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Salary- $72,000.00 – $80,844.00 Annually

Duties

Some of the duties include:

  • Serve as the overall technical lead for development and ongoing curation of the Puget Sound performance measures portfolio
  • Facilitate technical and stakeholder workgroups to evaluate and identify performance measures that track shared recovery goals across local and regional recovery plans and utilize the best available datasets
  • Research and review relevant monitoring efforts, databases, and literature pertaining to candidate measures
  • Coordinate ongoing reporting on performance measures by a range of entities, including developing and managing contracts with external programs and data providers to ensure timely reporting of performance measures
  • As requested, support the development of quantitative targets and performance measure action plans for some of the performance measures
  • Scope and implement analyses and program evaluations that assess relative effectiveness and contributions of recovery programs, policies, and investments on performance measure trends; design and perform quantitative analyses to explore correlations across indicators 
  • Use data analyses and evaluations to identify opportunities to adaptively manage to improve recovery efforts
  • Publish performance measure analyses in technical reports, fact sheets, and other communication products including the biennial State of the Sound report

Qualifications

Success in this position requires that a person be a team player, defined as possessing initiative and a driving passion for the work, having humility and practicing curiosity in interactions with others, and valuing the whole human in each of us.  
 
Required Experience, Competencies and Technical Skills (experience may be concurrent):

  • Minimum of three years related experience in developing or implementing performance measures or indicators related to social, economic, or environmental programs
  • Experience in managing or curating quantitative datasets
  • Possess high level of analytical skills
  • Familiarity with performance measurement principles, including effective use of logic models
  • Experience in effectively communicating to partners and the public
  • Competency in project management
  • Ability to work cooperatively and effectively with a diverse group of agencies, governments and partners, scientists, planners, practitioners, and policy makers
  • Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team

PREFERRED:

  • Graduate level degrees or course work in nature or social science disciplines
  • Five years of experience designing, reporting, and analyzing performance measures or indicators of regional environmental, economic, and/or social trends
  • Experience coordinating or leading the development of collaborative performance measurement frameworks
  • Advanced skills in quantitative analysis, data visualization, geospatial analysis, and quantitative policy analysis
  • Experience facilitating technical work groups and engaging diverse stakeholders in the development of technical products
  • Familiarity with a computer programming language or software suitable for data analysis
  • Competency in contract management
  • Knowledge of natural resource issues and natural and social science related to the recovery of Puget Sound