What are the responsibilities and job description for the TDM Program Specialist II position at Alta Planning + Design?
Description
Alta Planning Design seeks a TDM Program Specialist Level II for our Denver office. This role is a great opportunity for someone who believes in the importance of active, multimodal, and sustainable transportation. If you are looking to join an innovative organization and do work that connects people to places while advancing social justice, safety, and environmental resilience, apply with Alta today!
About Alta
Alta Planning Design is a sustainable transportation company dedicated to creating active, healthy communities through planning, landscape architecture, engineering, and education/encouragement programs. Alta was founded in 1996 when communities were calling for safer streets for people walking and bicycling as the non-motorized transportation movement developed into a profession in the United States. We pioneered the field of active transportation, evolving our planning and design work into a visionary global practice that empowers people to live active, healthy lives and gets them to where they need to go.
Our core values and work bring about positive change by creating places that are geared toward moving people rather than cars, connecting community members to daily needs and human experience, and empowering every person to live an active healthy life. As a global leader in mobility innovation for over 26 years with over 230 staff, we are dedicated to connecting people to places by working across disciplines and scale to address social justice, safety, and environmental resilience.
Day to Day
While no two days in this role are exactly alike, here are common work activities that will make up your week:
- Shaping and implementing programs focused on shifting travel behaviors within diverse communities, particularly in southeast Denver, the west Denver Metro area, and the Denver Airport. Many programs are commute-focused and directed at employers and employees, while some are directed to residents and the community.
- Directing and participating in employer-facing outreach, sales, and partnerships, with the support and collaboration of other team members and local partners
- Leading, planning, and staffing outreach efforts such as community events, transportation fairs, employee benefits fairs, lunch and learns, and other in-person engagement tactics.
- Supporting data collection tasks required to inform program measurement and evaluation, potentially including surveying and focus groups, with a strong data-led approach to decision-making.
- Establishing and nurturing long-term relationships with clients, including understanding needs, expectations, and challenges and ensuring they feel valued, understood, and supported.
- Developing transportation mode-specific campaigns, such as Bike to Work Day, travel behavior incentive programs, and Try Transit events.
- Actively engaging in continuous learning and integrating this knowledge into projects, including an understanding of emerging tools and techniques in the marketing field as they apply to our work. This may involve trainings, workshops, regional conferences, and self-guided learning.
- Assisting project managers with project management work, including grant writing and reporting, data analysis, project reports, invoicing, and budgeting.
- Creatively minded with an interest or ability to help create graphics, flyers, and social media content for TMA clients.
Qualifications
Required
This position requires a combination of skills, experience and education including, but not limited to
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field
- Three or more years of full-time professional experience
- Experience working for a consulting firm, non-profit organization, or in a similar environment is preferred
- Ability to pass a Homeland Security background check
- Ability to travel to various locations, including the Denver Airport, Golden, Lakewood, Southeast Denver, and more, and the downtown Alta Denver office two to three days per week.
Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities:
We understand that job descriptions often demand excellence in every area, so we’ve thoughtfully divided our requirements into essential and desirable skills. This helps both of us determine if this role is the right long-term fit. Our ideal candidate has diverse skills and abilities and can contribute across various tasks and challenges.
We understand that job descriptions often demand excellence in every area, so we’ve thoughtfully divided our requirements into essential and desirable skills. This helps both of us determine if this role is the right long-term fit. Our ideal candidate has diverse skills and abilities and can contribute across various tasks and challenges.
Here’s a look at what we envision for the person in this role:
- Managing Programs and Projects: Even if you have a lot on your plate, you have a good process in place to get work done, and to prioritize resources, initiatives, and timelines to exceed goals. You have:
- Organizational skills and commitment to quality.
- Strategy development and management skills to guide projects and/or programs across the finish line.
- Comfort with stakeholder management to help frame and drive projects successfully.
- Team-building skills that result in excellent outcomes, happy teammates, and award-winning programs.
- Strong communication with team members and clients on the timeline of deliverables and tasks.
- Collaborating and communicating with people: You thrive when working with others and don’t hesitate to engage with your audience. You have:
- Engaging and persuasive presentation skills (specifically making visually engaging presentations/content/delivery to varied audiences).
- Experience leveraging interpersonal communication skills to achieve common goals.
- Experience contributing to teams of varied sizes, locations, and forms.
- Experience with building and maintaining strong stakeholder relationships.
- Sales: This role is not a traditional sales role, but one of the activities will be connecting with businesses and their workforces to collaborate with the Alta team and our client(s) to improve mobility and change commuting. You should be comfortable with:
- “Cold calling” via email, phone, and other means to generate new leads.
- Making connections and building relationships, then supporting those connections over time through the transportation services we provide on behalf of our clients. Occasional door-to-door outreach to businesses to reach new contacts.
- Networking with partners, stakeholders, community members, and elected officials at events, regional conferences, or meetings.
- Working with tools: You have experience with software, including:
- Microsoft Office tools (e.g., SharePoint, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
- Hybrid working tools (e.g., Teams, Zoom, Sharepoint, etc.)
- Marketing tools (e.g., Canva, Adobe, etc.)
- Project management software (e.g., Wrike, Basecamp, Asana, etc.)
- General understanding of other platforms that directly aid in program delivery.
- General understanding of survey platforms, such as Google Forms, Qualtrics, or Survey Monkey.
Other Desired Qualities:
- Knowledgeable (or highly curious) about behavior change, sustainability, transportation, TDM, city planning, community development, economic development, or related fields
- Desire to positively affect the community, region, and environment
- Hands-on contributor
- Eagerness to build and refine your skills
What We Offer
Flexible Schedule
Alta offers a flexible, hybrid work schedule where most employees work from home three days per week. In-office days support our collaborative culture, one of our core values.
Compensation
Compensation
The pay range for this job in Denver is $60,000-$70,000 annually. Placement within the range is based upon experience, skill-sets, and qualifications.
Benefits
Alta offers comprehensive benefits to all full-time employees:
- Medical: PPO or HSA medical plans
- Dental/Vision: PPO
- Life Insurance: Alta pays 100% of the premium for life and AD&D, equal to your base compensation
- 401(k): Alta provides a match up to 3%
- PTO: 21 days accrued annually to start
- Holidays: 11 total company paid holidays
- Paid Parental Leave/Short-Term Disability
- Additional Benefits: Wellness reimbursement up to $800 annually, Alta Gets Around benefit of up to $900 annually, 5-year travel award, and professional development opportunities
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About Alta Planning Design
Alta is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Alta Planning Design, Inc. is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants. It is our policy that decisions involving people are made on the basis of job-related criteria, independent of an individual’s gender, race, color, national origin, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, physical or mental disability for which reasonable accommodation is available, and any other status protected by law. This includes decisions involving hiring, job placement, transfer, promotion, compensation, benefits, training, and company-sponsored programs. Alta Planning Design maintains formal employment policies, available online and by request.
Alta Planning Design, Inc. is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants. It is our policy that decisions involving people are made on the basis of job-related criteria, independent of an individual’s gender, race, color, national origin, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, physical or mental disability for which reasonable accommodation is available, and any other status protected by law. This includes decisions involving hiring, job placement, transfer, promotion, compensation, benefits, training, and company-sponsored programs. Alta Planning Design maintains formal employment policies, available online and by request.
Affirmative Action Plan
Alta Planning Design, Inc. is a federal contractor subject to affirmative action regulations requiring written Affirmative Action Plans (AAP’s) for minorities and women, and for covered veterans and individuals with disabilities. We worked intensively with a local firm that specializes in Affirmative Action Plans to develop a program for our company that will not only satisfy our federal obligations but will be a living document. This means the plan is integrated into our recruiting and evaluation procedures and is revisited often in order to ensure we’re doing everything we can to embrace and promote diversity within our company.
Alta Planning Design, Inc. is a federal contractor subject to affirmative action regulations requiring written Affirmative Action Plans (AAP’s) for minorities and women, and for covered veterans and individuals with disabilities. We worked intensively with a local firm that specializes in Affirmative Action Plans to develop a program for our company that will not only satisfy our federal obligations but will be a living document. This means the plan is integrated into our recruiting and evaluation procedures and is revisited often in order to ensure we’re doing everything we can to embrace and promote diversity within our company.
Our hiring process
Stage 1: Applied
Stage 2: Initial Screening
Stage 3: 1st Interview
Stage 4: Offer
Stage 5: Hired
Salary : $60,000 - $70,000
