Chief of Transportation Planning chez City of Jacksonville, FL

About the Department

Position Duties

• Manages and oversees the City's site impact analysis process, testing of mobility applications for transportation, City's short range and long range transportation planning activities, and represents the Department in matters relating to transportation.
• Assists the Concurrency Management Mobility Office with the annual update of the City's Concurrency Management Mobility Handbook.
• Must have a working knowledge of transportation modeling and commonly used transportation planning/engineering software.
• Oversees the development of transportation recommendations based on governmental measures affecting land use, public utilities, community facilities, housing, and transportation to control and guide community development and renewal.
• Performs various assignments requiring conventional transportation planning expertise, but may include some difficult planning and coordination requirements.
• Gathers, compiles, and analyzes data on economic, social, and physical factors affecting land use and transportation.
• Confers with local authorities, civic leaders, social scientists, and land planning and development specialists to devise and recommend arrangements of land and physical facilities for residential, commercial, transportation, industrial, and community uses.
• Reviews, updates, and edits the Transportation Element of the City's Comprehensive Plan, the Mobility Plan or other transportation related plans as assigned.
• Reviews and prepares methodologies and traffic studies for land use amendments, zoning applications, mobility and summarizes transportation data for mapping.
• Prepares, coordinates, and facilitates public involvement and consensus-building meetings and workshops associated with issues involving transportation planning.
• Schedules, assigns, reviews, and evaluates the work of assigned staff.
• Communicating clear direction, managing for results and leading organizational change.
• Assigning responsibility, taking corrective action, demonstrating leadership and evaluating, developing and motivating employees in the Transportation Planning Division.

Other Qualifications

• Shall have a college degree from an accredited college or university in urban planning or urban design or related field.
• Have at least 10 years' experience in urban design and management experience, or at least five years of experience with a master's degree in any of the listed fields, or commensurate training and experience.
• Have proven administrative experience. 

A FULLY COMPLETED ONLINE APPLICATION IS REQUIRED. Apply at www.jacksonville.gov. A Resume is required. Work history is required for all employment/volunteer work in which qualifications are being based. When meeting/basing qualifications on education, a copy of your college transcript, with your social blacked out, is required with your application. Transcripts do not need to be official, but must state your name, the school’s name, classes taken, grades received, type of degree, and date degree was conferred.   

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If claiming veteran's preference, you must attach a DD-214 (Member Form-4 copy) or military discharge papers, or equivalent certification from the Department of Veterans Affairs listing military status, dates of service and character of discharge. You must also attach the Veterans Preference Certification Form and if applicable, the additional forms as noted here: http://www.coj.net/departments/employee-services/veterans-preference.

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Florida Department of Veterans Affairs

Attention: Veterans’ Preference Coordinator

11351 Ulmerton Road, Suite 311-K  

Largo, FL 33778-1630 

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