[SPN-Discussion] Two job openings at the Environmental Finance Center (Chapel Hill, NC)

Carol Rosenfeld carol.rosenfeld at gmail.com
Wed Jun 22 14:02:32 PDT 2016


We have two positions open at the Environmental Finance Center (Chapel
Hill, NC).  See below and http://www.efc.sog.unc.edu/content/employment for
details, and feel free to email me with questions if you are thinking of
applying.

Best,
Carol

The Environmental Finance Center (EFC) at the University of North Carolina (
www.efc.sog.unc.edu) is dedicated to enhancing the ability of governments
and other organizations to provide environmental programs and services in a
fair, effective, and financially sustainable way. The EFC is part of the
University’s public service mission and works directly with environmental
service providers. The EFC is housed at the School of Government, which is
the largest university-based local government training, advisory, and
research organization in the United States.

*Data Specialist and Project Manager*
One of the major projects of the EFC is to conduct state-wide collection
and analysis of financial data for environmental services (e.g. water,
energy, stormwater). For example, for the past decade the EFC has collected
the rate structures of NC water and wastewater utilities, working with
state agencies and local governments. The EFC visualizes this data in an
on-line interactive dashboard (see
http://www.efc.sog.unc.edu/project/utility-financial-sustainability-and-rates-dashboards
).

The Data Specialist and Project Manager will be responsible for project
management of rate surveys and on-line dashboards. This will include
overseeing students in data collection and data entry, overseeing the work
of technical R&D contractors, collaborating with campus IT departments,
conducting quality assessment and quality control, production of tables,
reports, sophisticated Excel-based tools and on-line dashboards, and
communicating with state agencies, local governments, and other
environmental service providers. This position will take leadership of the
EFC’s financial data visualization initiative. The ideal candidate will be
innovative and lead changes to the existing processes.

More details at http://www.efc.sog.unc.edu/content/employment.

*Environmental Finance Community Advisor*
The EFC works on several projects with drinking water and waste water
systems. One of the EFC’s major projects is a national effort funded by the
US EPA to work with small drinking water systems on finance and management.
The project involves education events and direct technical assistance to
local government and non-governmental water systems in every state and
territory in the United States. The EFC partners with other Environmental
Finance Centers and American Water Works Association on this project. For
more information on the project, see http://efcnetwork.org.

Additionally, the Environmental Finance Community Advisor will play an
important role in helping with the direct technical assistance for these
small water systems, which involves measuring the financial well-being of
the system, analyzing the affordability of rates, looking at the impact
capital projects will have on utility budgets and costs, and benchmarking
system energy use. Work will include speaking directly with utility
officials, literature reviews, data analysis, and reviewing and evaluating
financial documents. The Community Advisor will also conduct business case
analyses for utility sustainability projects. Additionally, the Community
Advisor will be responsible for summarizing this information in clear,
concise, and engaging ways for our water system clients.

In addition to the above mentioned responsibilities, the Community Advisor
will work on other EFC projects related to drinking water, waste water,
storm water, and wetland finance. This work will include conducting
original qualitative and quantitative research on finance, conservation,
energy efficiency, and other aspects of sustainability. The Community
Advisor will help design sophisticated Excel-based tools to help
environmental service providers make sound financial decisions and will
also assist in data cleaning and analysis.

The position will be ideal for a recent college graduate looking to get
started working with environmental finance and local government.  More
details at http://www.efc.sog.unc.edu/content/employment.

--
Carol Rosenfeld, LEED AP O+M
Senior Project Director
Environmental Finance Center
School of Government, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(919) 843-5240
crosenfeld at sog.unc.edu
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