Infrastructure Programs Manager

Posted by PeopleForBikes.org on 02/05/2025

Job Basics

Industry Sector: Bike

Job Categories: Management

Company Type: DoesnotApply

State: CA

City: Southern California

Country:

Required Experience:

Job Type: Full Time

Salary: $60,000 - $85,000

Required to Relocate:

Required to Travel: Yes

Employee May Telecommute: No

Job Seeker Must Live Within:

Job Description & Requirements

About PeopleForBikes

PeopleForBikes (PFB) unites millions of Americans, thousands of businesses, and hundreds of communities to make every bike ride safer, more accessible, and more fun. Our mission is to get more people on bikes more often and make every bike ride better for everyone. Nationwide, PeopleForBikes represents more than 325 supplier members and 1.4 million individual supporters. The U.S. bicycle industry contributes $88 billion annually to the U.S. economy and supports more than 780,000 jobs. PeopleForBikes is composed of a Coalition that is the U.S. bicycle industry’s trade association and a Foundation that supports and promotes bicycling’s benefits and backs crucial bike infrastructure projects and programs. Additionally, we were named one of the top 50 best places to work by Outside Magazine.

Position Summary

The Infrastructure Programs Manager executes PeopleForBikes’ efforts to make the U.S. the best place to ride a bike in the world by helping state and local leaders, advocates, policymakers, and bicycle industry partners accelerate the construction of great places to ride in communities nationwide. The successful candidate will focus on the power of building connected bike networks and expanding effective local advocacy coalitions within a larger mobility, business, and active transportation context. This position reports to the Vice President of Infrastructure.

Duties include:

• Delivering valuable resources to local governments, advocates, bike industry partners, funders, and other community partners to create better bike infrastructure and get more people riding bikes more often. 

• Carrying out work plan strategies and key results for focused programs and investments that advance bike infrastructure nationwide.

• Delivering grant programs and investments in local advocacy campaigns and serving as the primary contact for programs and investments that advance infrastructure objectives. 

• Managing infrastructure-focused grant programs and reporting from grantees and to funders. Assisting with grant-writing activities. 

• Collaborating with PeopleForBikes’ teams to ensure alignment of goals and strategies toward PeopleForBikes’ vision — especially our policy, government relations, City Ratings, and Better Bike Share Partnership teams.

• Executing and generating content and programming, including presentations, blog posts, webinars, trainings, study tours, and gatherings that advance infrastructure objectives.

• Maintaining excellent relationships with state and local advocacy groups, non-endemic partners, industry partners, and funders to support the advancement of infrastructure objectives.

• Regularly communicating and visiting key advocacy and industry partners to generate excitement and support for key PeopleForBikes Foundation and Coalition initiatives. 

• Executing fundraising and development work that advances infrastructure objectives, including donor and foundation cultivation work, fundraising events, and grant opportunities. 

• Managing event coordination and budgets for donor and foundation cultivation and fundraising events, trainings, study tours, and gatherings that advance infrastructure objectives. 

• Setting up meetings, taking notes, developing agendas, and sending reminders and follow-up communications for infrastructure-related meetings.

• Travel required.

• Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

Don’t meet every requirement? No problem. Studies show that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they do, so we encourage you to apply anyway.

• Bachelor's in planning, policy, urban design, or related field. Experience may be substituted for education on a year-by-year basis.

• At least two-to-three years of experience in transportation planning, active transportation policy, capital project management of bike projects, bike advocacy for infrastructure projects, or other work within or with city, town, county, or state transportation departments, planning departments, or local transportation advocacy groups to get connected bike networks on the ground. Additional education such as a master’s degree may be substituted for experience.

• Experience advising government staff, advocates, and business communities on best practices for elevating active transportation and connected bike networks (knowing the differences between each audience).

• Knowledge of local government policies that support or hinder bicycling, especially in regard to sustainability, diversity, and mobility justice.

• Understands the power and best practices of authentic, inclusive community engagement.

• Recognizes the need for equity and community engagement built within all infrastructure work.

• Passionate about the power of the bike to make life great and a commitment to safe, healthy, reliable, and affordable access to bicycling for all, especially those from underserved and marginalized communities.

• Ability to travel at least 20%.

Preferred Qualifications

• Already has (and is excited to build more) valuable relationships across the country with city staff, elected officials, and state and local advocacy groups.

• Experience managing grants, grant budgets, and writing grant applications.

• Fundraising experience.

Required Skills

• Excellent writing skills that convey complex topics to various audiences in an understandable way with an understanding of appropriate tones for varying contexts.

• Excellent communication skills, comfortable with public speaking.

• Able to work collaboratively with a diverse workforce and with diverse partners.

• Extremely organized.

• Ability to use Microsoft and Google Suite products (Powerpoint, Excel, Word, Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar, Google Sheets, Google Docs, Google Slides).

• Works best in a fast-paced environment and can juggle multiple projects.

• Works independently to achieve deadlines and complete tasks in a timely manner.

• Ability to provide program direction for maximum efficacy and manage scope creep, maintaining focus on the most effective work to advance our vision.

• Demonstrated ability to navigate complex political landscapes and build relationships with diverse stakeholders in a professional and strategic manner.

• Able to coordinate events and programs and manage event and grant program budgets.

• Can measure progress with data and clearly communicate progress to colleagues and external partners.

Compensation and Benefits

This “at-will” position offers a competitive salary commensurate with experience. The salary range will be decided based on the applicant selected with a range of $60,000 to $85,000. PeopleForBikes offers an excellent and comprehensive benefits package, including paid health insurance for employees, a generous paid-time-off (PTO) policy including 23 days plus federal holidays, paid parental leave, a flexible work schedule including work from home options, and optional participation in a deferred compensation retirement plan with immediate vesting of a competitive employer match. In addition, we provide long-term disability insurance, a cell phone plan, and a laptop computer along with many other benefits like industry discounts. As icing on the cake, PeopleForBikes also pays you to ride your bike.

At PeopleForBikes, our agreed-upon set of team norms are what drives us to do our best every day we show up to work. Our core purpose is to make life great and our core values are to put others first, include everyone, and it can always be better. We’ll talk more in the interview process about what these mean, but for now, know that we continually strive to build and strengthen our team, we work together effectively to serve our mission, and we have fun. Beyond that, we’re casual, we work flexibly with remote work allowed, and we really love dogs. You don’t have to be an amazing bike rider to work here — what matters to us is a desire to work alongside passionate people improving the world through the power of bikes (and hopefully you love bikes too).

Location

PeopleForBikes is based in beautiful Boulder, Colorado. This position can be remote and will require regular travel to key projects and periodic All Staff meetings. The desired employee location is in Southern California or flexibility to travel there often.

To Apply

• Interested candidates should apply here. Please submit your application before March 17 for priority consideration. You will be contacted by a PeopleForBikes team member if your application is selected to move on to the next round.  

• Due to volume, we will not respond to telephone or in-person inquiries.

• Incomplete applications will not be considered.

• The position is available immediately and will remain open until the position is filled.

• Interested applicants are encouraged to visit peopleforbikes.org for general information and organizational background.

Equal Opportunity

Our work to create safer, more comfortable, and more accessible places for everyone to bike starts with us. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to hiring a diverse workforce. You can find more on our hiring page here. We want our staff to be reflective of the backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives of the communities we serve and to create an inclusive work environment where employees and the communities we serve feel welcomed, valued, respected, and received. We believe that no matter who you are, where you're from, or why you ride, everyone can find joy on a bicycle.

About PeopleForBikes.org

About PeopleForBikes
PeopleForBikes (PFB) unites millions of Americans, thousands of businesses, and hundreds of communities to make every bike ride safer, more accessible, and more fun. Our mission is to get more people on bikes more often and make every bike ride better for everyone. Nationwide, PeopleForBikes represents more than 325 supplier members and 1.4 million individual supporters. The U.S. bicycle industry contributes $88 billion annually to the U.S. economy and supports more than 780,000 jobs. PeopleForBikes is composed of a Coalition that is the U.S. bicycle industry’s trade association and a Foundation that supports and promotes bicycling’s benefits and backs crucial bike infrastructure projects and programs. Additionally, we were named one of the top 50 best places to work by Outside Magazine in 2023.