Description

King County's Metro Transit Department has an exciting opportunity for a Rail Safety Strategy Manager (Strategic Planning Manager II) in the Safety, Security and Quality Assurance Division. This senior leader will report to SSQA’s Division Director, with a dotted line to the Rail Division Director and will work in partnership with employees, colleagues, and stakeholders to ensure that Metro provides world- class service while advancing the following strategic priorities within Rail: 

• A culture of safety and care
• Provide operational excellence
• Deliver on time expansions
• Maintain healthy and resilient partnerships with Sound Transit and the Seattle Department of Transportation, our partners in Rail Service Delivery

This Rail Safety Strategic Planning Manager will be charged with coordinating the safety strategy between Sound Transit and King County Metro as well as leading and managing the implementation of this safety strategy for the Rail Division. This position will ensure coordination between Sound Transit and Metro safety teams that will improve safety culture, communication, implement key strategic safety policy initiatives, and track organizational safety performance metrics for continued improvement. The Rail Safety Strategy Manager will be responsible for communicating effectively with diverse stakeholders across the Division, working collaboratively with leaders, administrative staff, employees, and Sound Transit to advance our collective safety strategy. 

This leadership role requires the ability to communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders, proactively solve problems, break down barriers, oversee change management, implement continuous improvement, and build employee engagement to improve our safety culture in the Division. The ideal candidate in this position will be skilled in navigating an ambiguous work environment, have experience navigating complicated bureaucracies, and be able to manage multiple, competing priorities to successfully deliver a large body of work in a fast-paced environment. They will have a strong background in equity and social justice, with experience making improvements for historically disadvantaged employee groups. They will be passionate about creating positive and inclusive safety cultures that prioritize well-being and belonging of employees in a setting with diverse employees.

Requirements

We are looking for candidates who have the following:

• Option 1: A Bachelor's degree; and three (3) or more years of experience leading complicated, highly visible projects that are cross-disciplinary in nature.

OR  

• Option 2: An Associate’s degree; and four (4) or more years of experience leading complicated, highly visible projects that are cross-disciplinary in nature.

OR 

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  Option 3: Six (6) or more years of experience leading complicated, highly visible projects that are cross-disciplinary in nature.

And

• Three (3) or more years of experience in strategic planning, public administration, change management, project management and/or organizational development within a service delivery environment.
• One (1) or more years of rail systems safety or regulatory experience.
• Experience with strategic communication and internal employee engagement regarding safety topics.
• Experience synthesizing information and making recommendations within and outside of established policies and procedures.