Senior Hazard Mitigation Planner
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Tetra Tech Inc. is currently seeking a motivated Senior Hazard Mitigation Planner working in a Hybrid capacity. 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.
This is a Hybrid role which will require the ideal candidate to be located in Harris County, Texas area or close-by as the client will require in-person presence in their office several days per week.
Your Role:
Key Responsibilities:
· 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.
The selected candidate will:
- 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
Education and Certifications:
· Master’s Degree preferred in Urban Planning; Sustainability; Climate Change; Resilience; Public Policy, or related field or equivalent experience.
· Certified by American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) or working toward certification a plus
· Writing sample required to be appended to application.
Desired qualifications in the ideal candidate includes:
- Passionate about hazard mitigation, community resilience and climate adaptation.
- Proven track record for project management of planning projects.
- 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.
- Proven and demonstrated high quality technical writing skills.
- Excellent leadership, communication, organizational and collaboration skills. Ability to multi-task and problem solve.
Ideal candidate would possess the following:
- 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
- Familiarity with FEMA Hazus
- 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.
About Tetra Tech:
Tetra Tech combines the resources of a global, multibillion-dollar company with local, client-focused delivery in more than 450 locations around the world. Our reputation rests on the technical expertise and dedication of our employees—21,000 associates working together to provide smart, scalable solutions for challenging projects. We are proud to be home to leading technical experts in water, environment, infrastructure, resource management, energy, and international development.
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Tetra Tech is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Diversity, inclusion, and equity are among Tetra Tech’s core values. Throughout our history, the company has prioritized equitable inclusion of all people. All qualified candidates will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, military or veteran status, gender, age, disabilities, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions, genetic information and any other characteristics protected by the law. We invite resumes from all interested parties. Please visit our website at www.tetratech.com to see the array of diverse services and exciting projects we are currently working on.
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