Title: Flood Resilience Project Manager
State Role Title: Prog Admin Specialist II
Hiring Range: $88,000 - $100,000
Pay Band: 5
Agency: Dept Conservation & Recreation
Location: Dept Conservation & Recreation
Agency Website: dcr.virginia.gov
Recruitment Type: General Public - G
Job Duties
The Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) is the state’s lead conservation agency, providing access for outdoor recreation, strengthening communities’ flood resilience, and protecting what Virginians care about: clean water, parks, natural habitat, and open spaces.
Serving a diverse commonwealth rich in nature and culture, the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation touches all Virginians’ lives.
The mission of the DCR Office of Resilience Planning is to distribute knowledge and coordinate action to achieve a flood-resilient future for Virginia through informed planning and proactive intergovernmental solutions. Our vision is a Virginia where state-led solutions effectively confront present and future flood risks. Through aligned collective action across Virginia’s community of flood resilience partners, we work to increase resilience and minimize the impacts of flooding statewide.
We accomplish our work through four major lines of effort. We develop and implement state-led flood resilience plans: the Virginia Flood Protection Master Plan and the Coastal Resilience Master Plan. We work together with others to coordinate action. This includes staffing the Flood Resilience Advisory Committee, a public body that advises DCR on flood resilience, and hosting an Annual Flood Preparedness Coordination meeting. We share data, information and resources with a diverse set of public and private stakeholders to support informed decision making about present and future flood risks, including through our Flood Resilience Open Data Portal. Finally, we connect with local, regional, and state governments, other stakeholders and the public to inform our plans and build general awareness about changing flood risks in Virginia.
The Office of Resilience Planning is responsible for inter-governmental and inter-agency coordination and is supported by multiple consultant teams to execute our work.
The Flood Resilience Project Manager will support the development, administration, and implementation of DCR’s flood resilience data resources through contract management and stakeholder outreach and engagement.
Work activities may include:
Flood Resilience Data Management
- Manage flood hazards and impact data development and analysis to support planning and influence policy decision making.
- Manage public-facing products such as the Coastal Resilience Web Explorer and the DCR Flood Resilience Open Data Portal.
- Coordinate with internal and external data stakeholders to achieve programmatic goals.
- Develop resources to support asset owners, including critical infrastructure, to use in identifying and reducing flood risk.
- Conduct gaps analysis for flood risk assessment data and develop solutions to close data gaps.
- Support Coastal Resilience Web Explorer database review; enter and/or approve updates to the database
- Facilitate between DCR information and technology staff and contractors to ensure flood resilience data resources are hosted effectively and efficiently.
Project Management
- Develop, coordinate, and manage requests for task order proposals from contractors.
- Monitor progress, review, and provide constructive feedback on contractual deliverables.
- Schedule, organize, facilitate, attend, and document project meetings both internally and with contractors.
- Review and track invoices.
- Identify and mitigate project risks.
Coordination and Engagement
- Assessing and supporting stakeholders’ data needs that vary across geography, scale, and interests.
- Design and facilitate collaborative meetings for meaningful engagement and peer-to-peer sharing using co-development best practices to advance policies, programs, and initiatives.
- Connect stakeholders with available federal, state, and local resources.
- Provide technical assistance to stakeholders to integrate flood resilience data into their use case.
- Attend and represent the Office of Resilience Planning in other stakeholder planning efforts including but not limited to, hazard mitigation planning, coastal storm risk management studies and projects, and flood resilience plans.
Communications and Outreach
- Provide outreach and communications material that leverage flood resilience data product.
- Assist with documenting and communicating stakeholder feedback as well as program accomplishments.
- Produce reports, presentations, flyers, and other media to communicate planned, proposed, and ongoing activities.
- Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with professional colleagues and representatives from other agencies and the public.
- Working with all levels of internal and external management and staff
- Delivering public outreach to advance strategic initiatives.
DCR offers paid leave; a minimum of 13 paid state holidays per year; medical, dental, vision, and life insurance; retirement plans (including 401a Cash Match and 457 Deferred Compensation Plan for classified positions, and VaLORS for law enforcement positions); and is a federally recognized Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) employer.
DCR’s Mission is to conserve the natural, scenic, historic, and cultural resources of the Commonwealth. We invite you to learn more about DCR’s efforts to CONSERVE.
Minimum Qualifications
- Demonstrated knowledge of coastal, fluvial, and pluvial flood risk data, including an understanding of climate change impacts and how they influence future flood conditions.
- Experience managing technical projects, task orders, contracts, or consultant teams, including monitoring progress, providing feedback, and ensuring deliverables meet program goals.
- Experience leading the development, management, and stewardship of hazard, environmental, or resilience‑related datasets, including establishing or enforcing data standards, metadata practices, and quality assurance processes.
- Experience managing or overseeing geospatial tools, flood‑related GIS datasets, and spatial analysis workflows (for example ArcGIS, QGIS, spatial databases, or related platforms).
- Experience planning, directing, or supervising public outreach, stakeholder engagement, technical assistance, or training efforts related to data use, data interpretation, or risk communication.
- Experience interpreting, translating, and presenting complex technical information for both technical and non‑technical audiences, including leadership and external partners.
Additional Considerations
- Experience interpreting and applying flood‑resilience‑related federal, state, and local policies, planning processes, and grant program requirements, including coordinating with partners involved in these programs.
- Experience working in state or local government or public‑sector programs, including coordinating across multiple agencies, divisions, or stakeholder groups.
- Experience using flood modeling software; sea level rise tools and products; or climate change modeling.
- Experience using workflow, collaboration, and reporting tools such as Microsoft Lists, Planner, and Power BI to support project tracking, team coordination, and data visualization.
- Experience coordinating with internal IT teams or technology vendors to support data systems, workflows, application maintenance, or digital tools used for public‑facing data products.
Special Instructions
You will be provided a confirmation of receipt when your application and/or résumé is submitted successfully. Please refer to “Your Application” in your account to check the status of your application for this position.
Submission of an online application is required for this position. DCR does not accept applications, resumes, cover letters, etc., in any other format. Applicants should ensure their online application and/or resume are complete, and include duties and skills associated with their work experience.
A valid Driver's License is required to operate a state vehicle or if operating a personal vehicle while conducting business on behalf of the agency.
Minorities, individuals with disabilities, veterans, and people with National Park or Federal experience are encouraged to apply. EEO/AA/TT
DCR employees are encouraged to visit Virginia State Parks! Check out our employee discounts:
- Free parking or admission to all Virginia State Parks.
- DCR classified, retired, and wage staff (after six months of service) are entitled to overnight facility discounts, such as:
- Free camping outside of the Memorial Day weekend to Labor Day period in sites designed for up to six people.
- Free camping Sunday night through Thursday night (excluding the night before a holiday) from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day.
- Fifty percent discount on cabins (up to 3 bedrooms) outside of Memorial Day weekend to Labor Day, for a maximum of 14 nights. All reservations require a two-night minimum. Bunkhouses, camping cabins, and yurts are included; one-night yurt stays only receive a 25% discount.
Contact Information
Name: Human Resources
Phone: N/A
Email: HR@dcr.virginia.gov
In support of the Commonwealth’s commitment to inclusion, we are encouraging individuals with disabilities to apply through the Commonwealth Alternative Hiring Process. To be considered for this opportunity, applicants will need to provide their AHP Letter (formerly COD) provided by the Department for Aging & Rehabilitative Services (DARS), or the Department for the Blind & Vision Impaired (DBVI). Service-Connected Veterans are encouraged to answer Veteran status questions and submit their disability documentation, if applicable, to DARS/DBVI to get their AHP Letter. Requesting an AHP Letter can be found at AHP Letter or by calling DARS at 800-552-5019.
Note: Applicants who received a Certificate of Disability from DARS or DBVI dated between April 1, 2022- February 29, 2024, can still use that COD as applicable documentation for the Alternative Hiring Process.