Resilience Planning Team Lead

Dewberry•Fairfax, VA

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

Dewberry is currently seeking an experienced Resilience Planning Team Lead to join our multi-disciplinary and action-oriented team (open to multiple locations; open to hybrid). This position will support the Resilience Solutions Group at the intersection of planning, policy, and technical analysis in hazard mitigation, emergency management, and climate change adaptation. Related areas of technical focus for this position include but are not limited to vulnerability assessment, hazard mitigation, community planning, stakeholder outreach, and research and planning related to Federal agencies (FEMA, USACE, NOAA, and USFWS), state agencies, and local communities. Dewberry is a leading, market-facing professional services firm with more than 60 locations and 2,500 professionals nationwide. What sets us apart from our competitors are our people. At Dewberry, we seek out exceptional talent and strive to deliver the highest quality of services to our clients. Whether you’re an experienced professional or a new graduate, you’ll have the chance to collaborate with the best and brightest and work on innovative and complex projects at the forefront of the industry. Our commitment to excellence stems from our personal integrity and from other defining attributes, which we call “Dewberry at Work,” that have inspired our employees to be successful for more than a half-century. Dewberry’s Resilience Solutions is an innovative organization that thrives on tackling the most intriguing resilience challenges across our nation. Our mission is to create safer and better communities for everyone to live in. We achieve this by embodying “Dewberry at Work” values and applying our expertise in engineering, planning, GIS, earth sciences, data analytics, and other technical disciplines. Our team assists federal, state, and local clients throughout the nation in comprehending their natural hazard risks. With our guidance, they can make informed decisions to reduce risk and increase resilience.

Requirements

Bachelor’s in Planning, Environmental Studies, Public Policy, or related fields.
Minimum 5 years of relevant professional experience.
Interest and aptitude in leading and managing teams and projects.
Passionate about helping staff reach their full potential through coaching, mentoring, motivating and development via technical project work and formal/informal conversations.
Experience leading tasks or projects for vulnerability/risk assessments, hazard mitigation/climate adaptation strategies, outreach programs, or related natural hazard resilience work.
Well-developed time management skills, especially the ability to handle competing priorities and complete high-quality, detail-oriented deliverables on tight timelines within a diverse work group.
Ability to perform an expanded array of tasks and continue to broaden experience and familiarization with methods, practices, and programs applicable to the department.
Ability to exercise initiative, resourcefulness, and tact in obtaining and analyzing information related to team management and resilience planning.
Ability to collaborate and work effectively with coworkers, clients, and our clients’ stakeholders.
Ability to provide feedback, facilitate open discourse, and seek fair and equitable solutions to conflicts.
Must have a valid driver’s license, good driving record and ability to pass a driving record background check.
At this time, Dewberry will not sponsor a new applicant for work authorization.

Responsibilities

Lead a team of resilience planners in the execution of inter-disciplinary resilience projects for diverse clients.
Coordinate with project managers and technical team members to ensure project staffing needs are met across the portfolio of resilience planning-related projects.
Support the monitoring of project progress against project scope, schedule, budget, and quality; allocate resources as required to meet milestones.
Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams including engineering, GIS, data scientists, coastal and climate scientists, and others to support resourcing and teamwork.
Represent Dewberry in meetings with clients and other external stakeholders to resolve complex issues and to plan and coordinate work
Oversee professional development, technical coaching, and career advancement of staff.
Promote an environment that works effectively with a geographically distributed team.
Manage personnel actions and performance of resilience planning team staff.
Lead the recruitment, hiring, and onboarding of new resilience planning team staff.
Serve in a technical leadership, task management, or project management role on resilience-related projects, supporting all stages of project planning and execution.
Contribute to business development, proposal writing, and client management.