Flood Resilience Project Manager

DHRM•Richmond, VA

7d•Onsite

About The Position

The Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) is seeking a Flood Resilience Project Manager to support the development, administration, and implementation of DCR’s flood resilience data resources. This role involves contract management and stakeholder outreach and engagement. The DCR Office of Resilience Planning's mission is to distribute knowledge and coordinate action to achieve a flood-resilient future for Virginia through informed planning and proactive intergovernmental solutions. The office develops and implements state-led flood resilience plans, coordinates action through committees and meetings, shares data and resources, and connects with various levels of government and stakeholders to inform plans and build awareness about flood risks. The Flood Resilience Project Manager will play a key role in managing flood hazards and impact data, public-facing data portals, coordinating with internal and external stakeholders, developing resources for asset owners, conducting data gap analyses, and facilitating communication between IT staff and contractors.

Requirements

Demonstrated knowledge of coastal, fluvial, and pluvial flood risk data, including an understanding of climate change impacts and how they influence future flood conditions.
Experience managing technical projects, task orders, contracts, or consultant teams, including monitoring progress, providing feedback, and ensuring deliverables meet program goals.
Experience leading the development, management, and stewardship of hazard, environmental, or resilience‑related datasets, including establishing or enforcing data standards, metadata practices, and quality assurance processes.
Experience managing or overseeing geospatial tools, flood‑related GIS datasets, and spatial analysis workflows (for example ArcGIS, QGIS, spatial databases, or related platforms).
Experience planning, directing, or supervising public outreach, stakeholder engagement, technical assistance, or training efforts related to data use, data interpretation, or risk communication.
Experience interpreting, translating, and presenting complex technical information for both technical and non‑technical audiences, including leadership and external partners.
A valid Driver's License is required to operate a state vehicle or if operating a personal vehicle while conducting business on behalf of the agency.

Nice To Haves

Experience interpreting and applying flood‑resilience‑related federal, state, and local policies, planning processes, and grant program requirements, including coordinating with partners involved in these programs.
Experience working in state or local government or public‑sector programs, including coordinating across multiple agencies, divisions, or stakeholder groups.
Experience using flood modeling software; sea level rise tools and products; or climate change modeling.
Experience using workflow, collaboration, and reporting tools such as Microsoft Lists, Planner, and Power BI to support project tracking, team coordination, and data visualization.
Experience coordinating with internal IT teams or technology vendors to support data systems, workflows, application maintenance, or digital tools used for public‑facing data products.

Responsibilities

Manage flood hazards and impact data development and analysis to support planning and influence policy decision making.
Manage public-facing products such as the Coastal Resilience Web Explorer and the DCR Flood Resilience Open Data Portal.
Coordinate with internal and external data stakeholders to achieve programmatic goals.
Develop resources to support asset owners, including critical infrastructure, to use in identifying and reducing flood risk.
Conduct gaps analysis for flood risk assessment data and develop solutions to close data gaps.
Support Coastal Resilience Web Explorer database review; enter and/or approve updates to the database.
Facilitate between DCR information and technology staff and contractors to ensure flood resilience data resources are hosted effectively and efficiently.
Develop, coordinate, and manage requests for task order proposals from contractors.
Monitor progress, review, and provide constructive feedback on contractual deliverables.
Schedule, organize, facilitate, attend, and document project meetings both internally and with contractors.
Review and track invoices.
Identify and mitigate project risks.
Assess and support stakeholders’ data needs that vary across geography, scale, and interests.
Design and facilitate collaborative meetings for meaningful engagement and peer-to-peer sharing using co-development best practices to advance policies, programs, and initiatives.
Connect stakeholders with available federal, state, and local resources.
Provide technical assistance to stakeholders to integrate flood resilience data into their use case.
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.
Provide outreach and communications material that leverage flood resilience data product.
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.
Establish and maintain effective working relationships with professional colleagues and representatives from other agencies and the public.
Work with all levels of internal and external management and staff.
Deliver public outreach to advance strategic initiatives.

Benefits

Paid leave
A minimum of 13 paid state holidays per year
Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
Retirement plans (including 401a Cash Match and 457 Deferred Compensation Plan for classified positions, and VaLORS for law enforcement positions)
Federally recognized Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) employer
Free parking or admission to all Virginia State Parks
Overnight facility discounts (after six months of service)
Free camping outside of the Memorial Day weekend to Labor Day period in sites designed for up to six people.
Free camping Sunday night through Thursday night (excluding the night before a holiday) from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day.
Fifty percent discount on cabins (up to 3 bedrooms) outside of Memorial Day weekend to Labor Day, for a maximum of 14 nights.
Bunkhouses, camping cabins, and yurts are included; one-night yurt stays only receive a 25% discount.