Climate Resilience Grant Manager

CMSF is seeking a Climate Resilience Grant Manager to help provide daily leadership and accountability and ensure impact for a large collaborative multi-institutional project across the Monterey Bay region of California.  Project activities will be conducted in partnership with regional municipalities, universities, research institutions, and NGOs focusing on adaptation actions that build climate resilience for the area’s low-lying, coastal communities threatened by sea level rise, storm surge, and flooding along the region’s major rivers and by wildfire in the watersheds affecting these communities.

The Climate Resilience Grant Manager will work with partners to lead and support activities associated with the following:

• Flood Risk Reduction:  Ten projects across the Monterey Bay Area to improve the condition and function of coastal, estuarine, and riparian habitats that moderate extreme flood flows. Many of these projects are designed to deliver benefits to some of the most marginalized communities in the state, including the City of Watsonville and the communities of Pajaro and Castroville.
• Fire Risk Reduction:  Five fire prevention projects across 7,150 acres and includes the installation of over 6 miles of shaded fuel breaks, along with prescribed and cultural burning to reduce fuel sources.
• Coordination on Climate Adaptation Actions:  The development and launch of the Monterey Bay Climate Adaptation Action Network (MBCAAN).  MBCAAN will coordinate and plan for future adaptation and resilience actions in the Monterey Bay region, act as a forum for planning and information sharing, and ensure the coordinated, integrated implementation of climate adaptation activities. MBCAAN will ensure broad and inclusive participation of local and regional governments, researchers, non-government organizations, and other stakeholders, with meaningful engagement of marginalized communities and Tribes.
• Workforce Development: Workforce Development: This program will support workforce development through collaborative efforts led by Watsonville Wetlands Watch, Hartnell College, California State University Monterey Bay (CSUMB), and the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC).

The position will be responsible for the following:

• Provide overall project management for a large multi-project a multi-institutional federal grant, working to ensure that all grant activities are successful to the maximum extent possible and that projects are completed on schedule and within budget.
• Ensure that all grant reporting and invoicing occurs in a timely fashion and in compliance with the Grant Agreement. This includes:
  • consolidating subcontractor quarterly report
  • writing Federal grant quarterly progress reports and final report and,
  • working with the CMSF Finance Director and Grant Finance Manager to submit subcontractor invoices
• Provide on-the-ground leadership, motivational team building, and problem-solving across 20+ climate adaptation and workforce development projects.
• Keep project partners on schedule to meet milestones.
• Work with project partners to resolve problems, overcome unexpected hurdles, and ensure environmental compliance
• Create newsletters, blogs, social media posts, and other communications materials for both internal and external audiences.
• Coordinate and collaborate with CMSF leadership, grant managers, and others.