Cascadia Consulting Group is a women-owned, private environmental consulting firm with 30 years of experience developing and implementing innovative solutions to today’s environmental challenges. Cascadia works with public and private-sector clients to advance sustainability through recycling and materials management, climate change mitigation and adaptation, energy efficiency, pollution prevention, transportation demand management, and water and natural resources management. The Cascadia team brings both established expertise and creative thinking to research and analysis, strategic planning, program design and implementation, outreach, social marketing and behavior change, and evaluation roles. From our offices in Seattle (WA), Oakland (CA), and Charleston (SC), we serve clients across the country and abroad.

At Cascadia we strive to create an equitable and inclusive environment at all levels of the organization. Having staff and partnerships that reflect the diverse communities we serve empowers us to shape innovative and effective solutions together with those communities most impacted by social, human, and environmental health challenges.

Position Overview:

Cascadia Consulting Group is seeking a highly motivated and organized Project Coordinator to support transportation and capital improvement project communications and engagement, as well as behavior change and marketing within Cascadia’s Communication and Engagement (C+E) line of business. This role includes outreach, engagement, and communications strategy development and management for a range of transportation, capital improvement, and resource conservation projects, from communicating with stakeholders about new transportation and green stormwater infrastructure projects to encouraging businesses or residents to consider sustainable transportation methods. This role will support a range of clients, including local governments, utilities, and private companies. This role could include national travel when permissible. Cascadia seeks candidates willing to help lead and grow our transportation and sustainable infrastructure engagement portfolio, work in a fast-paced environment, and be inquisitive and reflective about incorporating diversity, equity, and inclusion concepts into their work. This is a hybrid position based in our Seattle office with a flexible weekly schedule that includes 1-2 days of work per week in-person.

Examples of everyday tasks may include:

• Conduct equitable and inclusive public engagement around such topics as transportation, green infrastructure, and sustainability issues.

• Engage with diverse audiences including businesses, property managers, and residents on environmental topics using varied outreach methods, including phone calls, presentations at neighborhood events, door-to-door outreach (in compliance with local health and safety guidelines), meetings with community liaisons, and marketing via the web and social media.
• Schedule and coordinate outreach activities, including meetings with clients and community members, via phone and email.
• Create written and visual content for outreach materials, in collaboration with Cascadia’s graphics team, including factsheets, emails, website content, social media posts, memos, reports, and other project-related documents.
• Organize, plan, and support meetings, events, or presentations, including creating agendas or promotional materials, coordinating speakers, organizing logistics, taking notes, and keeping to a detailed timeline.
• Document engagement activities via electronic data entry, both in-field and in-office, using project communications databases. Occasionally conduct qualitative and quantitative data synthesis of results.
• Tracking and managing multiple deadlines.

Qualifications:

• Understanding of, and commitment to, Cascadia’s mission to “inspire and empower communities everywhere to protect and restore our world in an equitable and inclusive way.”
• Commitment to thinking critically about your own cultural lens and being able to communicate respectfully and effectively with people from diverse backgrounds.

• Effective written and verbal communication skills with the ability to adapt to diverse styles and perspectives. Comfort with talking to various types of stakeholders like business and residents in-person and on the phone.
• Ability to communicate technical information, including city policies, construction schedules, and infrastructure installation impacts clearly, in a concise manner, and with a culturally sensitive lens.
• The ability to organize, prioritize, and meet deadlines, with an attention to detail in a dynamic work environment.
• Commitment to working both in teams and independently to advance common goals, think creatively, use sound judgement to resolve issues, and create high-quality, effective work products.
• Basic to intermediate experience-and a willingness to expand skills-in producing documents with Microsoft Office 365 programs such as SharePoint, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, with Adobe products and the Google G Suite.
• Valid WA driver’s license and comfort with driving throughout Seattle and King County (personal vehicle not required).
• Ability to engage with multicultural communities in the Puget Sound Area-such as Vietnamese, Korean, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Tagalog, Thai, Amharic, Arabic, Somali, Oromo, Tigrinya. This could be demonstrated in a variety of ways, including but not limited to related language skills.
• Familiarity with social marketing and behavior change.
• Ability to work outdoors, including in inclement weather.

The successful candidate will have most of the above qualifications and a strong desire to learn the other qualifications. We recognize that not every candidate may have all the listed qualifications and that many skills can be learned on the job.

Compensation and Benefits:

This is a full-time, hourly, non-exempt hybrid position based in Seattle, WA with a flexible weekly schedule that includes 1-2 days of work per week in-person. Compensation is based on experience and competitive with jobs in the environmental sector; depending on experience and education candidates may be placed in a Project Coordinator I or Project Coordinator II position. The anticipated hourly rate range for this position is $26.45/hour – $31.46/hour.

Cascadia offers a flexible workplace with the potential to work from home and the office, a generous benefit package, including health insurance for employees at or above 60% full-time equivalent, 401(k) with an employer match, life insurance, long-term disability insurance, transportation subsidies, flexible spending accounts, generous paid time off (per annum: 3 weeks’ vacation, 10 holidays, 9 sick days pro-rated for FTE equivalency), professional development opportunities, sabbaticals, and paid parental leave.

Cascadia requires employees to be vaccinated as a condition of employment and show proof of vaccination, such as their CDC COVID-19 Vaccination Record Card or the vaccination record maintained by their health care provider unless requests for medical or religious accommodation are submitted and approved.

How to Apply:

Submit a compelling cover letter outlining your passion and demonstrated abilities for the position, and please also provide a complete chronological resume. Submit both to the following link: Apply Here

Your cover letter should address your ability to meet the criteria in the Required Qualifications section and highlight relevant experience, education, and why you are interested in this position. Please state where you learned about the position. Applications will be accepted until Friday April 21st, 2023.

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Cascadia Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer and values diverse perspectives and life experiences. We do not discriminate on the basis of race (inclusive of traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles), color, creed, ancestry, height, weight (including obesity), national origin, religious beliefs and practices including the wearing of religious clothing, jewelry or artifacts, and hair styles or body hair which are part of an individuals’ observance of their religious beliefs, gender identity (transgender status), sex, sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, domestic partner status, political ideology, age, disability (sensory, mental, or physical – including the use of a trained dog guide or service animal), veteran or military status, medical condition (e.g., pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and/or other related medical conditions; cancer, cancer related illness, or record or history of cancer; HIV/AIDS or Hepatitis C status; gender dysphoria), genetic characteristics (e.g., non-symptomatic carriers of inheritable diseases), retaliation for filing a whistleblower complaint, retaliation for opposing an unfair practice, or other basis protected by law.