Work, Serve, Thrive. With the City of Durham
Advance in your career while making a real difference in the community you serve.
Hiring Range: $70,284 to $108,951
Hours/Shift: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m./Monday-Friday
The Community Programs Analyst, Senior (Sustainability Analyst) is based in the City of Durham General Services Department. The General Services Department (GSD) serves as a steward of the City’s physical assets. Through regular and long-range planning, our department provides for and maintains City facilities—infrastructure that supports quality of life for its citizens and serves as a foundation for a healthy economy. The General Services Department builds and maintains City properties, making Durham a great place for people to live, work, and play. We respect, value, and celebrate the unique perspectives, attributes, and characteristics that make people who they are, and are committed to building sustainable, inclusive, and resilient communities. We are an inclusive workplace that strives to promote innovation and creativity in order to achieve a strong, equitable community where all Durham residents can thrive.
The Community Programs Analyst, Senior (Sustainability Analyst) will support the implementation of the City's Carbon Neutrality and Renewable Energy Action Plan (2021) as well as the City’s Strategic Plan Goal 5: Thriving and Vibrant Environment. The role will provide program administration, consulting, project management, communications and outreach, and community collaboration on organizational and community-wide sustainability and climate efforts. These efforts include social and racial equity, resilience, renewable energy, energy efficiency, electrification of fleet and buildings, and more, playing a critical role in the success of Sustainability efforts to benefit the Durham community and its 285,000+ residents.
The successful candidate is detail-oriented, organized and a highly skilled technical project manager with a background in Sustainability and excellent communication skills. The candidate is poised to create and support processes and workflow, manage contracts and budgets, develop policies and procedures, research and compile statistics and information, develop effective communications, conduct outreach, provide education and training, and collaborate with stakeholders to facilitate partnerships to successfully implement strategic plan goals. A keen focus on achieving results and outcomes based on agreed-upon goals and priorities is required.
Develops and coordinates communication materialsand website content tailored to internal and external audiences, prepares talking points and reference materials for senior leadership in response to policy, public information andmedia requests
Assists with project management and facilitation for energy and carbon neutrality programs, including energy efficiency and decarbonization of buildings, renewable energy projects, electric vehicle infrastructure and other related projects and programs
Supports and collaborates on grant proposals, including decarbonization and resilience program design, development, analysis, cost-benefit analysis, and metrics development and tracking in collaboration with the SEM team and other stakeholders
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Sustainability, Environmental Management, Engineering or directly related field
- Five years of professional program administration and/or analytical experience in area of assignment.
- Ability to demonstrate Intermediate-Level MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) proficiency
Certification in project management, process improvement, organizational skills, Lean Six Sigma or equivalent
Experience in energy and climate programs, including energy efficiency and decarbonization of buildings, renewable energy projects, electric vehicle infrastructure, resilience planning, and other related projects and programs
