Resilience Planner

The Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation is hiring a Resilience Planner in Richmond, VA. This role involves supporting flood resilience planning efforts, including strategic planning, communications, and stakeholder engagement. The planner will work under the Program Manager to develop and implement state-led flood resilience plans, coordinate with agencies, and produce reports and presentations. The salary range is $60,000 to $90,000.
Title: Resilience Planner

State Role Title: Program Admin Specialist II

Hiring Range: $60000 $90000

Pay Band: 5

Agency: Dept Conservation & Recreation

Location:MAIN STREET CENTRE

Agency Website:

Recruitment Type: General Public G

Job Duties

THE AGENCY
The Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation is the states lead conservation agency and it takes a diverse agency to work for a diverse commonwealth. DCR works with Virginians to conserve and enhance their lands and improve the quality of the Chesapeake Bay and Virginia rivers and streams DCR protects what people care about access to the outdoors natural habitats open spaces clean water and safe outdoor recreation infrastructure.
THE DIVISION
The mission of the DCR Office of Resilience Planning is to distribute knowledge and coordinate action to achieve a floodresilient future for Virginia through informed planning and proactive intergovernmental solutions.. Our vision is a Virginia where stateled solutions effectively confront present and future flood risks. Through aligned collective action across Virginias community of flood resilience partners we work to increase resilience and minimize the impacts of flooding statewide.
We accomplish our work through four major lines of effort. We develop and implement stateled flood resilience plans: the Virginia Flood Protection Master Plan and the Coastal Resilience Master Plan. We work together with others to coordinate action. This includes staffing the Flood Resilience Advisory Committee a public body that advises DCR on flood resilience and hosting an Annual Flood Preparedness Coordination meeting. We share data information and resources to support informed decision making about present and future flood risks including through our Flood Resilience Open Data Portal. Finally we connect with stakeholders and the public to inform our plans and build general awareness about changing flood risks in Virginia.
The Office of Resilience Planning is responsible for intergovernmental and interagency coordination and is supported by multiple consultant teams to execute our work.
THE OPPORTUNITY
Under the supervision of the Office of Resilience Planning Program Manager the Resilience Planner will work along the Senior Resilience Planner to support the development administration and implementation of DCRs flood resilience planning efforts.
Work responsibilities may include:
• Strategic Planning and Reporting
• Assist with overall program strategic development and implementation.
• Evaluate local state and federal policies programs and resources related to flood resilience.
• Assist with metric tracking and reporting.
• Communications
• Assist with documenting and communicating stakeholder feedback as well as program accomplishments.
• Produce reports presentations flyers and other media to communicate planned proposed and ongoing activities.
• Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with professional colleagues and representatives from other agencies and the public.
• Working with all levels of internal management and staff as well as independently and in teams.
• Coordination Outreach and Engagement
• Assist with assessing and supporting stakeholder needs including training data tools and technical expertise tailors to needs that vary across geography scale and interests.
• Gather synthesize and report on information from stakeholders and reporting including but not limited to flood resilience initiatives projects and funding strategies.
• Design and facilitate collaborative meetings for meaningful engagement and peertopeer sharing using codevelopment best practices.
• Lead or support public outreach for community resilience projects both virtual and inperson.
• Connect stakeholders with available federal state and local resources.
• Manage stakeholder contact information and associated engagement activity information.
• Attend and represent the Office of Resilience Planning in other stakeholder planning efforts including but not limited to hazard mitigation planning coastal storm risk management studies and projects and flood resilience plans.
Become familiar with other state regional and local resilience efforts.
• Contract and Project Management
• Develop coordinate and manage requests for contract and task order proposals.
• Serve as the primary or secondary contact for task order contracts.
• Monitor progress review and provide constructive feedback on contractual deliverables.
• Schedule organize facilitate attend and document project meetings.
• Review and track invoices.
• Identify and mitigate project risks.
• Administrative
• Perform administrative duties including but not limited to data collection/entry agenda preparation preparation of internal and external meeting minutes and travel logistics.
• Managing multiple tasks simultaneously.

Minimum Qualifications
• Experience with supporting longrange planning activities including gathering evaluating and documenting technical planning data.
• Experience with communicating coordinating and facilitating stakeholder engagement.
• Experience with supporting public outreach communications activities.
• Experience with supporting project management activities.
• Knowledge of and experience with one or more of the following areas: flood hazards natural hazard emergency response public policy and financing environmental and land use regulations and permitting water quality water resources climate change natural resource management and community/economic development.

Additional Considerations
• Familiarity with floodresiliencerelated federal state and local policy planning and grant programs processes and requirements.
• Experience with working in topics related to flood risk management and/or climate adaptation.
• Experience with leveraging qualitative and quantitative information to support and communicate policy recommendations.
• Experience with creating analyzing and managing geospatial data and developing webbased maps or applications using GIS.

Special Instructions

You will be provided a confirmation of receipt when your application and/or rsum is submitted successfully. Please refer to Your Application in your account to check the status of your application for this position.

Overnight travel occasionally required.
Valid Drivers license required.
This position is restricted to the availability of funding in the Virginia Community Flood Preparedness Fund.
A valid State Drivers License is required to operate a state vehicle or if operating a personal vehicle while conducting business on behalf of the agency.
Selected candidate(s) will need to complete the I9 Employment Eligibility Verification Form. DCR participates in EVerify.
Submission of an online application is required for this position. DCR does not accept applications resumes cover letters etc. for this vacancy in any other format. When applying for jobs please ensure your online application or resume is complete with duties and skills associated with your work experience.
Minorities individuals with disabilities veterans and people with National Service experience are encouraged to apply. EEO/AA/TT

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In support of the Commonwealths commitment to inclusion we are encouraging individuals with disabilities to apply through the Commonwealth Alternative Hiring Process. To be considered for this opportunity applicants will need to provide their AHP Letter (formerly COD) provided by the Department for Aging & Rehabilitative Services (DARS) or the Department for the Blind & Vision Impaired (DBVI). ServiceConnected Veterans are encouraged to answer Veteran status questions and submit their disability documentation if applicable to DARS/DBVI to get their AHP Letter. Requesting an AHP Letter can be found at AHP Letter or by calling DARS at.

Note: Applicants who received a Certificate of Disability from DARS or DBVI dated between April 1 2022 February 29 2024 can still use that COD as applicable documentation for the Alternative Hiring Process.