PROJECT CONSULTANT

SCOPE:

The Holistic Defense Project Consultant will provide strategic legal and social service integration in collaboration with managed assigned counsel by conducting thorough mitigation investigations and producing individualized mitigation reports, treatment and release plans, and other evidence-informed work product to support client and case outcomes.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Set priorities, prepare schedules, and evaluate performance.

- Budgetary Oversight: Manage the planning program budget. Track and monitor the program's financial commitments and timeliness of expenditures to meet federal requirements.

- Programmatic Alignment: Coordinate and meet with representatives from other County departments, State and Federal agencies, and partners to ensure alignment with the County's disaster recovery goals.

- Representation: Prepare reports and deliver presentations to senior management, local elected officials, and the public regarding the administration and outcomes of the program.

- Assess potential activities for eligibility, priority, and ability to spend

- Develop contractor scopes of work for subaward areas, prepare RFPs and scoring criteria, work with County procurement and financial teams to issue work, recruit and select vendors, and oversee work.

- Set priorities and prepare schedules for completion of work.

- Public presentations, community meetings, and stakeholder engagement

QUALIFICATIONS:

5 –10 years of experience in a professional office setting.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE:

Equivalent combinations of education and experience may be substituted to meet the education and experience requirements of this position.

- Five (5) years experience in a similar role.

- Bachelor's degree in a related field

- Demonstrated success in scoping and managing vendors and contracts

- Experience successfully managing multi-million, multi-year, federally funded planning budgets

- Relevant experience in strategic planning work for a unit of government

- High-level program and project management skillset

- Community engagement enthusiasm

- Experience supporting local vendor participation in public procurement processes

- Prior experience or demonstrated interest in resilience, urban planning, infrastructure planning, housing, budgeting and / or municipal finance.

- Demonstrated interest in or service to Wayne County communities a plus.

- DRGR knowledge and CDBG-DR experience a plus