Do you have a passion for parking reform? Or perhaps know someone who does (often because they can’t stop talking about parking reform at parties)? More and more cities are considering reform after understanding how existing parking policies affect everything from housing affordability to the costs of opening a new business to safe streets.

The late Donald Shoup, whose commitment to explaining concepts with widely accessible, plain-English writing, inspired a movement of “Shoupistas” and made UCLA both the birthplace and world center of research and education on parking reform.

UCLA is now seeking a founding Staff Director to establish a new center on parking policy within the Institute of Transportation Studies. The director will work with faculty co-directors Adam Millard-Ball and Michael Manville, both professors of urban planning at UCLA and respected parking researchers. Parking reform practitioners are encouraged to apply.

The new center will sit at the interface between academic research, policy, and planning practice. It will actively engage with practice, understanding the knowledge and communications needs of parking reform practitioners, to produce widely readable research summaries, case studies, toolkits, and other resources to help educate and motivate public officials on parking reform.

This position is funded for two years, with the potential for ongoing funding based on performance and sustainability planning.

For full job description, responsibilities and requirements, please refer to the UCLA Careers posting.

Anticipated pay is $115,000 – $135,000 annually, plus full University of California benefits.