MISSOULA URBAN TRANSPORTATION DISTRICT DIRECTOR OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION JOB OPENING (406) 721-3333 www.mountainline.com MISSOULA URBAN TRANSPORTATION DISTRICT DIRECTOR OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION ABOUT THE JOB OPENING The district is seeking a dynamic leader for the position of director of finance and administration. This senior management position works directly with the General Manager and assists in the determination 5 of the Healthiest and Greenest and implementation of short and Cities in America: Missoula, Montana long-range goals and strategies and Greener Ideal, August 2018 has the overall responsibility for managing and providing leadership to the agency’s administration department. The position provides leadership to the agency’s staff as it MISSOULA, MONTANA THE MISSOULA URBAN relates to policies and procedures, and administers and oversees Missoula is a unique and vibrant mountain TRANSPORTATION DISTRICT the finance functions, asset community with incredible personality, management, and human relations rich history, a lively arts and culture scene, The Missoula Urban Transportation Today the Mountain Line system program. Minimum qualifications and world-class year-round recreation District (MUTD) was founded in 1976 operates 24 buses on 12 routes and include a bachelor’s degree in opportunities. Float, kayak and river surf and is governed by a seven-member 11 paratransit vehicles that serve the accounting or an equivalent right in and just outside of town, fly-fish board of directors appointed by the community. Mountain Line was recently combination of education and blue-ribbon trout streams, and ski some of city council and county commissioners, awarded a $500,000 Low-No Emissions experience. CPA is preferred. the finest snow in the West. Walkable and and currently has 72 employees. grant and a $2.7 million discretionary Transit industry knowledge is bikeable, downtown Missoula teems with Bus and Bus Facilities grant to fund the preferred. Five years’ experience in restaurants, cafés, coffee shops, breweries, Operated by MUTD, Mountain Line purchase of six new electric buses and accounting principles and practices live music, festivals, food trucks and provides zero-fare fixed-route a system-wide Bus Stop Master Plan, and business administration is community events like art walks, a symphony and paratransit bus service in and with upgrades coming to many bus preferred. Must have experience in the park, and multiple outdoor markets. and biking right outside your door, and around Missoula and the University stops this year, benefiting more than in management and supervision, The city provides numerous opportunities for nearly 5,000 acres of open space to explore. of Montana, helping employees get half of Mountain Line’s daily riders. budgeting, planning, and policy new businesses, families, and folks seeking Missoula is also situated between Glacier to work, students get to school, and Mountain Line plans to convert the administration. Please respond by an exceptional quality of life. and Yellowstone national parks, and is just keeping seniors and people with entire fleet to electric buses as funds sending a cover letter and resume a stone’s throw from the largest freshwater disabilities active and mobile. The become available. to [email protected]. This western Montana town is known for lake west of the Mississippi—Flathead highly successful zero-fare program— MUTD offers a competitive salary friendly local vibes, breathtaking scenery Lake—and a handful of downhill ski areas, implemented in 2015—has increased In 2018, MUTD also completed the and benefits package. Salary range and wide-open spaces. Sitting along the including one right in town. bus ridership in Missoula by 70 percent Strategic Plan and is in the final stages is $84,000 to $105,000. Benefits Clark Fork River between its confluence with in four years, with the agency now of completing the Facilities Master include pension contributions and the Bitterroot and Blackfoot rivers and at In 2018, the United States Census Bureau providing more than 1.5 million rides Plan to address growth and identify agency-paid premiums for employee the convergence of seven wilderness areas estimated the city’s population at 74,428 and annually, and has put Missoula’s bus potential locations for an expanded and family health, dental, vision, life, and five mountain ranges, Missoula is often the population of the Missoula Metropolitan transit system on the map nationally. facility. The plan seeks to triple facility and LTD. Other voluntary employee described as the Hub of Five Valleys. Here Area at 118,791. Missoula’s largest employers Behind the numbers, real people size by 2030. benefits are available. MUTD is an you’ll find hundreds of acres of parkland, an are the University of Montana and Missoula’s are benefiting every day from the Equal Opportunity Employer. First extensive network of trail systems for hiking two outstanding hospitals. program, garnering monumental community-wide support. review of applications will occur on July 15, 2019. The position remains (406) 721-3333 www.mountainline.com open until filled. .