Resiliency Specialist

One City. One team. One mission

Do you enjoy connecting with the community, protecting the environment, and helping neighborhoods prepare for future challenges?

The City of Wilmington is seeking a Resiliency Specialist to strengthen community resilience through education, outreach, and hands‑on initiatives that protect our waterways, reduce stormwater impacts, and help residents better understand and manage community risks.

In this community‑facing role, you will lead the City's Heal Our Waterways (HOW) program, partnering with residents, neighborhoods, schools, businesses, and environmental organizations to improve watershed health, reduce pollution, and promote sustainable stormwater management practices. You will also support community preparedness and risk‑reduction initiatives by connecting people with resources, developing educational programs, and translating data and research into meaningful community action.

If you are passionate about environmental stewardship, building community partnerships, and creating practical solutions for a more resilient Wilmington, this is an opportunity to turn that passion into measurable impact.

• Conducts community outreach, presentations, workshops, meetings, preparedness events and educational activities throughout Wilmington.
• Collects and communicates community data and identifies recurring concerns, needs and opportunities that can inform City programs and resilience initiatives.

• Leads and coordinates implementation of the City's Heal Our Waterways (HOW) program.
• Develops and implements community-based strategies to improve watershed health, reduce stormwater pollution and runoff, protect waterways and address flooding and other stormwater-related risks.
• Builds relationships with residents, property owners, neighborhood organizations, schools, businesses, environmental organizations, universities and other community partners to advance HOW program goals.
• Collaboratively develops and coordinates public education and engagement campaigns related to stormwater management, watershed health, water quality, flooding prevention and environmental stewardship.
• Promotes practical stormwater management practices that can be implemented by residents, businesses, institutions and community organizations.
• Coordinates watershed education, restoration, demonstration, retrofit, monitoring and community improvement projects.
• Identifies opportunities to expand the use of stormwater best management practices (BMPs), green infrastructure, nature-based solutions and other approaches that reduce runoff and improve water quality.
• Uses GIS, mapping, field observations, program data and other information to identify areas of need and target community outreach and stormwater resilience efforts.
• Tracks implementation of HOW program activities, BMPs, watershed improvements, community participation and other performance measures.
• Evaluates program effectiveness and prepares reports and recommendations regarding watershed and stormwater initiatives.
• Works with appropriate City departments and external partners to address technical, regulatory, infrastructure and operational issues affecting implementation of community stormwater initiatives.

• Supports implementation of community risk-reduction strategies identified through the City's Community Risk Analysis (CRA) and other risk assessments.
• Connects community members and organizations with appropriate City programs, technical resources, funding opportunities and external assistance.
• Uses community feedback and program data to identify gaps in services, information or resources and recommends improvements.