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The New York State Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery coordinates & implements State Disaster Recovery programs for Sandy, Irene & Lee for housing, business, infrastructure & community planning.

Description:

Governor Cuomo created the Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery (GOSR) in June 2013, to centralize recovery and rebuilding efforts in storm affected municipalities throughout the State of New York. In close collaboration with local and community leaders in these areas, GOSR is working to respond to communities’ most urgent rebuilding needs while also identifying long-term and innovative solutions to strengthen the State’s infrastructure and critical systems for the future. GOSR programs include the NY Rising Housing Recovery Program, which provides homeowners with assistance for home repairs / rehabilitation, mitigation and elevations, and buyouts, and the Small Business program, which provides small business grants of $50,000 or more, as well as low-interest loans.

The NY Rising Housing Program is seeking to hire two Program Managers whose primary role will be to manage two of GOSR’s largest vendors. Specifically, s/he will be responsible for ensuring the services delivered by the vendor are of a high quality within budget and timely. This position will also serve as the main point of contact for the vendor with GOSR.

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Developing policy and tracking plans to ensure that all services are delivered in an accurate and timely manner.
• Developing strategies to monitor the performance of the vendor and manage the vendor to that strategy including compliance to contract, efficiency, utilization and quality.
• Continually evaluating the performance of the vendor to drive performance improvement through process evaluation and system improvements
• Tracking and managing vendor costs to budget and forecast
• Managing and evaluating the requests from vendor for additional resources
• Providing regular updates on vendor performance to Deputy Director, GOSR teams and senior management on utilization, benefits and opportunities for improved efficiencies
• Identification of opportunities outside the existing services where utilization of vendors would provide advantages to the program through cost reduction or more streamlined processes
• Stakeholder management – setting and managing expectations with key internal staff (leadership, staff, teams, etc.)

Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in Business, Finance, Accounting or equivalent experience years sourcing or contracts experience
• Demonstrated excellence in managing complex projects involving multiple stakeholders in a fast-paced environment
• Experience managing contractors with a strong preference for candidates with an understanding of: construction, disaster recovery, federal and state environmental review processes, and federal verification of benefits processes.
• Ability to maintain a positive, solution-oriented attitude in a challenging, fast-paced environment
• Strong ability to influence
• Excellent communication (oral/ written) and networking skills
• Change management experience
• Ability to travel within and around New York State

If interested:

All candidates must submit a resume, 3 references, and letter of interest to[email protected]. Please include the name of the position that you are applying for in the subject line. We cannot interpret omissions or vagueness in your favor. You are responsible for an accurate and clear description of your training, work experience, and how you meet the qualifications of the position you are applying for. Please set forth all relevant employment history, including the name of each employer, dates of employment and titles held. Be sure to describe the nature of the work that you personally performed for each position held. If you had supervisory responsibilities, state how many people you supervised and the nature of such supervision.

The Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer committed to excellence and diversity. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply.

The Energy Improvement Corporation seeks a Director to drive the implementation of Energize New York (ENY) Commercial Programs.

The Energy Improvement Corporation (“EIC”), a New York not for profit, Local Development Corporation, has established the Energize NY Finance Program (ENY Finance), a commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (“PACE”) program to provide financing to property owners in participating municipal member jurisdictions throughout New York State. EIC acts as a constituted authority on behalf of its municipal members pursuant to a municipal agreement and is charged with the administration of the municipality’s PACE programs, including the issuance of debt to permanently fund eligible financings to property owners. ENY Finance is available to eligible commercial, industrial, manufacturing, agricultural, multifamily and institutional property owners to finance energy efficiency and renewable energy improvements that are permanently affixed to privately-owned existing structures.

EIC manages other ENY programs which include community-based energy efficiency and renewable energy marketing programs offered to its municipal members and funded through the Department of Energy (“DOE”) and New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (“NYSERDA”) grants and through revenue generated from financing activities. EIC has developed these programs (ENY Residential Program, Commercial Program) to advance the goals of energy improvements in buildings by developing and deploying: community outreach, marketing and messaging, NYSERDA and other utility incentives, ENY Finance, building owner support and enabling technologies to the residents of New York State.

EXAMPLES OF DUTIES:

• Actively attracts and develops energy improvement projects that are intending to use ENY Finance
• Works with the Energize NY team to build out the demand and acceptance of ENY Finance program within EIC’s member municipalities.
• Leverage the ENY connections to local community groups and NYSERDA’s Multifamily and Commercial upgrade programs to expand demand for ENY Programs.
• Assists in supporting existing energy improvement projects and/or programs in all stages of development and operations.
• Helps manage ENY’s interest in developing new and existing projects.
• Serves as a liaison to program applicants and program participants, including EIC partners, lenders, service providers, third party stakeholders and developers.
• Assists in developing project and program criteria.
• Participates in the evaluation of requests for financing by providing initial assessment of applicant’s proposal in relation to ENY’s investment or project criteria.
• Participates in due diligence activities to obtain and analyze pertinent information relative to the applicant’s proposals.

CUSTOMER SERVICE DELIVERABLES

• Proactive and deliberate approach to serving potential and current program applicants.
• Responds promptly to customer, stakeholder, Board of Directors, and staff requests for information or assistance.
• Acts as a member of the ENY team, pitches in and assists other staff members as requested.
• Provides a work product that is well-conceived, developed, complete and useful to scale-up program deployment.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED – KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND ABILITY:

The following minimum qualifications in knowledge skill and ability are required:

• 2+ years of experience in sales and/or marketing.
• Knowledge of and direct experience in financial and economic analysis.
• Knowledge of renewable energy and energy efficiency policy and energy economics.
• Ability to analyze and interpret financial statements, business plans and other financial and legal concepts and documents.
• Proficiency in the Microsoft Office Suite including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and other software programs as necessary.
• Ability to work swiftly and efficiently in a fast-paced, open office environment.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to meet both short-term and long-term deliverables.
• Strong interpersonal skills involving the ability to work with management and a variety of other parties, at all levels, internally and externally.
• Strong writing skills and the ability to communicate effectively, tactfully, and courteously through oral and written communications.
• Experience working in a team environment.

EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING:
General Experience:
A Bachelor’s degree in environmental science, engineering, economics, business administration or other related field. Two (2) years of experience in developing and managing projects ideally in a field related to clean energy and/or efficiency implementation services. Two (2) years experience in sales and/or marketing.

Substitutions Allowed:

• A Master’s degree in environmental science, engineering, economics, business administration or other related field may be substituted for one (1) additional year of the general experience.
• A professional certification in a relevant field may substitute for one (1) additional year of the general experience

EIC Benefits:
Bonus potential based on overall performance of EIC
100% EIC coverage of High Deductible health plan
2-week vacation, 4 personal days, 12 sick days, one day a week flexible schedule
Collaborative and team based environment

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE ENY Director, Commercial Programs position or to learn more about ENY:
Call or email Mark Thielking, Executive Director, Energize NY at:
[email protected]
PHONE: 914 302 7300

OR VISIT OUR WEBSITE:
http:energizeny.org

TO APPLY FOR THE POSTION VIA EMAIL, FAX OR MAIL, CONTACT 
Mark Thielking
Executive Director, Energize NY
[email protected]

PHONE: 914 302 7300
FAX: 914 302 7301
ADDRESS: 2051 Baldwin Road, Suite 107
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598

The Lefferts Gardens Charter School (LGCS) opened its doors September 2010 with 150 students, kindergarten and first grade. This year we will have over 375 students, grades K-4. We are adding a grade each year until we reach full capacity at 450 students. Our school uses an experiential learning model with the scientific method of inquiry as its focus. We are looking for teachers who are interested in collaboration as well as personal development and growth. All teachers at LGCS must be willing to work with other teachers and help model the belief that learning is a life-long experience.

Our Mission: The Lefferts Gardens Charter School (LGCS) will utilize an environmental science program to develop academically motivated and civic-minded students to succeed in competitive high school and college programs. The proximity of several community-based environmental institutions provides a unique opportunity for learning that extends beyond the classroom. Graduates of LGCS will leave with an understanding of the relationship among science, the environment, and the everyday world.

School Model: Using the scientific method of inquiry as the basis for all learning, we will be able to give our students the skills that establish a foundation for learning any subject. Coming up with a hypothesis, testing it, examining the results and modifying the hypothesis are learning skills that can be applied to math, science, social studies, or even art. These skills will give our students the unique opportunity to become leaders of our community and stewards of the environment.

The Classroom Teacher is responsible for ensuring that all students in his or her class are achieving at high levels both academically and socially, and for serving as a model for his or her colleagues on excellent instruction. To that end, he or she:

ESSENTIAL JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Believes that all students can learn and commitment to supporting varied learning styles and needs

• Plans purposefully in order to provide individual students with opportunities for constructing meaning and developing understandings of new concepts.
• Utilizes developmentally appropriate and rigorous curricula and instructional materials that are tightly aligned to Lefferts Gardens Charter School benchmarks and New York State common core standards.
• Presents students with new ideas and concepts through a variety of strategies, and inspires and guides them to explore, express and uncover new ideas of their own.
• Administers, collects, and analyzes both qualitative and quantitative data gathered from a variety of assessments on each student.
• Reflects regularly on data from student assessments alone and with colleagues, administration, or students’ families in order to in order to inform his or her work, modify practices, and increase student achievement.
• Collaborates with other colleagues in designing and co-teaching lessons that integrate science into other content areas and classroom routines when appropriate in order to promote science and improve student achievement.
• Collaborates with inclusion teachers to design and execute individualized instructional plans for students with special needs in order to ensure they achieve academically at high levels, and are fully included in the Lefferts Gardens community; and, to foster a rich experience for all students in inclusion.
• Builds relationships with his or her students’ families through regular communication about students’ progress and ways in which families can support their children’s learning.
• Serves as a resource to all teachers on excellent instruction by providing feedback on their work in the classroom, modeling instructional approaches, and referring teachers to relevant resources.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

School Culture

• Creates a classroom community that maintains the school’s high social expectations for students as defined by the Lefferts Gardens Charter School operating principles.
• Leads, in collaboration with the school’s leadership team, the on-going effort to establish a school culture that reinforces the school’s mission, goals, and operating principles within all aspects of the Lefferts Gardens Charter School community including, but not limited to, his or her classroom practices, model lessons, and efforts to build a model classroom community.

Human Resources and On-going Development

• Actively works to improve his or her own practice in order to acquire the skills and knowledge necessary for excellent instruction and to generally increase his or her effectiveness in the organization.
• Actively strives to embody the operating principles in his or her work.
• Operates according to the professional standards of the school, which are defined in detail within the schools’ staff policies and procedures handbook.
• Takes responsibility for the success of the organization by maximizing all opportunities to further the mission of the organization within the school, broader Lefferts Gardens’ community, and New York City communities.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Early Childhood Education, Master’s Degree preferred.
• Three years or more of teaching experience in an urban setting, preferred.
• Strong classroom management skills.
• NYS Teacher Certification, required.

• LGCS welcomes applicants to submit a thoughtful cover letter, resume to the attention of the Hiring Committee at [email protected].
• Please place the position you are interested in on the subject line of the email. We will accept applicant until each position has been filled with the very best candidate.

TIMEFRAME:

• Teachers are required to be on-site from 7:30 am to 4:00 pm four days a week, and from 7:30 am to 5:00 pm on Thursdays for professional development.
• Teachers begin the year in mid-August for a mandatory two-week Summer Institute prior to the start of the year school year.
• Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience. Benefits are provided in accordance with school policy.