Transportation Strategist

1 week ago

Toronto, Ontario, Canada Steer Ed Full time

Steer Ed helps public, private, and non-profit clients drive the development of transportation systems, resources, places, and communities.

About Us

We provide deep expertise across strategy, advisory, planning, and design to help our clients achieve results and exceed their financial and strategic objectives. Our people-centred approach and diverse experience enable us to work collaboratively with clients and their stakeholders.

Job Summary

This role is part of the North America Strategy team that helps public-sector clients make informed decisions on policy, future infrastructure investments, and government services, with a focus on public transit, government infrastructure, and services.

The successful candidate will conduct strategic policy and/or quantitative analysis, lead tasks on larger projects and manage small to medium projects by displaying initiative, strong critical thinking skills, and working both independently and within a team.

Duties & Responsibilities
  1. Engage with a wide variety of clients who are determining the direction of transportation systems in North America. Develop strategies, business cases, and plans to address complex challenges and evolve powerful solutions.
  2. Create meaningful change in communities through provision of high-quality advice.
  3. Conduct policy analysis and/or quantitative analysis to help inform strategic advice to clients to assist with investment-grade decision-making.
  4. Undertake technical analysis, report writing, and presentations to clients within clearly defined budgets as well as demanding timescales.
  5. Prepare and present reports, proposals, briefing notes, and decks internally and to clients.
  6. Take responsibility for the delivery of projects as a project manager and/or take responsibility for the delivery of a work stream as task lead; ensuring that best practice techniques are applied consistently.
  7. Work independently and in collaboration with other colleagues and our clients.
  8. Take initiative, proactively identifying problems and opportunities across your portfolio of projects and clients, developing recommendations, and acting on those recommendations.
  9. Lead project teams to deliver innovative and successful proposals and projects to time, cost, risk management, and product quality.
  10. Review trends and new ideas in the market to ensure our work remains cutting edge.
  11. Take ownership of continued development, including practicing relevant consulting, strategic planning, policy development skills.
  12. Proactively identify risks or project challenges, and communicate to the team in a professional manner.
  13. Provide feedback to team members on an ongoing basis – peers, subordinates, and seniors.
  14. Follow expectations set by market leadership for project management, written deliverables, and client presentations.
  15. Mentor and manage the development of early career professionals.
  16. Attend and participate actively in market meetings (I.e., anchor days, weekly/monthly planning) and provide input into market direction.
  17. Support the production and delivery of proposals.
Minimum Requirements

The preferred candidate for this role will possess some or all of the following attributes:

  1. 3-5+ years relevant experience advising private and/or public sector clients on relevant topics to the strategy market, including, but not limited to:
  2. - Business case development
  3. - Economic and financial appraisal
  4. - Conducting analysis on emerging topics in benefit-cost analysis including resiliency, wider economic benefits, behavioral studies, and transit pricing
  5. - Supporting structured decision-making
  6. - Policy analysis
  7. - Organizational development/capacity building
  8. - Scenario planning
  9. - Forecasting
  10. - Narrative development/storytelling
Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Business, Economics, Geography, Policy/Political Science, Engineering, Urban Planning required; Post-graduate qualification preferred.

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