Environmental Sustainability Planner

Title:

Environmental Sustainability Planner Department:

Center for

Community Systems Reports To:

Director, Sponsored Projects and Community Systems Position Type:

Staff Position Summary:

The Environmental Sustainability Planner will provide technical assistance and guidance, create tools and resources, and conduct educational and engagement forums to help communities assess, cleanup, and redevelop former industrial and commercial properties (brownfields), transforming them into productive reuse. The technical assistance provided to communities will contribute to a greater quality of life by improving health and safety; enhancing environmental quality; promoting use/reuse of existing infrastructure; promoting economic development; making better connections to jobs, education, and health care; creating and/or preserving open space; and creating more sustainable and resilient communities.

Essential Functions:

• Provides one-on-one technical assistance to government entities, community organizations, and non-profits throughout the US to strategize how to address their specific brownfield challenges.
• Assists communities in understanding basic brownfields redevelopment concepts, navigating the brownfields regulatory process, identifying funding sources, and understanding technical and scientific reports and data.
• Uses GIS skills to develop tools for redevelopment initiatives.
• Provides grant funding application critiques and guidance.
• Plans and conducts brownfield engagement and educational events (workshops, seminars, webinars, bootcamps, conference sessions).
• Identifies communities in need of brownfields redevelopment assistance services.
• Provides ideas and content for websites, newsletters, and educational tools on brownfields and brownfields-related topics (such as equitable development, environmental justice, climate change impacts, community resilience, etc.).
• Maintains a record of assistance activities for inclusion in required program progress reporting.
• Works collaborative with other staff to develop and implement strategies on effective ways to provide technical assistance and conduct community engagement activities.
• Performs other duties as requested.

Prerequisite Qualifications:

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in environmental or urban planning, environmental science, geography, or other relevant discipline.

Work Experience Requirements:

• 2 to 5 years of experience in sustainability planning.

Technical Knowledge Requirements:

• Interest or knowledge of social, economic, and environmental elements of brownfield redevelopment.
• Familiarity with the challenges affecting redevelopment and revitalization projects.
• Knowledge and experience in community engagement for planning projects.
• Working understanding of sustainability and resilience planning practices and creativity in their application and implementation.
• Knowledge of Federal and/or state brownfield programs.
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Possesses strong public speaking and relationship building skills.
• Possesses strong time management and organizational skills and the ability to meet deadlines.
• Familiarity with identifying and utilizing available brownfield related data sources (i.e., NJDEP DataMiner).
• Experience with developing or reviewing grant proposals or projects.
• Experience using GIS mapping techniques.
• Ability to present technical information to the public in plain language.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills and attention to detail and work quality.
• Excellent computer literacy, including Microsoft Office, and Adobe.
• Fluency in Spanish is a plus.
• Experience in real estate and/or public health assessments is a plus.

Residency and Other Requirements:

• Applicants must have a valid driver's license.
• See the New Jersey First Act for more information on residency requirements.

Travel Demand:

• This position requires frequent travel in the Northeast and Southeast.

Bargaining Unit:

PSA Range/Band:

25

Salary Information:

In compliance with the NJ Pay Transparency Law, the negotiated annual salary range for this position is $70,089.77

• 131,210.

76 (USD). NJIT considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, as well as, market and organizational considerations when extending an offer. This pay range represents base pay only and excludes any additional items such as incentives, bonuses or other items. To learn more about the comprehensive benefits NJIT offers for this position, please visit our benefits page: https://hr.njit.edu/health-benefits.

Please note:

This position is contingent up on grant funding.

FLSA:

Exempt Full-Time