What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Manager position at NetVision Resources, Inc.?
Primary Responsibilities, and Minimum and Preferred Qualifications
Skills Required
Specialized Skills
Education, Certifications, Degree Requirements
Essential Functions and Duties include:
Other duties as assigned that may contribute toward the key outcomes of the Sun & Soil Program or the Environmental Research Team
Skills:
Skills Required
- Complex project management experience
- Relevant experience in agricultural issues (preferred)
- Demonstrated abilities for problem-solving, resourcefulness, adaptability, and pragmatic solutions
- Interested party engagement and coordination
- Skill in gaining and using insight from colleagues and external groups to formulate strategy and design solutions
- Experience and skills with collaboration and relationship building and management
- Strong and diverse communication skills - able to actively listen, communicate accurately, concisely, unambiguously, and with empathy in speech and in writing, and comfortable with public speaking in meeting forums
- Meeting/event management; facilitation desired but not required
Specialized Skills
- Requires a working knowledge of, or ability to rapidly gain knowledge of and familiarity with, New York State agricultural policies, practices and key stakeholders
- Knowledge of issues and policies at the intersection of agriculture and energy
Education, Certifications, Degree Requirements
- Required: Bachelor's degree
Essential Functions and Duties include:
- Be the primary Client point of contact for the NYS Agricultural Technical Working Group and its specialist committees, building relationships with the members and supporting them in meeting their objectives and accomplishing their workplan.
- Manage planning and execution of A-TWG and associated Specialist Committee and task-specific work group meetings and asynchronous collaboration on workflows for implementing their workplan.
- Project manage the contracted facilitation, technical, and communications and outreach support for the A-TWG.
- Work with contracted [support] to ensure A-TWG meetings and engagement are effective and valuable.
- Serve as a point of contact at Client on solar-agricultural issues and attend and represent Client at meetings and conferences.
- Organize and collaborate with interdepartmental teams on efforts to advance solar-agricultural research needs, technology innovation, market characterization, and communication and outreach and associated tasks, particularly as those synergistically support or directly advance the A-TWG's workplan.
- Assist in development and management of program offerings and awarded contracted projects for the Sun & Soil program, including but not limited to agrivoltaics projects and efforts to improve agrivoltaics and on-farm solar and storage opportunities for farmers.
- Support contractual and collaborative efforts with external parties to identify and advance state policies at the nexus of solar energy development and New York State agriculture.
Other duties as assigned that may contribute toward the key outcomes of the Sun & Soil Program or the Environmental Research Team
Skills:
- Project / Program Management - 3-6 Years
- Stakeholder Engagement & Working Groups
- Solar / Renewable Energy / Clean Energy
- Contract & Consultant Management
- Meeting Facilitation & Strong Communication