The Office of Livable Streets (OLS) is tasked with prioritizing strategic planning, community engagement, research, policy, design, implementation, and long-term management. Their goal is to create streets that are livable, supporting safety, accessibility, inclusion, resiliency, active modes, community cohesion, and economic vitality citywide. Additionally, they aim to enhance New York City's pedestrian, bicycle, and micromobility networks, providing comfortable, connected, green, and reliable transportation options across the five boroughs. They place special emphasis on Priority Investment Areas, mode shift, and reimagining streets. The office also develops innovative new programs, design typologies, project delivery, and analysis tools to meet the demands of a rapidly changing population with evolving needs and technologies.

The Street Furniture Unit (SFU) within the Office of Livable Streets (OLS) is seeking a College Aide to aid in asset management of bike parking, seating, pedestrian wayfinding signs and other 3-dimensional assets such as planters and blocks. The candidate will also help with data entry. SFU designs, installs and maintains benches, leaning bars, bike racks, bike corrals and pedestrian wayfinding signs throughout New York City to support transit, biking and walking and to create public spaces. The selected candidates will learn and practice standard field work procedures, data analysis, data management, mapping, and day-to-day operations of a city agency.

The College Aide will help review, monitor, inspect and enter data for street furniture located on public streets; provide in-person field or warehouse coordination; conduct site visits for inspection or signing; take measurements on site and record site conditions digitally; coordinate with internal units; strategize and develop tracking systems; take photographs; inspect and tag abandoned bikes; and enter field data into databases. Skills needed include planning, design, critical thinking, time management and coordination. Candidates must be comfortable working in the office, at home and outdoors.

The Transportation Planning and Management (TPM) is responsible for the safe, efficient, and environmentally responsible movement of people and goods on the City's streets, supporting the larger goals of economic and social vitality for people living, working, and doing business in New York City. The Division’s responsibilities include planning, street design, technical analysis, signs, transit development, freight mobility and markings, ensuring the safety of motor vehicle occupants, pedestrians, and cyclists.


Preferred Skills
Microsoft Access and Excel, Database Software, Tablet Applications, Photoshop, ESRI GIS, AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite

Hours/Shift: 17 hours/week during school, 35 hours/week when on break

Work Location: 55 Water Street, New York, NY 10041

To Apply
All resumes are to be submitted electronically using one of the following methods:
Current city employees, please log into Employee Self Service, follow the Careers Link and search for JOB ID # 637809
All other applicants, go to www.nyc.gov/careers/search and search for JOB ID # 637809
No phone calls, faxes or personal inquiries permitted. Only applicants under consideration will be contacted.
Most public libraries have computers available for use.
Note: New hires must reside in NYC for the first two years of employment. Appointments are subject to OMB approval.
For more information about DOT, visit us at: www.nyc.gov/dot.

For Assignment Level I:
Matriculation at an accredited college or graduate school. Employment is conditioned upon continuance as a student in a college or graduate school.
For Assignment Level II (Information Technology):
Matriculation at an accredited college or graduate school. Employment is conditioned upon continuance as a student in a college or graduate school with a specific course of study in information technology, computer science, management information systems, data processing, or closely related field, including or supplemented by 9 semester credits in an acceptable course of study.
For Assignment Level III (Information Technology Fellow):
Matriculation at an accredited college or graduate school. Employment is conditioned upon continuance as a student in a college or graduate school with a specific course of study in information technology, computer science, management information systems, data processing, or other area relevant to the information technology project(s) assigned, including or supplemented by 9 semester credits in an acceptable course of study. Appointments to this Assignment Level will be made by the Technology Steering Committee through the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications.

SPECIAL NOTE
Maximum tenure for all Assignment Levels in the title of College Aide is 6 years. No student shall be employed more than half-time in any week in which classes in which the student is enrolled are in session. Students may be employed full-time during their vacation periods.

Writing and public speaking skills experience with MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and GIS software such as ArcMap or QGIS. Experience with managing and cleaning large data a plus working knowledge of CRM software, Python (and other programing languages), data visualization platforms (such as a Power BI) also a plus but not required.

As a prospective employee of the City of New York, you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs. For more information, please visit the U.S. Department of Education’s website at https://studentaid.gov/pslf/.

New York City residency is generally required within 90 days of appointment. However, City Employees in certain titles who have worked for the City for 2 continuous years may also be eligible to reside in Nassau, Suffolk, Putnam, Westchester, Rockland, or Orange County. To determine if the residency requirement applies to you, please discuss with the agency representative at the time of interview.

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.