Water Infrastructure Policy & Financial Analyst

The Cadmus Group, Inc.•Boston, MA

19h•Remote

About The Position

As a highly motivated, mid-level Water Infrastructure Policy & Financial Analyst, you’ll be joining Cadmus’ rapidly growing practice supporting contracts with EPA and other government clients in the areas of drinking water, water quality, and resilience. We will be supporting our clients in an unprecedented time in America to substantially improve America’s water infrastructure and advance the resilience of public funding programs. You’ll be working in a team-oriented environment providing financial, economic, and policy analysis support, as well as project management and coordination support to help meet Cadmus’ high standards of excellence. Remote locations will be considered for the right candidate.

Requirements

Successful candidates will have a professional demeanor and will have distinguished themselves with academic and professional excellence and a clearly demonstrated work ethic.
They should be highly motivated to perform and learn, able to work collaboratively and independently, detail-oriented, comfortable speaking in public, and able to manage assigned tasks and projects from start to finish with input from supervisors.
Candidates should also possess exceptional research, oral and written communication, and analytical skills, enabling them to support Cadmus’ mission to successfully meet clients’ needs.
BA/BS and 5 years’ work experience in environmental management, public policy, public administration, finance, economics, municipal administration, or a similar role OR a Master's degree with 3 years of related experience.
Understanding of how to apply statistical, financial, and economic methods to answer policy questions.
Ability to conduct research and collect and evaluate data in support of data-driven analyses and reports.
Excellent writing, communication, and critical thinking skills, and experience producing reports that clearly communicate technical analyses and results for the general public.
Experience using Excel or other software to analyze data.
Experience managing projects and ensuring high-quality deliverables.
Candidates must be eligible to work in the United States as a U.S Perm Resident or U.S. Citizen.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of basic principles of public financing and common financing instruments is preferred.
Public speaking experience preferred.
Experience using R, Python, SQL, Virtual Basic, HTML and/or STATA or MATLAB, a plus.
Some domestic travel may be required.

Responsibilities

Providing policy and financial analysis on issues related to drinking water, wastewater, or storm water infrastructure financing, sustainability, and resilience.
Providing policy or financial analysis on infrastructure grant programs to help EPA and states achieve priorities of public infrastructure funding, such as improving access to clean drinking water across the country, replacing lead service lines, and making America’s water infrastructure more resilient.
Conducting data and statistical analyses, literature searches, and reviews on technical topics to support policy initiatives, process improvement, and assess the impacts of policy decisions.
Providing project management support:
Providing strategic thinking in support of client initiatives.
Managing and supervising analyses and product development for EPA and other government clients.
Ensuring client satisfaction across multiple projects in a program.
Facilitating information sharing and planning across projects and teams.
Supporting the efforts of multiple project managers.
Writing or editing guidance documents, reports, case studies, presentations, and other documents.