Transportation Program Coordinator

GENERAL STATEMENT OF JOB

$68,916.47 - $86,067.23

The purpose of this class is to provide coordination and administrative support for the development and implementation of transportation projects within the Transportation Department. This class assists with the planning, tracking, and coordination of multimodal transportation initiatives, including pedestrian safety, bikeway, greenway, sidewalk, resurfacing, and dirt road projects. This class maintains project information, monitors project schedules and activities, prepares reports, and supports communication with internal departments, consultants, government agencies, community organizations, and the public. This class assists with transportation program activities from planning through early project development and performs related professional, administrative, and project coordination work as required in support of the Transportation Program. This position reports to the Transportation Program Manager in the Project Development Division.

SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Essential Functions:

• Assist project planning with staff and consultants to maximize the use of taxpayer funding.
• Develop project scoring and schedules in collaboration with internal staff, program management firms, and external agencies, such as SCDOT, and City of Columbia ensuring schedules are realistic given the project's complexity.
• Assists with annual project planning and taking in public and other stakeholder input throughout each year.
• Update the project plan with new and emerging projects. Work includes developing a narrative for each project, field study of project scope including project limits, foreseen project challenges, and working with the project development team for project estimates and project impacts.
• Assist with submitting project reports to incorporate into the annual project plan. Review and recommend project scoring system and changes to the system as needed.
• Assist with the recommendations for project budgets provided within the Division.
• Coordinate bike and pedestrian projects and develop standards to improve pedestrian safety.
• Coordinate value engineering discussions pre- and post-construction on bike and pedestrian projects. Serve as the County’s multi-model transportation expert.
• Maintain knowledge of SCDOT and County roadway and bridge design and construction standards, particularly for bike and pedestrian projects or project components.
• Prepare materials and attend meetings with officials, residents, and civic groups to address concerns related to the Transportation Penny project. Support Transportation Penny Advisory Committee activities.
• Provide support work, as applicable, including planning and reviewing work, maintaining standards and listings. Providing support in all programs to include bike and pedestrian projects, pedestrian safety projects, resurfacing projects, and dirt road projects.
• Perform general administrative tasks, including report writing, correspondence, data entry, and file management.
• Attend relevant training, workshops, or conferences to stay current with trends, legislation, and technologies.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

MINIMUM EDUCATION AND TRAINING

• Associate Degree in Civil Engineering, Project Management, or a related field. 

• Two (2) years of relevant work experience; experience with SCDOT bike or pedestrian projects preferred.

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• Any combination of education and experience that meets the requirements for performing the essential functions of this job.

Licenses/Certifications/Other:

• Must possess a valid state driver’s license.
• Completion of a Project Management Institute course, as approved by the Director, is required.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND STANDARDS REQUIRED

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Data Involvement: Requires coordinating or determining time, place, or sequence of operations or activities based on analysis of data or information and may implement and report on operations and activities.
• People Involvement: Requires giving information, guidance, or assistance to people to directly facilitate task accomplishment; may give directions or assignments to helpers or assistants.
• Involvement with Things: Requires handling or using machines, tools or equipment requiring brief instruction or experience, such as fax machines, copiers, telephones or similar equipment; requires extensive use of a computer to fulfill the responsibilities associated with this position.
• Reasoning Requirements: Requires performing coordinating work involving guidelines and rules with constant problem-solving.
• Mathematical Requirements: Requires using addition and subtraction, multiplication, and division; and/or calculating ratios, rates, and percentages.
• Language Requirements: Requires reading journals, manuals, and professional publications; speaking informally to groups of co-workers, staff in other organizational agencies, the general public, and people in other organizations; composing original reports, training and other written materials using proper language, punctuation, grammar, and style.
• Mental Requirements: Requires doing professional-level work requiring the application of principles and practices in a wide range of administrative and technical methods in the solution of technical problems or the coordination of entry-level managerial work; requires general understanding of operating policies and procedures and the ability to apply these to administrative problems; and requires continuous, close attention for accurate results or frequent exposure to unusual challenges.
• Computer Requirements: Needs to be able to use computers for work processing, data entry, spreadsheets, presentations, communication, and research.
• Judgments and Decisions: Responsible for guiding others, requiring frequent decisions affecting co-workers, customers and others who depend on the service or product; works in a somewhat fluid environment with rules and procedures but with many variations from the routine.

Physical Requirements:

The work is light work which requires the person in this position to occasionally exert up to 20 pounds of force to grasp, lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:

• Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing, or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces. The amount of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.
• Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
• Handling:  Picking, holding, or otherwise working, primarily with the whole hand.
• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination in sound.
• Mental Acuity: Ability to make rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes.
• Speaking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including the ability to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately and concisely.
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Visual Acuity: Have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; and/or extensive reading. Have visual acuity to operate motor vehicles and/or heavy equipment. Have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: visual inspection involving small defects, small parts, operation of machines; using measurement devices; and/or assembly or fabrication parts at distances close to the eyes.
• Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

May be required to work hours other than the regular schedule including nights, weekends, and holidays. This position requires regular and reliable attendance and the employee’s physical presence at the workplace. The job requires normal visual acuity, depth perception, and field of vision, hearing, and speaking abilities. Work includes situations that require decisions involving people, resources, and property.

EEO AND ADA MESSAGE

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the essential job functions satisfactorily.  Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary job functions described herein.  Since every duty associated with this position may not be described herein, employees may be required to perform duties not specifically spelled out in the job description, but which may be reasonably considered to be incidental in the performing of their duties just as though they were written out in this job description.

Richland County is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  ADA requires the County to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities.  Prospective and current employees are invited to discuss accommodations.

Richland County has the right to revise this job description at any time. This description does not represent in any way a contract of employment.