Active Transportation Coordinator

**About us**

BEST has a long history of promoting and enabling sustainable transportation through initiatives, collaboration, and leadership. We offer innovative social enterprises, programs, and services to encourage, promote and enable sustainable and active transportation choices. Currently, the offer is a three-program stream: Living Streets, Seniors on The Move (SOTM), and The Bicycle Valet.
- Vision Statement:_ Through sustainable transportation, we build vibrant, inclusive communities.
- Mission Statement: _To activate better transportation options through initiatives, collaboration, and leadership.

**Our Programs**:

- Living Streets _promotes walking to enrich and experience public space, creating community ties, as a feasible way of transportation, and a catalyst for physical and mental health. It is a program that identifies opportunities for education and public engagement in the pedestrian realm.
- The Bicycle Valet _provides free and secure bicycle/active transportation parking across Metro Vancouver.
- Seniors on the Move _is a seniors-led, systems-charge project that aims to increase transportation options for older adults and others who do not drive, which BEST co-manages with United Way B.C.

BEST has been partnering with Translink providing support in managing and promoting Translink’s sustainable transportation initiatives. Translink is the organization’s largest stakeholders.

**About TransLink**: Metro Vancouver’s Regional Transportation Strategy commits the region to designing our communities and transportation system in such a way that half of all trips can be made through walking, cycling, and transit. As part of this commitment, TransLink’s mandate includes support for active transportation infrastructure, facilities and programs. While TransLink continues to grow its portfolio of walking and cycling initiatives, the support for managing and promoting these projects must also increase to promote long-term mode shift.

**Why BEST?**
- BEST offers a flexible schedule, hybrid work from home, office, and events.
- We dress casually and share a passion for multimodal transportation.

**BEST is hiring an Active Transportation Coordinator**

If you are passionate about cycling and sustainable transportation, a great collaborator, and have awesome problem-solving skills, we'd love to have you join our team in this joint role with TransLink

**Job Summary**:This position is overseen by BEST and TransLink, to help coordinate the cycling facility and program operations, as well as behaviour change initiatives/Transportation Demand Management (TDM) activities. This contract requires the Coordinator to be available to provide approximately four days per week, or a maximum of 30 hours, throughout the week from Monday to Friday. The Coordinator will report to both the managers at TransLink as well as the Executive Director of Better Environmentally Sound Transportation.

**Responsibilities**:

- **Bike Facilities Operation**:_
- Responding to customer questions and complaints about bicycle facilities
- Coordinating the maintenance and repair of bicycle facilities, including providing direction to internal teams and contractors as required
- Review, source, analyze, and organize data reports on usage of bicycle facilities
- Conduct site visits and/or support data collection related to bicycle facilities, as required
- **Transportation Demand Management (TDM)**:_
- Support TransLink’s TDM team to execute and coordinate partner campaigns, events and programs.
- Develop resources and support events that promote active transportation infrastructure and Bike to Transit/Bike Parking campaigns.
- Attend various events/working groups to promote TransLink’s bike programs and parking options, provide general walking & cycling information to the public.
- Assist TransLink marketing by creating content and ensuring active transportation website content and resources are up to date.
- Collaborate with municipalities and external partners and organizations to share, provide, and create informational and promotional resources relating to active transportation (infrastructure, bike parking, bike to transit, and trip planning)
- Provide information and promotional resources relating to micro-mobility programs.
- Assist with maintenance, coordination and operations of BEST agreement (Bike Valet events), as required.
- **Meetings and Reporting**:_
- Attend meetings and prepare reports as requested by TransLink
- Facilitate monthly team meetings by preparing meeting agenda and notes
- Assist team to prepare agenda for Active Transportation working groups and take notes
- Other duties as required
- **BEST’s Programs and Initiatives**:_
- Help BEST team members as needed/time allows, including communications, graphics, technology needs, office organization, event planning and coordination, providing event support
- Reporting on a weekly basis and presenting written reports to TransLink as requested.
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