MetroPlan is looking for a new Executive Director. MetroPlan is the Flagstaff Metropolitan Planning Organization, which addresses transportation issues for the Greater Flagstaff region.
The Executive Director exercises comprehensive independent judgment, initiative, and professional expertise for the long-term welfare and day-to-day administration, management, and supervision of MetroPlan. This position provides visionary, innovative leadership, which encourages and recognizes creativity, risk-taking, flexibility and facilitation of the highest level of service to the MetroPlan’s customers; both internal and external. The Executive Director is accountable to the Executive Board that is comprised of elected and appointed officials from the City, County, State, and Regional organizations.
Send Letter of Interest and current resume to employment@mountainline.az.gov
Last Day to Apply: Friday, February 17, 2023
The Executive Director is responsible for providing inter-agency and multi-disciplinary leadership in land use and transportation planning among local, state and federal agencies including varied public and private sector partners. Defining aspects of this position are visionary leadership, persuasive advocacy, effective coalition building, strategic planning, tactical prioritization and savvy financial management. The Executive Director is expected to deftly leverage human and financial resources of many partner agencies towards the conception and completion of complex, long-range and highly impactful transportation and land-use plans and projects.
ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES
- Supervisory: This job has full responsibility for direct or indirect supervision (hires, directs, schedules, transfers, promotes, rewards, disciplines, and terminates other employees) for MetroPlan, including the MetroPlan Planning Manager, Business Manager, Consultants, Transportation Planners, Multi-Modal Planners, Associate Planners, Volunteers and
- Budgetary: The Executive Director has full responsibility for budgeting, including revenue development, expense projections, and short and long-term capital and operational budgets for MetroPlan.
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Strategic Planning: The Executive Director has full responsibility for leading strategic planning (develops, implements, interprets, and manages) for MetroPlan.
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Policies/Procedures: This job has full responsibility for policies and procedures, including developing, implementing, and interpreting policies and procedures for MetroPlan.
- Compliance: This job has full responsibility for seeing applications, projects and intergovernmental processes though to accurate and timely
- Communications: This job has full responsibility for communication to the public and various governing bodies at all levels of
- Reporting: This job has full responsibility for reporting to Federal/State/Local agencies (ensures reporting requirements are met, trains others on reporting requirements and methods, and addresses discrepancies in reporting).
EXAMPLES OF THE WORK PERFORMED (ILLUSTRATIVE ONLY)
- Provides excellent customer service to both internal and external
- Makes recommendations and presentations, writes staff summaries, ensures performance measures are met, and balances needs with the MetroPlan Board’s adopted priorities and
- Builds the financial capacity of the MetroPlan and its ability to attract, secure and leverage multi-million-dollar capital construction projects for the benefit of member agencies and the region.
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Prepares and administers the MetroPlan budget and exercises control over
- Leads research, evaluation and crafting of regional policy initiatives to the MetroPlan Executive Board and to member organizations, legislative bodies, and federal
- Leads research, evaluation and crafting of strategic funding initiatives to the MetroPlan Executive Board and to member organizations’, legislative bodies, and federal
- Develops education and advocacy strategies, as appropriate to a public organization, towards advancing the legislative, funding, and policy needs of the
- Serves on the NAIPTA Transit Advisory Committee and other standing and ad-hoc committees pertinent to advancing the mission and vision of the
- Assesses demand for and recruits and hires appropriate legal, financial and strategic staff as needed to advance the mission of the
- Makes decisions, recommendations, provides reports, and other information to the Executive
- Recommends policies related to the transportation and land-use elements of the Regional Land Use and Transportation Plan to MetroPlan member agencies and the Executive Board
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Researches, facilitates development of, and recommends policy positions to the Executive Board on state and federal legislative
- Coordinates the development of regional transportation planning goals with MetroPlan Member agencies, funding agencies and federal, state and local
- Leads negotiations on large and/or complex funding and development
- Envisions, analyzes, communicates and implements changes to the
- Monitors grant applications, funding processes, administrative requirements and tracks same to ensure timely and effective funding flow and project
- Establishes measures to improve methods, changes in operations, working conditions, quality of work, and any necessary changes to increase efficiency and effectiveness. Evaluates special needs, unusual problems, and assesses the general quality of strategic, funding or planning
- Serves as liaison to the Arizona Department of Transportation for all planning
- Ensures citizen and regulatory agency complaints and suggestions are acted upon and
- Keeps the Executive Board and member agencies advised of activities through written, oral, and statistical reports.
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Prepares written communication and reports regarding transportation and land use projects and
- Represents MetroPlan matters and concerns before a variety of bodies including: Planning and Zoning Commissions, Staff Review Boards, and other member agency Boards and
- Performs liaison duties regarding transportation issues between member agencies, councils of government, lobbyists to state and federal legislatures, and national transportation
- Attends regular MetroPlan Executive Board and Technical Advisory Committee meetings and attends City Council, County Board of Supervisors, and Arizona State Transportation Board meetings as needed to represent regional transportation
- Speaks before funding and regulatory agencies and civic and professional groups on the plans, objectives, policies and programs of the
- Supervises the maintenance of time sheets, attendance, leave and other MetroPlan personnel and payroll
- Supervises MetroPlan financial management and accounting.
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Directs professional, sub professional, and other employees of the MetroPlan and provides inter-agency leadership in the investigation, development and implementation of a variety of transportation and land use
- Establishes priorities of work within the
- Supervises the preparation of reports, including the Unified Planning Work Program and the Transportation Improvement Program, and represents the MetroPlan at a wide variety of
- Develops the Five-Year Transportation Capital Plan within the Transportation Improvement Program and coordinates those projects and schedules with MetroPlan member and funding
- Attends conferences and conventions and other educational and professional meetings to keep updated on strategic, leadership, funding, transportation, land-use and planning
- Other duties as
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelor’s degree in Planning, Public Administration, Transportation or related
- Eight years of recent and responsible experience in managing and leading professional, technical and clerical personnel in urban planning, transportation, or a related
- Six years of progressively responsible supervisory experience including budget development and financial
- Or any combination of education, experience, and training equivalent to the above Minimum
DESIRED EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING
- Master’s Degree in Planning, Public Administration, Business Administration or related
- Experience in coordination of multi-agency programs and
- Demonstrated Experience writing, securing and managing grant
- Experience with urban design, environmental planning, and land use planning
- Experience in public relations, administrative liaison, and public
OTHER REQUIREMENTS
- Must possess, or obtain upon employment, a valid Arizona driver’s
- Regular attendance is an essential function of this job to ensure
REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (ILLUSTRATIVE ONLY)
- Ability to provide effective inter-agency leadership towards articulating and accomplishing shared
- Extensive knowledge of modern theories, principles and practices of leadership and transportation planning as applied to implementing change in a growing
- Extensive knowledge of the principles and practices of public
- Language Skills: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents. Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community. Ability to write speeches and articles for publication that conform to prescribed style and format. Ability to effectively present information to top management, public groups, and/or boards of
- Mathematical Skills: Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical
- Reasoning Ability: Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
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Ability to perceive and interpret customer needs (internal and external) and translate them into effective solutions and operational
- Extensive knowledge of the principles and practices of revenue development and budget preparation as it relates to funding large transportation and land use
- Demonstrated ability and previous experience in developing budgets, building programs and providing inter- agency leadership towards the accomplishment of regional goals including presentations to Councils, Boards and the
- Ability to coordinate and communicate with other member agencies, funding agencies, developers, contractors, consultants, and individuals involved in MetroPlan
- Ability to direct and supervise professional staff of all
- Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with employees, officials, other agencies, the media, and the general
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS AND WORKING ENVIRONMENT
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, use hands to finger/handle/feel, talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, taste or
- The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10
- Vision requirements for this position include close
- There are no special working conditions for this
- The noise level in the work environment is usually