Environmental Sustainability Planner

Title:
Environmental Sustainability Planner

Department:
Center for Community Systems

Reports To:
Director, Sponsored Projects and Community Systems

Position Type:
Staff

Position Summary:
The Environmental Sustainability Planner 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.
-Uses GIS skills to develop tools for redevelopment initiatives.
-Provides grant 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.
-Performs other duties as requested.

Prerequisite Qualifications:
Education Requirements:
-Bachelor's degree in environmental
or urban planning, environmental science, geography, or other relevant
discipline.

Work Experience Requirements:
-2 to 5 years of experience in
sustainability planning.

Technical Knowledge Requirements:
-Interest
or knowledge of social, economic, and environmental elements of brownfield
redevelopment.
-Familiarity
with the challenges affecting redevelopment and revitalization projects.
-Knowledge
and experience in community engagement for planning projects.
-Working
understanding of sustainability and resilience planning practices and
creativity in their application and implementation.
-Knowledge
of Federal and/or state brownfield programs.
-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 identifying and utilizing available brownfield related data sources
(i.e., NJDEP DataMiner).
-Experience
with developing or reviewing grant proposals or projects.
-Experience
using GIS mapping techniques.
-Ability
to present technical information to the public in plain language.
-Effective
written and verbal communication skills and attention to detail and work
quality.
-Excellent
computer literacy, including Microsoft Office, and Adobe.
-Fluency
in Spanish is a plus.
-Experience
in real estate and/or public health assessments is a plus.

Residency and Other Requirements:
-Applicants
must have a valid driver's license.
-See
the New
Jersey First Act for more information on residency requirements.

Travel Demand:
-This position requires frequent travel in the Northeast and
Southeast.

Bargaining Unit:
PSA

Range/Band:
25

Salary Information:
In compliance with the NJ Pay Transparency Law, the negotiated annual salary range for this position is $70,089.77-$131,210.76 (USD). NJIT considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, as well as, market and organizational considerations when extending an offer. This pay range represents base pay only and excludes any additional items such as incentives, bonuses or other items.

To learn more about the comprehensive benefits NJIT offers for this position, please visit our benefits page: https://hr.njit.edu/health-benefits.

Please note: This position is contingent up on grant funding.

FLSA:
Exempt
Full-Time