Living Streets Volunteer
BEST has a long history of promoting and enabling sustainable transportation through initiatives, collaboration, and leadership.
We offer innovative social enterprises, programs, and services to promote and enable sustainable and active transportation choices.
We offer innovative social enterprises, programs, and services to encourage, promote and enable sustainable and active transportation choices. Currently, the offer is a three-program stream: Living Streets, Seniors on The Move (SOTM), and The Bicycle Valet.
Living Streets promotes walking to enrich and experience public space, creating community ties, as a feasible way of transportation, and as a catalyst for physical and mental health. Living Streets is a program that identifies opportunities for education and public engagement in the pedestrian realm.
With SOTM, connecting between the availability of sustainable transportation options like public transit and the experience of driving cessation.
We also run The Bicycle Valet, free and secure bicycle/active transportation parking across Metro Vancouver.
Why BEST?
BEST offers a flexible schedule, hybrid work-from-home, office, and events.
We dress casually and share a passion for multimodal transportation.
BEST is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all individuals. We are a diverse, respectful, collaborative work team that encourages, collaborates, and supports each other!
Some things we would offer you to do:
Help organize and coordinate the Walk30 Challenge, and all supporting activities including all corporate recruitment, organizing events, and the Wrap Up Final Event
Conduct outreach for new municipalities, health authorities, and school districts to participate in local Walk30 challenges
Explore new software solutions for Walk30 challenge
Assist with seasonal walks routes planning
Lead walks
Assist with presentation and document writing as required
Write blog posts
Keep up to date with current transportation issues
Identify local and regional program growth opportunities and participates actively in developing such opportunities
Other activities as defined by the Living Streets Manager
We hope you could describe yourself with at least 2 of the items in this list:
Outgoing, social, and friendly personality
Familiar with social media trends
Strong oral, and written communication, and presentation skills required
Being able to communicate in another language other than English will be an asset
You are self-motivated
Excellent attention to detail
Team player
IMPORTANT: Interest in walkability, walkable cities and walking as feasible way of transportation.