Senior Transportation Planner/Project Manager

Washington, DC
Full Time
Experienced
Join a leading transportation and transit planning company and advance your career! Foursquare Integrated Transportation Planning, Inc. (Foursquare ITP) is looking for qualified, motivated, passionate, and diverse candidates for our Sr. Transportation Planner/Project Manager position. This position provides the opportunity to contribute to a wide variety of transportation planning projects across the United States while working with some of the best and brightest in the industry. 

Foursquare ITP’s transportation planning work is focused in the following areas:
  • Transit Service Planning.
  • Transit Operations and Facilities Planning.
  • Microtransit and New Mobility.
  • Regional and Statewide Planning.
  • BRT, Bus Priority, and Corridor Planning.
  • Transportation Demand Management.
  • Micromobility and Active Transportation.
  • Strategic and Financial Planning and Management.

This work is supported by four cross-cutting teams focused on: Data Science, Design and Visualization, Public and Stakeholder Engagement, and GIS.

Foursquare ITP’s work is centered on our four core values, and we are looking for someone who lives these every day:

Passion for the Profession
Our success is rooted in our belief in and passion for our work, meeting all challenges with the appropriate set of skills, knowledge, and the desire to do our best.

Dedication to Our Clients
We approach our clients with integrity, open communication, and collaboration to ensure that their needs are being met. Each client receives the personal attention, respect, and high-quality work for which we are known.

Investment in Each Other
We respect all team members professionally and personally. We focus on continuous professional growth and improvement and promote a healthy balance between work and outside endeavors.

Positive Outlook
Our team is driven by a can-do spirit and a strong work ethic, applying our adaptability and resourcefulness to every task. We genuinely enjoy our work and bring a positive attitude that is evident in everything we do.

Role
The selected candidate will be responsible for leading projects and tasks in a variety of areas within sustainable transportation planning. You will be responsible for leading teams and collaborating with clients to deliver quality work in a collaborative process. Depending on your expertise, experience, and interests, your work may be more or less focused in a particular service area or take a broad approach across multiple service areas. This is not an administrative position; Foursquare ITP senior planners and project managers must be strong transportation planners in their own right so they can develop methodology, mentor and train staff, perform business development, and contribute to analysis. Tasks may include data analysis and reporting, strategic and financial planning, performance measurement, innovative research, and meeting participation on a wide variety of transportation projects.

Responsibilities will include:
  • Collaborating with clients to understand their needs and deliver high-quality work that meets and exceeds their expectations.
  • Developing, managing, and conducting technical processes and applying broad transportation knowledge and specialty knowledge to projects.
  • Authoring reports, technical memos, and developing and delivering presentations.
  • Managing projects and tasks.
  • Providing mentoring, training, technical direction, and expertise to less experienced staff.
  • Reviewing and editing work of others and providing constructive feedback.
  • Leading and supporting business development activities, including marketing the company’s capabilities and establishing and maintaining professional relationships.
  • Leading and supporting proposals.

Required Skills and Experience
In addition to having the appropriate training and skills, you must be a smart, motivated, self-starter who is passionate about transit and transportation planning and has excellent written and oral communication skills. 

Requirements vary by level within the Senior Transportation Planner/Project Manager positions and range from a bachelor’s degree and five or more years of highly relevant full-time work experience (or a related master’s degree with four or more years of highly relevant work experience) to ten or more years of highly relevant work experience. Additionally, the selected candidate must have: 
  • Strong experience in one or more of Foursquare ITP’s core focus areas listed above.
  • Extensive experience leading and conducting transportation planning projects as a planner and as a project manager.
  • Experience conducting analysis or research, developing approaches to address transportation planning problems, and/or creating policy recommendations for various transportation issues. 
  • Depth of experience conducting transportation planning analysis prior to any current management role. 
  • Experience developing scopes, budgets, and managing projects and other employees on your project teams.
  • Experience mentoring and training staff.
  • Experience with business development and marketing, including proposal writing.
  • Experience with ArcGIS. 
  • Other desired, but not required, skills include: 
  • Experience with graphic design programs such as InDesign, Illustrator, SketchUp, Rhino 
  • Coding in R or Python 
  • Tableau or Power BI 

Foursquare ITP enjoys a strong reputation and provides our team members with the opportunity to work on a wide variety of high-visibility, high-impact projects. Our company conducts a broad range of transportation planning studies, with specific expertise in transit service and operations planning, corridor studies, multimodal access planning, transportation demand management, strategic planning and performance measurement, and bike share planning. Foursquare ITP is a woman-owned business based in downtown Washington, DC. We have nearly 70 employees across our offices in DC, Atlanta, Boston, Philadelphia, and in other locations.  
The selected individual must live within commuting distance of our DC, Boston, Philadelphia, or Atlanta offices.

Compensation
An individual who meets the minimum requirements can earn an annual salary of $97,300. Salary can be as much as $168,500 based on additional education, years of experience, and relevance of experience.

Benefits
In addition to a competitive salary based on experience and qualifications we provide an extensive benefits package that includes:
  • Liberal work from home policy.
  • Foursquare ITP pays 100% of the employee’s health insurance premium and subsidizes coverage for dependents.
  • Company-funded Health Savings Account. 
  • Eleven flexible paid holidays.
  • Generous vacation leave.
  • 401(k) with company match. 
  • Robust internal technical training program, along with peer-led trainings and knowledge sharing.
  • Management training programs.
  • Professional development opportunities and conference attendance. 
  • Paid membership to an industry organization. 
  • Performance-based bonus plan.
  • Subsidized transit benefit. 
  • Generous short-term and long-term disability insurance.  
  • Medical and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account option. 
  • Complimentary personal financial planning through our benefits administrator. 
  • Paid cell phone plan.  
  • Semi-annual retreats with fun activities. 
  • Holiday/New Year party for all employees and their significant others. 
  • Summer picnic for all employees and their families. 

Foursquare ITP is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment.
 
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