Water Program Coordinator - Guelph, Canada - The City of Guelph

The City of Guelph

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Guelph, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Description

Why Guelph:

What we offer
We offer competitive wages and comprehensive benefits to meet the needs of our diverse employees.

Many of our positions offer:

Paid vacation days, increasing with years of service
Paid personal days;
Hybrid and flexible work arrangements;
Defined benefit pension plan with OMERS, including 100percent employer matching;
Extended health and dental benefits, including Health Care Spending Account;
Employee and Family Assistance Program;
Parental leave top up program;
Learning and development opportunities including tuition assistance
Employee recognition programs.

Position Overview:

The
Water Program Coordinator will work as part of a dynamic and collaborative team within the Compliance, Programs and Performance division to coordinate and deliver the City of Guelph's public-facing residential water efficiency, tap water promotion and wastewater education programs based on the Council-approved recommendations of the Water Supply Master Plan and Water Efficiency Strategy, operational needs and the environmental programs framework for Environmental Services.

This position requires excellent program management skills to set goals and objectives for existing rebate, education and outreach programs, research, and development of new programs, with a focus on continuous improvement.

This portfolio also includes communications planning and executing on meaningful promotion and engagement with the public (residents, youth) to achieve desired behaviour change and target water savings.

The Water Program Coordinator will be an experienced coordinator, with the ability to development, implement, collect data and analyze the results of the initiatives they undertake, with support from the Supervisor, Environmental Programs and provide day-to-day oversight of co-operative learning and seasonal staff, as required.

Key duties and responsibilities

Assist in the implementation and optimization of the recommendations in the 2016 Water Efficiency Strategy or future iterations, and operational needs of Environmental Services.

Coordination including, but not limited to, the following programs:

The City's tap water promotion program, such as coordinating and administering the Guelph Water Wagon service (with seasonal staff support).
The City's Blue Built Home Program including all rebate programs (e.g. rainwater harvesting, greywater reuse, water submetering and Royal Flush toilet rebate).
Provide technical review and product evaluation of waterusing technologies, practices and behaviors, including an education program on residential water softeners.
Public outreach events
The City's water and wastewater youthbased programming, including inschool presentations, facility tours of Water Services and Wastewater Services, and summer camp programming (with seasonal staff support).
Public and youthbased special events with internal and external partners, such as World Toilet Day, H2Awesome and the Waterloo Wellington Children's Groundwater Festival.
Sourcewater education and outreach, including salt management.
Wastewater public education and outreach
Set and achieve program goals/targets to achieve water savings, monitor success and evaluate results in alignment with the Water Efficiency Strategy.
Evaluate program effectiveness, communicate results and make recommendations to management and other stakeholders on program, process, policy and procedure improvements.
Complete the administration of customer incentives, customer service support and validation/verification of related incentive documentation including waterusing fixture audits (if required)
Develop promotional and marketing materials to inform customers and increase awareness of pertinent water use and tap water programs, policies and resources.
Coordinate contractors/consultants for water efficiency projects by preparing project charters, terms of reference, specifications, reviewing of proposals/ quotations and make recommendations for contract awards; monitor and evaluate contractor performance.
Preform relationship building, program outreach, marketing and program delivery with the public, area municipalities, agencies, and local contractors to promote water efficiency and the protection of wastewater infrastructure.
Perform other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications and requirements

Experience presenting to and engaging technical and nontechnical audiences of various ages in large and small groups.
Experience successfully collaborating with community partners and special event planning and execution.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate with all levels of staff, stakeholders, youth and public.
Excellent organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks and assignments in a fastpaced, demanding environment.
Ability to develop, deliver and evaluate the effectiveness of rebate, audit, certification programs,