Senior Program Manager II - Mobility Safety

Save lives, from the workplace to anyplace.

The National Safety Council is America’s leading nonprofit safety advocate.  We focus on eliminating the leading causes of preventable injuries and deaths.  Through leadership, research, education, and advocacy, NSC focuses on areas where most unintentional injuries and deaths occur. 

We are currently looking for a Senior Program Manger II - Mobility Safety to join us in our mission to save lives and prevent injuries.

Position Highlights:

The Senior Program Manager II - Mobility Safety develops and executes safe mobility strategies including training products, advocacy, public education, and other evidence-based behavior change programming to align with the Council’s strategy to reduce injuries and fatalities on the roadway and in the workplace.

What You’ll Do:

• Develop and execute safe mobility strategies including training products, advocacy, public education, and other evidence-based behavior change programming to align with the Council’s strategy to reduce injuries and fatalities on the roadway and in the workplace.
• Provide thought leadership on employer-based traffic safety education. Serve as a key subject matter expert, building strong relationships within the transportation community, among state and federal. Act as a key stakeholder for roadway safety to internal NSC shared service groups, operations, and practice areas as well as external partners, funders, and potential funders.
• Manage staff including responsibility for personnel actions including hiring, performance management, and termination of assigned team(s) of supervisory staff.
• Provide subject matter expertise and technical review of NSC-produced materials including impairment and/or traffic safety, NSC public education materials, products, programs, website, grant projects, news releases, and other internal and external public announcements

Requisite Technical Expertise (20%)

• Proficiency in various evidence-based strategies, theories and best practices related to transportation safety promotion for workplaces and public audiences.
• Expertise in program evaluation and measurement to demonstrate results of short, intermediate and long term impact.
• Knowledge of public policy issues, regulatory requirements, scientific research, and recent reports to address roadway safety issues.

• Ability to direct the development of strategic communication to support the execution of NSC corporate goals.
• Both internally and externally – to employees, shared audiences, and stakeholders.
• Develop strategic partnerships to drive growth and impact for Roadway Practice.
• Demonstrate the translation of evidence-based research-to-practice in the development of transportation products and programming.

• Provides leadership for optimal program management, project delivery, evaluation, and reporting with minimal oversight.
• Accountable for managing multiple complex projects simultaneously, initiating problem-solving strategies, and demonstrate teamwork to deliver on project deliverables, objectives, and impact.
• Anticipate challenges with the ability to independently and/or collaboratively develop proposed solutions and execute them.

• Represent NSC to state and national government agencies, transportation safety organizations, relevant divisions, networks, partners, and potential partners.
• Demonstrate effective people management in all directions (peers, supervisors, funders, stakeholders, and volunteers) Provides staff leadership including employee training and/or development to support NSC goals.
• Supports and encourages an environment that appreciates the diversity of employees and stakeholders styles, opinions, and perspectives.
• Collaborates internally to understand and incorporate work cross-functionally across NSC.

Business/Financial Acumen (10%)

• Participate in budget development, forecasting, and tracking along multiple fiscal years for roadway project responsibilities.
• Collaborate with finance and accounting staff to ensure stewardship of program budgets, making adjustments to ensure accountability and ensure roadway program impact.
• Demonstrate understanding of the budget process and the relationship to project, program, practice, and organization goals.

Travel Approximately 10%

• Managers of people spend a significant portion of job directly managing the work of at least three employees for whom hire, fire, and performance decisions are made.

We’re Looking for Someone with: 

• Bachelor's degree in public health, education, safety, or a related discipline and at least 8 years of relevant experience as a transportation safety subject matter expert, with experience in working with governmental and private organizations under multiple funding models.
• Master’s degree preferred
• Proven ability to communicate in a persuasive and compelling way.
• Proven ability to write technical articles, research findings, white papers and funding proposals.
• Proven ability to manage research activities.
• Proven ability to develop outreach activities to identified audiences.
• Utilizes positive leadership skills to engage diverse stakeholders, support professional development of subordinate staff, and achieve desired organizational results.
•  Proven ability to manage and execute multiple complex projects and teams.
• Proven flexibility in a reasonably fast-paced and constantly changing environment.
• Demonstrates good judgment, decision-making skills with an ability to relate effectively with internal and external stakeholders and customers.
• Advanced knowledge of safety-related optics pertaining to passenger vehicles, pickup trucks, vans, school buses, and commercial motor vehicles.
• Knowledge of impairment, including but not limited to cognitive and substance use and its effects on driving.
• Knowledge of fatigue, distraction, and risky driving behaviors (such as speeding and aggression) and their effects on driving.
• Knowledge of bicycle and pedestrian safety, as well as emerging mobility issue.
• This is a remote position
• Salary for this role is $85,000 - $94,000 DOE

Reasons You’ll Love it here: 
NSC cares about the safety, health, and overall well-being of our employees.  We offer competitive benefits, resources, and tools to promote a work-life balance that supports employees during all phases of life.  We offer the following:

• At least 20 PTO days accrued 1^st year and 11 paid holidays
• Flexible work arrangements
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans
• Flex spending accounts for medical and dependent care
• 403(b) & Roth 403(b)  with employer match up to 6%
• Reimbursable training
• Student loan pay-down
• Dress for your day

We believe that you can’t be safe if you don’t feel safe. Feeling safe requires a commitment to equitable policy implementation and promoting diversity in the safety profession. We must cultivate our own diverse, inclusive, and equitable work environment to deliver on our mission to save lives, from the workplace to anyplace.

Our hiring process is designed to give you the opportunity to shine at each step. It starts with an assessment where you really showcase your drive for the role. From there, candidates selected for the first interview will discuss their skills and how they fit with our team. If you're a match, the second interview takes a deeper dive into your background and how you can contribute to our goals. After that, we'll make our final decision and let you know the outcome. This is our usual process, and we're excited to get to know you along the way!"

NSC is an equal-opportunity employer.

Salary : $85,000 - $94,000