Coastal Hazards and Resilience Coordinator

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As the Coastal Hazards and Resilience Coordinator you will serve as the Coastal Hazards Organizational Resilience Team (COHORT) Liaison for Washington State University (WSU) this role you will work in partnership with representatives from other COHORT agencies including the Washington Department of Ecology Washington Sea Grant and the Washington Emergency Management Division to advance COHORTs strategic initiatives as outlined in the 2025 COHORT Strategic Plan. COHORT is a multi agency partnership established through legislative direction under Washington Public Law 5187 .

You will contribute to COHORTs mission to strengthen long term social economic and organizational resilience across Washingtons 15 coastal counties by improving cross agency coordination supporting community driven project development and advancing preparedness adaptation and recovery efforts related to coastal hazards such as flooding erosion landslides earthquakes tsunamis and climate driven changes.

In your role as Liaison you will collaborate across multiple agencies and WSU Extension county offices within your assigned region. You will ensure alignment with WSU Extensions mission vision and goals build and maintain strong partnerships with local and tribal governments and stakeholders and support a cohesive and effective team of COHORT professionals.

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This is a full time (100% FTE) temporary position. This position is overtime eligible.

Temporary End Date: This is a temporary position expected to end on June 30 2027. Renewal is dependent on the need for extension and/or if additional funding is secured to extend employment. Funding has been renewed successfully for several years and we expect funding to continue to be renewed.

Monthly Salary: $4386.85 - $6580 Commensurate with experience and qualifications

In accordance with RCW 49.58.110 the above salary reflects the full salary range for this position. Individual placement within the range is based on the candidates current experience education skills and abilities related to the position.

Benefits: WSU offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes paid sick and vacation leave; paid holidays; medical dental life and disability insurance package for employees and dependents; retirement; deferred compensation optional supplemental retirement accounts; training and development; and employee tuition waiver. For additional information please review the detailed Summary of Benefits offered by WSU for AP staff and Total Compensation.

Required Qualifications

• A Bachelors degree in a relevant extension program discipline and three (3) years of related program experience. A Masters degree in a related field may be substituted for up to one year of the required experience. Any combination of relevant education and experience may be substituted for the educational requirement on a year-for-year basis.

• Must have or be able to obtain by time of hire a valid drivers license and meet requirements in accordance withSPPM 7.10and departmental driving standards.

• Ability to work a flexible yet structured schedule with occasional night and weekend shifts to meet the needs of program partners and grant requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Two or more years of experience in two or more of the following: Development facilitation and/or delivery of technical programmatic information to a wide variety of professional audiences and subject-matter experts.

• Working in an environment requiring strong customer relations negotiations and problem resolution skills.

• Conducting community outreach and engagement building and strengthening relationships.

• Explaining complex or technical information regarding rules rights regulations policies procedures programs or services to answer questions resolve problems and communicate decisions or actions.

• Monitoring and evaluating administrative and construction grants for grant compliance for federal state local governments or private entities.

• Developing negotiating monitoring and administering contracts and procurement with public and private nonprofit entities.

• Developing preparing monitoring briefing and evaluating grants and contract budgets including evaluation of progress versus project expenditures.

• Demonstrated ability to communicate and interact effectively with persons of varying levels

• of responsibility and experience both orally and in writing.

• Demonstrated knowledge of Microsoft Office Excel and Workday.

Position Sponsorship Eligibility: Not eligible for work visa sponsorship

About Department/College/Area/ Campus - WSU Extension/CAHNRS
Department Name: Division of Governmental Studies
Location: Will be located in a Western Washington county.

Application Instructions: Applicants must upload the following required documents to their online application. Application materials should clearly communicate how the applicant meets all required qualifications and additional requirements.

1) Resume
2) Cover Letter

External candidates upload all documents in the Application Document section of your application.
Current WSU Employees (internal candidates) before starting your Workday application please use these instructions to update your education and experience in your worker profile in Workday. Internal candidates upload all documents in the Resume/Cover Letter section of your application.

Documents may be submitted as one file or separate files. Applicants are encouraged to upload as a PDF if possible.

Reference contact information will be requested later in the recruitment process through Workday.

Background Check: This position has been designated by the department to require a background check because it requires access to children or vulnerable adults as defined by RCW 74.34 engages in law enforcement requires security clearance interacts with WSU students in a counseling or advising capacity has access to personal identifying and/or financial information unsupervised access to university buildings/property or other business-related need. A background check will not be completed until an initial determination of qualification for employment has been made.

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Washington State University encourages all qualified candidates to apply including members of the military and veterans and persons with disabilities.

WSU employs only U.S. citizens and lawfully authorized non-U.S. citizens. All new employees must show employment eligibility verification as required by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

WSU is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodation in its services programs activities education and employment for individuals with disabilities. To request disability accommodation in the application process contact Human Resource Services: (v) Washington State TDD Relay Service: Voice Callers: 1-; TDD Callers: 1- (f) or .

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In matters of admission employment housing or services or in the educational programs or activities it operates WSU does not discriminate or permit discrimination by any member of its community against any individual on the basis of sex race color national or ethnic origin physical disability mental disability sensory disability use of a trained service animal age religion creed genetic information marital status sexual orientation gender identity protected veteran status honorably discharged veteran member of the military or immigration or citizenship status except as authorized by federal or state law regulation or government contract.

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