Transportation Researcher

About the role

ICF’s Transportation Practice specializes in addressing complex planning, policy, and program issues at the nexus of transportation and the environment, energy, and communities. We focus on integrated approaches that support sustainable transportation decisions, addressing mobility, safety, environmental, social, and economic effects of transportation.

Responsibilities

• Research a variety of transportation-related topics to inform literature reviews and informational reports.
• Develop preliminary drafts of project materials with the support of senior staff team based on research of transportation-related topics.
• Ensure high quality final presentation of project materials such as reports, white papers, presentations, and briefs for Federal, State, and local clients.
• Support planning and implementation of webinars across a wide range of topics.
• Provide meeting support, including preparing materials, on-site attendance, taking notes, and assembling post-meeting summary documents.
• Aid in planning the logistics for workshops and peer exchanges, including contacting and coordinating with potential participants, identifying and booking host venues, processing travel reimbursements, etc.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in urban planning, public policy, transportation engineering, or related subjects.
• Proficiency with word processing, presentation, and web applications (e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.).
• Demonstrated interest and background in a variety of transportation-related topic areas, including emerging technologies such as automated, connected, electric, and shared transportation, especially federal, state, and regional policies and programs.
• Work, internship, or coursework experience in emerging transportation technologies.

Qualifications

• Minimum qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in urban planning, public policy, transportation engineering, or related subjects.
• Preferred experience: Demonstrated interest and background in a variety of transportation-related topic areas, including emerging technologies such as automated, connected, electric, and shared transportation, especially federal, state, and regional policies and programs.
• Professional skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, effective research skills, exceptional analytical and organizational skills, including the ability to prioritize tasks or projects and ability to carry out multiple tasks under tight or sometimes conflicting deadlines, high level of attention to detail and work quality, initiative and understanding to anticipate and respond to client and project needs, ability to work well both in teams and independently, ability to work on multiple projects under strict deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

Skills

• Quantitative analysis skills.

Benefits

ICF offers a competitive benefits package and talent development programs, and fosters a highly skilled, energized, and empowered workforce.

Pay

The pay range for this position based on full-time employment is: $55,424.00 - $94,221.00