Water Resilience Planning Consultant (Finance)

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Arcadis is seeking a Water Resilience Planning Consultant to join our Planning, Policy and Funding Team. This position will be focused on development of funding and financing strategies and grant applications for disaster recovery, mitigation, and climate adaptation through local, state and federally funded programs. The position could be remote, with possible limited on-site requirements. This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in resiliency planning and funding across the country.

We are looking for dedicated, creative, and energetic candidate interested in tackling big challenges and developing sustainable and equitable solutions. You will drive the development of successful project and program scopes and budget, interact and work with clients, and identify opportunities to provide additional mitigation and resilience support to clients nationwide. You will also support other projects such as development of resilience and climate adaptation plans, review of proposed infrastructure projects, and overall program and grant management for public and private-sector clients.

The position is varied and requires experience and interest in the fields of hazard mitigation, community resilience planning, grantee and subrecipient engagement, resilience funding strategies, program and grant management, project development and funding, or civil engineering/urban planning with a focus on climate resilience.

Role accountabilities:

What you will do:

• Support multiple projects of varying sizes and scales, located in different geographies.
• Develop and support the development of grant applications and funding strategies in collaboration with public and private entities.
• Provide support to grant recipients and subrecipients for oversight, management and administration of federal funding.
• Support grant proposal development and submission-preparing and organizing materials for proposals, and submitting and monitoring grant applications.
• Prepare project reports, presentations, and documentation for internal and external stakeholders, including funding agencies and regulatory bodies.
• Perform other duties and tasks as required to maintain quality relationships with all our partners and clients.
• Coordinate project activities, resources, and budget allocations to meet project goals and deadlines.
• Provide feedback suggestions on project management systems and methods to continuously improve performance and practices.
• Work closely and build relationships with clients, stakeholders and other project partners.
• Work closely and build relationships with Arcadis team to ensure successful delivery and implementation of additional large and small projects.

Qualifications & Experience:

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Planning, Geography, Architecture, Engineering or related field plus two or more years' relevant experience supporting medium to large-sized projects

OR

• Master's Degree in Planning, Geography, Architecture, Engineering or related field

Skills and Preferred Qualifications

• Functional experience with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, and Outlook)
• Strong writing, research, and data analysis skills.
• Experience using ArcGIS
• Interest or experience in federal funding programs for mitigation, climate change/climate adaptation, disaster recovery, planning and/or infrastructure.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It's why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You'll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you'll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer nine paid holidays and 15 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $52,000 - $78,000. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.

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