Employment Opportunities

Title: Communications Specialist

Agency: Natural Heritage Trust

Agency Assignment: NYS Department of State

Location: Albany, NY

Compensation: $80,000 to $91,000 and benefits package

Work Schedule: Full Time, 37.5 hours per week; Monday-Friday

Application Deadline: COB, Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Position Summary: The Communications Specialist implements the Communications Program creating a unified message across the OPDCI program stream of resilience based on climate change impacts on NYS communities.

The Communications Specialist will lead the development and implementation of officewide communications campaign strategies, materials, and initiatives that supports the integration of climate resiliency and adaptation, community and economic development, sustainability, and environmental and climate justice principles into our community-based planning and development program portfolio.

The Communications Specialist will lead the development and implementation of communications strategies and storytelling materials that weave climate resiliency and adaptation and climate/environmental justice throughout our program portfolio while also leading the development of communications and outreach initiatives and materials to support DOS’s climate resiliency and adaptation work directly with NYS communities.

The Communications Specialist will develop communications materials with a strong graphic component, including speeches, trainings, briefings, videos, grant applications and RFPs, social media content, website updates, and presentations, officewide.

The Communications Specialist will support management and senior staff that develop and implement a variety of policies and programs supporting the integration of climate resiliency, community and economic development, sustainability, and environmental/climate justice into our community-based planning and development program portfolio (Brownfield Opportunity Area (BOA), Downtown Revitalization Initiative (DRI), NY Forward, the Coastal Management Program, South Shore Estuary Reserve (SSER) Program, Smart Growth, and Ocean and Great Lakes (OGL) Program which houses the climate change and resiliency unit and portions of the offshore wind team, and our Local Waterfront Revitalization Program (LWRP) program).

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Title: Program Assistant

Agency: Natural Heritage Trust

Agency Assignment: NYS Department of State

Location: Albany, NY

Compensation: $48,000 - 52,000 and benefits package

Work Schedule: Full Time, 37.5 hours per week ; Monday-Friday

Application Deadline: COB, Monday, March 3, 2025

Position Summary: The Program Assistant implements the Contract Administration Program at OPDCI. Specific Duties to be undertaken include:

Specific Duties: The Program Assistant will assist with the following activities: Contract administration duties including preparation, review, processing and/or tracking of contracts and various contract-related documents (such as new contracts, amendments, modifications, extensions, status reports); Fiscal activities including review and processing of payment requests received in accordance with program and contract requirements, as well as tracking individual contract expenditures and determining maximum allowable payment amounts; Assist with activities related to the MWBE and SDVOB programs, including calculating contract-specific goals and processing MWBE-related documents and reports; Receiving and processing new grant applications and preparing spreadsheets, reports and letters related to grant applications received; Preparing contract-related statistical data and reports, as well as the creation and maintenance of spreadsheets, merge files, electronic contract files and mailing lists; Preparing and sending contract-related correspondence and reminders to recipients and program staff; Assisting program staff and contract recipients by answering questions, discussing issues, providing status updates, and providing contract documents and forms; Assist the Consistency Unit with the processing of project applications, including scanning new applications and permits, database entry, preparing and mailing letters, electronic and paper file maintenance; Performing other contract-related projects and duties as assigned and assisting with special projects and/or administrative support, as needed.

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Title: Senior Business Architect

Agency: Natural Heritage Trust

Agency Assignment: NYS Department of State

Location: Albany, NY

Compensation: $107,000-$120,000 and benefits package

Work Schedule: Full Time, 37.5 hours per week ; Monday-Friday

Application Deadline: COB, Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Position Summary: The Senior Business Architect implements the transition to a MS Dynamics project management system, and assists the office with a growing need for data systems and management across multiple program areas and needs.

The chosen candidate must possess demonstrated ability to elicit requirements from multiple stakeholder groups on large, complex government projects and then steward those initiatives to completion.

This role suits a highly skilled Business Architect with deep experience in data analysis and project management, or highly skilled project manager with deep experience in business systems and data analysis. This role will serve as lead Business Architect to ensure that grants and their associated programs, projects and data are tracked; while implementing process, system and software improvements to those processes.

This role also includes management and utilization of a Microsoft Dynamics system. The candidate will need to ensure said system meets organizational needs for current and future business processes.

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