Strategic Engagement

About the role

Join a nationally significant effort advancing a resilient, healthy Maui community. Your work will support recovery that strengthens long-term sustainability by aligning water, wastewater, stormwater, and watershed outcomes for community rebuilding.

Responsibilities

• Conduct targeted and/or comprehensive business assessments and development of implementation strategies and plans for our clients to enhance their operations and efficiency.
• Complete tasks or elements in development of client strategic plans and decision-making processes directly tied to the successful achievement of overall organizational and functional area goals.
• Execute organizational development and management services for clients to achieve organizational excellence.
• Develop and implement stakeholder engagement and communications plans including communication piece development.
• Facilitate in-person and/or virtual stakeholder workshops across a diverse array of project, program, or other engagement needs to elicit input, foster alignment, and achieve desired engagement outcomes.
• Flexibility to adapt and execute various additional assignments based on evolving needs.

Requirements

• Experience typically a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in a related role.
• Experience in analyzing organizational and business needs, organizational development, and change management.
• Typically certified in the SMS Framework, and progressing through the SMS competencies.
• Specifically, familiarity with Hawaii-specific water regulations, water policy frameworks, and permitting requirements.
• Ability to navigate significant uncertainty while supporting informed decision-making.

Preferred Requirements

• Experience working with public sector governance is an asset.
• Experience specifically related to water, wastewater, and/or stormwater sector in Hawaii.

Skills and Competencies

• Systems thinking skills for analyzing organizational and business needs.
• Proficiency in researching, developing, and communicating an understanding of a client's essential or critical business factors.
• Organizational development and management principles.
• Change leadership and management, decision support theories and models, and monitoring.
• Strategic planning, engagement and communications approaches and plans.
• Workshop design and implementation skills both in-person and virtual.
• Communication piece development in a variety of mediums (written, audio, video) and content formats (text, graphics, photo, sound, and video).
• Facilitation and interview skills.
• Strong communication (written and oral) and presentation skills.
• Developing leadership skills with the capability to inspire and guide a team.
• Managing multi-disciplinary teams including subconsultants.
• Developing proficiency in governance and policy development.

Benefits and Other Compensation

• A comprehensive benefits package that promotes employee health, performance, and success.
• Medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, an employee assistance program, paid time off and parental leave, paid holidays, 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match, performance-based bonus eligibility, employee referral bonuses, tuition reimbursement, pet insurance and long-term care insurance.