A Master's degree from an accredited college with a major in economics, finance, accounting, business or public administration, human resources management, management science, operations research, organizational behavior, industrial psychology, statistics, personnel administration, labor relations, psychology, sociology, human resources development, political science, urban studies or a closely related field, and ONE(1) year of satisfactory full-time professional experience in one or a combination of the following: working with the budget of a large public or private concern in budget administration, accounting, economic or financial administration, or fiscal or economic research; in management or methods analysis, operations research, organizational research or program evaluation; in personnel or public administration, recruitment, position classification, personnel relations, employee benefits, staff development, employment program planning/administration, labor market research, economic planning, social services program planning/evaluation, fiscal management or in a related field; OR. Responsibilities: Responsibilities of this position may include analyzing various data sources, studies and performance indicators produced by benchmarking organizations and external transportation organizations, providing robust key performance indicator data to international benchmarking organizations and analyzing data from these organizations to benchmark NYCT's relative performance, identifying the key policy implications for NYC Transit from benchmarking research and communicating these implications to internal decision makers, undertaking independent research to identify best practices across different aspects of transportation policy and practice, collaborating with all departments within the MTA to understand the current and future challenges facing public transit in NYC.