Planning Analysis and Performance Manager

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The Planning, Development, and Research department is looking for a Transportation Analysis and Performance Manager to lead the agency’s efforts to monitor, measure, and communicate how the regional transportation system performs in support of the region’s long-range Regional Transportation Plan (RTP), Metropolitan Transportation Improvement Program (MTIP), Climate Smart Strategy, and state and federal performance management requirements. It also performs these functions in support of topical transportation plans and major project planning activities.

This position manages a multidisciplinary team responsible for data-driven analysis, system performance monitoring, and reporting on outcomes related to mobility, safety, equity, congestion, and greenhouse gas emissions. The manager ensures performance information informs regional policy decisions, supports transparent reporting to the public and decision-makers, and meets state and federal compliance requirements. The team may also lead policy development related to congestion management and performance in coordination with other planning and policy teams.

The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker and collaborative leader with demonstrated expertise in analytical and communication skills and a deep commitment to improving transportation system outcomes for all users.

• Lead and manage a team of planning professionals responsible for system performance measurement and data management, fostering their growth, collaboration, and innovation; ensuring staff have the resources and support to meet program goals; and cultivating a diverse and inclusive team with leadership succession opportunities.
• Provide strategic oversight of the regional transportation performance, monitoring, and reporting program, ensuring alignment with regional transportation plan (RTP) goals, modal and topical plan (e.g. Climate Smart Strategy) goals, and with the congestion management process (CMP).
• Lead and coordinate data analysis and reporting in a manner that serves as a bridge between technical data and analysis professionals in the department’s Research Center and policy-focused planners, ensuring analytical outputs effectively inform the development of regional transportation policy, program, and project priorities.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement in performance analysis, reporting practices and collaboration with internal Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) programs, supporting research, modeling and data teams, and the broader department work program.
• Champion diversity, equity and inclusion in decision-making and leadership processes across all projects and initiatives.
• Ensure continued federal certification of the regional transportation planning program related to transportation performance management, and continued compliance with state transportation performance monitoring and reporting requirements.

• Coordinate with Metro’s Transportation System Management & Operations (TSMO) Program, the Regional Travel Options (RTO) Program, and Transit Oriented Development (TOD) Program, and staff managing data and analysis tools on topical transportation issues such as safety on the management, analysis, and reporting of data sources.

• Participate in forums and initiatives on transportation performance activities to track emerging trends and identify opportunities for program improvement.
• Contribute to department budgeting, reporting, strategic planning, and other executive management efforts and collaborate with department leadership to integrate performance monitoring and reporting into the broader regional transportation planning work program.

• Lead implementation of federal transportation performance management requirements, including target setting, coordination with ODOT and transit agencies, and…