Community Planner - Federal Transit Administration

Who: Office of Planning and Program Development, Federal Transit Administration (FTA), Region V, Chicago

What: This office is responsible for the oversight of state/local planning and programming activities leading up to and including the award of all grants related to all FTA programs. You will also be responsible for assisting in the administration of regional activities related to project development. Project development activities include assisting grantees and other local and State agencies in compliance with FTA, state and metropolitan planning regulations, and compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Responsibilities include:

Planner - Housing & Community Development Grant Administration Specialist (Lake County, IL)

Who: Lake County, Illinois - Planning, Building, and Development Department

What: Responsible for project management and compliance of community development and housing grants with state and federal regulations. The position supports the development of affordable housing and community revitalization projects within local government, ranging from grants to rehabilitate single family homes and community facilities to construct apartment buildings. Your day will consist of working with local housing developers and elected officials to generate activities that meet the priorities of Lake County’s five-year Housing & Community Development Consolidated Plan.

Program Manager - Coordinated Transportation, Hopelink - Bellevue, WA

Program Manager - Coordinated Transportation

Hopelink

Professional Area: 

Transportation Planning

Location: 

Bellevue, WA

Summary:

Hopelink’s Mobility Management team empowers people to change their lives by facilitating access to the community. We do this by (1) supporting the coordination of special needs transportation through cross-sector collaborations to identify solutions, close gaps, and improve services and (2) providing travel education and resources to build awareness of existing transportation options. We work to make it easier for all people to get around King County through innovative, entrepreneurial, collaborative problem solving.

The Coordinated Transportation Program Manager will manage key mobility management projects and initiatives, support mobility coalitions, and may supervise Mobility Management staff. This position is funded through federal, state, and local funds and grants, and is contingent upon continued future grant funding.

To see the complete posting and to apply, click here: https://home.eease.adp.com/recruit/?id=13452981

Essential Functions:

• Provide staff support to coalitions and workgroups to include the King County Mobility Coalition and subcommittees and three subregional mobility coalitions in King County. Staff support functions include member recruitment and engagement, planning and facilitating meetings, and creating and executing work plans.
• Maintain, improve, and promote web-based tools including FindARide.org, Vets-Go.com, and Eastsideeasyrider.org.
• Pursue high-impact mobility projects; identify project resources, including federal, state, and local funding opportunities; and support proposal-writing efforts. 
• Contribute to planning activities including transportation needs assessments and coordinated transportation plans.
• Represent and communicate the vision, mission, and goals of the coalitions, Hopelink, and Mobility Management to coalition partners, transportation users, community groups, and other stakeholders, demonstrating good judgment and awareness of the political environment and social context in which we operate. 
• Incorporate safety – including workplace safety, safe travel for pedestrians and users of special needs transportation, and other aspects of safety – into projects and activities.
• Maintain financial oversight and grant compliance for assigned coalitions and projects, including tracking outcome data and assisting with grant reporting.
• Communicate respectfully with people of all cultures, languages, ages, genders, gender preferences, races, physical abilities, ethnic backgrounds, and religions.
• Maintain a professional and positive working relationship with clients, vendors, volunteers, donors, and fellow staff and adhere to the Hopelink Standards of Conduct.
• Regular attendance and punctuality is essential to our business and to this position.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Three years collaborative project management experience, demonstrating effective facilitation, action planning and implementation. 
• Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, work experience, and/or military service.
• Experience in coalition building that involves catalyzing others to launch successful initiatives.
• Exceptional communication skills, including familiarity with business writing, meeting facilitation, interpersonal communication, electronic communication, and presentations, with the ability to communicate effectively using tact, courtesy and good judgment.
• Experience collecting and analyzing data, defining problems, identifying potential solutions, developing implementation strategies, and evaluating outcomes.
• Understanding of performance measurement and action planning strategies.
• Proficiency with a personal computer, mobile devices, the internet, and Microsoft Office.
• Experience working with diverse communities, preferably low-income, older adults, people with disabilities, immigrants, refugees, and/or veterans. 
• Required skills include leadership, planning and organization, coalition building, creative problem-solving, professional relationship management, and marketing.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Supervisory/management experience
• Familiarity with mobility management or special needs transportation
• Knowledge of passenger transportation services and providers in King, Snohomish, and Pierce Counties
• Experience managing grants and contracts, preferably federal grants
• Experience with Drupal, WordPress, Google Docs, SurveyMonkey, ArcGIS, Salesforce, Routematch, and Smartsheet

Associate Planner - City of Berkeley, CA

Associate Planner

City of Berkeley

Professional Area: 

Land-Use Management and Code Enforcement

Transportation Planning

Website: 

http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/jobs/

Location: 

Berkeley, CA

Salary: $6,577 - $7,808 monthly

Final Filing Date: October, 13th, 5:00 p.m.

The City of Berkeley is currently seeking applications from highly qualified individuals for Associate Planner. This classification is located in the Land Use Planning Division of the Planning Department, and in the Transportation Division of the Public Works Department.

Associate Planner - Transportation Division 
The Associate Planner in the Public Works Department works on the City’s employee transportation benefits program, which includes the AC Transit Easy Pass, pre-tax commute benefits, car sharing, and bicycle pool. The position also works with transit providers, primarily AC Transit, on transit projects affecting Berkeley, including service planning and bus stop improvements. The position will also support several grant-funding transportation capital improvements projects, including efforts to upgrade the Downtown BART station and transit area, develop Complete Streets projects, and implement the City’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Plans.

Additional duties may include assisting in grant applications, grant compliance, procurement of consultants, and consultant contract management.

Associate Planner - Land Use Division
The Associate Planner in the Planning Department performs a variety of professional activities in support of the City’s planning services. In this journey-level class, incumbents conduct planning research and analysis on moderate to difficult projects. Work requires the exercise of considerable independence in preparing planning studies and reports on well-defined assignments and making presentations on such projects.

The Land Use Planning Division administers zoning regulations, reviews development projects and assists the community in its efforts to plan for the City's physical, cultural, environmental, and socio-economic future. If current planning activities are assigned, work will include data collection, provision of information to the public at the zoning counter, processing development applications, and environmental review. If policy planning activities are assigned, work will include ordinance and plan revisions, and other land use studies.

To apply and for more information about this opening, please visit our website athttp://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/jobs/.

Project Assistant for New Construction, Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation - San Diego, CA

Project Assistant for New Construction

Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation

Professional Area: 

Community Development and Redevelopment

Contact person: 

LaTonya Hussain

Phone: 

619-527-6161 x192

Email: 

lhussain@jacobscenter.org

Website: 

http://www.jacobscenter.org

Location: 

San Diego, CA

LISC AmeriCorps Member Serving at the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation

Full-Time (1700 hour in 10 months)

Ideal Start Date:  October 1, 2015

Local Initiatives Support Corporation and the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation are seeking a full-time AmeriCorps member to serve as a Project Assistant for New Construction.  The ideal candidate will begin service on October 1, 2015 and serve a minimum of 1700 hours though the end of his/her term on July 31, 2016.

The Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation (JCNI) is a nonprofit economic and community development corporation created by the Jacobs Family Foundation in 1997. JCNI is working in partnership with the community to revitalize ten distinct low to mid income communities within the Diamond Neighborhoods recovering from decades of disinvestment, high unemployment, blight, and high rates for health and safety problems. Partnerships are focused on community redevelopment/revitalization, arts and community development, civic engagement, and economic development. Our vision is to be part of a caring community where people are responsible to each other, where all cultures are embraced, where sustaining resources are in place for a vibrant economic and philanthropic life, and where residents create the future they envision. Our mission is to foster a thriving community envisioned and realized by its residents. This is accomplished by empowering resident ownership of neighborhood change, and focusing investments and economic development efforts in the southeastern neighborhoods of San Diego City in an area commonly called the Diamond Neighborhoods. JCNI acts as the backbone where appropriate for efforts towards community improvement in areas such as education, public safety, youth development, community health, and others that are critical to the fabric of the community and sustainable change.

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) is dedicated to helping community residents transform distressed neighborhoods into healthy and sustainable communities of choice and opportunity — good places to work, do business and raise children.  LISC combines corporate, government and philanthropic resources to help community-based organizations revitalize underserved neighborhoods. This strategy extends to the LISC AmeriCorps program where we support placing AmeriCorps Members with local non-profit partners. Members assist in efforts to revitalize underserved neighborhoods across America and create vibrant places for people to live, work, and play. 

The member selected to serve in this capacity will be responsible for:

The Project Assistant for New Construction will assist the JCNI Redevelopment Team in all aspects of the construction process of JCNI’s redevelopment plan. He/She will assist with grant compliance, data tracking as well as interface with contractor(s), public notification, certified payroll certification reporting, and documentation management. He/She will also coordinate with development contractors during other predevelopment and construction activities to assure grant documentation and public notification is undertaken.

Members perform day to day service at Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation but are expected to attend and participate in all LISC AmeriCorps sponsored activities including but not limited to:

• Attending a national leadership conference tentatively scheduled for March 2016;
• Attending all locally sponsored monthly meetings;
• Participating in nationally sponsored webinars;
• Actively participating in at least two locally identified and team coordinated service projects (one for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service and one for National AmeriCorps Week); and,
• Engaging in any other LISC events as determined by the local LISC office.

This is an AmeriCorps position.  As such neither LISC nor Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation will allow the member to engage in activities that are considered prohibited under the terms of the grant while serving as a LISC AmeriCorps member.

Desired Skills 

• Desire and ability to work with a diverse group of people, particularly those living in low-income distressed neighborhoods
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment
• Computer skills
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Ability to work a flexible schedule (some night and weekends may be required)

Program Eligibility Requirements 

To be eligible to participate as a LISC AmeriCorps member the candidate must meet all eligibility requirements to serve as a National Service participant including but not limited to:

• Possess a high school degree, GED certificate or agree to achieve GED during the term of service
• Be at least 17 years of age (note there is no upper age limit)
• Have proof of status as a US citizen or possess permanent resident status and be able to provide documentation as determined by CNCS (is different than documentation for employment)
• Be eligible to earn a full-time education award
• Be eligible to perform a term of national service
• Be available to serve for a full 10 month period of time and within that time period complete a minimum of 1700 hours of service
• Be available for service from October 1, 2015 through July 31, 2016

Criminal Record Searches

If a candidate has a criminal record, it does not necessarily make a candidate ineligible for service. Only candidates who are subject to registry on the National Sex Offender Public Website or have been convicted of First Degree Murder may not perform service.  All candidates offered the position must consent to a search of the National Sex Offender Public Website and a State Level Criminal History Search. Members whose service will have them providing direct service to a vulnerable population will have to consent to an FBI level search. Vulnerable populations are defined as: (1) “children” defined as individuals aged 17 and under consistent with the PROTECT Act; (2) “elderly” defined as individuals sixty years of age (the lowest age commonly used by Congress to define elderly persons); or (3) “individuals with disabilities” as defined in the Rehabilitation Act in 29 USC 705(20)(B) and covers any individual who has a physical or mental impairment which substantially limits one or more major life activities or is regarded as having such an impairment. Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation attests that this AmeriCorps position will not have the candidate performing direct service to a vulnerable population.

Program Benefits 

Upon successful completion of the term of service, the member will be eligible for a $5,730 education award to pay off existing, eligible student loans or return to school. The position pays a total stipend of $15,000.  The stipend is paid in 20 equal checks twice a month.  Direct deposit is available and highly encouraged.  A health care benefit is available for the participant only (dependents are not eligible).  For members with children under the age of 13, there is a child care subsidy benefit available which is dependent on the participant meeting all eligibility requirements (This benefit is administered by a contracted provider via the Corporation for National and Community Service).   

Resumes should be sent to: 

LaTonya Hussain, Redevelopment Department Coordinator at lhussain@jacobscenter.org.

We promote equal opportunity in selecting AmeriCorps members.

We are committed to diversity and inclusion in the selection process.