Job description
Job Type
Full-time
Description
DOES THIS DESCRIBE YOU?
You describe yourself as a true environmental planning veteran with experience beyond a decade. Colleagues and clients recognize your CEQA and NEPA expertise. Your face and voice are commonplace in environmental conference programs or CEQA training. You see a difficult CEQA problem as an irresistible puzzle to solve. Whenever there is a conversation about a complex environmental compliance issue, you can’t help but participate. Your Bay Area agency and client network is strong and growing. Your experience in the industry is multi-faceted, as you have worked on projects related to land use/community planning, urban development, utilities, and/or transportation.
Directing the environmental review for a major project is not only something you can do, it is something you’ve done many times, and it is what you thrive on. As a project director, you add refinement and quality to every document that leaves your desk. You manage your team’s deliverables and deadlines effectively, but with caring and empathy. You provide consistent performance feedback in a way that fosters your team members’ career growth. And you instill confidence in your clients by maintaining a positive, solutions-oriented outlook.
Building a successful office excites you. Business development and marketing are ingrained in your psyche. You have led more proposals than your memory can recall, and you have developed a winning approach in both written proposals and oral interviews. You love creating and implementing strategies for growth and showing less experienced staff how to effectively generate work and find creative ways to expand their market reach. You also understand that true company growth is not about numbers but about nurturing people in their careers and maximizing individual potential.
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Ascent is seeking a Senior Environmental Director for our Bay Area presence. In a typical week in this position, you might :
- Lead and contribute to business development activities, including proposal preparation and relationship building with prospective clients in the Bay Area and beyond
- Help foster and guide Oakland office growth
- Work with clients on their most important, sometimes first-of-its-kind, complex, and challenging environmental planning documents
- Team up shoulder-to-shoulder with a knowledgeable, interdisciplinary group of Ascent professionals in the Bay Area, including coaching and leading the local staff
- Collaborate closely with Ascent principals, office leaders, practice experts, and staff in other offices, who also support your work
- Communicate directly with clients, regulatory agencies, sub-consultants, and stakeholders to understand and address a broad range of perspectives
- Create, with your team, high-quality environmental and planning documents
- Prepare budgets and schedules, and carry out project work within agreed time frames and contract price
- Provide senior review of documents, with attention to completeness, legal adequacy, technical accuracy, and readability
- Represent Ascent and our clients at public meetings, workshops, and open houses
- Participate in professional associations, such as speaking at conferences
- Contribute to growing the careers of the Bay Area team
Requirements
The candidate must possess a BS or MS degree in planning, environmental studies, geography, natural resources, physical sciences, or a related field and have 10+ years of experience working on environmental consulting efforts. The candidate would also have professional qualifications that include client and project management, CEQA/NEPA expertise, writing, and analytical skills, and engaging interpersonal skills. A record of successful environmental planning projects and a history of strong relationships with clients and regulatory agencies are needed.
Diversity Statement
Ascent is committed to creating a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging throughout all facets of the organization. We value and will strive to
ascend by welcoming and uplifting all voices, ideas, achievements, and contributions, including those from marginalized communities and identities. We believe that recognizing and embracing our differences makes us a stronger organization. We commit to proactively nurturing environments of mutual support, respect, and caring for all through our words and actions. Join us on our journey.
Affirmative Action/EEO Statement
Ascent provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions
Salary Description
$137,000 to $187,500
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