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Funding Compliance Specialist - ( 2400041O )

Description

Many of the world’s top engineers and scientists come together at Stantec because they view a community’s interaction with infrastructure a bit differently—as a single holistic system, rather than unconnected networks divided by jurisdictional boundaries. Our experts guide our work with a passion for sustainability, scientific rigor, an innovative spirit, and a vision for smart growth. Every day, we help communities improve, reuse, and protect precious resources for future generations.,

Your Key Responsibilities:

This position is an external client facing position with our Management Consulting Team.

As a Funding Compliance Specialist within the Management Consulting Team, you will be delivering asset, organizational, financial, infrastructure, funding, economic, planning, policy, and technology consulting services to local governments and utilities in North America.

The Funding Compliance Specialist will:

• Work dynamically with project teams to identify best-fit solutions to complex business, strategic, funding, infrastructure, and operational issues, that involve elevated risk, with an emphasis on capital planning, delivery, and funding issues.

• Support engagements focused on the enhancement of community capital improvement plan execution/delivery and assist/support the Stantec Programs team in various elements of capital planning, compliance, scheduling, tracking, and reporting.

• Serve as a primary member of multiple teams at client meetings, including interactive use of analytical tools and facilitating workshops.

• Support the project team with project management and internal and external document management. Implement streamlined approaches to administering project delivery.

• Support the project team in interactive meetings with our clients to identify and analyze issues affecting their organizations and key stakeholders.

• Meet performance goals and objectives as assigned, with respect to client-specific demands, stated delivery milestones, quality standards, project management framework, mentoring of junior staff, and all required training activities.

Qualifications

Your Capabilities and Credentials:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Proficiency with PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat Pro and other business systems required.

• Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills.

• Self-starter capable of efficiently and proactively working independently as well as with a geographically dispersed team on multiple projects simultaneously.

• Strong sense of Team. Always willing to step in and take on additional responsibility for the good of the entire Team.

• Strong attention to details as deliverables are open to public review and scrutiny.

• Willing to travel as needed. In the first year, travel may be up to 10%. As you develop your skills for success and become a crucial part of multiple project teams, travel requirements may increase.

• Requires a satisfactory driving record.

Traits and Attributes of Top Performers:

• Intellectual curiosity : Top performers are driven to ask why things work or don’t work currently and how we might address this—even if, or especially if, this thinking falls outside of conventional wisdom. We need bold thinkers willing to challenge assumptions and develop new solutions.

• Lifelong learners : This field provides ample opportunities to develop new skills and tools, and to combine left and right brain thinking to combine math, modeling, and an understanding of public perception to solve complex problems. There are little to no “routine” answers. The most successful candidates have a genuine desire to continually learn to solve our clients’ problems and improve the communities we serve.

• Analytical problem solvers : Top performers understand (or are capable of quickly learning) how different factors, variables, and policies result in corresponding financial impacts. They understand how to make appropriate simplifying assumptions and how to model complex systems accurately.

• Collaboration and co-creation : Successful candidates will have the ability to work effectively with individuals of diverse cultures, disciplines and abilities in a cooperative and generative manner, to achieve a common goal.

• Creativity and adaptability : Top performers will have the ability to think about a task or a problem in a new or different way, to create strategies for disruption, breakthrough, and transformation.

• Strategic and systematic thinking : Top performers will be able to synthesize different sides of an issue by examining a range of options and outcomes, considering the interconnectedness of elements as parts of a whole system, and building intellectual frameworks to guide decisions, solve problems, support innovation, and inform analysis and action.

• Entrepreneurial mindset : Strong candidates will both seek and thrive on all opportunities and risks; Top performers will leverage tenacity and optimism to innovate, effect change, break orthodoxies and create new value for clients.

• Sincere desire to please our clients : Top performers seem to have an innate drive, beyond personal gain, for ensuring that our clients are pleased with our performance and our deliverables, and they realize that providing rigorous, error-free, and unbiased advisory services is a critical step in ensuring the client’s long-term sustainability.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in business, finance, economics, statistics, data science, engineering, accounting, planning, or related fields are required. Master’s Degree is a plus.

• 3 years total post-undergraduate working experience related to planning, economics, asset management, infrastructure funding/delivery, financial analysis and working for local government agencies in these areas.

• Knowledge of and experience with various funding programs and capital planning and delivery in a municipal setting for a wide range of community services

• Direct work experience/history with local government agencies

• Elements of project management experience, including preparing and managing project scope, schedule, team activities, communication, and deliverables.

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.

Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on each other’s talents, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us. Join us and redefine your personal best.

Pay transparency laws require employers to provide the following information for positions that may be in the following jurisdiction(s):

Salary Range(s):

• NYC $45 - NYC $66 Min/Max Pay Range(s) for postings located in NYC/NY

• $40 - $58 Min/Max Pay Range for postings located in CO and HI and MD

• $43 - $62 Min/Max Pay Range for postings located in WA and DC

• SF Area $45 - SF Area $66 Min/Max Pay Range for postings located in CA (SF Area includes SF, SJS & WLC)

The final agreed upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. At Stantec certain roles are bonus eligible.

Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees have access to medical, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health saving accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase program, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage and paid family leave. Regular full-time and part-time employees will receive ten paid holidays in each calendar year. In addition, employees will be eligible to accrue vacation between 10 and 20 days per year and eligible for paid sick leave (and if more generous, in accordance with state and local law).

Temporary/casual employees have access to 401(k) plans, employee stock purchase program, and paid leave, in accordance with state and local law.

• Washington state employees are eligible to accrue 1 hour of paid sick leave for every 40 hours worked except for Seattle employees who accrue sick leave in accordance with the city’s paid sick leave law.

The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements.

Primary Location : United States-Washington

Other Locations : United States-Florida-Tampa, United States-California-Walnut Creek, United States-Colorado-Denver, United States-New York-New York

Organization : BC-2248 Water-US M&T Consulting

Employee Status : Regular

Job Level : Individual Contributor

Travel : Yes, 10 % of the Time

Schedule : Full-time

Job Posting : Oct 30, 2024, 6:21:54 PM

Req ID: 2400041O

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