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CNT (Center for Neighborhood Technology). |
| Categories: |
Program/Project Mgmt.
Executive/Management |
| Travel Required: | 5-15% |
| Job Type: | Full Time |
| Preferred Degree: | Bachelors |
| Experience Required: | 4-5 years |
| State/Province: | IL - Illinois |
| City: | Chicago |
| Salary: | n/a |
| Job Description: |
The Center for Neighborhood Technology seeks an experienced professional and dynamic leader for the position of Natural Resources Director. The goal of this position and program is to develop and implement policies, research projects and innovative programs that achieve the widespread use of natural systems and efficient investment in sustainable green infrastructure to improve community-scale water resource management and to enhance community livability. As with all CNT initiatives, the Natural Resources Program pursues innovative approaches that deliver ecological performance at reduced regional and local costs. The Natural Resources Director will lead CNT's efforts to establish policies and programs that advance the deployment of green infrastructure, particularly in Midwest cities and states, and support the development of policies at the state and national level that enable and support green infrastructure financing and implementation. S/he will build on CNT's successful efforts to date to demonstrate the effectiveness of green infrastructure, create tools to measure the costs and benefits of green infrastructure as compared to conventional stormwater strategies, and build understanding of the costs and benefits of green infrastructure strategies. The Natural Resources Director will be responsible for leading all aspects of CNT's Natural Resources Program. His or her responsibilities include: * Developing, planning, and managing program initiatives to advance program and organizational goals Qualifications * Experience with and understanding of the public policy context of water conservation, stormwater management, water supply, wastewater and sustainability issues CNT and Green Infrastructure Communities across the United States and world wide are grappling with overlapping challenges in their relationship to water. Population growth, development practices that expand paved, impermeable surfaces, and changing precipitation patterns possibly related to climate change are overwhelming aging sewer infrastructure. EPA and other studies have identified stormwater runoff as a major component of urban pollution. Cities recognize that while they need to improve infrastructure performance and protect vital water sources, funding sources are insufficient to meet the needs by expanding conventional infrastructure capacity. Over the next 20 years, the United States will spend an estimated $300 Billion to $1 Trillion on water resource infrastructure. But there is an alternative: green infrastructure stormwater strategies that cost less, take full advantage of natural systems, and provide energy, economic and community health benefits as well. Past and current experience with conventional infrastructure - sewers, detention basins, flood control structures - indicates that they tend to manage stormwater as a waste and move the problem downstream, but not solve it. At the same time, community sustainability in the Chicago region and elsewhere requires management of stormwater to maximize its availability for water supply. CNT has been documenting and developing effective approaches to accelerate community adoption of green infrastructure, including practices such as green roofs, rain gardens, bioswales, permeable pavement, native vegetation and tree planting, to expand the interconnected network of functioning hydrological areas even in dense urban development and redevelopment. Ongoing CNT projects include further development of the Green Values® toolbox, construction and monitoring of on-the-ground demonstration projects in collaboration with community partners, research and policy development, and methods to calculate the additional ecological, economic and social benefits green infrastructure delivers as well as to integrate those values in utility scale planning. Commensurate with experience Please send cover letter, resume, and salary history to: Human Resources/Center for Neighborhood Technology
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| Post Date: | 06/08/2010 |
