Safe Routes to School Coordinator I (Non-exempt) - CPPW)

City of Portland; Portland (OR); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Language Pay Differential

Job summary

The City of Portland is seeking a Safe Routes to School Coordinator to improve school circulation and safety by coordinating infrastructure, policy, and program efforts with schools and districts. This role will partner with internal teams and external partners to implement safety projects and standardize treatments around schools to support students and families in walking, biking, rolling, and transit.

You will work across divisions to refine priorities, engage diverse communities, and drive

Qualifications

• Experience planning multimodal infrastructure projects.
• Experience applying effective project management including organizing, directing, motivating, and engaging stakeholders.
• Experience coordinating and communicating with diverse groups of stakeholders for program implementation such as other government bureaus, school districts, nonprofits, or community organizations.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate Safe Routes to School circulation strategy by aligning infrastructure, policies, and safety treatments that improve school area conditions.
• Engage school districts and partners to improve safety through site observations and infrastructure installations.
• Collaborate with internal teams to refine the Safe Routes to School priority network and evaluate potential projects.
• Advance standardized approaches to school area safety including mapping and inventories.

Skills

Multimodal infrastructure

Project management

Stakeholder coordination

Transportation demand management

Inclusive engagement

Job description

Job Appointment: Full-Time
Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:30 am-5 pm. An alternate schedule may be available.
Hybrid/work location: This role will report to The Portland Building 1120 SW 5th Avenue, Portland OR 97204 for In-person work. School site visits will be required.
Benefits: Please check our benefit tab for an overview of benefits for this position.
Union Representation: City of Portland Professional Workers (CPPW)

The Safe Routes to School Coordinator plays a key role in making streets around schools safer and more accessible for students and families. This position leads and supports citywide efforts to align infrastructure investments, policies, and on-the-ground improvements that enhance school circulation. This work helps increase the number of students safely walking, biking, rolling, and taking transit for their school commute and around their neighborhoods; and reduces traffic fatalities and serious injuries. The Safe Routes to School Coordinator partners closely with internal teams, school districts, and school communities to implement safety projects, advance policy-aligned designs, and standardize safety treatments adjacent to schools.

What you’ll get to do:

• CoordinateSafe Routes to School circulation strategy by aligning infrastructure, policies, and safety treatments that improve school area conditions, including lower speeds and consistent countermeasures.
• Engage school districts, internal partners, and school community stakeholders to improve school area circulation safety through site observations, school access planning, and infrastructure installations, including pilot projects.
• Collaboratewithinternal team to refine the Safe Routes to School priority network and evaluate potential projects.
• Advance standardized approaches to school area safety, including mapping, updating and maintaining inventories, and process improvements.

Who you are:

• Diversity Champion: You believe in, support, and fight for diversity and inclusion in the workplace and the community. You prioritize ways to make it happen in a manner that benefits all stakeholders.
• Organized: You are able to work on a multitude of tasks and understand/respond to various situations in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment.
• Collaborative:You are a professional who values partnership and develops and supports relationships to get things done.
• Authentic: You are effective in a professional, diverse, multi-cultural environment. You treat customers, co-workers and employees with respect and are accountable.
• Problem Solver: You can identify problems early and value collaboration. You utilize active listening and effective communication and facilitation skills in working with others to find resolutions.
• Independent: You can exercise independent judgement and initiative within establishment guidelines.
• Detail-oriented: You are effective at tracking project details to ensure consistency and accuracy in project implementation.

About the Bureau:

The Portland Bureau of Transportation is a community partner in shaping a livable city. We plan, build, manage, and maintain an effective and safe transportation system that provides people and businesses access and mobility. We keep Portland moving. For more information about the Portland Bureau of Transportation, please visit Transportation | Portland.gov. The Portland Bureau of Transportation embraces diversity, models inclusivity, and promotes equity through its service delivery, internal operations, organizational culture, and in its work with partners and the community.

About the Division:

The Mobility and Safety Programs (MSP) Division is located within PBOT's Policy, Planning and Projects group. The Division works to make streets safer and increase the number of people walking, bicycling, and taking transit; community-facing programs are central to this goal.

About Safe Routes to School

Our Safe Routes to School program focuses on helping kids and their families walk, bike, and roll to and from school and around their neighborhoods. We use infrastructure improvements, engagement, and education to improve safety, decrease congestion, reduce climate impacts, and encourage physical activity. The Safe Routes to School program supports over 100 schools within five school districts.

The Safe Routes to School team works closely with the Vision Zero team to advance a shared goal of creating a transportation system where everyone can travel safely. Itis Portland's goal to eliminate traffic deaths and serious injuries on our streets. Both programs use a Safe System Approach to traffic safety. This approach anticipates human mistakes through five layers of redundancy - safe speeds, safe streets, safe people, safe vehicles, and post-crash response - so human mistakes do not lead to serious injury or death. Vision Zero is Portland's goal to eliminate traffic deaths and serious injuries on our streets

Questions? Terrol Johnson Senior Recruiter [e-mail]

Applicants must be full or part-time, permanent, temporary (does NOT include contract workers), limited-term or seasonal/casual City of Portland employees by the closing date of this announcement OR must have an effective lay-off date with recall eligibility (See HRAR 7.06) from the City of Portland within 12 months of the opening date of this announcement. Applicants must specifically address and demonstrate in their resume and supplemental question responses how their education, training and/or experience, meets each of the following minimum qualifications:

1. Experienceplanning and/or designing multimodal infrastructure projects.
2. Experience applying effective project management including organizing, directing, motivating, and engaging stakeholders.
3. Experience coordinating and communicating with diverse groups of stakeholders for program implementation such as, other government bureaus or agencies, school districts, nonprofit or community organizations, and members of the public.
4. Knowledgeof transportation demand management concepts and/or behavior change strategies in the context of non-driving modes such as bicycling, walking, transit, and rolling/scooting.
5. Abilityto engage with communities of color and people traditionally underrepresented in local decision-making; facilitate inclusive outreach and engagement; communicate cross-culturally.

Although not required, you may have one or more of the following:

• Ability to communicate in Spanish.
• Ability to create maps in GIS

This position is eligible for Language Pay Differential for qualifying employees.

An Equal Opportunity Employer