Hazard Mitigation Project Manager

Tetra Tech, Inc.-posted about 2 months ago

$100,000 - $120,000/Yr

Full-time • Mid Level

Remote • Sacramento, CA

5,001-10,000 employees

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

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Tetra Tech Inc. is currently seeking an experienced Hazard Mitigation Project Manager. This professional will have the opportunity to be a part of Tetra Tech's growing national mitigation and resilience practice. With a strong understanding of community resilience, climate adaptation, hazard mitigation, risk assessment, nature-based solutions, social equity, decision support tools, risk communication, and stakeholder engagement, this professional will manage staff to develop high quality deliverables through project management, achieve client satisfaction, and grow the practice through new and repeat clients. The position requires strong technical and communication skills, knowledge of climate change and impacts, and demonstrated experience in hazard mitigation and long-term resilience planning.

Work with communities and counties and facilitate a DMA-2000 hazard mitigation plan update
Develop and coordinate input to a wide range of mitigation and adaptation plans
Support local government and public outreach; facilitate meetings
Interpret risk assessment results and communicate in written plans
Review local plans, ordinances, policies, and update the hazard mitigation plans accordingly
Manage large data sets
Identify mitigation projects to reduce natural hazard risk
Conduct capacity building activities including developing decision support tools, strategy development and community engagement
Work collaboratively with clients, and a team of professionals and supervise/mentor junior planners
Liaise with professionals on technical aspects of project and program development
Conduct outreach, stakeholder engagement, and facilitation of meetings with clients and residents
Assist in the writing, preparation, and technical review of planning documents, reports, presentations, visualizations
Advise, research, and analyze socio-economic, land use, demographic, environmental, climate data
Grow the climate adaptation and resilience practice through the identification of public and private client relationships, business development, networking, and preparing winning proposals
Assist with identifying new markets and opportunities
Knowledgeable about federal, state, private funding sources to support advancement of adaptation projects
Manage project scope, budget, schedule, contract, and multi-disciplinary project teams to ensure client and project team satisfaction
Adhere to all relevant federal, state, and local laws, regulations, and policies of disaster recovery.
Conduct activities in line with internal procedures, legislation, and industry standards.
Pursue continuous professional development and maintain a high degree of discipline knowledge and awareness.
Work in a safe manner at all times and report all health and safety incidents and concerns.
Additional duties as required.

Master's Degree preferred in Urban Planning; Sustainability; Climate Change; Resilience; Public Policy, or related field or equivalent experience.
Master's degree with 10 years of professional experience.
Writing sample required to be appended to application
Robust network in the mitigation and resilience space to support business development.
At least 5 years of demonstrated knowledge of mitigation and resilience planning; land use/general planning; mitigation and adaptation strategy identification; risk assessment; climate hazards; federal/state funding mechanisms; federal and state climate, resilience, emergency management policies and programs, best practices and standards.
Experience developing plans in compliance with SB 379 and SB 747
FEMA DMA 2000 planning experience
U.S. HUD CDBG-MIT planning experience
General planning experience including city comprehensive/general plans
Community Wildfire Protection Planning experience
Travel up to 30%.
Must have a valid driver license.

Passionate about hazard mitigation, community resilience and climate adaptation.
Proven track record for project management of planning projects.
Certified by American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) or working toward certification a plus.
Proven and demonstrated high quality technical writing skills.
Excellent leadership, communication, organizational and collaboration skills. Ability to multi-task and problem solve.
Strong team player displaying enthusiasm and a true commitment to personal and team growth and development.
Interest and ability to work in a collaborative manner functioning as an active participant.
Works as a problem solver and critical thinker.
Flexibility and the ability to adapt to ever-changing situations.
Ability to analyze scientific, environmental, economic and hazard data.
Leverages decision-support tools to evaluate impacts (direct and cascading)
Excellent constructive communicator, both written and verbal.
Ability to successfully support complex and time sensitive projects, manage time and client requests and resolve issues in a timely and high quality manner.
Proficient using MS Office software including Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
Proficiency in GIS, Adobe Creative Suite, In Design a plus
Well-developed time management skills and work on tasks as part of a larger project team.
Highly self-motivated, client focused and work well in a team environment.
Have excellent written and verbal communication, client interaction and organizational skills
Strong work ethic.

Comprehensive and market-competitive benefits.
Merit-based financial rewards.
Flexibility and company-wide commitment to work/life balance.
Collaborative team atmosphere that values the contributions of all employees.
Learning and development opportunities for ongoing professional growth.

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