Environmental Compliance Specialist

Responsibilities

• Expedition Planning Coordination: Coordinating and implementing the environmental compliance, permitting, and programmatic documentation for OER expeditions and projects, including MMPA, NEPA, ESA, MSA, and other applicable laws.
• Technical Review: Providing detailed technical reviews of environmental compliance documents and Categorical Exclusions, ensuring clarity, completeness, and compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements.
• Internal Consistency Coordination: Coordinating with the COR and/or applicable TPOC to identify and resolve internal comments on draft compliance documents.
• Technical Editing and Synthesis: Serving as the OER technical editor for EISs and permitting assessments, presenting technical materials in plain language and using effective graphics, and synthesizing best-available science on OER impacts.
• Policy and Procedure Revisions: Performing technical revisions and updates of OAR’s NEPA and related environmental compliance policies and procedures based on relevant environmental laws, regulations, and legal precedence.
• Work Product Delivery: Drafting written determinations, providing technical comments, and delivering general programmatic comments.
• Evaluation Planning: Coordinating the development of project and communications plans for new compliance and permit evaluations.
• Project Maintenance: Coordinating and maintaining consistency between multiple ongoing projects while resolving internal comments and providing document feedback.
• Compliance Assessments: Providing detailed technical reviews of compliance and permit documents to assess completeness and compliance with environmental regulations.
• Technical Services: Providing environmental policy and procedural technical services to OER and OAR.
• Agency Revisions: Performing the revision and update of OER and OAR NEPA and other environmental policies and procedures.
• Program and Planning Services: Providing program and planning services for the documentation and implementation of OER NEPA and environmental compliance needs to facilitate OER funded expeditions.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizen
• Pass background screening prior to employment
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant area or equivalent years of education and experience
• 4-6+ years of experience
• Strong oral and written communication, problem-solving skills, and teamwork

Qualifications

• Experience with federal environmental statutes and programmatic mandates
• Ability to coordinate and implement environmental compliance, permitting, and programmatic documentation
• Proficiency in technical editing and synthesis of environmental compliance documents
• Knowledge of relevant environmental laws, regulations, and policies
• Ability to perform technical revisions and updates of environmental compliance policies and procedures
• Effective communication and collaboration skills

Skills

• Environmental compliance
• Marine mammal protection
• National environmental policy
• Endangered species act
• Fisheries conservation
• Legal research and analysis
• Technical writing and editing
• Collaboration and teamwork

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical/dental/life insurance
• Matching 401(k) contribution

Pay

Competitive compensation package offered.

Schedule

Details on schedule not specified.