Stormwater Strategic & Marine Water Quality Implementation Leads; Env. Planner

Keeping Washington Clean and Evergreen

The Department of Ecology is hiring two positions:
Stormwater Strategic Implementation Lead (Environmental Planner
4) and Marine Water Quality Implementation Lead (Environmental Planner
4) within the Water Quality Program. Applicants interested in one or both positions are encouraged to apply.

• Headquarters Office in Lacey, WA.
• Upon hire, you must live within a commutable distance from the duty station.

• Both positions are eligible for telework and flexible schedule options.
• A minimum of one day every other week is required in the office. You may telework most of your work time, with occasional in-person meetings and activities.
• Schedules are dependent upon position needs and are subject to change.

• Apply by June 22, 2026.
• Applications submitted after the date above may not be reviewed unless additional qualified applicants are needed.

• Serve as the Implementation Lead for the Puget Sound Stormwater Strategic Initiative.
• Work with other project staff to coordinate updates to the three implementation strategies: freshwater quality, toxics in fish, and marine water quality.
• Assist project staff with removing barriers to success: troubleshoot, identify resource needs, identify and resolve policy barriers, fill critical information gaps, or improve the processes used to implement the Stormwater Strategic Initiative.
• Coordinate closely with the Habitat and Shellfish Strategic Initiatives to ensure that timelines, systems, and processes are harmonized across the three Puget Sound strategic initiatives.
• Build relations with Tribes, environmental and community organizations, and the public, and create opportunities for them to interact, participate in, or provide input for implementation.
• Work closely with our interagency partners, experts, and other interested parties to ensure that implementation is coordinated, technically sound, and represents shared priorities for the Puget Sound recovery community.

• Guide and facilitate the strategic implementation of the Marine Water Quality Implementation Strategy.
• Represent the Marine Water Quality Implementation Strategy at public meetings; present progress and program goals, communicate effectively, and collaborate with other Ecology programs and state agencies to deliver effective, timely, and consistent information.
• Build relations with Tribes, environmental and community organizations, and the public, and create opportunities for them to interact, participate in, or provide input for implementation.
• Work with the other Implementation Strategy Leads in other state agencies (for example, Shellfish and Habitat Strategies) to identify key implementation actions within their respective implementation strategies that could have the dual benefit of meeting their objectives and the objectives in the Marine Water Quality Implementation Strategy.
• Run work groups that provide a wide range of input to better inform the Puget Sound Investment Strategy with a focus on actions to improve marine water quality.
• Develop future subaward grant solicitation opportunities that make progress toward Marine Water Quality Investment Plan priorities, particularly focused on nutrients and phosphorous issues that degrade marine dissolved oxygen.

• Experience in: land use, urban, regional, environmental, or natural resource planning, and/or program development, landscape architecture, geography, land use or environmental law, public administration with an environmental emphasis, or closely related experience.
• Education involving a major study in land use, urban, regional, environmental, or natural resource planning, landscape architecture, geography, land use or environmental law, public administration with an environmental emphasis, or closely related field.

Examples of how to qualify:

• 9 years of experience.
• 8 years of experience AND 30-59 semester or 45-89 quarter college credits.
• 7 years of experience AND 60-89 semester or 90-134 quarter college credits (Associate’s degree).
• 6 years of experience AND 90-119…