Wildfire Resilience - Environmental Project Manager

Job Duties/Responsibilities

Ascent seeks to fill a full-time position for an experienced Environmental Project Manager to help improve wildfire resilience as part of our Environmental Practice Group and participate in other natural resource-oriented environmental projects over time. The position could be in any of our Sacramento, San Diego, Berkeley, Lake Tahoe, or Irvine offices.

In a typical week, you might:

• Collaborate with Ascent leaders and client staff to conceive of innovations in environmental review of wildfire resilience projects.
• Lead your project team in the management of CEQA document preparation for vegetation management projects for a state agency, resource conservation district, fire-safe council, or local government.
• Help clients achieve efficient approval of vegetation management projects using consistency with the California Vegetation Treatment Program (CalVTP) or a similar programmatic environmental document.
• Host virtual or in-person coordination meetings with your clients to chart a course for your project that meets the client’s schedule, budget, and quality objectives.
• Oversee preparation of a NEPA document that addresses fire fuel reduction and forest ecosystem restoration on National Forests, National parks, or Reclamation watershed lands.
• In addition to wildfire resilience projects, lead environmental review of species conservation plans, recreation plans, ecosystem restoration projects, or fish and wildlife management plans.
• Collaborate with state or federal agency staff to envision new strategies to comply with CEQA or NEPA, including efficiency innovations.
• Contribute to proposals for new projects, such as helping prepare a scope of work and price estimate for opportunities to conduct an environmental review of a forest management plan, fire protection plan, or fuel reduction project.
• Assist with in-house training or speak at a conference or about the latest strategies to promote wildfire resilience or best practices in environmental compliance.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, resp