Transportation Consultant, Student Transportation (Remote, Washington, DC)

About This Role

The DC Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) is seeking a senior Transportation Consultant with deep experience in professional school transportation within a state education environment. You will lead landscape analysis of the student transportation program, advise on routing (door-to-door), GPS tracking and monitoring, and system training, and guide OSSE on the path to procurement, with a focus on improving transportation costs and customer delivery. This is a remote role that requires onsite presence in Washington, DC about once a month.

Responsibilities

• Perform transportation program landscape analysis and recommend cost and service-delivery improvements
• Advise on student routing with door-to-door services
• Apply knowledge of GPS tracking and monitoring systems
• Provide system training to OSSE staff and stakeholders
• Advise OSSE on the path to procurement during the landscape analysis phases
• Communicate technical concepts and complex data clearly to non-technical audiences, verbally and in writing

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field (or equivalent experience); 15 plus years
• Considerable experience across professional school/student transportation in a state education environment (11 plus years)
• Knowledge and skill in routing and GPS systems (11 plus years)
• MS Office plus MS Project or other project-management software (11 plus years)
• Strong communication skills: able to articulate technical terms and complex data clearly to non-technical audiences, verbally and in writing
• Able to work remotely with onsite presence in Washington, DC about once a month (candidate covers onsite cost)

Required Skills

• School/student transportation program analysis and cost/service-delivery improvement
• Student routing and door-to-door service design
• GPS tracking and monitoring systems
• System training and stakeholder enablement
• Procurement advisory and landscape analysis
• Clear technical communication to non-technical audiences
• *Software / tools:* Microsoft Office and Microsoft Project (or equivalent project-management software); routing and GPS platforms