Sustainability Coordinator​/IL

ICLEI USA is seeking a full-time Sustainability Coordinator in Carbondale, IL. The role involves implementing the community's Sustainability Action Plan, promoting carbon neutrality by 2050, and engaging with various stakeholders. Responsibilities include strategic planning, grant writing, community engagement, and coordinating with public transit entities. The ideal candidate should be self-motivated, innovative, and possess strong customer service skills, working closely with city staff and community partners.
Position: Sustainability Coordinator Carbondale, City of (IL)

Title:
Sustainability Coordinator

Dept./Div:
Development Management

Nature of Work:The Development Management Department is looking for a civic-minded and hardworking professional to join their team. This position requires a high degree of self-motivation and independent judgment. An ideal candidate would be creative, innovative, and have strong customer service skills with a passion to serve the community. This is a regular, full-time position that will perform a variety of activities including;

implementation of the Carbondale Community’s Sustainability Action Plan; ensuring the City of Carbondale’s progress towards carbon neutrality by 2050 and a 45% reduction by 2030; interdepartmental advising; interdepartmental strategic planning; grant writing; special project(s) management; community engagement; and other duties as assigned. This position reports directly to the Development Manager.

The Sustainability Coordinator is responsible for facilitating, managing, coordinating, and advising the development, implementation, monitoring and improvement of policies and initiatives that promote local resilience internally and externally. The Sustainability Coordinator will perform work across urban/regional planning, transportation, public health, housing, agriculture, energy, and children and families. The Coordinator will collaborate with fellow staff and foster working relationships with external partners to achieve local resilience.

This position will also coordinate with existing public transit entities to address public transit needs in Carbondale.

Essential Duties:
• Facilitates collaboration with administration, city staff, and community partners to develop, coordinate, and guide implementation of initiatives to achieve community-scale carbon neutrality by 2050 and a 45% reduction by 2030, including but not limited to: municipal policy review and revision, capital projects, facilities improvements, community programming, strategic and comprehensive planning, research, and pursuit of funding.
• Assists the City Manager and departmental leadership in defining goals, performance metrics and long-range action plans for implementing sustainability programs and policies.
• Coordinates the completion and dissemination of community-scale greenhouse gas emissions inventories (GHG) with the support of ICLEI USA.
• Leads the implementation of goals adopted in the Sustainability Action Plan and tracks performance to assess program effectiveness.
• Works with all segments of the community, including residents, vendors, businesses, industry, and staff to promote an understanding and awareness of the importance of adaptation and mitigation by coordinating informational training and presentations, including but not limited to: energy, water and wastewater, biodiversity, waste, net zero construction, landscape design, sustainable development, transportation, procurement of green products, etc.
• Serves as liaison to the Sustainability Commission and between various committees and groups to assure communication and resource coordination for sustainability programs and projects. Meetings regularly occur outside regular office hours.
• Coordinates with JAX Mass Transit District and other local public transit entities to build public transit opportunities available to residents.
• Serves as liaison to the Carbondale Community Cabinet for Children and Youth.
• Develops marketing and educational materials surrounding initiatives and works with the Public Relations Officer to schedule public outreach and education campaigns.
• Communicates verbally, electronically and in writing with citizens, state and local officials, etc.
• Reads professional journals and attends professional meetings to stay apprised of current information in the sustainability field.
• Efficiently and effectively utilizes Windows-based computers. Proficiency in Microsoft products including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint is desired.
• Operates audio and visual equipment at meetings and elsewhere, including but not limited to set up of screens, microphones, audio, and videotape recorders and cameras, laptop computer, and digital cameras and projectors.
• Manually operates office machines…