Streams Basin Supervisor

Streams Basin Supervisor

The NYC Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) enriches the environment and protects public health for all New Yorkers by providing 1.1 billion gallons of high-quality drinking water, managing wastewater and stormwater, and reducing air, noise, and hazardous materials pollution. DEP is the largest combined municipal water and wastewater utility in the country, with nearly 6,000 employees. DEP's water supply system is comprised of 19 reservoirs and 3 controlled lakes throughout the system's 2,000 square mile watershed that extends 125 miles north and west of the City.

The Bureau of Water Supply seeks to hire an Associate Project Manager, level 3 to serve as the Streams Basin Supervisor with the Stream Management Program (SMP), Watershed Agricultural, Forestry and Streams (WAFS) division, within the Source Water Protection directorate, located in Arkville, New York. Under administrative direction of the Section Chief, with wide latitude for the exercise of independent judgment and unreviewed action, the Supervisor is responsible for managing and overseeing all aspects of the SMP to implement the City's Long-Term Watershed Protection Strategy and ensure compliance with the City's Filtration Avoidance Determination (FAD).

The SMP Basin Supervisor leads a team of 4 professionals who collectively work with their local counterparts to design and implement a variety of stream-related projects within each reservoir basin in the West of the Hudson watershed.

Job duties include:

• Supervising and providing leadership and guidance to four direct reports that work in two separate office locations (Arkville and Kingston). Support team building, conduct annual performance reviews, timekeeping and succession planning efforts.
• Assisting with the negotiation, drafting, and oversight/management of more than a half dozen DEP contracts that fund various elements of the SMP.
• Overseeing, reporting and resolving contract management issues in the five major program contracts.
• As needed with potential open positions, temporarily serves as a reservoir basin scale project manager for one of four reservoir basin scale stream management teams.
• Ensuring timely delivery and consistency among record keeping for key documents generated by the four basin programs:
  Memoranda of Understanding with Towns (as required to be eligible for program funding), Stream Management Implementation (grant) Program eligibility, application forms and decision-making criteria, project landowner agreements, permits, project reporting, project designs and Annual Action Plans. Report issues to management and resolve any issues arising therefrom.
• Ensuring that essential coordination meetings between the corresponding SMP – Local Partner functional staff occur on time and that outcomes are shared program wide. This entails routine coordination with other DEP staff as well.
• Ensuring timely delivery of contract deliverables from SMP contract partners and updated the DEP system (WaLIS) with relevant information
• Overseeing the processing of contract partner payments and resolving disputes, elevating issues to the Section Chief as needed.
• Assisting in the development and implementation of project management tracking software to provide readily accessible updates to basin project and review status.
• Ensuring that SMP project managers understand the terms of the contracts they manage and fully comply with all bureau, agency or city policies and directives relating to contract management and budget oversight.
• Fostering and maintaining excellent partner relations with county agencies and other local, State and federal stakeholders involved in the ongoing implementation of the SMP.
• Coordinating and collaborating with other DEP work units to support and ensure SMP expertise and research is integrated with other bureau/agency efforts to the extent practical.
• Supporting the leveraging of City funds with local, State and federal matching grants as opportunities arise.
• Overseeing and managing special projects, programs or initiatives as requested or assigned.
• Conducting public presentations to internal and external audiences as requested or assigned.

Preferred skills include proficiency with the use of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, etc.) and Adobe Acrobat (advanced PDF assembly), working knowledge of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and related software (ArcGIS), education and professional work experience relating to water resources, drinking water quality, stream processes and ecological function, natural resource management, land use planning, communications, contract management, project management, budget oversight, and City procurement.

Ability to convey technical information effectively to a non-technical audience, ability to work with partners/stakeholders and lead interdisciplinary teams, expertise/knowledge of stream ecosystems and stream restoration principles.

Physical work environment is primarily an office-based job with…