Resilience and Climate Adaptation Manager

3 days ago

Sacramento, California, United States Tetra Tech Full time
The Opportunity

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

Why Tetra Tech

We are a global leader in engineering and consulting, committed to solving complex challenges and driving positive change in communities worldwide. With over 50 years of experience, we have developed cutting-edge solutions in water, environment, energy, and international development, improving the lives of over 500 million people.

Your Impact

As a Resilience and Climate Adaptation Manager, you will have the opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of people and communities. You will work with a talented team of experts to develop and implement innovative solutions to climate-related challenges, leveraging cutting-edge technologies and advanced analytics.

Your Role

This position requires strong technical and communication skills, knowledge of climate change and impacts, and demonstrated experience in resilience and adaptation planning. You will provide project management support, lead resilience and climate-adaptation planning projects, and develop decision support tools and mitigation and adaptation strategies.

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.
Qualifications

We are seeking a highly qualified candidate with a Master's Degree in Urban Planning, Sustainability, Climate Change, Resilience, Public Policy, or a related field. Certification by the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) or working toward certification is a 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.

Life at Tetra Tech

Tetra Tech offers a comprehensive and market-competitive benefits package, merit-based financial rewards, flexibility, and a collaborative team atmosphere that values the contributions of all employees. We are committed to ongoing professional growth and development, and we offer learning and development opportunities to support your career advancement.

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