Resiliency Manager

• Base Pay $70,000.00 - $80,000.00 / Year
• Employee Type Exempt Salary

The Resiliency Manager is responsible for ensuring cohesion between RI Commerce Corp. and other state agencies focused on environmental resilience, renewable energy, and emergency management and response; engaging with businesses and key economic development stakeholders to address climate-related challenges in Rhode Island; and managing and administering multiple projects aimed at enhancing business resilience.

This role will explicitly coordinate Climate Change Business Outreach efforts, serve as liaison with a number of state agencies, and provide a “front door” of information for businesses adapting to climate change. This position will engage in stakeholder engagement, project and program execution, and strategic communication to drive economic growth and resilience in the state and surrounding region.

The essential functions and duties listed below are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if work is similar, related or a logical assignment to the position.

• Coordinate with government agencies focused on statewide planning, environmental resilience, renewable energy, and emergency management and response. Ensure business and economic development interests and needs are incorporated in statewide resilience efforts. Represent the Corporation on interagency task forces, councils, working groups, steering committees, and other relevant bodies.
• Lead outreach for assigned initiatives, engaging diverse stakeholders from multiple sectors.
• Serve as representative for the Corporation on the state’s Emergency Support Functions team.
• Collect appropriate data and report as necessary to state government and relevant stakeholders.
• Stay apprised of programs and initiatives statewide that can assist Rhode Island businesses in resilience efforts; connect businesses appropriately.

• Maintain the Corporation’s Resiliency landing page with relevant and up-to-date information
• Develop and deploy a quarterly newsletter
• Provide updates to stakeholders, business leaders, and the public on initiative progress as relevant, including relevant updates and information from the EC4 and the Act on Climate rules and regulations.
• Develop and maintain partnerships with appropriate stakeholder groups to support innovation and resilience.
• Collaborate with communications teams and Strategic Initiatives team leadership to prepare and plan for public content, ensuring consistent messaging across websites, social media, press releases and public events.
• Coordinate workshops, trainings, and other action-oriented educational opportunities for businesses in Rhode Island to strengthen their resiliency, knowledge base, and ability for self-advocacy
• This will include a targeted work stream around insurance

• Support municipalities and business districts with securing funding for the implementation disaster mitigation infrastructure projects for business districts, in collaboration with the RI Infrastructure Bank and others.
• Preparing for and potentially administering grant programs related to resilience to ensure compliance to program budgets and project deliverables, as funds are available.
• Ensure all projects have alignment with organizational goals, set clear performance metrics for each, and monitor progress for each initiative against those performance metrics.

• Engage business leaders in policy-related discussions and climate…