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Resilience and Climate Adaptation Project Manager

2 months ago


Sacramento, California, United States Tetra Tech Full time
About the Role

Tetra Tech is seeking a highly skilled Climate Resilience and Adaptation Manager to join our Emergency Management Risk and Resilience team. This is a remote opportunity based in California.

Key Responsibilities
  • Provide project management support and lead resilience and climate-adaptation planning projects funded by FEMA, CDBG-MIT, or state programs.
  • Lead capacity building activities including developing decision support tools, mitigation and adaptation strategy development, and stakeholder engagement.
  • Prepare and/or review plans, reports, presentations, and tools to meet project needs.
  • Synthesize and analyze vulnerability data to support the identification of adaptation solutions and align with competitive funding sources.
  • Apply principles of social equity and environmental justice to technical and strategic work.
  • Support identification of new clients through relationship building and robust professional network.
  • Assist with developing technical and business proposals for new projects.
  • Work collaboratively with clients, and a team of professionals and supervise junior planners.
  • Liaise with professionals on technical aspects of project and program development.
  • Conduct outreach, stakeholder engagement, and facilitation of meetings with clients and residents.
  • Assist in the writing, preparation, and technical review of planning documents, reports, presentations, visualizations.
  • Advise, research, and analyze socio-economic, land use, demographic, environmental, climate data.
  • Grow the climate adaptation and resilience practice through the identification of public and private client relationships, business development, networking, and preparing winning proposals.
  • Assist with identifying new markets and opportunities.
  • Knowledgeable about federal, state, private funding sources to support advancement of adaptation projectsManage project scope, budget, schedule, contract, and multi-disciplinary project teams to ensure client and project team satisfaction.
  • Conduct activities in line with internal procedures, legislation, and industry standards.
  • Pursue continuous professional development and maintain a high degree of discipline knowledge and awareness.
  • Work in a safe manner at all times and report all health and safety incidents and concerns.
  • Additional duties as required.
Requirements
  • Master's Degree preferred in Urban Planning; Sustainability; Climate Change; Resilience; Public Policy, or related field or equivalent experience.
  • Certified by American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) or working toward certification a is plus.
  • At least 5 years of demonstrated knowledge of mitigation and resilience planning; land use/general planning; mitigation and adaptation strategy identification; risk assessment; climate hazards; federal/state funding mechanisms; federal and state climate, resilience, emergency management policies and programs, best practices, and standards.
  • Have excellent written and verbal communication, client interaction and organizational skills.
  • Writing sample required to be appended to application.
  • U.S. HUD CDBG-MIT planning experience.
  • Willingness and ability to travel as needed, approximately 30%.
  • Must have a valid driver license.
  • Passionate about community resilience and climate adaptation.
  • Proven track record for project management of planning projects.
  • Robust network in the climate and resilience space to support business development.
  • Proven and demonstrated high quality technical writing skills.
  • Excellent leadership, communication, organizational and collaboration skills. Ability to multi-task and problem solve.
  • Strong team player displaying enthusiasm and a true commitment to personal and team growth and development.
  • Interest and ability to work in a collaborative manner functioning as an active participant.
  • Works as a problem solver and critical thinker.
  • Flexibility and the ability to adapt to ever-changing situations.
  • Ability to analyze scientific, environmental, economic and hazard data.
  • Leverages decision-support tools to evaluate impacts (direct and cascading).
  • Excellent constructive communicator, both written and verbal.
  • Ability to successfully support complex and time sensitive projects, manage time and client requests and resolve issues in a timely and high-quality manner.
  • Proficient using MS Office software including Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
  • Proficiency in GIS, Adobe Creative Suite, In Design a plus.
  • Well-developed time management skills and work on tasks as part of a larger project team.
  • Highly self-motivated, client focused and work well in a team environment.
  • Strong work ethic.