Green Mountain Transit
Burlington, VT United States
Description and Essential Functions
Responsible for collecting, analyzing, and managing transit data to support service planning, operational performance, and organizational decision-making across GMT. This includes but is not limited to:
- Collaborates with staff, board members, and community partners to identify data needs and develop performance measures.
- Analyzes transit data and provide recommendations to improve service planning and operations.
- Develops and maintains performance metrics, dashboards, automated workflows, and open data resources.
- Ensures data quality, integrity, and timely reporting for internal and external stakeholders.
- Designs, administers, and analyzes transit surveys.
- Monitors trends, legislation, and technology related to transit data management.
- Prepares reports, plans, presentations, and public-facing materials.
- Supports board, community, and public outreach activities.
- Maintains data management policies, procedures, and standard operating procedures.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Education and/or Experience: Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics, Planning, Public Administration, Computer Science, or a related field; experience writing comprehensive documents and reports; ability to analyze large data sets and an analytical mind and inclination for problem-solving
Essential Job Skills and Abilities: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Essential duties are performed with or without reasonable accommodation.
- Must have demonstrated experience processing and analyzing data using statistical programming languages such as R (tidyverse) and/or Python (pandas).
- Must have demonstrated experience creating data visualizations and dashboards using tools such as ggplot2, Plotly, and Datawrapper.
- Must have demonstrated experience in accessing and integrating data through APIs using R or Python.
- Must have demonstrated experience working with spatial data and geographic information systems (GIS).
- Must have demonstrated experience creating static and interactive maps using ArcGIS or QGIS.
- Must have proficiency with version control tools such as Git and GitHub.
- Must have familiarity with developing and publishing web-based content using HTML, CSS, Quarto, or similar tools.
- Must possess excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Must possess organizational skills and be detail-oriented.