Transportation and Travel Behavior Specialist

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Are you looking for an opportunity to advance transportation strategies to achieve the State's climate goals? Are you interested in gathering, processing, and analyzing data to uncover meaningful insights and patterns? Would you like to be part of an innovative, fast-paced, goal-oriented team?

The Sustainable Transportation and Communities Division (STCD) at the California Air Resources Board (CARB) is recruiting for an Air Resources Engineer (ARE) to work in its Transportation Analysis Section (Section). The Section supports efforts to tackle the climate crisis by advancing more sustainable, equitable communities and transportation choices. This ARE position will be part of a team analyzing transportation and land use data to support the development and implementation of the State's transportation and housing policies that advance climate and air quality goals. This includes using engineering principles and technical subject matter expertise to independently analyze transportation, land use, housing, and economic data to support sustainable policies that can transition California to an efficient, carbon-free transportation system and do so in an equitable way. The ARE will also enhance CARB's evaluation and monitoring of regional and local land use development and transportation strategies related to the implementation of California's Senate Bill (SB) 375 and SB 150 programs. In addition, the ARE will develop metrics and methods to quantify emission benefits and equity impacts of various land use and transportation strategies. The ARE will need to work effectively in a team-oriented environment and prepare and present comprehensive reports on land use, transportation, and housing issues and policies to CARB management and stakeholders. The ARE will also work with other CARB and sector experts to evaluate policy proposals and represent CARB in public forums.  

To ensure coordination within CARB and across numerous stakeholders, this candidate is also expected to be familiar with CARB's broader objectives to reduce emissions of GHG, criteria pollutants, and air toxics; participate in high-level meetings with CARB management; and represent CARB at forums and workshops. The candidate is also expected to conduct complex geospatial and statistical analysis of large data sets (including big data); use results of data analysis to understand changes in travel behavior and mobility patterns (e.g., changes due to COVID-19 or implementation of transportation strategies, etc.); use project management skills to supervise external research contracts and to manage their own balance of short- and long-term work; maintain relationships both within CARB and with outside agencies involved in, or affected by, CARB's sustainable communities program; and prepare for and occasionally travel within the State to attend meetings, workshops, and seminars.

You will find additional information about the job in the Duty Statement.

Working Conditions

The positions at the CARB may be eligible for telework with in-person attendance based on the operational needs of the position under Government Code 14200 for eligible applicants residing in California, subject to the candidate meeting telework eligibility criteria set forth in the CalEPA telework policy and/or future program need. Employees not residing in California are not eligible for telework. Regardless of hybrid telework eligibility, all employees may be required to report to the position’s designated headquarters location at their own expense, as indicated on their duty statement.
 

• Position located in a high-rise building.
• Requires being stationary, consistent with office work, for extended periods.
• Standard office environment (artificial lighting, controlled temperature, etc.).  
• Daily use of a personal computer, office equipment, and/or telephone.