Safe Routes to School (SRTS) Specialist

Safe Routes to School (SRTS) Specialist

Department: Planning

Employment Type: Part Time

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Reporting To: Devan Gelle

Compensation: $29.00 - $40.00 / hour

Description

Alta Planning + Design seeks a Safe Routes to School (SRTS) Specialist / Planner I for Southern California. This production-level, outreach focused position is a great opportunity for someone who believes in the importance of active, multimodal, and sustainable transportation and who is interested in growing their career as a transportation planning professional. If you are looking to join an innovative organization and do work that connects people to places while advancing social justice, safety, and environmental resilience, apply with Alta today!

About Alta
Alta Planning + Design is a sustainable transportation company dedicated to creating active, healthy communities through planning, landscape architecture, engineering, and education/encouragement programs. Alta was founded in 1996 when communities were calling for safer streets for people walking and bicycling as the non-motorized transportation movement developed into a profession in the United States. We pioneered the field of active transportation, evolving our planning and design work into a visionary global practice that empowers people to live active, healthy lives and gets them to where they need to go.  

Our core values and work bring about positive change by creating places that are geared toward moving people rather than cars, connecting community members to daily needs and human experience, and empowering every person to live an active healthy life. As a global leader in mobility innovation for over 27 years with over 225 staff, we are dedicated to connecting people to places by working across disciplines and scale to address social justice, safety, and environmental resilience.

Day to Day

This position is responsible for producing high-quality materials, reports and other deliverables in support of project objectives.
 As a SRTS Specialist with our Southern California team, you will:

• Work with our multidisciplinary group of planners, engineers, program specialists, and graphic designers to support and implement SRTS and other planning projects
• Support Alta’s work with multi-school programs, lead walk audits, facilitate community outreach, engage with school stakeholders, and work alongside community-based teaming partners to deliver SRTS programming in urban, suburban and rural communities
• Solidify Alta’s reputation as a national leader in SRTS and active transportation planning, and contribute to the continued growth and success of our outstanding SRTS practice.

This is a unique opportunity to build your knowledge of SRTS and active transportation planning for all ages and abilities. Our current workload includes education and encouragement programs, safety campaigns, equity analyses, evaluation studies, suggested route mapping, and engineering assessments for regional agencies, counties, local governments and school districts throughout California.

Position Priorities A general understanding of the field of urban planning, and/or public health, the ability to collaborate across discipline boundaries to support the delivery of solutions which meet client expectations is required in order to successfully meet the requirements of this position.
 The essential priorities of this non-exempt, hourly position are to:

• Contribute to the production of high-quality plans, reports, and analyses.
• Participate in public outreach and other project deliverables.

Responsibilities + Tasks

Additional responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to:

• Participating in, and sometimes leading, pedestrian education and other on-site school engagement activities.
• Participating in, and sometimes leading, field investigations and site analyses.
• Participating in, and sometimes leading, research activities in support of project planning deliverables. May include formatting documents, contributing to the development of presentation materials, and analyzing public engagement data.
• Participating in, and sometimes leading, the development, editing, and production of newsletters, lesson plans, final reports, memos, and workshop materials.
• Collecting data and producing materials maps for fieldwork, public input, client meetings, and project display boards and reports.
• Coordinating internally to develop and disseminate templates and best practices.
• Participating in other ongoing planning projects external to the SRTS team, including engagement support, development of high quality technical reports and memoranda, and related tasks.

Qualifications

Required

This position requires a combination of skills, experience and education including, but not limited to

• Bachelor’s degree in Planning, Public Health, or a related field of study.
• Working knowledge of, and interest in, the field of active, non-motorized transportation.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and multiple simultaneous projects, if necessary.
• Ability and willingness to travel.
• Good interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Strong initiative and the ability to work independently with little supervision.
• Exhibits accuracy, attention to detail, and strong organizational skills.
• Good understanding of MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Google Workspace apps, Adobe Creative Suite, ESRI ArcGIS, or similar products.

There are a number of additional skills, experience, and education that would be beneficial to this position including, but not limited to:

• Experience in a consulting environment or public entity.

What We Offer

Flexible ScheduleWe are ideally looking for someone who is available to work part-time who is willing to travel and support our clients throughout Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, and San Bernadino counties.

Compensation The pay range for this job in Southern California is $29-40/hr. Placement within the range is based upon experience, skill-sets, and qualifications. Apply