Additional Benefits -
Health: VTA participates in a CalPERS-sponsored medical plan with VTA contribution to employee and dependent premium health insurance premiums. Employees pay a monthly contribution of any amount in excess of the Kaiser Bay Area Family rate.
Flex Spending Account: $300 employer-funded Health FSA for eligible employees.
Vision: VSP full premium for employees and eligible dependents.
Dental: Delta Dental full premium for employees and eligible dependents.
Mental Health Days: 3 days: May 1, 2023 - June 30, 2024.
Leave: 17 days of vacation (accrued), 80 Hours of sick time (accrued), 12 paid holidays per year, and 1 floating holiday per year.
Retirement:
- Participation in CalPERS
Classic Members: 2%@55
PEPRA Members: 2%@62
- 457 Deferred Compensation Plan (voluntary) : 457 pre-tax and 457 Roth
Self-directed brokerage account option for qualifying employees
- Retiree medical coverage for eligible employees with VTA contributions to the retiree’s medical premium
Additional perks:
- All active full-time employees and their eligible dependents are eligible for transit passes for use over VTA lines, including VTA Paratransit services.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) is available to each employee, eligible dependent, and household member, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Professional Development Fund
- Wellness Programs
Preferred Education:
4 Year Degree
Additional Information:
Telecommuting is allowed.
Internal Number: 01378
About VTA
The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority employs more than 2,000 people dedicated to providing solutions that move Silicon Valley. Unique among transportation organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area, VTA is Santa Clara County’s authority for transit development and operations (light rail and bus), congestion management, transportation-related funding, highway design and construction, real estate and transit-oriented development, and bicycle and pedestrian planning. With local, state, and federal partners, VTA works to innovate the way Silicon Valley moves and provide mobility solutions for all.
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) is an independent special district that provides sustainable, accessible, community-focused, innovative, and environmentally responsible transportation options promoting the region's vitality. VTA provides bus, light rail, and paratransit services and participates as a funding partner in regional rail services, including Caltrain, Capital Corridor, and the Altamont Corridor Express.
To learn more, go to: vta.org
Planning and Programming Division
This division is responsible for conducting all Congestion Management Program and VTA transportation and transit planning activities. As well as programming and grants management.
The Planning & Programming Division consists of the following areas:
Planning - Responsible for the planning and conceptual design of all transit projects, forecasting and modeling analysis for capital projects and the CMP, development review, bike and pedestrian planning, and long range planning functions of the CMP.
Programming and Grants - Responsible for advocating, prioritizing, programming, managing, and ensuring compliance for all federal, state and regional highway/transit/roadway/bicycle/pedestrian grants, as well as the programming of funds for the CMP.
As the Ideal Candidate: You will be working with planners, engineers, modelers, and GIS professionals who are passionate about making our region a more sustainable and equitable place. You will support VTA (the transportation planning and programming authority & the transit operator for Santa Clara County) in its efforts to develop and maintain a bi-county travel demand model. You will be directly involved in developing and stress-testing a new activity-based travel demand model (ABM). Before the ABM is deployed, you will use the current model to support a wide range of planning and engineering activities, from BART Extension to Silicon Valley and transit-oriented community studies, and from express lane studies to the development of countywide long-range plans. As our team strives to continuously improve our model and other analytical tools, you will research and implement new ideas to enhance and expand our forecasting capabilities.
Definition
Under direction, a Senior Transportation Planner – Modeling and Analysis supervises professional planners, and consultants and carries out activities related with the development, revision, and calibration of regional multi-modal networks and models.
Distinguishing Characteristics
This classification is the first supervisory level with responsibility for developing travel demand models; travel forecasting and analysis of transportation system performance; analyzing household travel surveys and decennial census data; preparing technical documentation of work performed; compiling and analyzing data; responding to information requests; and representing VTA at project technical committees.
Minimum Qualifications
Employment Standards
Training and experience equivalent to graduation from an accredited college or university with a major in transportation planning/engineering, urban planning, or a related field and 4 years of progressively responsible professional experience in the field of transportation planning, traffic engineering, transportation data analysis, or related experience with an emphasis on network and demand model simulation.
A Masters Degree maybe substituted for one year of the required experience.
Interested applicants may only meet some of the requirements. We encourage applications from any person who believes they can thrive and grow within VTA.
While we’re welcoming to a variety of different candidates, this position could be an excellent role for a number of different profiles, including those who:
Want to be team players with strong interpersonal skills, working within the community and VTA to help elevate and integrate equitable transit initiatives throughout our work
Are passionate, adaptable, and innovative team players who want to learn and contribute to the development of a visionary transit network through an equity lens
Are interested in collaborative and impactful, transformative change; working with supportive diverse teams to help grow our service and lead our region.
Supplemental Information
Knowledge of:
Theories, principles and practices of travel demand forecasting including 4-step model;
Mathematical methods and procedures; transportation network simulation methods and procedures;
Transportation modeling software packages such as CUBE/TP+ and TRANSCAD;
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and database development and applications;
Statistical survey methods and procedures for transportation analysis;
Concepts, principles, techniques and legal aspects of transportation planning;
Network development, checking and calibration;
Travel demand model development and forecasting;
Capabilities of computer program packages and their utilization in network simulation and survey analysis;
Governmental organizations and operations;
Community interrelationships;
Project management methods and techniques;
Principles and practices of supervision, management, employee training and development.
Ability to:
Conduct comprehensive analyses and studies and make recommendations based on findings in studies, field observation, and public contacts;
Analyze issues and numerical measures associated with transportation planning projects, including estimates derived from computer models, estimates of costs and benefits, and public input;
Compile, analyze and interpret complex data sets;
Negotiate consensus solutions;
Estimate and administer budgets for studies and schedule and manage planning projects;
Write correspondence, Board memoranda, planning and technical reports, and fact sheets designed to be understood by all audiences, including the general public;
Simultaneously manage multiple projects;
Maintain project objectives and integrity when conflicting interests may influence the project outcome;
Resolve conflicts between contractors and VTA on the interpretation of contractor project responsibilities;
Supervise, and develop staff;
Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing;
Establish cooperative-working relationships with those contacted in the course of work.
About VTA
The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority employs more than 2,000 people dedicated to providing solutions that move Silicon Valley. Unique among transportation organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area, VTA is Santa Clara County’s authority for transit development and operations (light rail and bus), congestion management, transportation-related funding, highway design and construction, real estate and transit-oriented development, and bicycle and pedestrian planning. With local, state, and federal partners, VTA works to innovate the way Silicon Valley moves and provide mobility solutions for all.
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) is an independent special district that provides sustainable, accessible, community-focused, innovative, and environmentally responsible transportation options promoting the region's vitality. VTA provides bus, light rail, and paratransit services and participates as a funding partner in regional rail services, including Caltrain, Capital Corridor, and the Altamont Corridor Express. To learn more, go to: vta.org
