This position performs transportation agency liaison duties with regional partners, budgeting, and capital project programming. The position also pursues transportation funding opportunities from various funding sources and ensures compliance with related requirements. In a dynamic and quickly evolving environment, this position will provide a challenging and rewarding experience for an individual invested in achieving the county’s ambitious active transportation goals.

Responsibilities include:

• Facilitating interagency coordination at the federal, state, and regional level on planning, projects, and policies.
• Managing the county’s relationship with one or more of the following commissions, boards, authorities and/or jurisdictions: Northern Virginia Transportation Commission (NVTC), Virginia Railway Express (VRE), Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (MWCOG), Transportation Planning Board (TPB), Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT), Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation (DRPT), and other local jurisdictions; providing technical input and recommendations to those regional agencies; meeting with their representatives to develop policy and agreements on service levels and coordinating efforts.
• Providing guidance to staff, citizens, and officials on procedural and policy matters.
• Assisting in securing funding for transportation capital and operating projects.
• Preparing and communicating reports, recommendations, meeting summaries, letters, official items for Board of Supervisors’ consideration, and other documents, as required.
• Analyzing transportation issues; preparing presentations for and serving as a subject matter expert at project-related public meetings, briefings for senior leadership and/or elected officials, and other audiences, as required to meet specific audience needs.
• Performing other duties as assigned.