Climate Resilience Manager

The Climate Resilience Manager at Tanana Chiefs Conference in Fairbanks, AK, will develop and manage projects to enhance community infrastructure resilience to climate threats. Responsibilities include collaborating with Tribal leadership, providing technical assistance, developing climate adaptation strategies, and ensuring project compliance with funding agencies. The position requires a Bachelor's degree in environmental sciences or engineering and involves supervising project staff and community engagement.
Description

Job Title

Climate Resilience Manager

Location

Fairbanks, AK, US

Organization Name

Tribal Client and Government Services

Job Summary

Job Summary: The incumbent provides planning, development, and management services with TCC communities to improve infrastructure resilience to climate threats in riverine contexts. The manager supports communities in their phased approach to develop and implement climate resilience and hazard mitigation planning in collaboration with other federal, state, and tribal partners. Supports the development of climate adaptation strategies, geographic information system geodatabases for individual villages, and compilation of climate adaptation strategies for riverine communities on the Yukon and Upper Kuskokwim rivers.

Adhere to the TCC Ch eghwtsen model of service and guiding principle which requires providing timely and effective service along with the ability to interact with others in a way that inspires trust and demonstrates respect, compassion and empathy.

Essential Functions

Essential Functions: This list is ILLUSTRATIVE ONLY and is not a comprehensive listing of all functions and tasks performed by incumbents. Incumbent(s) may not be required to perform all duties listed and may be required to perform additional, position-specific duties.

Representative Duties: Under the direct supervision of the Realty Manager:

1. Develops and manages community climate resilience project goals in collaboration with Tribal leadership, community members and technical staff with funding agencies, consultants, and other project support staff. Develops assessments, surveys, data collection, data analysis, and monitoring for several TCC communities.

2. Serves as the technical point of contact with multiple communities and responds to climate resilience planning and science recommendations. Provides technical assistance, and guidance to Tribal Councils and integrates climate risk and threats into complimentary community plans.

3. Collaborates with communities to understand environmental needs and priorities. Schedules and adjusts project activities with other technical staff and partners, as necessary, to accommodate evolving project goals and accomplishments. Develops community plans, projects, grants, and provides technical assistance to support the implementation of community projects.

4. Completes progress reports for TCC climate resilience projects including requirements of funding agencies and monitors quality control/quality assurance for all project related activities, including the management of project schedules, budgets, scopes, travel, expenses and reports. Maintains an administrative record of project activities that conforms to agency technical and financial reporting requirements.

5. Supervises project staff to achieve climate resilience metrics and goals in partnership with external agencies and project partners. Assists associated project personnel with project planning, community meetings, field studies, data acquisition, travel arrangements, provisioning and employee performance evaluations.

Other Responsibilities:

1. Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

MINIMUM EDUCATION QUALIFICATION

1. Bachelor s degree in environmental or earth sciences, engineering with training or work experience in project management and planning, or a related college degree. Progressively responsible professional work-related experience, education, or training may be substituted on a year-for-year basis for college education.

2. Five (5) years of planning, project management, research, or other experience with climate resilience, hazard mitigation, rural Alaskan village planning, or other relevant projects. At least three (3) years of experience in rural Alaska is preferred with research or engineering experience on flooding, riverine erosion, and discontinuous permafrost hazards. Three (3) years involving employee supervision. An equivalent combination of relevant education and/or training may be substituted on a year-for-year basis for project management experience.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

1. General knowledge of Alaskan climate science literature and resilience planning modeling of climate-related threats to villages throughout Interior Alaska.

2. Knowledge of current trends and best practices in climate resilience planning.

3. Working knowledge of Alaska Native peoples' histories and cultures.

4. Knowledge of Alaska riverine environments of the Yukon and Upper Kuskokwim rivers, including knowledge of large river fluvial dynamics such as erosion patterns, flooding behavior, and permafrost degradation processes.

5. Knowledge of project management principles related to engineering, design and construction practices in rural Alaska.

6. Skills for developing adaptation measures to reduce risk to permanent infrastructure, including technical solutions, rendering policies, regulations, standards, procedures, and emergency response plans.

7. Advanced skills in facilitating community meetings covering diverse topics, sensitive issues, and advancing discussions leading to resilience-based decisions with long-term implications.

8. Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with federal and state agencies, co-workers, contractors, and individuals with wide array of cultural, political, educational, socioeconomic, geographic, and linguistic backgrounds.

9. Advanced skills operating personal computers and electronic devices utilizing a variety of software applications.

10. Ability to understand land status, geospatial data, geographic information systems, and geodatabase management.

11. Ability to manage multiple priorities and tasks concurrently, meet deadlines and communicate effectively on budget management and technical reporting.

12. Advanced problem solving and troubleshooting capacity leading teams, and delegating tasks that contribute to overall project goals.

Supervision: This position has supervisory responsibilities.

Supervision

Physical demands: This position requires the ability to travel to rural villages and temporarily residing in villages to acquire planning data. Frequent travel within Alaska is necessary, often in small fixed-wing aircraft and lodging in village facilities. Exposure to biting insects, inclement weather conditions, hazardous working environments, and occasional extreme weather conditions to be expected.

Summation

Summation: The Climate Resilience Manager oversees a portfolio of community climate resilience planning processes with TCC colleagues and external agency officials. Duties include managing project personnel (land surveyor and geospatial data coordinator). Incumbent will steer a broad effort to compile climate resilience planning processes among multiple TCC villages. Methodologies will be developed to address climate resilience mitigation planning for villages located along the banks of the Yukon and Upper Kuskokwim rivers. The overall project objective is to address climate resilience planning for long-term sustainability of permanent village infrastructure.