Job Opportunities

(Hybrid) Community Development Associate

Job Posting: April 23, 2024

Posting Classification: Research Corporation

Exemption Status: Exempt

Benefits Eligible: Yes

Schedule: Full-time

About the Opportunity:

This position is responsible for providing critical support in projects and programs associated with the Northern West Virginia Brownfields Assistance Center (NBAC) and the WVU BAD Buildings program. The position will collaborate with other staff and partners to provide communities within WV and throughout EPA Region 3 with comprehensive technical assistance (TA) and provide coordination support for the Downtown Appalachia Working Group. Technical assistance may consist of redevelopment support, beginning with brownfield site identification through subsequent cleanup and/or site reuse, as well as downtown revitalization through  sustainable economic development initiatives and engaging with public and private sectors to coordinate data-driven development in rural downtown communities. 

The ideal candidate will utilize various methods to communicate with stakeholders on brownfield redevelopment processes and programs; provide facilitation assistance with redevelopment reuse planning and finance leveraging. The incumbent will assist with program reporting, proposal development, facilitating meetings with project stakeholders supporting the day-to-day tasks of the NBAC, and will work with communities on brownfield-related issues and downtown redevelopment.

This candidate will apply education and experience to guide and assure adherence to policy, regulations, and principles. Independently uses professional techniques, as well as organizational policies to solve a wide range of moderate to complex problems in imaginative and practical ways. Depth of skills, knowledge and interpretive abilities, as well as creativity, are required to successfully perform duties. Work effort often addresses non-routine matters within established protocol, guidelines, and/or policies. Work effort has significant impact on client services and operations, producing minor to moderate organizational, legal and financial results and/or liabilities. Position duties require oversight of projects.

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