Position Title: Program Associate
Date Opened: March 12, 2024
Date Closing: April 21, 2024 ‐ Applications reviewed on a rolling basis
Position Details: Full-time salaried position with benefits
Salary commensurate with experience: $50,000 – $67,000
Based in Chicago or Los Angeles area, with hybrid remote/in-office work location model.
General Overview:
The Shared-Use Mobility Center (SUMC) is a non-profit public interest organization promoting multimodal transportation systems that work for all. Through pilot projects, applied research, capacity-building, and technical assistance, SUMC helps communities realize a vision of an equitable and sustainable mobility future.
SUMC is expanding its technical assistance, capacity-building, research, and convening efforts through partnerships with the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT), Federal Transit Administration (FTA), the State of California, and other public partners. Among other activities, SUMC is part of a capacity-building team for the USDOT’s Thriving Communities Program supporting disadvantaged and under-resourced communities, enabling them to advance transportation projects that support community-driven economic development, health, environment, mobility, and access goals. SUMC hosts the Mobility Innovation Collaborative and the Mobility Learning Center in partnership with the Federal Transit Administration to support transit agencies, cities, and regions nationwide in adopting innovative, multimodal mobility solutions, and improvements to transit access and information. SUMC works in partnership with CALSTART as the Program Administrator for the California Air Resources Board’s Clean Mobility Options (CMO) program, delivering approximately $35M in funding and capacity-building resources to disadvantaged and low-income communities across California in pursuit of mobility equity goals through zero-emission shared mobility pilots.
Full description and application available here.
