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About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.
• At least 7 years of experience in the California water sector, such as agency, regulatory, or water storage experience.
• Experience with grant management, preferably Proposition 1, and an understanding of how to optimize reimbursements.
• Experience engaging with state, regional, or local water regulatory agencies, utility agencies, or control boards.
• Experience in a problem-solving role exclusive to the water industry.
• Ability to manage workload autonomously and effectively.
• Strong commercial awareness and commercial judgment; inquisitive, detail-oriented, and self-motivated.
• Excellent time management and ability to multitask.
• Ability to work as a team player in a friendly but professional team dynamic.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with water project construction and/or operation.
• Creative and innovative approach to problem-solving, with initiative to improve asset operational and financial performance.
• Self-starter who can contribute a broad range of skills and expertise in a small team without waiting for direction.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to develop and execute annual and long-term business plans, translating investment objectives, regulatory commitments, grant requirements, and customer needs into operating priorities, budgets, and milestones.
• Maintain an integrated plan covering development, customer agreements, agency approvals, grant obligations, and operational readiness; identify risks and recommend actions to senior leadership.
• Serve as the primary relationship manager with water agencies, watermasters, joint powers authorities, environmental agencies, and other governmental stakeholders.
• Represent the water bank in agency meetings, public forums and hearings, technical working groups, industry associations, and community discussions.
• Build and maintain relationships with State Water Project contractors, municipalities, irrigation districts, groundwater organizations, landowners, and prospective customers; monitor relevant water policy, groundwater regulation, and agency actions.
• Lead customer outreach and business development for water storage, recovery, transfer, and related services; manage proposals, bidding processes, letters of interest, storage agreements, and other customer arrangements.
• Partner with Investments, Legal, and Development to negotiate customer agreements and support development of pricing, service structures, operating terms, and allocation methodologies.
• Manage compliance with funding agreements, grant milestones, reporting requirements, public-benefit commitments, and documentation requests; coordinate grant deliverables with internal teams and consultants.
• Track eligible expenditures, grant budgets, deadlines, contractual obligations, and funding risks; support negotiation and completion of funding, public-benefit, operating, and regulatory agreements.
• Partner with Development on feasibility studies, groundwater modeling, environmental review, permitting, engineering, construction, commissioning, and transition planning.
• Represent customer and operational requirements in development decisions; support evaluation of wells, pump stations, conveyance infrastructure, turnout capacity, water quality, monitoring requirements, and put-and-take scenarios.
• Develop an operational-readiness plan covering staffing, procedures, agreements, maintenance, monitoring, emergency response, reporting, and customer coordination, and lead the transition into active operations.
• Direct storage, recharge, recovery, conveyance, and delivery activities once the water bank is operational; coordinate operating plans with customers, agencies, watermasters, operators, and consultants.
• Monitor water balances, pumping performance, groundwater levels, water quality, system capacity, and customer commitments, and ensure compliance with agreements, operating rules, permits, monitoring plans, and reporting requirements.
• Establish operating procedures, controls, escalation protocols, and emergency-response plans; coordinate inspections, preventive maintenance, repairs, testing, and capital-replacement planning.
• Develop scopes of work, support consultant selection, negotiate terms, and monitor consultant performance against budgets, schedules, and deliverables; hold consultants and contractors accountable for quality, timeliness, cost, and issue resolution.
• Develop and manage operating budgets, long-term forecasts, and business-plan assumptions; monitor expenditures, contract costs, funding availability, and budget-to-actual performance.
• Review invoices and consultant charges within delegated authority; maintain reporting on approvals, customer activity, grant milestones, agreements, budgets, risks, and operational readiness.
• Prepare updates and recommendations for leadership, investors, agencies, and governing bodies.
• Maintain positive relationships with corporate support departments and carry out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with organizational policies and applicable laws.
• Support personal and professional development for oneself and colleagues.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefit plans.
• Health Savings Account with an employer contribution.
• Company-paid life and disability insurance.
• 401(k) savings plan with company match.
• Paid time off, including vacation days, 10 designated holidays, sick time, and bereavement leave.
• Up to 16 hours of volunteer time off.
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Ongoing professional development programs.
• Wellness program with monthly and quarterly prizes.
• Competitive compensation plan; bonus compensation may be a significant part of total compensation.