State Program Administrator Manager Principal ($76,024 - $109,035)

The Director of the Office of Enterprise Sustainability will launch a newly created interagency effort to improve enterprise sustainability outcomes. The Office of Enterprise Sustainability, a division of the Department of Administration (Admin), will lead sustainability efforts to ensure the State of Minnesota is implementing sustainability measures, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and the overall carbon footprint of state operations. This Director will provide leadership in creating and implementing enterprise wide tools and resources.

This position will direct and manage sustainability efforts in state buildings, and will coordinate, manage, and oversee the administration's sustainability initiatives at an enterprise level including sustainability efforts in state buildings and tracking and reducing greenhouse gas emission levels. The position works with subject matter experts and established teams to leverage existing expertise and the development of new resources to share across the enterprise. The position reports to the Assistant Commissioner at the Department of Administration, and works closely with the continuous improvement team, the results based accountability team, and representatives from the entire state enterprise.

Qualifications

Qualified candidates will have experience in leading sustainability efforts in large enterprises. Experience will include executive leadership which demonstrates the following:

• Strategic planning, visioning, and policy analysis
  • Assist all agency senior leadership teams in setting strategic direction for sustainability efforts
  • Plan, organize, and successfully implement departmental and division initiatives
  • Manage complex, competing, and time-sensitive priorities
• Oral and written communications skills
  • Build consensus and support for the department's mission and objectives with a wide range of individuals and groups
  • Communicate effectively with all levels of clientele and across widely varying degrees of technical, legal, operational, and political knowledge or awareness
• Interpersonal communication and human relations
  • Establish and maintain strong working relationships within the department, with other agencies, and across various branches of government
  • Involve stakeholders, develop consensus, and resolve problems
  • Build support for the department's objectives with a wide range of individuals and groups
• Problem solving
  • Identify, analyze, and resolve a broad range of complex problems and sensitive issues
  • Bring creativity and innovation to problems with various political, legal, and operational implications
    
    

For more information

All the details about this position can be found in the full position profile.

How to Apply

For consideration, submit a resume and cover letter to jessica.fenlon@state.mn.us by Friday, June 3, 2016.