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Salary– $68,076.00 – $89,292.00 Annually

What makes this role unique? 

In this role, you will need to build strategic partnerships with external stakeholders to create a toolbox of technical resources, partnership opportunities, and funding availability for the new Abandoned Mine Lands (AML) program. This will include ensuring that environmental justice is integrated throughout AML projects.
  
What you will do: 

  • Conduct policy research and analysis associated with an AML program.  
  • Coordinate agency involvement with external stakeholders on proposed AML initiatives.  
  • Develop a process and criteria for administering AML funding, from ensuring cleanup and restoration projects have adequately scoped budgets and timelines to making sure requests align with program priorities. 
  • Work with agency management, ensure that agency efforts around AML are aligned with TCP’s policy priorities.   
  • Develop methods for the evaluation of program effectiveness and performance measurement. 
  • Develop and implement stakeholder communication and engagement strategies.  

 

Qualifications

 

Required Qualifications:

Option 1:

A Bachelor’s degree with major emphasis in land use, urban, regional, environmental, or natural resource planning, landscape architecture, geography, land use or environmental law, public administration with an environmental emphasis, environmental sciences, environmental policy or closely related field  

AND 

Five (5) years of professional experience in land use, urban, regional, environmental, or natural resource planning, and/or program development.

Option 2: 

A Master’s degree or above with major emphasis in land use, urban, regional, environmental, or natural resource planning, landscape architecture, geography, land use or environmental law, public administration with an environmental emphasis, environmental sciences, environmental policy or closely related field  

AND 

Three (3) years of professional experience in land use, urban, regional, environmental, or natural resource planning, and/or program development.

Option 3:

One year of experience as an Environmental Planner 3, at the Department of Ecology.
 

Desired Qualifications:

We highly encourage you to apply even if you do not have some (or all) of the desired experience below.

  • Lead multidisciplinary teams.
  • Communicate clearly verbally and in writing. 
  • Facilitate meetings and find common ground in the event of an impasse.
  • Consider and manage and the potential ramifications of different decision paths. 
  • Welcome constructive criticism.

Note: Having some (or all) of this desired experience may make your application more competitive in a highly competitive applicant pool.