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Qualifications:
- Candidate has the professional ability to apply engineering knowledge: the ability to (a) apply fundamental and diversified professional engineering concepts, theories, and practices to achieve engineering objectives with versatility, judgment, and perception; (b) adapt and apply methods and techniques of related scientific disciplines; and (c) organize, analyze, interpret, and evaluate scientific data in the solution of engineering problems.
- Candidate has strong knowledge of engineering projects and requirements and community infrastructure in very rural (and coastal) areas and the different considerations that rural contexts present.
- Candidate understands the engineering considerations required by changing environmental conditions (e.g., permafrost melt, erosion, and flooding) and information and data sources to support robust engineering decisions that will result in resilient infrastructure and communities.
- Candidate understands the relationship between the preservation and management of historic, cultural and natural resources and environmental protection.
- Candidate is an analytical thinker who can plan and evaluate, identify solutions, and collaborate with others effectively.
- Candidate has a knowledge base or interest in Client forced displacement and difficulties faced by the many Tribes grappling with complex planning and implementation.
Tasks:
- Work on a broad array of Climate Resilience projects focusing on the tribes located in Alaska to supporting and empower Client communities as they simultaneously face environmental impacts to physical, cultural, and subsistence-based infrastructure and protection- in-place, managed retreat, or relocation efforts. BIA will invest directly in Client communities across the country to bolster community resilience and for the first time ever, will fund infrastructure/ construction / implementation projects.
- Work on 1-3 pilot demonstration project(s) focused on tribes located in Alaska facing highest risks to help improve resilience to environmental changes and build client resilience.
- Establish and maintain liaisons with state and local government agencies, Client officials, federal agency regional staff (e.g., Army Corps of Engineers, Housing and Urban Development Agency, FEMA, DOT, BIA Region, etc.), contractors, and other parties interested in the construction of community infrastructure for the Tribes.
- Provide technical guidance, including scheduling of work assignments, review and approval of work, performance evaluations, etc.
- Provide technical advice and consulting services to Client officials on matters related to infrastructure engineering. Incumbent will review design on environmental engineering plans and specifications for projects including energy efficiency systems.
- Perform and oversees construction inspection to assure conformance to contract requirements and standards of the industry.
- Work on a pilot demonstration project focused on Alaska Native Villages facing highest risks to understand interest in capacity building activities and infrastructure needs. Incumbent may have responsibility for final approval of designs of major structures and facilities involving public safety where such compliance with State laws meets an essential need of the engineering organization to provide objective evidence to agency management and the public that the work is performed by engineers of proven competence.
- Travel extensively to selected pilot sites and other similarly impacted communities needing guidance and consultation on infrastructure planning and implementation (construction) options and interact and coordinate regularly with community, state, and federal liaisons.
- Participate in a group developed training curriculum for a cohort of resilience coordinators to assist environmentally threatened communities primarily in Alaska who are engaged with protection- in-placer, managed retreat, or relocation efforts.
- Support review of proposals of climate-resilient strategies involving on-the-ground implementation such as infrastructure retrofitting, or management modification for greater climate resilience.
- Provide technical guidance to Tribes’ developing proposals for such efforts.
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