- Salary
- $85k – $115k/yr
- Location
- Jersey City, NJ, NJ
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Administration
- Experience
- 1+ years
- Source
- GovernmentJobs
Description
Job Opening:
Climate Resilience Officer
Department: Infrastructure
Division: Sustainability
Exempt/Non-Exempt: Exempt
Union/Management: Management
Full-Time/Part-Time/Seasonal: Full-Time
Workweek: 40hrs/week
Salary: $85,000 to $115,000. Based on Qualifications and Experience. Competitive Jersey City retirement and health benefits packages are available, including pension, dental, medical, prescription, FSA (flexible spending account), life insurance and more.
The Climate Resilience Officer reports to the Director of Sustainability within the Department of Infrastructure. The ideal candidate has experience in community engagement and sustainability, as well as a genuine passion for advancing the sustainability and livability of Jersey City. This position will organize and manage the community’s climate resilience, adaptation, and sustainability efforts. This involves long-term planning and diverse stakeholder involvement. This work requires a strong commitment to ensuring communities have protection from further environmental harm.
Job Duties:
- Assess local economic, environmental, and social impacts of climate change.
- Develop local climate resilience strategies by conducting research, convening stakeholders, and making project, policy, and procedural recommendations.
- Manage and coordinate implementation of local climate resilience and sustainability strategies.
- Track project progress, creating metrics and reporting metrics.
- Ensure plans and implementation consider the existing environmental harm in a community and the needs of underserved and vulnerable populations.
- Represent the municipality to stakeholders, communicating climate resilience and sustainability actions and fostering partnerships.
- Prepare proposals, reports, and project plans.
- Travel frequently to convene with stakeholders.
- As needed, assume a supervisory role by assigning work, providing supervisory support, conducting performance appraisals, and conducting hiring (if applicable).
- Manage program budgets, grants and contracts to ensure compliance with funding requirements.
- Perform reporting and guidance to municipal officials and staff including, but not limited to, climate adaptation and resilience budget items, contracts, policy changes, and department operations.
*Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Required Educational Background and Experience: Bachelor’s degree in environmental science, sustainability, engineering, urban planning, public policy, natural resources management or related field. Preferred minimum of 5-10 years, with 2 years of supervisory experience. May substitute 1-2 years of experience for a master’s degree or higher.
Essential Skills:
- Expertise on issues, best practices, methods, and strategies to address local climate change impacts, sustainability, adaptation, resilience, and equity.
- Ability to understand data and communicate findings to a wide variety of stakeholder groups both verbally and in writing.
- Ability to develop partnerships across and work with competing interests to advise on ideas from conception to implementation.
- An understanding of budget procedures with the ability to secure and manage grant funding.
- Familiarity with cost benefit analyses and program evaluation.
- Experience conducing public meetings and engaging stakeholders, including with government, private, and community sectors.
- Knowledge of local, state, and federal environmental and financial regulations.
- Computer skills in Microsoft Office and data management.
- Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with City of Jersey City employees, community organizations, municipal officials, other levels of government, and the general public.
- Flexibility and willingness to take on a variety of tasks as the need arises in order to meet municipal priorities.
- Ability to engage with the community.
- Ability to effectively work as part of a team.
- Ability to organize and summarize data and other information.
You must eventually pass and qualify for the applicable Civil Service title.
Please note that this role is subject to the residency requirements set forth by NJ First Act.
The City of Jersey City is an Affirmative Action/Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and complies with all applicable federal and state laws, rules, and regulations relating to anti-discrimination and anti-harassment.