Director, Water Supply Resilience - (25-PERF-400000-915)

DC Water and Sewer Authority • Washington, DC

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About The Position

The Director, Water Supply Resilience provides leadership, strategy, guidance, coordination, and oversight for building a new functional area with a goal to develop full redundancy and resilience of water supply. The incumbent will support planning, organizing, and implementation of policies, directives, and procedures to advance the long-term goal of water supply resilience and redundancy within DC Water's operations, and communicates those initiatives to senior leadership, the DC Water Board of Directors, customers, and stakeholders. The incumbent will work closely with strategy and performance, engineering and operations, finance and procurement, legal and government affairs, communications, and public outreach staff to strategize the roll out of the new initiative, engage regulators, researchers, and local stakeholders to build evidence-based consensus on a long-term water supply resilience strategy and implementation approach.

Requirements

• Ten (10+) years of progressive experience in water resource management, infrastructure program implementation, including five (5) years of demonstrated supervisory/managerial experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Environmental Engineering, Environmental Science, Policy or related field from an accredited college or university.
• Program Development and Implementation for Infrastructure Investment.
• Water Supply Resilience.
• One Water / Integrated Water Management.
• Cross-functional Leadership.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Stakeholder Management.
• Sustainability Program Management.
• Strategy.

Nice To Haves

• Working with federal, state and local regulatory agencies.
• Familiar with strategies, processes, and technologies to advance water reuse programs.
• A Masters or Doctoral degree in Environmental Engineering, Environmental Science, Policy or related field with a focus on water resource management and water supply.
• Professional Engineering (P.E.) license.

Responsibilities

• Develops an evidence-based strategy to identify feasible options for water supply resilience and redundancy incorporating potable and non-potable water reuse, conservation, efficiency, and other novel approaches.
• Leads and manages a coherent, enterprise-wide water supply resilience and redundancy program by coordinating operations, planning, research, and innovations across staff and contractors.
• Leads the development and execution of a water reuse demonstration project in close collaboration with Engineering.
• Provides recommendations and direction relating to the development of DC Water's skill capability and additional financial resources required to mature the water supply resilience and redundancy function.
• Acts as an expert advisor to the VP Strategy & Performance and Senior Executive Leadership Team regarding operational updates and new infrastructure investment required to implement a water supply resilience initiative.
• Leverages innovative approaches and research teams to advance required knowledge development to measure the effectiveness and safety of the novel approaches.
• Supports the public outreach, communications, and branding team in marketing the new water supply resilience initiative.
• Engages and builds relationships with regulators and stakeholders to implement approaches with required approvals.
• Supports the wastewater collection and pretreatment functions to improve operations and protect the 'sewer shed' source water.
• Interfaces closely with DC Water's established strategic management and sustainability initiatives.
• Performs other duties, special assignments and special projects as assigned.

Benefits

• Inclusive organization that embraces diversity.
• Commitment to developing a future-ready workforce.
• Strong culture grounded in shared values-accountability, trust, teamwork, customer focus, safety, and wellbeing.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Administration of Environmental Quality Programs
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees