This position is housed within the Strategic Growth Council (SGC) which is a 10-member Council comprised of seven state Cabinet-agencies and three public members that coordinates and works collaboratively across state government and with public agencies, communities, and stakeholders to achieve sustainability, equity, economic prosperity, and quality of life for all Californians. SGC catalyzes government innovation for community transformation by approaching our work in the following ways:
• Ideate: Working in partnership with California’s communities, government partners, and others to identify key challenges and develop transformative ideas to solve them.
• Incubate: Pilot new programs and test proof of concepts together with communities and implementing partners across California.
• Scale: Export and scale proven models across SGC’s whole of government Council and beyond.
SGC programs include Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities (AHSC), Sustainable Agriculture Lands Conservation (SALC), Transformative Climate Communities (TCC), Community Resilience Centers (CRC), Climate Change Research (CCR), Community Assistance for Climate Equity (CACE), and Health and Equity Program (HEP) – which is part of a multi-agency Health in All Policies (HiAP) Initiative. SGC is a fast-paced, creative work environment that requires staff to have strong collaboration skills, an ability to quickly respond to changing policy needs, a positive attitude and sense of humor.
Under the general direction of the Staff Services Manager III, Transformative Climate Communities Program Manager, the incumbent works in a lead capacity to support program development and implementation and works with program awardees, project leads, and other stakeholders to ensure successful development of program guidelines, as well as the implementation and evaluation of awards. The incumbent is also responsible for working with the Program Manager to ensure new staff are adequately trained on communicating the program’s design and impacts.
You will find additional information about the job in the Duty Statement.
Working Conditions
Persons appointed to this position must be reasonably expected to exert up to 10 lbs. of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects with or without a reasonable accommodation. Involves sitting most of the time but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time. Occasional/overnight travel up to 15% may be required.