Department Information

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If your goal is to build a career that makes a difference, consider joining the dedicated people of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. Our tobacco-free campus offers free parking and is conveniently located near RTD bus lines, Glendale City Set, and the Cherry Creek bike path. In addition to a great location and rewarding, meaningful work, we offer:

• Employee wellness programs and facilities
• Extensive internal professional development opportunities on a wide variety of subjects
• Bike to work programs, including access to storage lockers and bike racks
• Distinctive career advancement opportunities throughout the State system
• Strong, yet flexible retirement benefits including a choice of the PERA Defined Benefit Plan or the PERA Defined Contribution Plan, plus optional 401K and 457 plans
• Medical and dental health plans
• Paid life insurance
• Short- and long-term disability coverage
• 11 paid holidays per year plus generous personal time off
• Mentoring program with opportunities for mentors and mentees
• Tuition assistance for college-level courses including Masters degree programs
• Excellent work-life programs, such as flexible schedules, and
• A variety of employee resource groups

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Description of Job

About The Work Unit:
This work unit exists to further the department’s mission by facilitating analysis of, and response to, major policy issues; fostering the collaborative implementation of strategic initiatives; and stimulating and encouraging ongoing communications with public and private stakeholders. The work unit provides legal and regulatory support to the Type-1 Environmental Boards and Commissions located within the department. These are the Air Quality Control Commission (AQCC), Solid and Hazardous Waste Commission (SHWC), Water and Wastewater Facility Operators Certification Board (WWFOCB) and the Water Quality Control Commission (WQCC).

What you Will Be Doing:
This position serves as the Administrator of both the Solid and Hazardous Waste Commission (SHWC) and the Water and Wastewater Facility Operators Certification Board (WWFOCB). This position independently manages and executes the daily business and serves as the Department liaison to the SHWC and WWFOCB. This position requires thorough understanding of the missions and strategic priorities of the SHWC, WWFOCB, and the Divisions coming before the SHWC and WWFOCB.

The SHWC is a nine-person Commission charged by statute with establishing the state’s hazardous materials and waste management programs through a public process. The SHWC is required to adopt regulations and program requirements that are consistent with state legislative directives, the federal law, and sound science and appropriate policy considerations. In addition to its role promulgating the regulatory requirements governing Colorado’s hazardous materials and waste management programs, the SHWC serves an oversight role, hearing appeals of penalty decisions of the Hazardous Materials and Waste Management Division. As the Administrator for the SHWC, this position is the advisor to Commissioners regularly providing technical, strategic, programmatic and policy advice and direction. In order to achieve the SHWC requirements, this position will meet with multiple hazardous materials and waste management program stakeholders, including local governments, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, industrial and commercial source owner/operators, environmental groups, and concerned members of the public. The Administrator will provide program information to stakeholders to identify outstanding issues, and to identify and negotiate resolutions. The SHWC delegates duties and responsibilities as it may deem necessary. As such, the Administrator must have appropriate practical, educational, technical, and administrative training or experience related to solid and hazardous waste management.

The WWFOCB is a ten-person Board charged by statute with establishing and administering a certification program for water and wastewater facility operators in a manner that satisfies the requirements of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act and the Colorado Water and Wastewater Facility Operators Certification Act. As the Administrator for the WWFOCB, this position is the advisor to this Board, regularly providing technical, strategic, and programmatic and policy advice and direction. The WWFOCB contracts the administrative services of the program to an outside entity, therefore this position must interact with and manage contracts oversight and execution of the program to ensure the WWFOCB is meeting its statutory obligations.

This position will also manage the Department Executive Order 5 (state mandates on local governments) processes and reporting; the Department’s regulatory planning and reports (Regulatory Agendas, Regulatory Plans, attestations and data requests related thereto); and master tracking documents to ensure the timely review and revision of rules.

Minimum Qualifications, Substitutions, Conditions of Employment & Appeal Rights

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

An applicant may meet the minimum qualifications for this job in one of two ways: They may qualify through their work experience alone or through a combination of education and work experience.

Experience Only:
Six (6) years of relevant experience in program management or program coordination

OR

Education and Experience:
A combination of related education (degree from an accredited institution in public health, public administration, government, environmental sciences) and/or relevant experience in program management or program coordination equal to six (6) years

This experience must be substantiated within the work history section of the application. The words, "See Resume" will not be accepted. Part-time work will be pro- rated.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Appropriate practical, educational, technical, and administrative training or experience related to program management.
• Proven ability to understand and interpret state statute to administer and manage an environmental program
• Knowledge of and effectively applies the concepts, principles, theories and methods of public health and/or environmental management.
• Experience in program management/coordination with the administration of environmental programs in order to comply with legislative, regulatory, and policy directives and statutes.
• Experience providing technical, strategic, programmatic and policy advice and direction.
• Experience in managing contracts and overseeing contractors.
• Experience in managing or interacting with public boards, commissions, and public officials.

Conditions of Employment:

Pursuant to CDPHE policy, a background check is required for all positions at CDPHE.
For further information on the Board Rules, you can refer to 4 Colorado Code of Regulations (CCR) 801-1, State Personnel Board Rules and Personnel Director's Administrative Procedures, Chapter 8, Resolution of Appeals and Disputes, atspb.colorado.gov/board-rules.

Supplemental Information

A Complete Application Must Include:

• A completed state of Colorado application
• If you are a veteran, a copy of your DD214 attached to your colorado.gov/jobs application.
  

The Selection Process

• All applications that are received by the closing of this announcement will be reviewed against the Minimum Qualifications in this announcement. Candidates who meet the minimum qualifications proceed to the next step.
• Colorado Revised Statutes require that state employees are hired and promoted based on merit and fitness through a comparative analysis process.
  • Part of, or all of, the comparative analysis for this position may be a structured application review, which involves a review of the information you submit in your application materials by Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) against the preferred qualifications.
• A top group, of up to six candidates, will be invited to schedule an interview with the hiring manager.