Environmental Project Manager - Watershed Analytics

ABOUT THE POSITION

The County of Riverside's Flood Control and Water Conservation District has an opportunity for an Environmental Project Manager who will be assigned to the Watershed Analytics Division in Riverside.

Under general direction, the Environmental Project Manager will coordinate, direct, and provide project management for watershed analytics, data acquisition, and reporting.

This role encompasses consultant services, contract administration, hydrologic data collection, storm monitoring tools and systems, and storm monitoring projects.

The manager will oversee staff involved in watershed analytics and related functions to support Flood Control initiatives.

The Environmental Project Manager typically reports to a Flood Control Division Chief and is responsible for managing teams engaged in both office and field work.

The position also involves policy and procedure development and directing activities through subordinate staff.

Projects will require significant resources, complex technical execution, multi-agency coordination, and effective relationship management.

The ideal candidate will possess strong managerial skills, demonstrating the ability to plan, organize, assign, manage, and review the work of sections engaged in all aspects of watershed analytics and related activities.

This includes expertise in data analytics and reporting, data processing, geographical information systems, storm monitoring systems, hydrologic data collection, and public information dissemination.

A key responsibility will be managing multi-agency coordination to ensure effective and efficient operations of watershed data collection, analysis, and dissemination systems.

The candidate should also have experience in evaluating and managing field locations across the County for hydrologic equipment installation, ensuring these sites provide valuable data for storm monitoring and preparation while working with various agencies and departments to secure necessary permissions and permits.

Effective collaboration with other departments and outside agencies is essential, as is the ability to prepare budget estimates, complex technical reports, and manage data collected from external sources.
Additionally, the candidate will provide administration and technical supervision to staff involved in the implementation, coordination, and examination of watershed analytics, overseeing the creation of system and hardware integrations, data acquisition, transformation, and statistical reporting.

In this role, the candidate will assist in developing division policies and procedures, resolve personnel issues, evaluate subordinate staff performance, and lead recruitment efforts.

Furthermore, the candidate should be skilled in planning, organizing, directing, and reviewing the work of staff and consultants involved in the monitoring, reporting, and construction associated with major watershed analytics projects.

This includes preparing, managing, and monitoring project...