Community Engagement Lead - Open Data Standards for Public Transit

We're looking for someone to lead a growing technical community focused on open standards for transit operational data. This role will bring together transit agencies, vendors, and developers to tackle a shared challenge: making it easier for agencies to collect, share, and actually use their operational data in standardized formats. You will partner with a senior data engineer to help bridge the gap between technical work and community engagement.

• Facilitate monthly technical working group meetings and quarterly implementation roundtables

• Help implementation guides and best practices documentation

• Help build and maintain the community's digital home (documentation, resources, communication channels)

• Help agencies and vendors understand and adopt data standards

• Grow relationships across the transit tech ecosystem

• Support stakeholder engagement and knowledge sharing

• Partner with senior data engineer to understand asks from the community and devise approaches to addressing those needs

• Ability to engage diverse stakeholders and facilitate welcoming, productive conversations

• Basic understanding of transit agency operations

• Basic understanding of data formats and quality

• Availability to help plan and facilitate an in-person workshop to share progress at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting in Washington, DC (January 5–9, 2025)

• Strong presence in public transit community

• Experience working with transit agency data systems

• Familiarity with transit data standards and open standards development

• Experience writing technical documentation

• Background in transit operations

• Knowledge of transit technology systems (APC, AFC, AVL)

• Experience with open source communities and tools

We're Jarv.us, a small mission-driven technology consultancy that specializes in building modern digital infrastructure for the public sector.

Send us your resume and tell us about either:

• Your experience building or managing communities (preferably technical)

• Why you care about open standards in transit

This is primarily a remote role, with optional but preferred travel to Washington, DC for the TRB Annual Meeting in January 2025,