Welcome to the ninth Jobs, Opportunities and Funding Dispatch. Today is November 10th and as it is when you wait a little late to get an email out, more opportunities pop up. Plus, I wanted to take advantage of ninth on the ninth, but the best I could do is to send this out in the 9 a.m. hour for some of you. Anyway cue up this song, appropriately called Number 9. And this classic, which is what you probably thought I was linking to in the first place. Or this one. Anyway, you got a soundtrack,here’s more jobs.
The Still Open and Ready’s
Rockingham County, NC Marcus Slade is your guide
Marin County (CA) Bicycle Coalition
All those jobs in Boston but some are already starting to review resumes and interview candidates. I would suggest continuing to check that pages regularly if you are interested in any of these posted or upcoming City of Boston jobs.
The Loeb Fellowship (until January 4, 2019, so you have some time, but again, this is a fellowship so it can take some time to get an application package together).
The NAACP National Headquarters Design Competition.) Friday was the last day to submit your intention to compete and you have to have your final materials in by November 30th.
Oregon Parks and Recreation Department First review of applications was October 29, but they will accept them now on a limited basis.
The League of American Bicyclists
Cal Poly Pomona November 16th is the hard deadline, but they’ve even said it themselves that the sooner the better.
City of West Hollywood. This one’s close is coming up but it’s still not till 11/20
City of Bloomington, IN (Transportation Engineer)
Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit (TCAT)
IndyGo (With Jerome Horne and Austin Gibble!)
SLF Consulting (Henry Pan can connect you with a staff member)
And not just one, but a second position at Uber. For the second Nadia Anderson is the actual hiring manager.
Sound Transit (Program Director closes on 11/20)
Brink Communications. (This is Thomas Ngo’s firm in Portland).
Oregon State Parks and Recreation Department (First review November 15)
SFMTA (San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency) (Close November 16)
Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation (DRPT) (Open until filled)
DRCOG (Closes 11/12)
The City of Alexandria (Closes 11/18)
ODOT (Closes 12/3)
Atlanta Regional Commission (Principal Program Coordinator and Senior Principal Program Coordinator)
The Federal Highway Administration— this is that one that’s only taking the first 150 candidates, so be sure to jump on that fast.
Seattle DOT (Director and Transit & Mobility Division Director; The first is open until filled and the second closes 11/20)
The National Highway Traffic Safety Association (NHTSA)
The City of Westminster, CO (Closes 11/19)
The City of Toronto (Closes 11/13)
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
UNC Charlotte (Closes on 11/25)
What Jessica Roberts slid us in the Bike Equity Network listserv and on the web this week:
The Oregon DOT is hiring an Equity and Inclusion Officer. Salem, OR. Source: emailed to me. Salary listed. (This is an exciting opportunity and it closes Monday, November 12, so I would get on that now).
WashDOT is hiring a Multimodal Planner. Olympia, WA. Source: Twitter user @barbchamberlain. Salary listed. (She also tagged me in this tweet and for this job as a commerce specialist, the planning position closes 11/20 and the other is open until filled).
Downtown on the Go is hiring a Business Outreach Coordinator. Tacoma, WA. Source: emailed to me. Salary listed. (The first review for these started yesterday, but they are still accepting applications until they fill the position)
Valley Regional Transit is hiring a Mobility Collaborative Program Director. Boise, ID. Source: TRANSP-TDM list serve. Salary listed. (Boise was so dope when I was there. You will be living large on that salary and yes, there are folks of color there and you won’t be alone if that’s you too!)
UW is hiring a Commute Options and Planning Manager. Seattle, WA. Source: emailed to me. Salary not listed.
Adventure Cycling is hiring a Safety Coordinator. Missoula, MT. Source: emailed to me. Salary not listed. (Barb tweeted this one to me as well and they RTed that RT. Also, they will start their application review on November 27)
DVRPC is hiring a Planner/Research Analyst. Philadelphia, PA. Apply here. Source: emailed to me. Salary listed. (This is a link to their full job board, so bookmark them if you are interested in the organization in any capacity).
WMATA is hiring a Project Manager in the Office of Real Estate and Parking. DC. Apply here; job ID 180851. Source: emailed to me. Salary not listed.
A Very Special Opportunity to Work Together for Transportation Justice
Transportation for Massachusetts wants to fund transportation justice projects, both by established nonprofits and also from independent and un-incorporated activists and advocates. While their efforts are primarily focused on Mass, there’s room for others outside of Mass to get funding to work on a specific climate justice project. What’s also nice, is that when Jessica Roberts tweeted this to me and several other awesome black/POC women-identified folks, several folks offered specific services or to partner.
Additionally, I want to be more specific about my offer on that thread, for communications services. As I’ve been doing this platform for the better part of a decade, what’s emerged is that I’m really good at digging out stories, from individuals, from organizations, from governments and communities. I think it’s vital that we are clear on who we are, what we are about and how we hope to go about in the world. Plus, you can draw the prettiest maps, but if you’ve not gone to the community and learned what all used to be on that site and, more often than not, what the community’s sketched out for itself, you’re also doomed. Oh and that doesn’t even get into government funding cycles that cancel projects or private developers who don’t seem to have a soul.
So here I am, offering to build the public engagement campaigns, the neighborhood identities, and the individual personal brands that your work, community or venture deserves. Feel free to fill out this checklist I made to help you build your outreach and branding strategy and also check out these six things I do when I present my work. Reply back if you’d like to hire me to help you implement some of things you want to do that you developed from both of those resources.
Other Things To Do
— The flagship Transportation Camp, in Arlington, VA the weekend of the Transportation Review Board Annual Meeting, has opened registration. As much as I love big #transpocamp, having been on planning boards for Midwest and Baltimore and knowing how intimate the older DC camps were, I want to challenge you to pull together a group and get one going in your city, or, sign up for one nearby. DC is still fun, especially as part of the Transportation Super Bowl that TRBAM is, but don’t sleep on the other camps either.
— Adina Howard, a black woman planner posted this in the newly revamped Blacks in Planning and Urban Development Facebook Group and I asked her if I could repost it here—If any jurisdictions are undergoing the Analysis of Impediments or Assessment of Fair Housing and in need of consulting I am offering free 30 minute “pick my brain” sessions. Schedule a time at www.seespotrunllc.com. (She’s only doing this until the end of this month, so make sure you don’t miss out!)
—I’ll be opening for the opening plenary at this coming week’s Capital Trails Symposium on November 15 at Trinity Washington University here in D.C. You can register here and please do by November 13th.
—Send jobs! Tag me on any social media outlets, reply to this email, etc. The goal is getting this email out over the weekends, but occasionally, I’ll get a batch of jobs and throw them up quicker. Or, life happens and jobs come out a little later, but they are there.
—Note the closing dates on jobs. As I said before, I try to get this out in a timely manner, as well as clean off old jobs that aren’t open anymore. Please also tell me when your jobs that have ambiguous close dates, actually close.
— Click on this link if you just want notifications once a week,with a link to content from the prior week. I’m still determining a hard date for that (truly weekly) recap. And do nothing if you don’t mind seeing me in your inbox 3-5 times a week, as I increase the frequency that I share jobs and content from The Black Urbanist platform.
— Review your announcements for areas of potential inequity and to publish at least a salary range. It’s not enough to include an EEOC pledge or invite for certain groups to hire, especially if things like work environment, licenses, and other things don’t actually affect your day to day work product. Also, don’t be afraid to reach out to specific folks that you might have in mind, especially from previously marginalized groups with invites or offers to do informational interviews.
Before I Go…
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 listings and posts on some of your social media accounts that are excellent resources for good leads and add anything of note that I think you (the potential applicant) 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. Also, for those of you who live in SF-330 hell (and you know who you are), a friend of the site and A/E/C marketing coordinators everywhere Matt Handal has released a new SF-330 survival guide. And if you’re discouraged in your job hunt, read this Twitter thread and know you’re not alone in the hustle.
Finally, my colleagues Ashley Dash and Gisla Bush can help coach you through this job and opportunity hunt if you’d like.
Alright, that’s been the ninth job dispatch. Go forth and get your bag!
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