Brownfields Redevelopment Specialist
4 weeks ago
Title:
Brownfields Redevelopment Specialist
Department:
Center for Community Systems
Reports To:
Manager, Brownfields Redevelopment
Position Type:
Staff
Position Summary:
The Brownfields Redevelopment Specialist will provide
technical assistance and guidance, create tools and resources, and conduct
educational and engagement forums to help communities assess, cleanup, and
redevelop former industrial and commercial properties (brownfields),
transforming them into productive reuse. The
technical assistance provided to communities will contribute to a greater
quality of life by improving health and safety; enhancing environmental
quality; promoting use/reuse of existing infrastructure; promoting economic
development; making better connections to jobs, education, and health care;
creating and/or preserving open space; and creating more sustainable and
resilient communities
Essential Functions:
- Provides one-on-one technical assistance to government
entities, community organizations, and non-profits throughout the US to
strategize how to address their specific brownfield challenges
- Assists communities in: understanding basic brownfields
redevelopment concepts; navigating the brownfields regulatory process;
identifying funding sources; and understanding technical and scientific
reports and data
- Provides funding application critiques and guidance
- Plans and conducts brownfield engagement and educational
events (workshops, seminars, webinars, bootcamps, conference sessions)
- Identifies communities in need of brownfields redevelopment
assistance services
- Provides ideas and content for websites, newsletters, and
educational tools on brownfields and brownfields-related topics (such as equitable
development, environmental justice, climate change impacts, community
resilience, etc.)
- Maintains a record of assistance activities for inclusion
in required program progress reporting
- Works collaborative with other staff to develop and
implement strategies on effective ways to provide technical assistance and
conduct community engagement activities
-
Preforms
other duties as requested
Prerequisite Qualifications:
Education
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree
in environmental planning, environmental
science, geology, environmental engineering, or other relevant discipline
Experience Requirements
-1 to 3 years
Technical Requirements
- Knowledge of Federal and/or state brownfield programs
- Familiarity with the challenges affecting redevelopment and
revitalization projects
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a
multi-disciplinary team
- Possesses
strong public speaking and relationship building skills
- Possesses
strong time management and organizational skills and the ability to meet
deadlines
- Familiarity
with idenfying and utilizing available brownfield related data sources (i.e.,
NJDEP DataMiner)
- Ability to present technical information to the public in
plain language
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent
computer literacy, including Microsoft Office, and Adobe.
- Fluent
in Spanish is a plus
- Experience in real estate and/or public health assessments
a plus
- Interest in environmental justice and social equity in
redevelopment
- Applicants must have a valid driver’s license.
- At the university's discretion, the education and experience
prerequisites may be exempted where the candidate can demonstrate to the
satisfaction of the university, an equivalent combination of education and
experience specifically preparing the candidate for success in the position
Bargaining Unit:
PSA
Range/Band:
21
FLSA:
Exempt
Full-Time
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