Key skills
Leadership
About this role
Role Overview
- Maintain familiarity with the Resilience Challenge’s community resilience efforts in California and across the West Coast region in order to understand project needs and work to address them.
- Engage in-person regularly with Resilience Challenge partners and in the communities served by the Resilience Challenge project in California.
- Serve in the role of Technical Assistance Coordinator for the Resilience Challenge project in California.
- Help monitor the Washington and Alaska tasks to support the respective team members as needed.
- Provide technical assistance directly to Resilience Challenge partners and project communities.
- Make connections with NOAA and other federal agencies and external partners to deliver additional technical expertise and services.
- Assist with developing training and other learning products to support the needs of Resilience Challenge efforts.
- Deliver OCM training to Resilience Challenge projects and serve as a national trainer on nature-based solutions.
- Facilitate meetings, workshops and other events with project partners.
- Act as a liaison to communicate NOAA resources to partners and assist with communicating on-the-ground accomplishments to NOAA.
- Perform grant management and administration responsibilities in coordination with federal staff, including providing advice on grants, cooperative agreements, and project budgets.
- Coordinate tasks and activities with other staff supporting the Resilience Challenge.
- Serve as the West Coast Resilience Challenge coordinator to coordinate across Resilience Challenge projects in the West Coast region.
- Assist with OCM project coordination.
- Work with regional leadership to represent the Office and NOAA at local and regional events in support of the Resilience Challenge and other regional efforts.
- Provide local support, expertise and networking for the Coastal Resilience Fellows hosted by project partners.
- Support and participate in the national Resilience Challenge Peer-to-peer Gathering.
- Provide convening support for local and regional peer-to-peer sharing events to reach coastal community audiences beyond the project partners.
- Make connections with and provide support as needed to Resilience Challenge projects that are outside of California and the West Coast.
Requirements
- Masters degree with 6+ years of experience
- Close familiarity with the Resilience Challenge’s community resilience efforts in California and across the West Coast
- Understanding of the initial needs and gaps of the Resilience Challenge projects in California that NOAA and other technical assistance providers may address
- Understanding of, and experience in, the local or regional geography, context, cultures, challenges, and coastal issues relevant to the West Coast
- Experience managing NOAA cooperative agreements. Ability to follow standard operating procedures and guidance documentation specifically related to NOAA grant management and administration
- Experience delivering OCM’s nature-based solutions training course
- Experience facilitating meetings and workshops with external partners
- Experience across levels of government and/or sectors (multidisciplinary)
- Demonstrated ability to build relationships with management, colleagues, and external partners
- Experience with NOAA’s Digital Coast
- Ability to pass a National Agency Check (NACI)
Benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare for the employee at no monthly cost
- Healthcare benefit covers medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision
- Personal Time Off (PTO) Policy plus paid holidays
- Highly competitive compensation plan regularly calibrated against industry and location benchmarks
- 401(k) retirement plan with company-matching
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) – we’re all company owners!
- Flexible spending accounts
- Employee assistance program (EAP)
- Short
- and long-term disability insurance
- Life and accident insurance
- Tuition assistance/Training/Workforce improvement reimbursement per year
- Spot bonuses for exceptional performance
- Annual Employee Recognition Awards with bonuses
- Employee Referral Program
- Free centralized, self-directed Learning Management System to learn at your own pace
- Personalized career growth plans for every employee