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Overview

Vermont is home to more than 800 lakes and ponds, from its largest well-known lakes - Lake Champlain and Lake Memphremagog - to ponds just a few acres in size. The Lakes and Ponds Program works to protect, maintain, enhance, and restore the health of Vermont lakes and the public uses that healthy lake ecosystems provide through outreach and education, monitoring and assessment, and regulatory programs. The program is one of eight in the Watershed Management Division, which utilizes a holistic, integrated watershed-based approach to managing Vermont\'s surface water resources.

We\'re looking for an experienced environmental manager to join our team of dedicated and knowledgeable water resource professionals. As the Lakes Program Manager you will work collaboratively with internal and external partners and division leadership to oversee the management, administrative, planning, and policy work of the Lakes and Ponds Program.

In this role, you will:

• Supervise three program sections responsible for lake monitoring and assessment, aquatic invasive species management and regulation, and shoreland outreach and regulation.
• Facilitate stakeholder and public outreach and engagement in Lakes and Ponds Program initiatives.
• Manage the program budget, including state and federal grants and contracts.
• Collaborate with division leadership to develop a programmatic strategic plan and then implement it.
• Work collaboratively to communicate, align, and integrate lake monitoring and assessment, outreach, regulatory, and management efforts with the other media-based programs and discharge programs in the Watershed Management Division.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge and experience in implementing elements of water resource management, including water quality monitoring and assessment, water quality policy, environmental regulation, and lake and watershed management.
• Knowledge and experience supervising remote staff or contractors.
• Experience working with a broad range of stakeholders on water quality issues and initiatives.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational, and computer skills.

For more information about this position, contact Bethany Sargent, Watershed Management Division Deputy Director, at 802-490-6131 or bethany.sargent@vermont.gov.

Environmental Factors

Duties are performed primarily in a standard office setting, but with frequent travel to project sites, day or evening meetings, for which private means of transportation may occasionally be necessary, and field inspection and investigations in such locations as along river corridors and development sites. Public speaking and attendance at meetings and hearings is necessary. An incumbent must be able to represent the agency at stressful public meetings where strongly divergent opinions may be expressed.