Transportation Policy and Communications Specialist

About the Company

CDM Smith is a place where career journeys unfold, offering an unmatched employee experience. Here, you work on meaningful projects, shape your career, and collaborate with co-workers invested in your success. The company prioritizes the well-being of employees and their families, fostering a challenging, progressive, and inclusive work environment that encourages personal leadership, career growth, and diverse perspectives.

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity for a recent graduate specializing in communications, political science, public policy, or a related field to join CDM Smith's Transportation Advisory Services. You will work with a multi-disciplinary team of experts to help transportation clients identify, analyze, and solve public policy issues—particularly funding, and potentially technology, energy, emissions, and equity.

Responsibilities

• Conducting in-depth financial analysis of transportation revenue and spending projections
• Analyzing stakeholders including policy positions, influences, priorities, and authorities
• Designing and conducting stakeholder and community outreach to solicit input on policy proposals
• Researching, analyzing, and summarizing statutes and regulations
• Researching, tracking, and analyzing bills
• Supporting the design and setup of special-purpose commissions, task forces, and working groups to address policy issues, including process design, invitation design, content preparation, and facilitation
• Coordinating input on policy proposals from task forces, working groups, and other stakeholders as directed by clients
• Designing policy proposals and solutions to address client and stakeholder objectives and constraints
• Authoring papers and memoranda that frame policy issues, including alternative solutions, trade-offs, and considerations
• Drafting bill language to align with client priorities for policy proposals
• Presenting findings and recommendations to working groups, task forces, legislative committees, other public bodies, and the public

Skills & Qualifications

• Working understanding of top transportation public policy challenges facing U.S. federal, state, and local governments, including funding, technology, energy, emissions, and equity
• Excellent analytical skills, including stakeholder and political awareness, especially as relates to revenue collection systems
• Fluency with financial analysis, including cost analysis of revenue collection systems
• Understanding of transportation technology and innovation trends
• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree a plus
• 1 year of related experience (equivalent additional directly related experience may substitute for a degree)
• Domestic and/or international travel may be required (10% or less)

Pay

Pay range: USD $72,966.00 – $120,349.00. Salary is determined by geographic location, role, experience, skills, certifications, and education/training. Bonuses are discretionary and may not apply to this position.