Salary : $139,296.00 - $153,564.00 Annually
Location : 1415 L Street, Sacramento, CA
Job Type: Regular Full-Time
Remote Employment: Flexible/Hybrid
Job Number:
Management Group: Transportation
Team: Transportation
Opening Date: 06/18/2026
Closing Date: 7/24/2026 5:00 PM Pacific
FLSA: Exempt

Job Description
SACOG is seeking a self-starting team player who enjoys collaborating as well as working on their own. The Strategic Corridors Program Manager (Classification: Principal Analyst) will lead the ongoing development of the new Strategic Corridors program, including policy and priority initiatives, innovative funding strategies for regional priority projects, and coordination across teams within SACOG and agency partners.

This role is responsible for defining the scope, priorities, and outcomes of the Strategic Corridors program, including how corridor investments support Blueprint implementation, regional mobility goals, and performance-based planning.

SACOG has just adopted the region's updated Metropolitan Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy (MTP/SCS), known as the 2025 Blueprint, and has focused agency program areas towards implementation and alignment with key Blueprint outcomes. For the Strategic Corridors program, this includes safety, efficient movement of people across the region, maintenance of existing assets, and leveraging regional and local funding sources for transportation infrastructure needs. To advance this, the Strategic Corridors Program Manager will act as a creative and technical leader for SACOG's corridor-based planning work that requires big-picture thinking for the transportation network, including the ability to navigate competing regional priorities, strategically approaching projects across all modes, and problem solving with a diverse set of stakeholders and agencies. Priority areas for the program include (but are not limited to) safety-focused planning, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) strategy and implementation, comprehensive modal coordination, and congestion reduction/management strategies (including pricing).

The Strategic Corridors Program Manager (Principal Analyst), will supervise staff and oversee a variety of planning activities on the Transportation Team; collaborate and coordinate across groups within SACOG; and must foster a collaborative team environment. This position will be required to work collaboratively with a variety of external partners, including local municipalities, regional transportation agencies, and state and federal transportation entities. This position will report to SACOG's Director of Transportation and is the highest non-management classification at SACOG.

The Team

The ideal candidate will join a team of professionals with diverse transportation planning backgrounds, including transportation funding and grants, transportation demand management, alternative mobility, active transportation, public transit operations and planning, and corridor planning.

This position will be one of three Principal Analysts on the Transportation Team. With the other Principal Analysts focused on funding, grants, and transit planning initiatives, this position will complement the team's expertise and provide leadership within a critical element of the agency's work program.

Hybrid Position

As an integral part of our organization, employees will provide support in a flexible work environment. This position will have the ability to telework three days per week. The remainder of the work week will be in-person. Employees are required to live within 200 miles of Sacramento.

We support telework because it:

• Enhances employee productivity, satisfaction, and ability to collaborate.
• Improves recruitment and retention
• Reduces greenhouse gas emission, vehicle miles travels (VMT), traffic and parking congestion, and air pollution

Search Schedule:

Filing Deadline: July 24

First round interviews: Week of August 17

Second round interviews: Week of August 24

Desired start date: September 2026
Examples of Typical Job Functions
This position serves on the Transportation Team at SACOG, and regularly coordinates with staff across the agency. The Strategic Corridors Program Manager oversees multiple program areas and projects. Essential duties include:

• Manage and oversee of data collection and analysis, and use to assist in development of transportation planning priorities and policy.

• Interpretate and communicate trends identified through performance monitoring and analysis, including explaining causal factors, key drivers, and implications for policy, investment, and program decisions.
• Provide clear direction to technical staff and ensure work products are translated into decision-ready information, including staff reports, presentations, and policy recommendations.

• Guide, manage, and oversee general planning assistance, including reviewing and commenting on studies; leading external coordination meetings; and collaborating and providing input into the larger agency efforts, including policy development and updates of the MTP/SCS (or 2025 Blueprint).
• Lead and coordinate SACOG quarterly partner meetings across the 6 counties.
• Review program and project status, progress and deliverables, and provide status reporting and monitoring.

• Manage multiple concurrent projects and program initiatives, including coordinating multidisciplinary teams, managing consultant contracts, developing scopes, schedules, and budgets, and resolving technical, schedule, and stakeholder issues using independent judgment.

• Engage with high-level managers and officials inside and outside of SACOG, on matters of high visibility to SACOG and the region, including representing SACOG positions, facilitating alignment across jurisdictions, and navigating competing regional priorities.
• Provide recommendations to the SACOG management and executive leadership teams regarding program and project priorities.
• Supervise multiple staff, including oversight of technical work product from SACOG staff, partner organizations, and consultant teams.
• Exercise direct and general supervision over assigned team members.
• Represent SACOG at external meetings with partner agencies, state agencies, elected officials, and regional stakeholders.

Qualifications
We know and appreciate that everyone brings their own talents to a job. If we could have it all, here's what ideal candidate would look like to us:

• A visionary, creative, and innovative approach to program management, development and implementation.
• Ability to work with a network of external partners and manage multiple stakeholders, including a strong ability to develop trust and relationships,
• Strong organizational skills, including time management, ability to set priorities, and ability to anticipate critical deadlines.
• Adaptability and flexibility, and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with competing requirements, deadlines and priorities.
• Dedication to collaboration across SACOG teams, elected officials, and key regional stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently and critical thinking skills, including the ability to make effective decisions amidst uncertainty.
• Effective and clear communication skills.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Demonstrated experience with general transportation planning and corridor planning.
• Strong understanding of state and federal funding sources and programs, including state SB1 programs.
• Understanding of equitable and inclusive planning principles in transportation decision-making.
• Demonstrated experience facilitating projects involving numerous organizational stakeholders as well as an interest in finding compromise when faced with conflicting perspectives.
• Experience managing complex, multi-agency transportation pl