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Salary- $5,494.00 – $7,207.00 Monthly

Duties

Our Streamflow Restoration Coordinator,

  • Serves as policy support for local staff in watersheds across the state.
  • Provides input during streamflow restoration planning and implementation.
  • Works with WDFW’s Streamflow Restoration Ecologist to ensure consistency in approach to mitigation across affected watersheds.
  • Assists in convening and facilitating WDFW’s Water Policy and Planning Team to ensure internal coordination on relevant issues, and communication with partner agencies and stakeholders.
  • Helps train relevant staff on policy and decision-making processes.
  • Works in coordination with regional and headquarters staff, attends meetings, coordinates agency expertise, and provides oral and written input on planning documents or project proposals.
  • Works with Water Policy Section Manager, Climate Change Coordinator, Water Policy and Planning Team, and Drought Core Response Team to complete, update, and refine agency drought policies and action plan.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

  • Work Setting, including hazards:
    • Work is performed primarily in office and meeting settings; frequent traveling to meetings in various watersheds, statewide, as needed.
  • Schedule:
    • Typically, work schedule is Monday – Friday, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm, although schedule varies with work and travel requirements
  • Travel Requirements:
    • Up to 15% of the time.
  • Tools and Equipment:
    • Standard desktop or laptop computer workstation.
  • Customer Interactions:
    • Frequent interaction with state agency, tribal, and local governments staff and leads, including Ecology, Agriculture, Health, county commissioners, tribal staff, and the public – these interactions involve helping to inform WDFW’s position on negotiating agreements about permissible water use and mitigation.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Bachelor’s degree in environmental policy or similar field AND five (5) years of professional experience in land use, urban, regional, environmental, or natural resource planning, and/or program development.

OR

  • One year of experience as an Environmental Planner 3 or closely allied field.

OR

  • Experience will substitute year over year for a degree.

Knowledge of:

  • Fish and wildlife ecology and habitat requirements, especially for salmonids.
  • Western water law and federal and state environmental laws.
  • State-tribal governmental relations and tribal rights.

Certifications/Licenses: 

  • Valid Driver’s License.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: 

  • Master’s degree in environmental policy or related field, or J.D. with an emphasis on environmental and/or water law AND three (3) years of professional experience in land use, urban, regional, environmental, or natural resource planning, and/or program development.

Experience:

  • Negotiating agreements among groups with diverse perspectives.
  • Operating at a small or local scale while tracking implications and policy context in the larger scale.
  • Facilitating and running meetings.

Please note: Failure to follow the instructions below may lead to disqualification.

In order to successfully apply for this position, you MUST complete your profile at www.careers.wa.gov and attach the following to your profile before completing the online application:

  • A cover letter describing how you meet the qualifications of this position (Generic cover letter will not be accepted).
  • A current resume.
  • Three professional references.
  • Writing Sample. Please provide a sample of your best professional/academic writing (two to ten pages, excerpts ok), environmental topics preferred. If using an excerpt, please provide a one-paragraph introduction to the excerpt.