<p>Position Information</p> <p>Making Cycling Safer, Smarter, and More Connected</p> <p>Start your rewarding career with the City and County of Honolulu today!</p> <p>Ready to shape the future? Help us plan smarter pathways to sustainable transportation! TheDepartment of Transportation Services, Transportation Engineering Divisionis looking for an innovative and strategic individual to join their team as a Bicycle Planner (Planner V)! This position is responsible for developing, coordinating, and implementing a proactive safety plan aimed at reducing bicycle accidents within the broader context of the City's traffic safety program, while promoting bicycles as an effective means of transportation and recreation.</p> <p>Duties and responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to:</p> <ul> <li>Coordinating a City-wide bicycle safety program, serving as the City representative on the Bicycle Advisory Committee by attending meetings and implementing recommendations, projects, and investigations, and using a motor vehicle to attend public events such as college fairs, craft fairs, and bike month events to educate children and adults about bike safety; </li><li>Preparing and disseminating educational materials, courses, and programs on safe bicycling for various groups, developing and implementing community relations through news/social media releases, media interviews, TV and radio spots, bicycle touring information for Oahu, and the City website, while overseeing bicycle education and shared mobility programs; </li><li>Participating in long-range planning for bicycle-related capital improvement projects, providing input for the Statewide Master Plan for bikeways on Oahu by compiling data, researching alternatives, and suggesting funding priorities, while conducting field inspections, investigations, and studies using a motor vehicle to ensure project feasibility and accuracy, applying planning knowledge of relevant guidelines and standards to advance active projects or assess potential future ones; </li><li>Providing input on new bikeways, renovation of existing bikeways, and bikeway aspects of specific projects, developing bicycle promotion programs and incentives, and collaborating with agencies and organizations to promote bicycling as a recognized form of recreation, including advocating for the City as a site for cycling events, while attending public events using a motor vehicle to educate children and adults about bike safety; </li><li>Assisting in the enforcement of bicycle-related laws and advising on risk management issues, working with agencies, organizations, and bicycle retailers to encourage bicycle registration and compliance with laws, and developing research priorities while overseeing studies on bicycle accidents, accident locations, and the effectiveness of facility designs, collecting, compiling, and analyzing data on bicycle violations and accidents; </li><li>Initiating projects to promote bicycle use for transportation and recreation, working with employers to develop incentives for employee commuting, and encouraging and developing support programs for bus/bicycle combinations for commuting; </li><li>Serving as the grants manager for bicycle programs by monitoring and preparing grant applications to federal agencies, foundations, and other organizations, attending State, local, regional, and professional meetings on bicycle issues, and responding to public inquiries and requests related to bicycle matters; and </li><li>Performing other related duties as required. </li></ul> <p>Special Work Requirement: Work schedule is from 7:45 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. This role involves conducting field investigations and may serve as a Disaster Support Worker per Mayor Directive 13-1. May also be required to work overtime, weekends, nights and holidays based on operational needs.</p> <p>Join us in creating a safer, more sustainable future by advancing bicycle-friendly communities and making a lasting impact on transportation and recreation! If you qualify for the position, your name will be eligible for referral to the hiring department for further consideration for the current job opening, as well as future vacancies for this job title.</p> <p>Additional Job Information</p> <p>Applications must be submitted online athttps://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/honoluluto be accepted.</p> <ul> <li>Actual salary will be commensurate with applicable experience, pending approval.* </li></ul> <p>Some notifications will be sent via e-mail. You are responsible for monitoring instructions and correspondence from this office by checking your e-mail account in a timely manner. To ensure proper delivery, please make sure you:</p> <ul> <li>use a valid e-mail account; </li><li>verify your e-mail address is entered correctly on your GovernmentJobs account; </li><li>are subscribed to e-mail notices; </li><li>check your spam folders; and </li><li>addinfoneogov@honolulu.gov andinfo@governmentjobs.com to your contact list. </li></ul> <p>Notifications may also be sent via text message if opted into the service. Data and text messaging fees apply.</p> <p>Minimum Qualification Requirements</p> <p>At the time of application, you must be a citizen, national or permanent resident alien of the United States or a non-citizen eligible under federal law for unrestricted employment.</p> <p>EDUCATION REQUIREMENT:</p> <p>Equivalent to graduation from a regionally-accredited four-year college or university with specialization in city planning, architecture, engineering, economics, sociology, public administration or a related field.</p> <p>Substitution: Work experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree on a year-for-year basis. Such experience must have provided the knowledge, skills, and analytical ability normally gained from attainment of a bachelor's degree in city planning, architecture, engineering, economics, sociology, public administration or a related field.</p> <p>Only education completed at the time of application will be credited. Education obtained outside of the United States must be comparable to a degree earned at a regionally-accredited college/university in the United States. In order to receive credit for the education, a foreign credential evaluation (FCE) must be provided. We also reserve the right to request further information about your academic program, evidence of comparability, or an original transcript.</p> <p>Verification Requirement: In order to be given credit for your education, clearly list your education credentials on your application. As part of the hiring process, you may be asked to furnish documentation to verify your education to satisfy this education qualification requirement. If available, please attach an electronic copy of your diploma and/or official transcript which shows the embossed seal or applicable FCE to your application.Or mail a photocopy of your documents to the following address: Department of Human Resources, 650 South King Street, 10th Floor, Honolulu, HI 96813. Copies will not be returned. Unofficial transcripts will not be accepted. All information on your documentation must be legible and complete in order to be given credit.</p> <p>If you do not have your documentation to verify your education at this time, please note that if selected for the job, you will need to furnish verification documents in order to move forward in the hiring process.</p> <p>EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENT:</p> <p>Two years of professional work in planning, coordinating and implementing a bicycling program to include information, education, promotion and public relations activities in support of such program.</p> <p>Applicable Skills:</p> <ul> <li>Knowledge of the principles, practices, purposes, scope and techniques of the various stages of transportation planning. </li><li>Knowledge of sources and uses of socio-economic information. </li><li>Ability totranslate ideas and recommendations into plans and drawings which are in conformance with laws and regulations, with the general plan, and with the best social, economic, and public interest utilization. </li><li>Ability to collect, analyze and interpret data pertaining to planning and zoning situations, and make effective decisions and recommendations from these data. </li></ul> <p>LICENSE REQUIREMENT:</p> <p>Possession of an appropriate valid driver's license, as required.</p> <p>Examination Process</p> <p>EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE EVALUATION:</p> <p>In addition to meeting the above minimum qualifications, your application will be further evaluated. Your score will be based on the quality and quantity of your education, experience and/or other related job requirements and competencies applicable to the position. Failure to provide sufficient information may result in your application being rejected or your receiving a lower score.</p> <p>EXAMINATION WEIGHT:</p> <p>Education and Experience Evaluation........................................................100%</p>