Senior Manager, Climate Resilience Planning (Capital Strategy)

About the role

The Senior Manager, Climate Resilience Planning will work directly with senior staff across the MTA in the development and implementation of capital projects that reduce climate risks for MTA customers and assets, with a particular focus on NYCT Subways, Buses, and Bridges & Tunnels assets. The Senior Manager will develop climate resilience strategies and capital projects, manage studies and analyses of critical planning issues, working on complex transportation asset strategies, create new tools to assess climate resilience investments, and represent MTA policies with stakeholders. For more information on MTA’s climate programs, visit new.mta.info/climate.

Responsibilities

• Managing planning initiatives pertaining to the future of the MTA’s capital investments facing climate risks.
• Managing internal progress on programs and initiatives that make the New York City region and the MTA itself more resilient to climate change; this includes integrating climate resilience priorities into the MTA's capital assets, such as stations, track, pump rooms, structures, signals, communications, power, yards and facilities that together make up the millions of components that enable the MTA to move millions of New Yorkers every day.
• Contributing substantially to all, or a subset therein, of the following core Planning activities:
  • Advancement of the MTA’s current 5-year capital program and development of the upcoming Twenty-Year Needs Assessment and future 5-year Capital Program, particularly in relation to climate resilience.
  • Updates to the MTA’s system-wide Climate Vulnerability Assessment, including integrating the latest climate projection data and MTA asset data, synthesizing and prioritizing findings, and incorporating the latest analysis into future capital program documents.
  • Working directly with senior staff on the development, planning, and implementation of multiple climate resilience proposals and initiatives.
  • Developing and managing scopes, budgets, and work plans for various projects.