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The Global Designing Cities Initiative (GDCI) inspires leaders, informs practitioners, and invites communities to reimagine what’s possible and design streets that put people first. We are a team of designers, planners, and urban strategists committed to cities that are safe, healthy, accessible, and equitable for everyone. The strategies in our Global Street Design Guide are the foundation of our work, and they have been adopted and applied in more than 100 cities across the globe, helping to update outdated, car-focused street design policies, build local capacity to deliver transformative projects, as well as to evaluate and increase the scale of their impact.

The [Global Designing Cities Initiative (GDCI)](https://globaldesigningcities.org/) is seeking to recruit a program manager – design to join its mission to transform streets around the world. This role will support the [Bloomberg Initiative for Cycling Infrastructure (BICI)](https://globaldesigningcities.org/bici-launch/) by working closely with city partners to design and implement cycling infrastructure projects. In this role, you’ll coordinate the technical assistance work in the program’s selected cities and create technical, written, and visual content/designs, publication or booklet development, training and workshops, and other related activities that support GDCI work. Your work will adhere to the global best practices summarised in GDCI’s publications and overall precedence.

The **Program Manager - Design** will be a part of the BICI team, reporting directly to the Design Lead. In this role, you will coordinate the technical assistance provided to the ten BICI cities, with a **specific focus on cycling infrastructure**. In this capacity, you will manage a team of Program Associates and collaborate closely with the Program Managers to ensure the production quality and technical accuracy of the team's design recommendations. This includes developing technical written and visual content, organizing capacity-building sessions and workshops, contributing to supplements to the Global Street Design Guide, and representing GDCI in external meetings, presentations, and events. The position will also interact with GDCI's Design and Research team and partner with colleagues for cross-team collaboration and cross-pollination of cycling infrastructure design amongst other GDCI programs. More specifically, you will do things like: **Coordinate the technical assistance work in the program’s selected cities** - Supervise the technical assistance related to cycling infrastructure and conduct technical reviews of designs, drawings, policy documents, publications, and other related guidance for a wide diversity of global contexts. - Identify technical assistance needs and opportunities across the BICI cities in collaboration with the team, ensuring that design and policy recommendations are consistent, high-quality, and in line with GDCI's guidance, standards, and international best practices. - Plan, develop, and engage GDCI’s global network through capacity-building sessions such as workshops, webinars, presentations, panels, and community engagement sessions. **Support the development of technical supplements** - Coordinate with the BICI and Design and Research teams to select topics and curate content for a supplement to the Global Street Design Guide focusing on cycling infrastructure. **Management or Administrative** - Own the time management, work plan, and prioritization of technical assistance work. Determine delegation and coordination of work and who needs to be consulted or kept informed, with minimal supervision. - Foster ongoing relationships and build new relationships with city officials, embedded staff, service providers, program partners, and other relevant stakeholders. **Staff Supervision** - This role will supervise multiple Program Associates whose primary focus will be providing technical assistance and production support to the program’s selected cities and supporting the development of a supplement to the Global Street Design Guide focusing on cycling infrastructure.

For this position, GDCI is looking for a highly collaborative individual with **strong team management and street design skills**. This role requires experience in developing cycling infrastructure, as well as delivering projects with cross-departmental or numerous institutional teams. You must be willing to accommodate the schedule of a globally based team; as such, there may be some instances of required phone calls/meetings that are outside of normal work hours. This role may travel frequently throughout the year, mostly internationally. Not to exceed more than two weeks at a time. **SKILLS** To be successful in this job, you will excel in the following areas: - **A passion for street design and mobility**. You are passionate about mobility and street design, particularly cycling infrastructure, and are knowledgeable in the processes involved in shaping safe, sustainable, and healthy cities. - **Design proficiency**. You have solid technical street design expertise demonstrated in your previous work experience, with a special interest in cycle infrastructure. - **Strong communication skills**. You have experience communicating technical concepts verbally, visually, and in writing to a wide range of audiences. Competency in languages besides English is a plus, especially in the languages spoken in the selected BICI Cities. - **Management experience**. You have experience leading and mentoring teams and are comfortable giving colleagues clear, constructive, and respectful feedback. - **Organizational and accountability skills** - **Attention to detail** - **A collaborative and curious nature** For a more detailed description of the role, please visit [https://globaldesigningcities.org/about/careers/](https://globaldesigningcities.org/about/careers)

**LOCATION** Remote (Work from home). Preferably located in Africa/Europe/the Middle East **HOW TO APPLY** To apply, please upload a short cover letter, resume, or CV, and a sample portfolio of your work (in English) detailing relevant design experience through [GDCI’s application portal](https://form.asana.com/?k=3p6pM2Viu7AlQEt1PLcr-Q&d=134844353007465). If you need support, please contact [email protected]. We encourage international candidates to apply. Applications are open until Sunday, January 7, 2024. To read more: [https://globaldesigningcities.org/about/careers/](https://globaldesigningcities.org/about/careers/) **Please specify in your application that you found this job opening through All Things Urban.** Thank you for your interest; we look forward to hearing from you!

This job is available for international candidates.