Transit Specialist

Job Description

Anticipated Salary Range:  $51,900 - $59,700

Benefits: This position is benefits eligible. Please view our benefits guide  here .

Job Summary

This position provides administrative support to the Transit Service Division. Additional responsibilities may include but are not limited to using transit and City financial software to compile extensive reports for transit performance indicators, overseeing bus pass distribution, providing high levels of customer service, processing accounts receivables and payables, visa charge reconciliation, compiling quarterly, annual, and triennial reports, and completing assorted administrative duties as needed.

Experience, Knowledge, Skills

Minimum Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• One (1) year of related technical training beyond high school.
• Two (2) years' administrative/secretarial experience.
• Valid Colorado Driver License with good driving record.
  
  

A combination of experience and education is accepted.

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Experience collecting and reporting data for Federal and other related agencies (e.g., grant reporting, National Transit Database, RouteMatch, etc.).
  
  

Essential Functions

• Provide excellent customer service.
• Comprehend and make inferences from written material, maps, policies, etc. 
• Understand and apply basic mathematics; specifically, be able to collect, organize and prepare monthly and periodic reports and/or correspondence as required.  Reconcile Monthly Ridership and KPI numbers.  Use transit and City-financial software to compile extensive Microsoft Excel reports providing relevant transit performance indicators.
• Must have ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, proportions, percentages, area, etc.
• Oversee bus pass distribution and billing program. 
• Create and maintain forms and documents such as bus passes and brochures, etc.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with employees and citizens.
• Apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed, but uninvolved, written or oral instructions.
• Effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization both orally and in writing through reports and daily business correspondence.
• Deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Process accounts receivable/payable; reconcile daily bus fares. 
• Compile Quarterly, Annual and Triennial reports.
  
  

Supervisory Responsibilities

NA

Work Environment And Physical Requirements

• Employee is subject to working alone, with groups, and/or attending meetings.
• May be required to conduct business in alternate locations within City buildings or field sites, sometimes in formal settings.
• May be required to work extended hours in the evening, holidays, or weekends.
• Frequent interruptions and be required to manage competing priorities with inflexible deadlines.
• Frequent participation in meetings.
• Frequent contact occurs with employees and the public, in person and on the telephone.
• Frequently is required to sit and talk or hear customers.
• Ability to manage competing priorities with frequent interruptions and an expected high level of accuracy in work is expected.
• Work is safe to having minimal hazards that are typically found in a general office environment where there is rarely little or no exposure to injury or accident.
  
  

Physical Requirements

• Ability to sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear.
• Employee is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data/figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading of printed materials; visual inspection involving small defects, small parts, and/or operation of machines (including inspection); using measurement devices--graphs and gauges; and/or assembly or fabrication of parts at distances close to the eyes. 
• Employee is required to have visual acuity for close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. 
• Employee is required to have visual acuity to perform an activity such as: operating machinery where the seeing job is at or within arm's reach and to operate motor vehicles or heavy equipment. 
• Employee is required to have visual acuity to determine the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of the work assigned or to make general observations of facilities or structures for inspection purposes. 
• Moderate to considerable physical effort that includes working from ladders in awkward positions, frequent use of light or medium weight objects (e.g., 30 lbs) and use of medium weight tools; walking on uneven ground or having to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, and reach while performing duties; entering/exiting manholes or vaults; walking near or across rivers and ditches; working in all weather conditions at times of excessive temperatures of heat and extreme cold, working in or near moving traffic with appropriate traffic control set up.
• The essential functions of this job require frequent balancing, bending/stooping, carrying/lifting light to heavy objects, climbing, fingering, grasping, repetitive motion, hearing, sitting, standing, talking, and walking. Occasionally the employee will be required to pull, push, reach, feel temperature, and kneel.
  
  

EOE Statement: The City of Greeley provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

ADA Statement: We are committed to an inclusive and barrier-free search process. We provide accommodations for applicants requesting accommodation through the search process such as alternative formats of this posting.  Individuals with disabilities in need of accommodations throughout the search process should contact the ADA Coordinator at:  [email protected] .

Conditions of Employment: Candidates must successfully complete all pre-employment screenings and employment eligibility verification. Pre-employment screenings include a drug test, a background and national sex offender search, a motor vehicle record search, and for some positions, a physical demands evaluation. For more information about City policies and practices during the recruitment process, including but not limited to EOE, Reasonable Accommodation, and pre-employment screenings, please visit our career page  HERE.