Climate Resilience Manager

Project Manager:

Technical & Professional Skills & Knowledge:
• Has well developed understanding of relevant technical principles and their application to a program area.
• Develops/formulates Deployment issues, problems and needs in at least one technical area.
• Has acknowledged expertise at conceptual level of technical skills and knowledge in at least one program area.
• Has basic understanding of State energy/environmental economic development issues. Creativity in Project & Program Development:
• Has developed and managed projects with little specific direction.
• Develops new projects and cofunding sources with own initiative.
• Carried out development of several projects through competitive solicitation phase that may or may not result from own initiative.
• Has provided ideas and rationale for program development in at least one technical area.

Organization Skills & Productivity:
• Has demonstrated ability to implement projects in a timely
• manner. Demonstrates the capability to manage all aspects of on-going projects with no supervision.
• Is able to prioritize workload with other responsibilities.
• Effectively discharges general technical and project management assignments in a timely manner.
• Demonstrates strategic thinking connected to the organization’s goals.

Leadership / Interpersonal Relations / Judgement:
• Has demonstrated ability to effectively head working groups or program teams.
• Provides guidance to junior staff when appropriate and can supervise the day-to-day work of interns.
• Has full confidence of peers and superiors.
• People skills have developed to show leadership and an ability to motivate others.

Communication Skills & External Relations:
• Has demonstrated ability to produce both written material and verbal presentations that are direct, recognize and focus on issues, are both comprehensive and concise and require editing only in most sensitive and complex areas.
• Is able to negotiate effectively with contractors and interface effectively with customers and other outside contacts.
• Has demonstrated ability to prepare and present papers at professional meetings, seminars and conferences.

Primary Responsibilities, and Minimum and Preferred Qualifications:

What skills are needed to be successful in this role?
• Familiarity with floodplain modeling approaches. Technical expertise in climate hazard data (ex. flood, extreme heat, wind, drought).
• Strong experience in contract management. Strong experience in product development and user testing for data products.
• Experience with developing agile workflows.
• Collaborative mindset to build systems and partnerships that make climate data more useful, equitable, and actionable for use by NYSERDA and other stakeholders in NYS.

Are there any specialized skills that must be present for the position to be successful?
• Familiarity with hydrologic and hydraulic modeling. Familiarity with the development of FEMA map products and floodplain management.
• GIS or other geospatial tools, data analysis, experience performing climate risk assessments.
• Experience in developing and implementing data products or platforms (including user research, prototyping, and testing), strong analytical skills, strong communication across multiple stakeholders, strategic planning.
• Coding skills in Python is a plus.

Education, Certifications, Degree requirements
• Bachelors degree in relevant field (ex. environmental science, risk management, computer science, data science, or similar). 3-6 years of relevant experience. Demonstrated experience with climate hazard datasets is required.
• Masters degree in relevant field is a plus.

IT systems that will be used

Salesforce, ArcGIS Pro, ESRI enterprise, SharePoint, Tableau, Office 365