Transportation Data Section Strategy & Implementation Program Manager

Initial Posting Date

02/06/2025

Application Deadline

02/20/2025

Agency

Department of Transportation

Salary Range

$7,353 - $10,827

Position Type

Employee

Position Title

Transportation Data Section Strategy & Implementation Program Manager

Job Description

Operations & Policy Analyst 4 – Transportation Data Section Strategy & Implementation Program Manager

Oregon Department of Transportation

Policy, Data and Analysis Division

Transportation Data Section

Salem

The Role

Are you an experienced strategist and project manager? Join us as our transportation data section strategy & implementation program manager in our Transportation Data Section. In this role, you will act as a project manager for select projects and initiatives for the Transparency, Accountability and Performance (TAP) Program and the Section. As a member of the Transportation Data Section management team, you will provide guidance to achieve the strategic goals of our section and lead project initiatives from ideation to completion. Apply today!

We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply for our positions. We hope you’ll join us on our path to increasing diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging through our values, commitments, strategies and actions.

Before applying, visit our applicant information website to learn more about our process. If you are a current State of Oregon employee, you must apply through your employee Workday profile.

A Day In The Life

• Initiate, plan, support, monitor and execute projects using industry-standard project management methods.
• Manage multiple, simultaneous project initiatives of varying sizes, durations and focuses.
• Serve as a liaison between the Transportation Data Section business teams, the Information Systems Branch staff or contractors assigned to large information technology and data projects.
• Ensure that all projects comply with applicable policies, standards, established priorities, processes and procedures.
• Monitor and evaluate progress against the coordinated initiative plans.
• Collaborate with internal and external teams and partners to develop the Section's technical and business strategies.
• Work together with leadership throughout all relevant phases of strategy development and project delivery.
• Analyze legislative bills, assess their fiscal impact and create legislative implementation plans.
• Present work plans and program successes to various internal and external partners.
• Manage web content and web applications to share transparency and accountability information with colleagues, the Legislature and the public.
• Work in an office environment 1-2 days a week with hybrid work options available - Some travel may be required.
• To request a copy of the position description, which includes all duties and working conditions, please email ODOTRecruitment@odot.oregon.gov.
  
  

What’s In It For You

• Work/life balance, 11 paid holidays a year, flexible work schedules, paid leave and so much more. Learn more about working at the Oregon Department of Transportation and the benefits we offer.
• Comprehensive and equitable base salary offer within the listed range. Through an equal pay assessment, we will determine the salary offer using the information you provide in your submitted application materials. Please ensure your application materials are detailed, accurate and reflect your skills, experience (paid and unpaid) and education as they relate to the position when applying.
• The salary range listed is the non-PERS monthly salary range. If you are already a participating PERS member or once you become PERS eligible, the salary range will increase by 6.95%.
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness opportunity!
  
  

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Minimum Qualifications

Any combination of experience and education equivalent to eight years of experience that typically supports the knowledge and skills for the classification.

OR;

A bachelor's degree in business or public administration, behavioral or social sciences, finance, political science or any degree demonstrating the capacity for the knowledge and skills; and five years professional-level evaluative, analytical and planning work.

What We’d Like To See

If you have these attributes, let us know in your application materials! It's how we will choose whom to move forward! You do not need to have all these qualities to be eligible for this position. We may also use transferable skills, experience, education and alignment with ODOT values to help us decide who will move forward.

• A current project management professional (PMP) certification is preferred.
• Demonstrated success in delivering technology or data projects on time, on budget and within scope.
• Demonstrated experience building program workplans and managing budgets.
• Demonstrated experience developing strategic plans around technology and data modernization.
• Demonstrated experience implementing technology and data projects within State of Oregon.
• Demonstrated experience building partner relationships and sustaining partner engagement.
  
  

How To Apply

• Complete the following required steps:
• Fill out the application or attach a resume. Please contact the recruiter under the ‘Need help?’ section if you have any questions about how to fill out the experience fields or to attach a document. Your submitted experience fields or attached resume must include dates (MM/YYYY) for each employer.
• Attach a cover letter. Your cover letter should clearly demonstrate how your experience and training relates to the qualities that you have under the “what we’d like to see” section above.
• Your cover letter must be limited to no more than two (2) pages.
• Please address your cover letter to Chris Wright, Transportation Data Section Manager.
• Generic cover letters that do not address the qualities that you have under the “what we’d like to see” section may receive lower scores than those that addressed the desired qualities.
• You must upload your cover letter in the ‘Resume/Cover Letter’ section of the application.
• Complete questionnaire. Answer the checkbox-style questions before submitting your application.
• After you submit your application, please respond to the public records request authorization and gender identity questionnaire. This screen will come after you submit and will complete the process. If you are a current State of Oregon employee, the tasks will come to your Workday inbox.
• If you are a veteran, you may receive preference. The task to upload your documents will be available after you submit your application. For privacy reasons, please do not attach your military service document(s) to your application or combine it with any other required document attachments.
  

Need help?

• For questions, call 503-779-9733 or email ODOTRecruitmentJB@odot.oregon.gov.
  
  

Additional Information

• We do not offer visa sponsorship. If you are hired, you will be required to fill out the US Department of Homeland Security’s I-9 form confirming you are able to work in the US. We are not an E-Verify participating employer, and we are unable to proceed if E-Verify participation is required [e.g., STEM Optional Practical Training (OPT) Extension]. We are also unable to proceed with Curricular Practical Training (CPT) program requests.
• We may use this recruitment to fill multiple or future vacancies.
• We will conduct name-based criminal background checks on final candidates, not including current ODOT employees. All applicants may be subject to additional pre-employment check(s) such as driver license, LEDS (Law Enforcement Data System), and/or education verification as required for the position.
• You will become part of the state's management team.
  
  

ODOT is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation or any other class protected by state or federal laws in admission or access to our programs, services, activities, hiring, and employment practices. Applicants with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation during the application process. For questions, concerns, or complaints regarding EEO/AA/ADA, contact 1-877-336-6368 (1-877-EEO-ODOT). This information can be made available in an alternative format by contacting ODOT Recruitment at 503-986-3700. Oregon Relay Service can be reached by calling 7-1-1.

Strategist, Management, Project Management Professional