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Status: Part Time
Company Description: The Bikes Belong Coalition (bikesbelong.org) is the U.S. bicycle industry organization dedicated to getting more people riding bikes more often. Bikes Belong works to increase federal bike funding, awards grants to support innovative bike projects, promotes bicycling and its benefits, and backs crucial national efforts such as Safe Routes to School, Bicycle Friendly Communities, and the National Bike Summit. The affiliated Bikes Belong Foundation focuses on improving bicycle safety and enhancing children's bike programs. Bikes Belong also manages the Peopleforbikes.org campaign, an unprecedented effort to unite one million Americans behind a pledge in support of better bicycling in the U.S.

Job Description: To meet the needs of our growing organizations, we are expanding the Accounting and Human Resources department. The Accounting & Human Resources Assistant directly assists the Finance Director in performing various bookkeeping and human resources tasks. This position is a new part time position (approximately 10 – 15 hours/week) and consequently offers schedule flexibility.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Boulder County's Transportation Department is hiring a Bicycle and Transportation Demand Management (TDM) Planner (PL1). Housed within the Planning Division, the TDM Planner will implement a number of innovative bicycle, pedestrian and TDM programs. Programs will be both with Boulder County staff (internal programs) and with Boulder County residents, employees and visitors (external programs). This position reports to the Alternative Transportation Coordinator and will work regularly with other planning and engineering staff. This is a highly visible position that requires significant contact with the public, neighborhood groups and public sector staff across multiple municipalities in Boulder County.

Examples of Duties (partial list):
1. Provide project support for bicycle, pedestrian and other alternative mode related projects in Boulder County.
2. Manage a county wide sidewalk inventory and develop a missing sidewalk links database to implement the pedestrian element of Boulder County's Transportation Master Plan (currently being developed).
3. Identify and address maintenance needs on bicycle and pedestrian facilities including snow removal, sweeping, vegetation cutting and concrete repair.
4. Develop bike count methodology for summer 2012 including defining locations, times, and coordinating volunteers.

Looking for an opportunity to test your skills with some firsthand industry experience? Green Guru Gear is seeking an intern to assist in the marketing of environmentally friendly adventure and cycling gear.
Do you consider yourself an environmentalist? Are you creative? Are you interested in helping market some of the most progressive environmentally friendly gear available?

Experience will include a little of everything; social networking, blogging, newsletters, events, etc. Training will begin side by side with members of the company teaching their skills in the form of firsthand experience. The intern will be able to practice and develop these skills in close proximity of the supervisor who will review the work performed and provide key notes and critiques on the jobs performed. Valuable software experience includes Word, Excel, Photoshop, In Design, Illustrator, Dreamweaver and Flash, but is not required. Overall this opportunity will provide a comprehensive understanding of marketing in an outdoor/action sport industry manufacturer concentrating on environmentally and ethically friendly manufacturing practices.