SFMTA

The SFMTA, a department of the City and County of San Francisco, oversees Muni (the historic Municipal Railway), parking and traffic, bicycling, walking and taxis. Over one million people get around San Francisco and rely on us to ensure safe and reliable travel.

Our Vision: Excellent transportation choices for San Francisco.

Our Mission: We connect San Francisco through a safe, equitable, and sustainable transportation system.

Application Opening: March 29, 2024

Deadline to Apply: May close at any time but not prior to April 12, 2024

Annual Salary: $120,666 - $146,640 (More information, here)

Recruitment ID: RTF0146249-01139339

Appointment Type: Temporary Provisional. This is not a permanent appointment. A provisional appointee must participate and be successful in a Civil Service examination for this classification and be selected through an open competitive process in order to be considered for permanent appointment. Provisional appointments may not exceed three (3) years.

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s (SFMTA) is recruiting for a pool of Transportation Planner III to support various assignments within the divisions.

Streets Division initiates and coordinates improvements to the city’s street, transit, bicycle, pedestrian and parking infrastructure, thereby meeting the goals and objectives of the Transit First Policy, as well as supporting the SFMTA’s Strategic Plan. The mission of the Streets Division is to provide both vision and realization of multimodal transportation planning and engineering in San Francisco by designing and implementing improvements to the City’s transportation infrastructure to support San Francisco’s needs as the City changes and grows. The Streets Division consists of eight closely working and coordinated groups: Capital Programs & Construction; Livable Streets; Parking and Traffic Enforcement; Planning; Security, Investigations, and Enforcement; Transportation Engineering; and Parking, Curb Management & Operations.

Transit Division is part of a dynamic, deadline driven and innovative team working on a range of projects including service changes, Transit Priority Capital Projects and route planning. This unit leads the nationally recognized Muni Forward program that is making the system more efficient, reliable, safe and comfortable as well as the innovative service planning group that has rebuilt the system six times since the initial COVID-19 outbreak and is responsible for day-to-day planning activities of the 6th largest transit system in the United States.

Transportation Planner III will play a key role service planning by conducting analysis, outreach, and modifications to the entire Muni system with the goals of improving connectivity, reducing crowding, and improving the customer experience along both light rail and bus corridors. 

Finance and Information Technology Division leads the development of long-term capital investment strategies, turns needs and concepts into fundable projects and programs, builds and strengthens partnerships with existing and potential funders, and advocates for the needs of San Francisco’s Transportation System. This team makes the biggest impact through generating new funding opportunities by thinking creatively about financial impacts, risks, and data. The office oversees the development of new capital and transportation service program efforts, competitive funding proposals, advocacy documents and strategies for sustainable capital and operating funding for the SFMTA. The team uses strategy, analysis, and financial modeling as generative tools and supports SFMTA divisions turn complex ideas and needs into projects and programs, while thinking creatively about financial impacts, risks, pilots, and data. They navigate complex conversations with internal and external stakeholders at the local, regional, state and federal level. Their skillset is critical to the work of the SFMTA because they are passionate about trying new things and exploring value creation for the SFMTA, its projects, programs and operations. 

The Transportation Planner III, will play a key role in funding Strategy and Programs, leads complex financial, capital and planning projects and programs in the areas of transportation system value, economic impact, cost-benefit analysis, and financial feasibility, land use, and joint development, and providing financial analysis on divisional and/or Agency-wide issues.

Taxis, Access & Mobility Services (TAMS) Division is comprised of three sections: Enforcement; Permits & Administration; and Accessible Services. The Permits & Administration and Enforcement Sections lead the regulation and oversight of the taxi industry and ongoing mobility services permit programs, such as scooter share and commuter shuttles. The Accessible Services Section provides guidance across the agency’s business domains to ensure physical and programmatic access to transit, paratransit, pedestrian, bike and parking facilities, shared mobility, and taxi services.

The Transportation Planner III will perform transportation planning work focused on the regulation of taxis and other mobility services and/or improving access to transportation for older adults and persons with disabilities.

Examples of Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Designs, conducts, analyzes and evaluates reports and plans for technical, social, economic and physical data for various urban mass transit or transportation planning projects and grant requests.

2. Analyzes data to prepare plans and projections of future conditions and trends concerning public transit activities.

3. Supervises and/or coordinates transportation projects by coordinating the efforts of a group of subordinates or peers toward completion of various phases of work in transit or transportation planning.

4. Evaluates technical aspects of transit or transportation projects involving various transit modes; i.e., light rail, trolley coach, motor coach and cable car; auto traffic, and pedestrian/bicycle.

5. Makes presentations to community, business, airport tenants or transportation agencies to explain and develop transportation agencies, transportation planning or projects and coordinate with other peer working groups and public agencies. May represent department at the Board of Supervisors or various City Commissions.

6. Designs, prepares and/or directs the preparation of visual materials, signage information panel displays including graphs, charts, maps and models to illustrate presentations of transit or transportation projects; develops databases for tenant related transportation statistics; develops concepts and orders signage within terminals and information display panels and informational brochures.

7. Reviews and interprets legislation, codes and regulations, and applies transportation and other planning legislation to the development and implementation of transit and transportation projects.

8. Evaluates technical aspects of transportation projects at the Airport involving various modes; i.e. ferry service, automated guideway transit and the Ground Transportation Center.

9. Designs and implements transit route and service changes for transportation schedules.

10. Performs other duties as assigned.

These minimum qualifications establish the education, training, experience, special skills and/or license(s) which are required for employment in the classification. Please note, additional qualifications (i.e. special conditions) may apply to a particular position and will be stated on the job ad.

1. Possession of a Master's Degree from an accredited college or university in Planning, Transportation, Transportation Engineering, Public Administration or other closely related field AND two (2) years of transit planning and/or transportation planning experience; OR
2. Possession of a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university preferably in transportation, mass transit planning or other closely related field; AND four (4) years of transit planning and/or transportation planning experience.

Substitution:

Additional transit planning and/or transportation planning experience beyond the Minimum Qualifications may be substituted for the educational requirement on a year-for year basis.

Additional post-graduate education as described in item 1 of the Minimum Qualifications may be substituted for required experience on a year-for-year basis (30 semester units/45 quarter units equal one (1) year of experience).

One year of full-time employment is equivalent to 2000 hours. (2000 hours of qualifying work experience is based on a 40-hour work week.) Any overtime hours that you work above forty (40) hours per week are not included in the automatic calculation to determine full-time employment.

Desirable Qualifications: The stated desirable qualifications may be used to identify candidates advancing to the interview process and/or to identify job finalist(s) at the end of the selection process when referred for hiring.

Streets Division:

• Experience in planning programs and/or delivering services to racial, ethnic, and other marginalized communities including Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, Pacific Islander, and Middle Eastern communities. 
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate, build consensus, and gather support from multiple stakeholders to implement cross functional programs.
• Demonstrated skills in strategic planning, communication, and the ability to convey complex ideas into clearly written and/or graphically rich formats for diverse audiences.
• Demonstrated knowledge of local, state, and federal legislation and regulations.
• Proficiency in Adobe Design Suite, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and Microsoft Office; and familiarity with travel demand models and transportation analysis tools.
• Exhibits tact, professionalism, positive attitude, passion for sustainable transportation and willingness to innovate to achieve the agency and City’s transportation goals and objectives.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Experience in drafting transportation-related legislation.
• Ability to prepare graphic design and presentation materials using Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign) for conceptual street designs and outreach materials.
• Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Excel and/or Access and/or Tableau to perform complex data analysis.
• Familiarity with curb management and parking issues, policies, projects. and regulations in San Francisco.
• Fluency in Cantonese, Spanish or Tagalog.
• Demonstrated ability to perform data analytics and data mining, especially with surveys, polling, focus groups, and/or intersection counts.
• Experience in transportation planning, including principles of bicycle and pedestrian transportation.
• Knowledge of land use planning principles and processes and/or urban design methods and techniques.
• Meeting coordination, facilitation, and project and/or program management skills.
• Transit operations and planning and/or traffic/transit engineering knowledge.
• Ability to collect, review and analyze project budget and financial data.
• Knowledge of concepts of environmental review (CEQA, NEPA, or other equivalent environmental review legislation).

Transit Division:

• A strong interest in enhancing urban multimodal transportation networks and a strong sense of advocacy for transit. 
• Familiarity with the Muni transit network and with San Francisco’s multimodal transportation network in general.
• Experience preparing for and attending community meetings and other forms of public outreach.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong data analysis skills, as well as the ability to analyze complex problems.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Adobe Illustrator.
• Demonstrated ability to take initiative, work independently, collaboratively, professionally, and be a team player.
• Ability to communicate fluently in Spanish and/or Chinese.

Finance and Information Technology Division:

• Ability to coordinate and supervise projects; analyze and solve problems; communicate clearly; write technical reports. 
• Ability to plan and direct the work of subordinate staff; communicate with staff and representatives of business and public interest groups, organizations, and public officials in clarifying and interpreting planning and funding policy and programming regulations.
• Ability to supervise the development of graphics and presentation materials using Adobe Creative Suite and geographic information systems, specifically ArcGIS, for mapping and spatial analysis. 
• Ability to multi-task, manage stress, and successfully adapt to new situations as they arise and meet project deadlines.
• Knowledge of the principles, practices and techniques of various phases of urban mass transit and/or transportation planning; statistical and research methods; data sources for transit/transportation research; transportation information presentation techniques and Environment Impact Analysis.
• Knowledge of transportation capital funding processes and procedures used by federal, state and local governments.
• Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Excel and/or Access to perform complex data analysis.
• Excellent oral, written and presentation skills. 
• Comfort interacting with members of the public, executives and elected officials.

Taxis, Access & Mobility Services (TAMS) Division:

• Experience collaborating with persons with a range of disabilities, older adults, historically underserved populations and/or community advocacy organizations.
• Knowledge of the Americans with Disabilities Act and other accessibility regulations and codes.
• Possess professional communication skills and the ability to empathize and demonstrate sensitivity to the populations we serve.
• Ability to analyze data and complex problems.
• Experience in any of these areas or related areas: transit accessibility, mobility management or coordination with various transportation modes, fixed-route transit, shuttle services, paratransit, ramp taxis, pedestrian, and bicycle interface and/or accessible parking programs or projects, or emerging mobility services, scooter/bike share or other shared device programs or policy.
• Experience leading other professional transportation planning or accessible service delivery staff and/or contractors.
• Ability to communicate fluently in Spanish, Cantonese and/or Mandarin.

Verification: Applicants may be required to submit verification of qualifying education and experience at any point during the recruitment and selection process. If education verification is required, information on how to verify education requirements, including verifying foreign education credits or degree equivalency, can be found at here.

Note: Falsifying one’s education, training, or work experience or attempted deception on the application may result in disqualification for this and future job opportunities with the City and County of San Francisco.

All work experience, education, training and other information substantiating how you meet the minimum qualifications must be included on your application by the filing deadline. Information submitted after the filing deadline will not be considered in determining whether you meet the minimum qualifications.

Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of a completed City and County of San Francisco application.

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