Sustainable Mobility Team Lead (Research Associate)

Scope

The Sustainable Mobility Team Lead is responsible for the overarching tasks of the transportation research team. He/she is responsible for overseeing the team's operations and administrative functions and is particularly responsible for strategic development, partnership development, public engagement, and research revenue generation. In this role, he/she establishes a transportation research team, facilitates regular meetings and workshops between its members, communicates the strategic direction effectively and fosters the development of projects and partnerships to enhance community decarbonization.

Responsibilities

• Team Building: Form a team of graduate students researching transportation topics and conduct regular team meetings and workshops.
• Team Strategy: Learn about the student's research and develop a joint transportation strategy (including fields of expertise, project ideas, and use-cases for Tools4Cities) in collaboration with the team and external partners.
• Networking: Connect with important stakeholders in the field of transportation, and other research units within and beyond Concordia University.
• Project Development and Acquisition: Initiate and develop project ideas with the team and external stakeholders, identify funding opportunities, and write project proposals.
• Research Alignment and Member Recruitment: Conduct interviews with Master and PhD candidates, develop student's research topics and align those topics with the transportation team strategy.
• Consulting: Advise within and beyond the NGCI on innovation themes in the domain of sustainable urban mobility.

Requirements

• Master's Degree with four years of experience, of which at least one year is in a supervisory/coordinating role.
• Decision-making skills, and the ability to establish and respond to priorities.
• Proven team leader and team builder with the ability to motivate people and foster a positive team environment.
• Superior interpersonal skills.
• Ability to multi-task and work on a variety of projects concurrently.
• Academic background in transport and engineering and environmental studies.
• Experience with initiating and managing projects in the fields of public and shared mobility, electric mobility, and/or GHG emissions.
• Experience in multi-project and multi-stakeholder coordination.
• Knowledge in stakeholder (and donor) engagement and management.
• Very good knowledge (Level 5) of spoken and written English to express ideas effectively and communicate clearly in complex situations.
• Good knowledge (Level 4) of spoken and written French.
• Very good knowledge of Microsoft Office, Miro, and ideally of Traffic Simulation Software (PTV VISSIM, SUMO).

Application deadline

June 16, 2024

Position start and end dates

August 2024 to December 2025, with possibility of an extension.

Salary

$34 per hour.

Testing

The language and computer skills of short-listed candidates will be tested.

Application instructions

Interested applicants must submit a CV and cover letter to ursula.eicker@concordia.ca

Employment equity

Concordia University is strongly committed to employment equity within its community, and to recruiting a diverse faculty and staff. The University encourages applications from all qualified candidates, including women, racialized persons, Indigenous persons, 2SLGBTQI+ persons, and persons with disabilities; candidates are invited to self-identify in their applications.