The City of Austin is a progressive, dynamic, full-service municipal organization operating under the Council-Manager form of government. The City Council is responsible for appointment of the City Manager, who is the Chief Administrative and Executive Officer of the City, City Clerk, City Auditor, Municipal Court Judges and the Municipal Court Clerk. The Mayor, City Council and City Manager of Austin are committed to their mission of delivering the highest quality services in the most cost-effective manner. The organization’s vision is to make Austin the most livable city in the country and the City Manager’s resolve is to make it the best-managed city in the country.

The Austin Transportation Department’s Vision Zero team leads the coordination of community efforts to reduce traffic-related injuries and fatalities. We work with other City departments, County and State partners, nonprofits, and community advocates on a regular basis to make progress towards our goal. Our highly motivated and passionate team seeks someone who embraces this ambitious goal and is ready to make a significant contribution to saving lives in the Austin community.

The Vision Zero team has an opening for a Program Manager II. This person will be responsible for developing and leading a broad range of programs within the Vision Zero portfolio to help move our community forward towards safer streets for all roadway users. One example of a program is to continue to implement our High-Injury Roadways initiative, coordinating various engineering teams and other departmental staff to review specific roadway segments with a high concentration of severe crashes. This will include crash analysis, identification of systemic safety countermeasures, managing the program budget to deliver high quality outcomes, and evaluating the impacts of those investments over time. Other potential initiatives this person might work on include leading Vision Zero’s monthly Fatality Review Board meetings, developing proposals for traffic safety grants and implementing funded programs/projects, and leading data evaluation and research on completed projects.

The Austin Strategic Mobility Plan and Strategic Direction 2023 provide the policy guidance and define the performance measures for the City’s Vision Zero efforts. The successful applicant will continuously align priority work tasks to overarching goals and work with the Transportation Officer to identify and address the highest priority needs for the team.

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Working for the City of Austin provides a number health and welfare benefits such as low-cost medical, dental, vision, paid leave time, a highly competitive retirement plan, career development opportunities and more. For more information on City of Austin Benefits click here!

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in transportation policy or planning, particularly within a Vision Zero/Safe Systems approach.
• Experience coordinating with people and teams outside of the individual’s own group or department/organization to deliver cross-functional solutions.
• Experience presenting to leadership groups and/or members of the public regarding transportation safety initiatives.
• Demonstrated history of managing program budgets, creating, and adhering to project timelines, and evaluating completed projects for effectiveness.
• Demonstrated creative problem-solving to overcome challenges where existing solutions/strategies do not exist or are not available.
• Strong leadership skills and ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and serve as a resource to Vision Zero team members.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Graduation with Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in a field related to the job, plus four (4) years of experience in a field related to the job, including two (2) years of which were in a supervisory, project, or program management capacity.
  Licenses or Certifications: Valid Texas Class C Driver License.

To be considered for this position, candidates must apply online at: https://www.austincityjobs.org/postings/99272

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The City of Austin has excellent benefits and provides an exceptional retirement system as well as a 457 plan for its employees.

About Austin, Texas

Austin has long been known as a technologically advanced city, a place where new ideas go to be tested and adopted. Austin has enjoyed a robust and diverse economy for the past 10 years, with economic indicators regularly exceeding national averages. Austin metropolitan area is one of the fastest growing in the country, with a 2.9 percent increase in population in 2016. Austin, Texas has a population of 926,000, making it the 11th largest city in the country. One of the country’s most popular, high-profile “green” and culturally dynamic cities, Austin was selected as the #1 Best Places to Live (US News and World Report 4/2017), # 5 Top 25 Future-Ready US Cities (Convention Management Association Convene Magazine, 2/2016), “Best City for the Next Decade” (Kiplinger), the “Best Places to Live in the US” (US News), the “Top Creative Center” in the US (Entrepreneur.com) and #1 on the “On Numbers Economic Index” as the fastest growing economy.

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