The City of Elgin is seeking a qualified professional to lead the City's environmental sustainability efforts.

As the sixth largest community in the State of Illinois, Elgin has established itself as a leader among municipalities being one of the first communities to adopt a sustainability plan in 2011. The City has launched initiatives including creating a sustainability action plan with the help of more than 100 community volunteers, implementing energy efficiency cost sharing programs, stormwater management best practices, residential solar and wind energy regulations and a host of other accomplishments. The Sustainability Commission compliments the plan and provides a continued venue for interested residents to provide their input via several work groups. In 2019, the City was also awarded a SolSmart Designation, one of only 265 communities in the nation. Additional information about the City's efforts can be found at www.cityofelgin.org/sustainability

The sustainability analyst will be responsible for engaging stakeholders, guiding, measuring and implementing Elgin's sustainability efforts. This position is assigned to the City Manager's Office.

Responsibilities:

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  Serves as liaison to the City's Sustainability Commission.
• Coordinates implementation of and update to City's Sustainability Plan, baseline emission study, and develops related programs and projects for the city.
• Calculates, tracks, and manages metrics, data, and processes supporting City and sustainability action plan initiatives.
• Analyzes data and ensures accuracy of metrics on sustainability initiatives.
• Assesses future needs to meet City and community goals for sustainability action.
• Conducts educational outreach and engages with internal and external stakeholders, including elected officials, businesses, professional organizations, neighborhood groups and school-age children, requiring the ability to make technical information easy to understand.
• Collaborates with City departments to ensure sustainable practices and policies and make recommendations to reduce the City's environmental footprint.
• Identifies innovative solutions and demonstrates measurable progress on goals.
• Manages City's community garden initiatives and sustainability related policy implementations.
• Clearly communicates verbally and in writing, comfortably adjusts to different audiences, and creates narratives, project summaries and reports.
• Tracks federal and state policy and advises on policy priorities.
• Actively seeks and applies for funding opportunities to further sustainability efforts within the City.
• Manages sustainability related agreements, ordinances, and memberships.

Preferred qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree with preference for at least two years of increasingly responsible experience in any or some combination of the following: environmental science, urban planning, sustainability program development or planning, public administration or facilities management preferred. Bilingual proficiency is a plus.