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Position Description
Full-time exempt position that will be primarily responsible for:
- Management and implementation of decentralized drinking water projects
- Serving as a primary representative for CWC on research projects
- Utilizing data and community knowledge to elevate priority drinking water needs
This position will work directly with other CWC teams focused on advocacy, organizing, communications and policy; and will coordinate regularly with impacted community partners, government agencies, contracted consultants, technical advisors, and affiliate organizations.
This position will report to the Infrastructure Projects Director. All employees at CWC are “at will.”
Major Responsibilities
- Manage CWC’s efforts to develop, pilot and advocate for sustainable and equitable decentralized short and long-term solutions where centralized drinking water solutions are not feasible:
- Ensure projects and research are responsive to community needs and priorities and align with CWC’s strategic goals.
- Coordinate with staff, community partners, and other parties to move work forward and overcome political or bureaucratic barriers.
- Contract and manage vendors and consultants. Manage projects including developing and tracking project budgets, submitting funding applications and scopes of work to funding agencies, and tracking and reporting on progress.
- Manage CWC’s participation in community-driven research partnerships
- Formalize and document CWC’s principles of partnership and top priorities for community-driven research projects.
- Vet potential research and technology partnerships for feasibility, alignment and strategic potential.
- Lead proposal development for priority projects.
- Serve as the primary point of contact and project manager for CWC’s community-driven research projects.
- Use data and CWC’s on-the-ground work to elevate drinking water needs and ensure low-income communities of color in California are receiving the assistance they need to implement solutions
- Lead CWC’s needs assessment work for domestic wells, state small water systems and small public water systems by using the best available data
- Lead the documentation and sharing of CWC’s community assistance work and lessons learned
- Support CWC’s projects and campaigns with data and technical information
