wilsonville, OR. Source: emailed to me. Salary listed.
• Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition is hiring a Santa Clara County Advocate. San Jose, CA. Source: emailed to me. Salary listed.
• DRCOG is hiring an Outreach Specialist and a Planner III. Denver, CO. Source: TRANSP-TDM list serve. Salary listed.
• Foursquare is hiring a Hospitality and Commuter Outreach Coordinator for the goDCgo project. DC. Source: TRANSP-TDM list serve. Salary not listed.
• VIA is hiring a Director of Innovative Services. San Antonio, TX. Source: TRANSP-TDM list serve. Salary not listed. (Note, friend of the platform Lanzell Harper also works for this agency).

And this coming Friday, October 12 at 12 noon PDT (but available on demand after), Jessica will be doing a webinar called Transportation Seminar: Transportation Behavior Change…Now With SCIENCE!. Click on the name of the webinar to register and learn more.

Barb Chamberlain, longtime friend of the platform and champion for equity has offered to connect folks with informational interviews for all jobs listed below with the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) and notes that any in Seattle will work down the hall from her in their offices in Pioneer Square and will work closely with public transportation and urban mobility/access issues.  Reach out here if you’re interested in having her recommendations before you apply for these positions.

• Director of Government Relations at WSDOT, Olympia 
• CTR/TDM in WSDOT Public Transportation Division, Seattle
• Regional administrator for WSDOT SW Region, Vancouver
• Mobility planner, WSDOT Urban Mobility/Access, Seattle
• Planning/land use manager, WSDOT Urban Mobility/Access,  Seattle

Abigail Moriah of New Commons Development in Toronto passes on this opportunity from her colleagues at Options of Homes. If you are a Canadian national, have the ability to obtain a drivers license and have a good sense of what the salary range for this kind of position would be, this could be a perfect fit. Please direct all applications and inquiries to careers@optionsforhomes.ca Please reference
“Development Manager” in the subject line.

Not interested in leaving the States just yet, but going to a colder and more northern state?Henry Pan sent me a note after the original dispatch went out on Sunday night and wanted me to add this transit assistance program coordinator job in the Twin Cities, that closes tomorrow (October 9, 2018. Note also that he’s not with the agency or planning to become part of it soon). It’s a temporary position for one year and it does require a drivers license, something that seems a bit ironic and also a bit exclusionary, especially for a job in a major metro with carsharing and ridesharing options. Maybe in light of the nature of the position, you could negotiate a car share or rideshare allotment and offer to add it to your final report, noting all the areas that you absolutely had to take rideshare or carshare. I am pleased to see that this position has pledged to not let prior justice system interactions interfere with the potential to hire.

Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Loeb Fellowship applications for the class of 2019-2020 are open and will be until January 1.

And an additional RFP/RFQ  I saw after I hit send–The NAACP is starting the process for rebuilding its headquarters in the spirit of embracing climate and environmental justice. While their procurement timeline has started, you have time to put together a team and put in a proposal. Learn more and get started with the process.

One more addition since original publication of an academic nature– Dr. Mark Pendras of the University of Washington, Tacoma Urban Studies Department is seeking a colleague to teach community-based urban planning on the tenure-track. More information, including the application process, is here. Dr. Pendras is also the chair of the search committee and you can direct questions to him.

And finally, if you want to add jobs, the best way to do so is to email me at kristen@theblackurbanist.com, to tag me on your job posts on LinkedIN (I’m at Kristen Jeffers, share it in The Black Urbanist Facebook group, or tag me on any tweets or social media posts where you see this job. Priority for inclusion is the Thursday prior to the weekend before I send each email. While I’ll shoot to release the email on Fridays, sometimes it won’t be out until Sunday like this one.

Again, the goal with this list is that these are jobs you are either a point of contact for, either as a future colleague or hiring manager or can mentor applicants to producing a successful application. I may also pick out some of your social media accounts that are excellent resources for good leads and add anything of note that I think you should shoot for,  regardless of if there’s a lead from this list or in your own personal life.

I believe that while being a prepared or preferred candidate may not be a job guarantee, it will start the process of building a bigger group of mentors and friends for all of us throughout the industry and in the communities, we both serve and live.

Plus, I’ve heard from multiple people that my post where I included some questions to ask and traps to avoid when considering this career field has helped them decide on planning school and also have a better balance of their career.

Finally, I want to challenge those of you reading this who will write job ads or manage a hiring process in the future, to be clear about your salary and benefits. The current process I see for many jobs assumes that people know how much they are worth and it encourages far too much negotiation. Additionally, this gets into asking people to provide their salary history, which is illegal in New York City and several other states and cities. You may still have negotiators, but for those who are fine taking the first package they see, please consider offering as solid and helpful of a package you can. This also gives folks the opportunity on cover letters to note if they would be willing to take a pay cut, or even offer to write grants or do fundraising or find sponsors to make up salary gaps. Once this is saved for an offer letter, it takes that leverage away from your candidate to make a mutual decision to come work for your company for the salary and benefits you’ve provided.  While I will post your jobs anyway, I will not stop noting how unfair this is and how this is one small thing you can do, especially those of you who are looking for small things, to make the world better.

Other News From Me

Thanks to Planning Magazine, produced by the American Planning Association, for including The Black Urbanist Radio Show and my contributions to Third Wave Urbanism in their Planning Playlist this month both online and in print. And I’m literally editing two episodes now, that will release over the course of next week. Look for them in your RSS feed, in your podcast players, and on www.theblackurbanist.com/podcasts. Also, a special email with both episodes and summary will go out on their release date.

Don’t miss out on showing your support for black urbanists! Merch is available, along with a few other items I’ve designed via Print All Over Me. Especially for the winter holidays. I ordered my first set at the beginning of August and didn’t receive it until the end. I chose this vendor because it allows me to wholesale products and also I can get a slightly higher take of the proceeds. Plus, this all happens while paying fair wages to people who are creating the products. So I don’t mind the wait knowing that this vendor is doing what it can to provide quality service and a good working environment. Are you or someone you know a vendor, especially a vendor of color, of promotional products with quicker turnarounds, wholesale fulfillment capability, and a solid work environment? Please let me know and I would love to discuss with you how we can work together.

That’s all for now. Look out for the podcast episodes later this week and another job dispatch on or shortly after October 12, 2018.

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