This is highly responsible professional level work overseeing the resilience efforts for the City of Miami. The Chief Resilience Officer (CRO) will report directly to the City Manager or Deputy City Manager and will work across all City departments while collaborating with external stakeholders and governmental entities.
The CRO will develop and implement the Resilience Strategy and supporting programs for and on behalf of the City of Miami with its Greater Miami and the Beaches partners; effectively engaging with governmental and non-governmental partners; serving as the primary point of contact for membership in the Resilient Cities Network and other alliances, partnerships and collaborative efforts to leverage the benefits of the network; and bring together stakeholders from across Greater Miami and the Beaches to establish a compelling vision and drive resilience efforts in the City of Miami.
The CRO is a senior level role which is critical to ensure that resilience is a cornerstone of coordinating a cohesive strategy and program planning across all City of Miami departments. The CRO requires demonstrated expertise and experience in the development, planning and delivery of strategy, policy and programs across City of Miami government, community and private sectors with success in long-term project management, collaboration, stakeholder management and community engagement.
An employee in this class is responsible for assessing and prioritizing the greatest threats to the City of Miami’s resilience, leading implementation of a cohesive resilience strategy, and coordinating resiliency expertise and resources across City agencies, other jurisdictions, and the community in order to effectively address these threats. The CRO must clearly define resilience efforts for the City of Miami through effective communication and collaboration to ensure active and inclusive input, enable synergy between various efforts, and capitalize on opportunities that help the City of Miami achieve its’s resilience goals. The CRO must engage diverse leaders from within and external to City government and bring them to act to address the most pressing threats to City of Miami. The incumbent exercises an extensive degree of independent judgment, cross department leadership, and professional and managerial knowledge to ensure the overall success and timely delivery of strategic initiatives. General direction is received from the City Manager and/or Deputy City Manager through consultations, oral or written directives, and review of periodic initiative status reports.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, developing an overarching resilience strategy that identifies the City’s resiliency challenges, capabilities, plans to address issue and any current gaps or shortfalls in achieving resiliency goals; overseeing the preparation and implementation of effective high-priority resilience initiatives to address urban, regional, sustainability, transportation, and economic resiliency challenges faced by the City and its residents; identifying risks, understanding the financial impact of those risks, and mitigating such with existing policy or the creation of such; fostering relationships and collaboration with other departments, partner municipalities, civic groups, community foundations, senior government staff, elected officials, local businesses, and residents with a goal of improving communication, training and educating stakeholders, promoting synergy, eliminating duplicative work or processes, and ensuring active and inclusive input; defining specific, measurable targets for the impact of the work, as well as a process for regular assessment and reflection on progress toward these targets and demonstrate ability to correct course of action as needed; developing and implementing outcome-based best practices, research, and evaluation tools; securing funding and recommending proper resource allocation to ensure implementation, buy-in, and sustainability of new solutions; serving as the point person on comprehensive resiliency efforts ensuring a holistic view is applied to all projects with a goal of providing high reward, yet cost-efficient, final products that address multiple resiliency efforts whenever possible; providing data, innovative ideas, and strategic direction to achieve administration’s goals as an integral participant in the collective bargaining process; attending meetings to present budget, activity reports and plans for future developments; and performing related work as assigned
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Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university and five (5) years of progressively responsible professional and leadership experience in the area of sustainability or resiliency planning, including sound strategy formulation, engagement, and project delivery.
Knowledge of the governmental planning and development functions are highly preferred. Additional experience in urban or regional planning, engineering, large scale infrastructure projects and/or economic development is highly desirable.
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Equivalent combination of education and experience beyond a bachelor’s degree.