Transportation Demand Manager - Princeton University, Princeton New Jersey
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 In 2008, Princeton University established a comprehensive sustainability strategy that seeks to develop systems and practices that balance economic viability with ecosystem health and human well being. |
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Princeton is committed to a process that engages students, faculty, and staff in gaining understanding of our current patterns and consequences of behaviors; calls upon creative dialogue to explore desirable sustainable characteristics and the means to achieve them; and incorporates sustainability principles into our operational functions and educational framework with the intent to influence our actions from the local to the global level. As part of this commitment, Princeton will develop and implement a sustainable transportation demand management program system.
The TDM manager is required to develop, implement, monitor and evaluate programs and initiatives that result in significant shifts in transportation mode shares within the University, for example, shifting trips from single-occupant-vehicles to walking, cycling, transit and carpooling. These programs and initiatives are in direct support of both the University Campus Plan and the Sustainability Plan endorsed by the University Trustees.
The person in this position must work collectively and collaboratively with a varied groups, individuals, departments, and offices both internal and external to the University. The TDM Manager must be able to work autonomously and be adept at research, analysis, and creative/innovative problem solving. They will need to be flexible and adaptive to the changing needs of the University community. There needs to be open and continuous communication, information sharing and evaluation between the TDM Manager, the director of transportation and parking, the assistant director for transportation and the assistant director for parking. |
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Position requires a bachelor's degree and two to three years of professional experience managing a TDM program, related transportation/transit planning or operations agency or the equivalent combination of education and experience. Knowledge of sustainable transportation systems, theory and practice; of management and team leadership methods, goal setting, and project management theories; of public administration techniques and the ability to apply them; of planning methodologies such as data collection, forecasting, modeling, and alternative analysis techniques.
Knowledge of Microsoft Office computer applications including Excel, Word and Power Point.
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Bachelor's degree and three to five years of professional experience managing a TDM program, related transportation/transit planning or operations agency. Considerable knowledge of sustainable transportation systems, theory and practice including establishing cooperative team with public and private sector organizations; of techniques of quantitative, fiscal, cost-benefit, environmental, social impact analyses, strategic planning and system analysis.
Interested candidates must apply online at http://jobs.princeton.edu. Requisition Number: 0800206. |
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Princeton University |
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