College Aide - Curb Management

City of New York • New York City, NY

9d • Onsite

About The Position

The NYC DOT’s Division of Transportation Planning & Management is responsible for the safe, efficient, and environmentally responsible movement of people and goods on the City's streets, supporting the larger goals of economic and social vitality for people living, working, and doing business in New York City. The Division’s responsibilities include planning, street design, technical analysis, signs, transit development, freight mobility and markings, and ensuring the safety of motor vehicle occupants, pedestrians, and cyclists. The Office of Curb Management within the Division of Transportation Planning & Management is responsible for curb policies across the city’s 6,300 miles of streets and roughly 3 million curbside parking spaces, with a focus on improving safety, reducing double parking, and better managing competing demands from loading zones and deliveries to charging infrastructure and waste containerization to support safer, more efficient streets across the city. NYC DOT is seeking a dynamic college aide with the ability to work independently and collaboratively. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, curious, collaborative, and positive, with strong organizational, communication, analytical, data management, presentation, and visualization skills. Working within the Office of Curb Management, the applicant will assist with a variety of curb management programs, mainly the Clean Curbs and Empire Bins Waste Containerization Programs. This position will support the effective and timely delivery of NYC DOT’s program responsibilities, collaborating closely with various NYC DOT units, partner agency DSNY, and Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) across the city.

Requirements

• Matriculation at an accredited college or graduate school.
• Employment is conditioned upon continuance as a student in a college or graduate school.
• Matriculation at an accredited college or graduate school.
• Employment is conditioned upon continuance as a student in a college or graduate school with a specific course of study in information technology, computer science, management information systems, data processing, or closely related field, including or supplemented by 9 semester credits in an acceptable course of study.
• Matriculation at an accredited college or graduate school.
• Employment is conditioned upon continuance as a student in a college or graduate school with a specific course of study in information technology, computer science, management information systems, data processing, or other area relevant to the information technology project(s) assigned, including or supplemented by 9 semester credits in an acceptable course of study.

Nice To Haves

• Detail-oriented, curious, collaborative, and positive, with strong organizational, communication, analytical, data management, presentation, and visualization skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage NYC DOT’s internal tracking of proposed curb programming for conflict checks in the review/approval of waste container locations.
• Reviewing applications, coordinating reviews with internal units, tracking internal communications and conflicts, and delivering application determinations in the required timeframe.
• Documenting and escalating application-level issues and discrepancies with DSNY/process-level issues and discrepancies with supervisor and internal DOT units.
• Maintaining a list of contacts and units for outreach with a comprehensive understanding of their respective oversight areas.
• Monitoring the impact of the program on NYC DOT programming and operations through quantitative and qualitative analysis.
• Consolidating key issues, updates, and opportunities for weekly check-ins with the supervisor.
• Maintaining program statistics to share key metrics and findings with NYC DOT leadership.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed