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Traffic Safety Campaign Director

Transportation Alternatives seeks a highly motivated and accomplished organizer to assist our campaigns to improve safety in New York City. Through community and political organizing, we aim to change public attitudes about traffic safety and raise its priority at City Hall. The public should not stand for out of control streets, and City leaders must fulfill their duty to reign in the chaos. Enforcement, prosecution and data collection are public goods that improve the city and help the people of New York.

The campaign will work to improve the safety of all road users—bicyclists and pedestrians, as well as drivers and passengers—and reach out to a broad array of experts and user groups to build a coalition that demands serious change.

Job Description
The Traffic Safety Campaign Director will work with T.A. and partner organizations to produce town hall events and public forums around the city. The Director will build partnerships with civic and community leaders, traffic safety experts, public health professions and others to assemble a street safety coalition focused on raising expectations to dramatically lower the number of deaths and injuries on our streets. The campaign will draw on research and best practices and use the media to develop public agreement citywide that the lack of safety is not acceptable and something must be done.

Qualifications

  • Strong interest in Transportation Alternatives' mission, commitment to improving street safety, government reform and strengthening traffic safety, enforcement, prosecution and information
  • Accomplished campaign manager with proven successes
  • Highly organized, self-motivated and able to work closely with others
  • Spanish language skills a plus but not required

Compensation commensurate with experience.

Send:

  1. Cover letter (the most important part of your application)
  2. Resume

To: Traffic Safety and Enforcement Campaign staff search Transportation Alternatives 127 West 26th Street, Suite 1002 New York, NY 10001 Fax: 212-629-8334 job_applications [at] transalt [dot] org

Women and people of color encouraged to apply. No phone calls or walk-ins please.

Salesforce.com Developer

Transportation Alternatives, New York City's advocates for bicycling, walking and public transportation, seeks a Salesforce.com developer to assist in building out our membership database functionality.

Project Compensation: $1,000
Project Timeline: January-February 2010
Location: West 26th St, New York, NY
Start Date: ASAP

Responsibilities
  • Write code to handle field updates across Salesforce objects
  • Develop solution to implement Unix "cron"-like functionality in order to maintain a field that reflects a Contact's status
  • Document code and program operation
Qualifications
  • 3+ years of Force.com/Apex programming, including experience with workflow rules, triggers and Salesforce testing procedures
  • Experience with Convio's Common Ground implementation of Salesforce.com a plus
  • Attention to detail
  • Ability to write clear, standards-compliant and well-documented code
  • Ability to work with little supervision
  • Interest in the mission of Transportation Alternatives (http://transalt.org)
Interested applicants
  • Please e-mail resume and one-page cover to job_applications [at] transalt [dot] org with "Salesforce.com Developer" in the subject line.
  • Please paste the resume and cover letter into the body of the message or attach it in PDF, Word or RTF format.
  • Hint: It is important to us that you care about what we do; your cover letter is crucial.
  • Applications without cover letters will not be considered.
  • No phone calls or walk-ins please.