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Salary– $40,440.00 – $52,776.00 Annually

Program planning and performance monitoring:

Support Water Quality’s (WQ) Senior Program Planner on strategic and biennial planning, and the development, implementation, tracking and reporting of the program’s biennial plan and related documents:

• Help define, develop, and implement program planning processes.
• Organize and facilitate planning meetings. Use effective facilitation techniques to ensure team members understand the information presented or the decision to be made and can participate fully, especially in a virtual environment.
• Track overall progress toward planning goals.
• Write background and introductory sections of the strategic and biennial plans.

Support program accountability by tracking and reporting on accomplishments across program and agency plans and commitments:

• Assist the program planner with compiling or entering program performance data into WQ data systems.
• Build charts and graphics to display performance data in simple and meaningful ways so that the program and agency can understand progress made and work to be done.
• Present program data to program leadership. Make changes to how information is presented based on feedback from the team.
• Organize program performance discussions.

Legislation analysis and coordination:

Provide coordination and research support for program policy leads, the Deputy Program Manager and Senior Program Planner on bills and legislative proposals.

• Research current law, administrative code, agency policy, and procedures to better understand program operations and provide a context for interpreting bills.
• Research legislative proposals (bills) to assess their impact on the Water Quality Program and related initiatives and projects.
• Help coordinate and develop legislative analysis with technical experts and the legislative team in order to ensure materials (bill analyses and fiscal notes) are accurate and posted in a timely manner.
• Oversee the process of completing legislative reports.

Stakeholder Outreach, Policy, and Process Improvement Projects:

Support the Deputy Program Manager in stakeholder outreach or process improvement projects. This could include:

• Working with external stakeholder groups to provide feedback on and help shape legislative ideas or directives,
• Help with internal process improvement projects ranging from how our IT projects are prioritized to how we best utilize resources to perform construction Stormwater inspections (as past examples).

Represent the program on agency policy coordination teams, such as Climate Resiliency, and participate in other groups as appropriate, such as the program’s Environmental Justice workgroup.

Qualifications

This is an In-Training position. The goal class for this position is an Environmental Planner 1 (EP1). We will consider applicants who meet the requirements for both the College Career Graduate – Natural, Physical, and Health Sciences (CCG) and EP1 levels. If the finalist meets the requirements at the CCG level, they will be hired as at the CCG level and will be placed in a training program to become an EP1 within a specified period of time. 

Required Qualifications:
Experience for both required and desired qualifications can be gained through various combinations of formal professional employment, educational and volunteer experience. See below for how you may qualify.

At the College Career Graduate level (in-training): Salary Range 39 ($3,067 – $3,987)

• A Bachelor’s degree or above with an emphasis in land use, urban, regional, environmental, or natural resource policy or planning, land use or environmental law, public administration or public policy, or a related field.

At the Environmental Planner 1 level: Salary Range 43 ($3,370 – $4,398 per month)

• A Bachelor’s degree or above with an emphasis in land use, urban, regional, environmental, or natural resource policy or planning, land use or environmental law, public administration or public policy, or a related field.
• Two (2) years of experience in land use, urban, regional, environmental, or natural resource planning. This may include:
  • Experience developing and tracking performance measures for environmental programs and projects;
  • Experience identifying priorities, designing and managing initiatives to identify and address program gaps and align financial assistance efforts with program priorities, and measuring results;
  • Experience facilitating meetings involving multiple stakeholders and complex projects

• A Master’s degree or above with an emphasis in land use, urban, regional, environmental, or natural resource policy or planning, land use or environmental law, public administration or public policy, or a related field.

Supplemental Information

Ecology seeks diverse applicants: We view diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect through a broad lens including race, ethnicity, class, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, immigration status, military background, language, education, life experience, physical disability, neurodiversity, and intersectional identities. Qualified candidates from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

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