Job Title: DEPUTY CHIEF INNOVATION OFFICER
Location: Metro (Los Angeles, CA)
Job Description:
Basic Function
- Oversees the Research and Outreach components of the Office of Extraordinary Innovation and initiates the piloting of new and experimental ideas and policies in an effort to ensure successful and positive results are received for Metro and Los Angeles County
Example Of Duties
- Assists the Chief Innovation Officer in providing strategic direction and establishing goals and major priorities for the Office of Extraordinary Innovation (OEI)
- Oversees the research and outreach efforts to ensure no possible opportunities are overlooked
- Makes recommendations to the Chief Innovation Officer on the best possible ideas and concepts for Metro to initiate and pursue
- Creates and develops an implementation plan for ideas generated through the OEI and takes the concept from inception through fruition
- Initiates and completes comprehensive strategic planning process that includes input from the Board of Directors, employees, stakeholders, and local/national partners that will set the strategic direction of our agency for the next decade or more
- Works with internal departments such as Planning, Finance, and Construction/Engineering to gain insight on new trends to investigate
- Initiates and explores different and unique ideas to improve mobility and accessibility in Los Angeles
- Partners with the academic community, learned transportation professionals, and the private sector to research past and leading edge ideas and philosophies to address current and anticipated transportation challenges and concerns to determine how those ideas can benefit LA County and even the world
- Collaborates with outside and partner governmental agencies, the private sector, and policy makers to create effective and results-based partnerships
- Contributes to ensuring that the EEO policies and programs of Metro are carried out
Requirements For Employment
- Bachelor's degree - Business, Public Administration, Public Policy, Urban Planning, Transportation Planning, or other related field
- 5 years of senior management-level experience in transportation planning, policy, program management, or project development/management
- Experience working for a public transportation agency is desirable
- Master's degree in related field desirable
- Valid California Class C driver's license
