Board Operations & Governance Lead

Maryland Department of Transportation; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Maryland Transit Administration is seeking a highly organized Board Coordinator to manage the full board-meeting lifecycle for two independent boards. The role supports governance, accessibility, and records retention while coordinating executive briefings and cross-functional communications with board members and leadership.

The ideal candidate has strong organizational skills, strategic judgment, and the ability to balance priorities across offices and external stakeholders, ensuring timely

Qualifications

• Five (5) years of professional experience in administrative coordination, executive support, board or commission operations, governance support, or a related field.
• Two (2) years of experience providing administrative, executive, or governance support to a board, commission, executive leadership team, or similar organizational body.
• Graduation from an accredited high school or possession of a high school equivalency certificate.
• Selective Qualification recruitments are utilized when the position requires specific or additional bona fide occupational qualifications (knowledge, skill, or ability). No substitution is allowed for a selective qualification.

Responsibilities

• Oversees the full meeting cycle for both boards and their committees, including annual calendars, scheduling, logistics, agendas, meeting materials, minutes, action summaries, and tracking decisions and follow-up items through completion.
• Coordinates board operations in accordance with applicable open meetings, public notice, records retention, ethics, ADA, Title VI, and MTA requirements; identifies deficiencies and escalates legal or policy matters as appropriate.
• Acts as the central point of coordination among board members, Deputy Administrators, the MTA Administrator, executive leadership, and internal offices; manages briefings, correspondence, competing priorities, deadlines, and cross-functional commitments.
• Manages the development, review, and routing of budgets, plans, policies, resolutions, presentations, and other board actions while coordinating public comments, accommodations, language services, stakeholder inquiries, board-member onboarding, tours, travel, and related activities.
• Maintains document-control, meeting-management, and action-tracking systems; develops status reports and dashboards; and recommends process and technology improvements to enhance accuracy, timeliness, transparency, and continuity of board operations.

Skills

Administrative coordination

Executive support

Governance support

Education

High school diploma or GED

Job description

Maryland Transit Administration is seeking a highly organized Board Coordinator to manage the full board-meeting lifecycle for two independent boards. The role supports governance, accessibility, and records retention while coordinating executive briefings and cross-functional communications with board members and leadership.

The ideal candidate has strong organizational skills, strategic judgment, and the ability to balance priorities across offices and external stakeholders, ensuring timely