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**Role**:
Under general direction, performs professional duties of considerable difficulty as it relates to transportation planning.

**Major Duties, Responsibilities**:

- Provides technical support for projects to other governmental agencies, elected officials, community organizations, and the general public. Serves on technical advisory committees for state, regional, and local transportation studies and corridor development.
- Prepares and assists with preparation of, as well as updates regularly: Unified Planning Work Program; Metropolitan Transportation Improvement Program; FHWA & ADOT annual review; all annual reporting or as requested; professional services agreements; RFPs and RSOQs; and ADOT and ADOT required policies. Attend FHWA, FTA, ADOT, and CYMPO planning meetings.
- Works with other government agencies and the public as required to coordinate transportation planning efforts for regional projects. Organizes and runs high-level working and technical group meetings, maintaining effective working relationships with regional jurisdictions, and coordinating the flow of information to maintain a proactive planning approach with various governmental agencies including, but not limited to, Arizona Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Federal Transit Administration, Council of Governments, Regional Transportation Planning Organizations, State Transportation Board, City/Town Councils, State Land Department, Bureau of Land Management, Forest Service, Trails Committees and other community based organizations.
- Coordinates regional transportation planning in conjunction with local coordinating council and other regional transportation providers. Identifies problems, gathers and analyzes information, and makes recommendations to the CYMPO Board and/or Administrator.
- Tracks data relating to population, proposed regional developments and analyzes the impacts and future needs for the transportation system on a regular basis. Performs technical review and analysis and provides comments for regional transportation related projects.
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

**Minimum Qualifications**:
**Education**:
Bachelor’s Degree in Urban/Rural Planning, Transportation Planning, Public Administration, or a related field.

**Experience**:
**A minimum of three (3) years of relevant experience in public transportation programs, project management, or related field. An equivalent combination of directly related work experience and education may substitute for the degree requirement on a year-per-year basis.**

**Additional Requirements**:
Must possess a valid Arizona driver’s license.

**Other Skills**:
**Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities**:
**Knowledge of**:

- Principles, practices, tools, and techniques necessary for specialized area of transportation planning.
- FTA programs, rules, regulations, and compliance requirements.
- Federally funded transportation programs.
- Mobility Management principles.
- Transit planning and land use principles and practices.
- Principles and practices of financial management and budgets.
- Applications used analyze and monitor the transit programs, preparation of reports, spreadsheets, and databases, and development of web-based customer information.
- Business English, spelling, grammar, punctuation, and composition.
- Clerical office practices and procedures.
- Research techniques and report writing.
- Current Microsoft Office software.
- Filing and recordkeeping.

**Skill in**:

- Problem-solving and implementing creative solutions.
- Effectively organizing and coordinating work programs and meetings.
- Communicating effectively verbally and in writing and communicating orally in a face-to-face setting and by telephone with public and employees.
- Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with employees, other agencies, and the public.
- Organization and adherence to detail.

**Ability to**:

- Exercise critical thinking and refer to regulatory and professional standards in making decisions.
- Propose and implement changes to protocols, policies, and practices.
- Identify priority concerns and develop and implement appropriate responses.
- Prioritize multiple work assignments and complete work on schedule.
- Build and maintain stakeholder relationships.
- Think critically and collaborate with stakeholders in strategic planning.
- Keep administrator informed regarding key issues affecting the organization.
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with associates, employees of other departments, representatives of other organizations, County officials, and the public.
- Keep management informed of key operating issues affecting the department.
- Remain current in knowledge required to perform assigned duties.
- Handle confidential matters and maintain discretion always.
- Act with courtesy, tact, and diplomacy.

**Work Environment**:
The work environment is associated with an office. The work a