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Urban Stormwater Planner (Open till filled) (Full Time)
Location: San Antonio, TX
DESCRIPTION: The San Antonio River Authority seeks to hire an Urban Stormwater Planner with a passion for the health of the river, its tributaries, and the larger basin. Strong skills in urban planning and placemaking; stormwater master planning; sustainable stormwater best management practices (BMP) design, including Low Impact Development (LID); and LID BMP plan set development and review are musts. We believe every relationship, to include employment relationships, is based on attraction to types.
Your Type:
You look for an organization that is guided by core values like Integrity, Excellence, and Stewardship. Youre attracted to an organization that is made up of extremely passionate and purpose-oriented people. Your ideal organization is one that has a foundation built on trust and transparency.
You are passionate about and understand the relationship between zoning, land use, land development, and surface water quality. You seek to be a partner in the process of ensuring that stormwater quality best management practices, such as LID features, are reflected in local urban planning efforts, and are designed, documented and functioning properly. You know that training, incentives, and removal of other real or perceived barriers to stormwater BMPs is vital as the basin develops for the population influx anticipated in the upcoming 25 years (1.1 million in San Antonio alone). Thus, you are excited about collaborating with planning and design professionals, regulatory agencies, and other stakeholders to advance these practices in the San Antonio River Basin. You take pride in having an attention to detail, a desire to work on a variety of different projects or activities, and a focus on being a good steward of the Basin.
Your ideal organization is one that challenges you and provides opportunities that will develop you as a professional. It is important for you to work with a progressive team that takes ownership of their responsibilities and works collaboratively together.
You find excitement in an organization that has a strong vision to inspire actions for healthy creeks and rivers and a purposeful mission committed to safe, clean, and enjoyable creeks and rivers.
If this seems like your type, keep reading.
Our Type:
Our team is passionate about understanding, documenting, reducing, and educating others about the negative impacts of development on the Basin and cost-effective ways to mitigate them. Given the small size of our Stormwater Team, it is important that we work together to accomplish this feat. We seek to recruit an Urban Stormwater Planner who has used and will continue to use experience in urban planning, landscape architecture, environmental sciences, or related fields to make a difference in their communityand who wants to contribute to the success of our team.
Our team members participate in a wide variety of activities and functions, including but not limited to, maintaining the Basins most comprehensive map of LID features, managing a LID rebate and school grant project, managing the Citys portfolio of Edwards Aquifer water quality projects, monitoring LID features to document stormwwater quality improvements, managing the SARA/Bexar County LID training program, and advocating for greater stormwater management through community partnerships. This results in an opportunity to work with experts from a number of SARA departments as well as with multiple stakeholders and design professionals external to SARA on solutions that improve surface water quality throughout our Basin.
If this is you, keep reading.
COMPENSATION: Salary range is $61,313.89 (DOE) plus outstanding fringe benefits which includes excellent health/vision/dental insurance packages, continuing education benefits, 401a/457b retirement program, 12 vacations days per year, 11 paid holidays per year, etc.
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