Brownfield Redevelopment Specialist

Title:

Brownfield Redevelopment Specialist

Department:

Center for Community Systems

Reports To:

Director, Environmental Services

Position Type:

Staff

Position Summary:

The Brownfields Redevelopment Specialist will provide technical assistance and guidance, create tools and resources, and conduct educational and engagement forums to help communities assess, cleanup, and redevelop former industrial and commercial properties (brownfields), transforming them into productive reuse. The technical assistance provided to communities will contribute to a greater quality of life by improving health and safety; enhancing environmental quality; promoting use/reuse of existing infrastructure; promoting economic development; making better connections to jobs, education, and health care; creating and/or preserving open space; and creating more sustainable and resilient communities.

Essential Functions:

• Provides one-on-one technical assistance to government entities, community organizations, and non-profits throughout the US to strategize how to address their specific brownfield challenges
• Assists communities in understanding basic brownfields redevelopment concepts, navigating the brownfields regulatory process, identifying funding sources, and understanding technical and scientific reports and data
• Provides funding application critiques and guidance
• Plans and conducts brownfield engagement and educational events (workshops, seminars, webinars, bootcamps, conference sessions)
• Identifies communities in need of brownfields redevelopment assistance services
• Provides ideas and content for websites, newsletters, and educational tools on brownfields and brownfields-related topics (such as equitable development, environmental justice, climate change impacts, community resilience, etc.)
• Maintains a record of assistance activities for inclusion in required program progress reporting
• Works collaborative with other staff to develop and implement strategies on effective ways to provide technical assistance and conduct community engagement activities
• Performs other duties as requested
  
  

Education Requirements

Bachelor's degree in environmental planning, environmental science, geology, environmental engineering, or other relevant discipline

Experience Requirements

2 to 5 years of experience

Technical Requirements

• Knowledge of Federal and/or state brownfield programs
• Familiarity with the challenges affecting redevelopment and revitalization projects
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Possesses strong public speaking and relationship building skills
• Possesses strong time management and organizational skills and the ability to meet deadlines
• Familiarity with identifying and utilizing available brownfield related data sources (i.e., NJDEP DataMiner)
• Ability to present technical information to the public in plain language
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent computer literacy, including Microsoft Office, Google Suite, and Adobe.
• Experience with using database software including Airtable is a plus
• Fluency in Spanish is a plus
• Experience in real estate and/or public health assessments a plus
• Interest in environmental justice and social equity in redevelopment
• Applicants must have a valid driver’s license
  
  

Other Requirements

• This position requires frequent travel
• This position is a hybrid position, with some time working at home, and some time in our offices at NJIT in Newark, New Jersey
• This position requires the hired person to adhere to the New Jersey First Act
  
  

Bargaining Unit:

PSA

Range/Band:

21

Salary Information:

In compliance with the NJ Pay Transparency Law, the negotiated annual salary range for this position is $63,129.05-$107,893.56 (USD). NJIT considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, as well as, market and organizational considerations when extending an offer. This pay range represents base pay only and excludes any additional items such as incentives, bonuses or other items.

To learn more about the comprehensive benefits NJIT offers for this position, please visit our benefits page: https://hr.njit.edu/health-benefits.

Please note: This position is contingent upon grant funding.

FLSA:

Exempt

Full-Time