Job Description

Posting number: 2026-00857

Department: Portland Bureau of Transportation

Job classification: Coordinator I (Non-exempt) - CPPW

Posting type: Open

Categories: Community Services, Public Works, Transportation, Project Management, Program Management

Summary

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Job Appointment: Full-Time

Work Schedule: Monday – Friday, 8:30 am-5 pm. An alternate schedule may be available.

Hybrid/work location: This role will report to The Portland Building 1120 SW 5th Avenue, Portland OR 97204 for In-person work. School site visits will be required.

Benefits: Please check our benefit tab for an overview of benefits for this position.

Union Representation: City of Portland Professional Workers (CPPW)

To view current labor agreements, please visit https://www.portland.gov/bhr/employee-relations/labor-relations/labor-agreements.

Application Material: Please click APPLY to submit your application via the City of Portland’s online portal. You will need to respond to the supplemental questions and attach a resume.

The Safe Routes to School Coordinator plays a key role in making streets around schools safer and more accessible for students and families. This position leads and supports citywide efforts to align infrastructure investments, policies, and on-the-ground improvements that enhance school circulation. This work helps increase the number of students safely walking, biking, rolling, and taking transit for their school commute and around their neighborhoods; and reduces traffic fatalities and serious injuries. The Safe Routes to School Coordinator partners closely with internal teams, school districts, and school communities to implement safety projects, advance policy-aligned designs, and standardize safety treatments adjacent to schools.

The successful candidate is a member of the Safe Routes to School Section within the Mobility and Safety Programs (MSP) Division.

What you’ll get to do:

• Coordinate Safe Routes to School circulation strategy by aligning infrastructure, policies, and safety treatments that improve school area conditions, including lower speeds and consistent countermeasures.
• Engage school districts, internal partners, and school community stakeholders to improve school area circulation safety through site observations, school access planning, and infrastructure installations, including pilot projects.
• Collaborate with internal team to refine the Safe Routes to School priority network and evaluate potential projects.
• Advance standardized approaches to school area safety, including mapping, updating and maintaining inventories, and process improvements.

Who you are:

• Diversity Champion: You believe in, support, and fight for diversity and inclusion in the workplace and the community. You prioritize ways to make it happen in a manner that benefits all stakeholders.
• Organized: You are able to work on a multitude of tasks and understand/respond to various situations in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment.
• Collaborative: You are a professional who values partnership and develops and supports relationships to get things done.
• Authentic: You are effective in a professional, diverse, multi-cultural environment. You treat customers, co-workers and employees with respect and are accountable.
• Problem Solver: You can identify problems early and value collaboration. You utilize active listening and effective communication and facilitation skills in working with others to find resolutions.
• Independent: You can exercise independent judgement and initiative within establishment guidelines.
• Detail-oriented: You are effective at tracking project details to ensure consistency and accuracy in project implementation.

About the Bureau:

The Portland Bureau of Transportation is a community partner in shaping a livable city. We plan, build, manage, and maintain an effective and safe transportation system that provides people and businesses access and mobility. We keep Portland moving. For more information about the Portland Bureau of Transportation, please visit Transportation | Portland.gov. The Portland Bureau of Transportation embraces diversity, models inclusivity, and promotes equity through its service delivery, internal operations, organizational culture, and in its work with partners and the community.

About the Division:

The Mobility and Safety Programs (MSP) Division is located within PBOT’s Policy, Planning and Projects group. The Division works to make streets safer and increase the number of people walking, bicycling, and taking transit; community-facing programs are central to this goal.

About Safe Routes to School

Our Safe Routes to School program focuses on helping kids and their families walk, bike, and roll to and from school and around their neighborhoods. We use infrastructure improvements, engagement, and education to improve safety, decrease congestion, reduce climate impacts, and encourage physical activity. The Safe Routes to School program supports over 100 schools within five school districts.

The Safe Routes to School team works closely with the Vision Zero team to advance a shared goal of creating a transportation system where everyone can travel safely. Itis Portland's goal to eliminate traffic deaths and serious injuries on our streets. Both programs use a Safe System Approach to traffic safety. This approach anticipates human mistakes through five layers of redundancy – safe speeds, safe streets, safe people, safe vehicles, and post-crash response – so human mistakes do not lead to serious injury or death. Vision Zero is Portland's goal to eliminate traffic deaths and serious injuries on our streets

Questions?:

Terrol Johnson

Senior Recruiter

terrol.johnson@portlandoregon.gov

Examples of duties

Applicants must be full or part-time, permanent, temporary (does NOT include contract workers), limited-term or seasonal/casual City of Portland employees by the closing date of this announcement OR must have an effective lay-off date with recall eligibility (See HRAR 7.06) from the City of Portland within 12 months of the opening date of this announcement. Applicants must specifically address and demonstrate in their resume and supplemental question responses how their education, training and/or experience, meets each of the following minimum qualifications:

1. Experience planning and/or designing multimodal infrastructure projects.
2. Experience applying effective project management including organizing, directing, motivating, and engaging stakeholders.
3. Experience coordinating and communicating with diverse groups of stakeholders for program implementation such as, other government bureaus or agencies, school districts, nonprofit or community organizations, and members of the public.
4. Knowledge of transportation demand management concepts and/or behavior change strategies in the context of non-driving modes such as bicycling, walking, transit, and rolling/scooting.
5. Ability to engage with communities of color and people traditionally underrepresented in local decision-making; facilitate inclusive outreach and engagement; communicate cross-culturally.

Although not required, you may have one or more of the following:

• Ability to communicate in Spanish.
• Ability to create maps in GIS

This position is eligible for Language Pay Differential for qualifying employees.

Qualifications

STEP 1: Apply online between September 21, 2026, and October 5, 2026

Required Application Materials:

• Resume
• Answers to Supplemental Questions

Optional Application Materials:

Veteran’s Preference documents (e.g., DD214-Member 4, VA Benefit Letter) must be submitted by the closing date.Update: As of March 3, 2025, if you have already submitted veteran documents and qualified for preference, you do not need to resubmit them for future recruitments.To update or remove veteran preference for this recruitment or from your profile, contact the recruiter listed in the job announcement.Application Tips:

• Your answers to the Supplemental Questions should include details describing your education, training, and/or experience, and where obtained, which clearly reflect your qualifications for each of the numbered items in the "To Qualify" section of this announcement.
• Your résumé should support the details described in your answers to the supplemental questions..
• Salary Range/Equity Pay Analysis: Please note per the Oregon State Pay Equity Law, your salary is determined based on the experience and education listed in your resume/application. It is strongly encouraged to include any transferable experience (paid or unpaid, regardless of how recent) to ensure your offer is reflective of all directly related and equivalent experience.
• Do not attach any additional documents.
• Please note that all completed applications for this position must be submitted no later than the closing date and time of this recruitment.

Step 2: Minimum Qualification Evaluation: Week of October 5, 2026

• An evaluation of each applicant's training, paid and unpaid experience, as demonstrated in their answers to supplemental questions and resume, weighted 100%.
• Your answers to the supplemental questions and résumé will be the basis for our evaluation of your qualifications for this position. Incomplete or inappropriate information may result in disqualification.
• You have 14 days from the notice of the minimum qualification evaluation results to let us know if you would like to review and discuss your evaluation results. Please read the City of Portland Administrative Rule 3.01 for complete information.
• Additional evaluation may be required before establishment of the eligible list and/or final selection.

Step 3: Establishment of Eligible List: Week of October 12, 2026

• Candidates who meet the minimum qualifications will be placed on the equally ranked eligible list.
• Please note that the selection process may take up to 90 days from the notification of being placed on the eligible list.

Step 4: Selection (Interview): TBD

• Hiring bureau will review and select candidates for an interview.
• Please note that the selection process may take up to 90 days from the notification of being placed on the eligible list.

Step 5: Offer of Employment: TBD

Step 6: Start Date:

A start date will be determined after all conditions of employment have been met.

*Timeline is approximate and subject to change.

Supplemental information

Click here for additional information regarding the following:City of Portland Core ValuesRecruitment Process - Work StatusEqual Employment OpportunityVeteran PreferenceADA, Pregnancy, and Religious Accommodations

Did you know? The City of Portland has How to Apply Videos and offers How to Apply Classes once per month. If you have questions after watching the videos you are invited to contact the recruiter listed on the announcement.

An Equal Opportunity Employer