NBG City Scout Job Description

The people needed to build our Downtown Greenways

In our NBG Virtual Tours newsletter you saw me talking about NBG City Scouts. Here is who they are and what they will be doing -

NBG City Scout Job Description:
In terms of who our NBG City Scouts are and how we will hire them, we will begin accepting applications in the Fall, six months before our campaign is set to begin in each of our Anchor Cities. We will be looking for cyclists who regularly ride in the city in question and are well versed in their own neighborhood pockets. 

A 6-month position, this person will have good communication skills and be able to interface with everyone from the bike messenger and bike shop mechanic to the spandex racer and office worker. Ideally, they will be able to write clear and concise reports.

For three months, in the summertime, they will live in and base their efforts from the participating hotel we will have contracted with. The NBG scouts we hire will Car Free explore the city. He or she will ask questions, find out where cyclists go, find out how they get there and learn all the innuendo of the city in question from a bicyclist’s perspective. During this time, they will Car Free explore all of the neighborhood pockets in the city.  The roads they use to get from one pocket to another will also be tracked by them and passed along to our cartographer.

The Scouts will determine the best way to bicycle from one service (the popular places to eat, sleep, shop and play) and point of interest to another. In addition, as our City Scouts track the routing from the hotel they're staying at to pre-specified dining establishments and other points of interest, this information will also be passed along to our cartographer. Toward this end, in addition to collecting routing information for our Downtown Greenways, this will allow us to feature the routes to specific lodging purveyors as an additional form of revenue for us.