Transportation Program Deputy Director pay range

What the state says the job is

This is professional consultative, administrative, and managerial work in directing a staff of transportation program consultants and transportation planners in the development and promotion of transportation systems. Employees serve as the Deputy Director an area of the Transit Division. Employees direct the day to day operations of technical assistance to the State agencies, local governments, and/or private concerns in the organization and operation of transit programs and services including the development of innovative methods of integrating transportation systems. As Deputy Director, work involves responsibility for supervising a staff involved in project planning, management, and grant administration/monitoring and program development support and analysis for local transportation systems.

Knowledge, skills and abilities

Considerable knowledge of the principles and practices of grant administration. Thorough knowledge of public transportation and/or passenger rail modes and their interrelationships, and analytical planning techniques and their application in the area of public transportation or rail. Ability to organize and direct the activities of professional-level employees, communicated effectively in oral and written form, and establish and maintain effective working relationships with a variety of state, federal, and local government officials and leaders and representatives of private concerns.

Minimum qualifications

Master's degree in urban and regional planning, transportation planning, engineering, business administration, or economics from an appropriately accredited institution and three years of experience in public transportation planning or administration, or community planning; or, Bachelor's degree in urban and regional planning, transportation planning, engineering, business administration, or economics from an appropriately accredited institution and five years of experience in the collection and analysis of economic and social data and information, one of which must have been in public transportation planning or administration, or community planning in a supervisory capacity; or an equivalen ...