• Approves for hire, trains, coordinates, evaluates, and recommends for discipline divisional personnel in accordance with County personnel policies and procedures.
• Consistently manage multiple conflicting priorities, reprioritize tasks and establish priorities to meet deadlines.
• Ensure staff work with the constraints of departmental standard operating procedures; updates standard operating procedures, as necessary.
• Monitors performance metrics and recommends improvements when necessary to meet performance goals.
• Monitors staff workloads to ensure appropriate workload levels across program areas.   Makes adjustments as necessary.
• Works with staff to develop short and long-range goals, performance measures and objectives, and develop and execute in alignment with the Board of County Commissioners goals and objectives.
• Negotiates, prepares and approves contracts, agreements, and loan documents. 
• Provides technical assistance to local municipalities/organizations on transportation issues/programs.
• Coordinates with Federal and State regulatory agencies and programs, as necessary. 
• Administers Mass Transit Programs including general and specialized service route and amenity planning.
• Develops and implements new programs.
• Coordinates with media in the marketing and public relation efforts for the division; ensures appropriate dissemination of information to the public. Hold community outreach meetings, as necessary.
• Manages and develops programs provided via private partnership/contract.
• Monitors requisitions funding and prepares grants for available funds at the State and Federal level.
• Prepares reports to include the annual assessment of transportation needs and other financial and statistical reports, as necessary.
• Develops and directs related advisory committees/boards for the County Commissioners and represents the County Commissioners on Transportation issues as designated by the current board.
• Advises the department director of trends and provides recommendations for local course of action.
• Provides information for the Commissioners, through results of local transportation studies, legislation, and models for formation of transportation policies in Charles County.
• Responds to inquiries from other offices, agencies, officials, the business community and the general public.
• Manages contractor/contracted service in provision of County wide transit and other public-private partnerships.
• Researches and makes technology enhancement recommendations to improve transit services. 
• Coordinates with the State regarding performance measures to ensure continued operation of services.
• Develops and administers division budget.
• Performs other related job duties as assigned. 

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