Title: Temporary Wildfire Mitigation Specialist Senior - Austin Water Reicher Ranch time type Full time About This Position Under minimal supervision, coordinate and administer wildfire mitigation programs, wildfire prevention, trainings, policies, and practices to ensure that wildfire protection is of the highest priority related to public and private safety and resiliency. Job Description: Duties, Functions, and Responsibilities: - Directs, coordinates, and implements wildfire education programs and training to support Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPP). Engages community involvement to implement Fire Adapted Community’s (FAC) objectives of the National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy. - Directs the development of presentations and educational materials for community wildfire safety including coordinating with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Analysts to develop area risk models. Implements joint efforts for wildfire mitigation education with internal and external partners, agencies, and community resources. - Conducts assessment and development of wildland fire prevention strategies based on documented fire causes. - Assists in the development and implementation of wildfire safety and evacuation plans and communication strategies for communities using knowledge of Fire Resilient Landscapes (FRL) practices and standards. - Participates in wildfire prevention, including prescribed burns. - Reviews, interprets, and educates on wildfire-related policies, codes, regulations, ordinances, plans, and proposals for compliance. - Participates in and/or leads Citywide initiatives, task forces, and committees. Responsibilities - Supervisor and/or Leadership Exercised: May provide leadership, guidance, and technical support to others. Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Must possess required knowledge, skills, abilities, and experience and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed. - Knowledge of wildland fire behavior. - Knowledge of National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Firewise USA, Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPP), and Fire Adapted Communities (FAC) standards. - Knowledge of National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) practices and standards. - Knowledge of the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) code. - Knowledge of Home Ignition Zone (HIZ), International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) Wildfire Risk Reduction and Responding to the Interface principles. - Knowledge of applicable wildfire federal, state, local, and county laws, rules, regulations, codes, and guidelines. - Knowledge of City practices, policies, and procedures. - Skill in handling conflict and uncertain situations. - Skill in handling multiple tasks and prioritizing. - Skill in using computers and related software applications. - Skill in data analysis and problem solving. - Skill in both written and verbal communications. - Skill in delivering presentations and training. - Ability to establish and maintain effective communication and working relationships with city employees, citizens, public safety agencies, and community organizations. - Ability to work with frequent interruptions and changes in priorities. - Ability to train others. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Graduation with a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in a field related to the job, plus four (4) years of wildfire policy and/or protection-related experience. One (1) additional year of experience may substitute for one (1) year of the required education, with a maximum substitution of four (4) years. Licenses and Certifications Required: - Must be able to obtain International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) Wildfire Risk Reduction qualification, or Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) certification, or National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Wildfire Mitigation Specialist, or Burn Manager, or Prescribed Burn (RxB) 3, or Firing Boss within six (6) months of acceptance of position. - Valid State of Texas Class “C” Driver License Preferred Qualifications: - Knowledge of wildfire or the National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy - Knowledge of facilitation best practices - Experience with project management - Experience with budget management - Experience with community and partner engagement, logistical and organizational skills, and team collaboration Notes to Candidate: The Temporary Wildfire Mitigation Specialist Senior will provide emergency planning support to Austin Water’s Wildland Conservation Division (WCD), strengthening existing wildfire emergency planning at the division level and working with partners and cooperators to better integrate WCD with other departments and jurisdictions. Existing projects and efforts this position may assist with include: - Working with Emergency Service Districts in Travis, Hays, and Williamson County to facilitate responder familiarization with WCD properties and processes. - Working with Austin Fire Department staff to facilitate responder familiarization with WCD properties and processes. - Working with WCD GIS staff to improve map products available to responders during evolving incidents. - Drafting policies to guide wildfire contingency planning for existing and anticipated activities on the wildlands. Critical Employee: This position has been designated as critical for the City of Austin. Critical positions are necessary and support activities that impact City or department operations. Work can be done at a designated work site or an alternate work location. Critical employees may be reassigned to another area to provide essential services during extraordinary situations or emergencies. Pay Rate: $32.96 - $41.20 per hour. Position(s) will be filled at the following location: Reicher Ranch, 13700 East Ladera Blvd., Austin, Texas 78738 Days and Hours: Monday through Friday, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, with the potential for a hybrid work schedule, pending manager approval. Other hours as business needs require. Benefits: Working with Austin Water provides several health and welfare benefits, including medical coverage, paid sick leave, paid holidays, after 90 days, and training opportunities. 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Title: Grant MEL Specialist III Location: Remote - USA Job Description: The expected salary range for this position is $106,400.00 - $125,010.60. Employees in specific high cost of labor locations in the United States (such as San Francisco, CA and Seattle, WA) may qualify for a geographic differential. Compassion International is not responsible for third parties who omit this information when copying and re-posting job openings. *This role is supported by grant funding that is currently approved for a one-year period. Overview: The Grant Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Specialist III provides advanced technical leadership and oversight for monitoring, evaluation, learning, and performance management for the multi-national level implementation of a very-large institutional grant-funded program or project, which may be implemented solely by Compassion or as part of a consortium of NGOs. This includes MEL leadership throughout the full project lifecycle, from proposal development through closeout. The Grants MEL Specialist III ensures that program monitoring, indicator tracking, data collection, measurement methodologies, reporting processes, and learning agendas align with donor requirements, organizational standards, and industry best practices. They will work in close collaboration with partner NGOs, national offices, global program stakeholders, and institutional grant management staff, and will provide technical guidance and capacity strengthening on MEL systems, data quality, knowledge management, and donor reporting requirements. The role may coach and mentor colleagues and contributes to strengthening organizational MEL capacity. Experience leveraging digital tools and technology solutions for monitoring, evaluation, learning, and data management is highly desirable. What do you bring? - Maintains a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Is a consistent witness for Jesus Christ, maintains a courteous, Christ-like attitude in dealing with people within and outside of Compassion, and faithfully upholds Compassion’s ministry in prayer. - Acts as an advocate to raise the awareness of the needs of children. Understands Christ’s mandate to protect children. Commits to and prioritizes child protection considerations in all decision-making, tasks and activities across the ministry. Abides by all behavioral expectations in Compassion’s Statement of Commitment to Child Protection and Code of Conduct. Reports any concerns of abuse, neglect or exploitation of children through Compassion’s internal reporting process and appropriately supports responses to incidents if they occur. - Supports overall holistic child development and provides ongoing subject matter expertise in monitoring, evaluating and learning for institutional grants. May provide technical advice on MEL to partner NGOs, national office, regional, and global staff. - Designs and strengthens monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) systems for a complex institutional donor-funded program, ensuring alignment with donor requirements, Compassion standards, and program objectives throughout the grant lifecycle. - Works collaboratively to provide technical support during proposal development, as needed, by contributing to theories of change, logical frameworks, performance measurement plans, indicators, targets, data collection methodologies, evaluation approaches, and learning agendas. - With the program and global team, oversees program performance monitoring and results measurement, ensuring timely and accurate collection, validation, analysis, and reporting of program data and performance indicators, for Compassion and partners. - Ensures compliance with donor and organizational requirements related to MEL, performance management, data quality, documentation, and reporting for the grant. Supports readiness for donor reviews, evaluations, and audits related to program performance, alongside partners. - May conduct quantitative and qualitative analyses to identify trends, assess program effectiveness, generate actionable insights, and support evidence-based decision-making. - Maintains data quality assurance processes, tools, and guidance that promote the integrity, reliability, and appropriate use of program data. - Supports organizational learning and knowledge management by facilitating the capture, sharing, and application of lessons learned, evaluation findings, promising practices, and program evidence. - Leverages digital tools, data systems, dashboards, and technology solutions to improve data collection, analysis, visualization, reporting, and organizational learning. - May coach and provide technical expertise to other professionals and support staff in the monitoring and evaluation discipline. #LI-HJ #LI-REMOTE

Role Description This is an entry level position responsible for processing all release of information (ROI), specifically medical record requests, in a timely and efficient manner ensuring accuracy and providing customers with the highest quality product and customer service. The associate must at all times safeguard and protect the patient’s right to privacy by ensuring that only authorized individuals have access to the patient’s medical information and that all releases of information are in compliance with the request, authorization, company policy and HIPAA regulations. - Full-Time: Monday-Friday 8:00AM-4:30 - Comfortable working in a high-volume production environment. - Documenting information in multiple platforms using two computer monitors. Responsibilities - Receive and process requests for patient health information in accordance with Company and Facility policies and procedures. - Maintain confidentiality and security with all privileged information. - Maintain working knowledge of Company and facility software. - Adhere to the Company's and Customer facilities Code of Conduct and policies. - Inform manager of work, site difficulties, and/or fluctuating volumes. - Assist with additional work duties or responsibilities as evident or required. - Consistent application of medical privacy regulations to guard against unauthorized disclosure. - Responsible for managing patient health records. - Responsible for safeguarding patient records and ensuring compliance with HIPAA standards. - Prepares new patient charts, gathering documents and information from paper sources and/or electronic health record. - Ensures medical records are assembled in standard order and are accurate and complete. - Creates digital images of paperwork to be stored in the electronic medical record. - Responds to requests for patient records, both within the facility and by external sources, retrieving them and transmitting them appropriately. - Answering of inbound/outbound calls. - May assist with patient walk-ins. - May assist with administrative duties such as handling faxes, opening mail, and data entry. - Must meet productivity expectations as outlined at specific site. - May schedule pick-ups. - Other duties as assigned. Qualifications - High School Diploma or GED. - Ability to commute between locations as needed. - Able to work overtime during peak seasons when required. - Basic computer proficiency. - Comfortable utilizing phones, fax machine, printers, and other general office equipment on a regular basis. - Professional verbal and written communication skills in the English language. - Detail and quality oriented as it relates to accurate and compliant information for medical records. - Strong data entry skills. - Must be able to work with minimum supervision responding to changing priorities and role needs. - Ability to organize and manage multiple tasks. - Able to respond to requests in a fast-paced environment. Bonus Points - Experience in a healthcare environment. - Previous production/metric-based work experience. - In-person customer service experience. - Ability to build relationships with on-site clients and customers. - Comfortable bringing new ideas, process improvement suggestions, and feedback to internal stakeholders. Benefits - Full Benefits: PTO, Health, Vision, and Dental Insurance and 401k Savings Plan and tuition Assistance.

Role Description This Contracts Specialist 3 role offers remote flexibility, a competitive salary, and the opportunity to support public health by managing essential employee and retiree benefit contracts. This position is responsible for the development of contracts and procurements to support the State’s employee and retiree benefits purchasing goals. You will build specialized expertise in Washington state procurement laws while working on high-visibility, politically sensitive projects. You will provide meaningful contributions to your community by directly supporting programs like the Public Employees Benefits Board (PEBB) and the School Employee Benefits Board (SEBB), which provide healthcare to nearly 800,000 public employees, retirees, and their families. All HCA employees will apply an equity lens to their work, which may include but is not limited to all analyses of core business and processes. The Contracts Specialist 3 will provide specialized knowledge and application of state contract/procurement laws, including support to agency programs in their contract/procurement activities, to ensure a healthy Washington through the delivery of HCA contracts supporting PEBB and SEBB through ERB. This position performs complex and/or politically sensitive activities related to contracts and procurements that support the agency, which include employee and retiree benefit contracts. This position is eligible to telework and is typically not required to report on-site. The default assigned work location of all Health Care Authority (HCA) positions – both on-site and telework eligible positions – is within the State of Washington. This position reports to Olympia, WA. Frequency of onsite work will vary based on business and operational needs. All agency employees are required to report on-site in Olympia on their first and last days of employment to pick up and return state-issued equipment, regardless of telework status or location. Duties Some of what you will do: - Collaborates with ERB program/project management staff on developing the contents for competitive contracts. - Independently writes and provides technical advice for RFP’s, RFQ’s, RFQQ’s, etc. - Develops the work plan for contract solicitations. - Approves and/or develops the contents for – and manages the process of – advertising for competitive contracts via the agency Internet and WEBS. - Manages and provides oversight of appropriate solicitation processes by working in conjunction with ERB program, clinical, and fiscal staff to ensure compliance with program and fiscal requirements. - Independently writes and/or provides technical advice for the Statement of Work (SOW), contract deliverables, contract amendments, and other contract documents for/with ERB staff and external constituents using best practice contracting principles. - Negotiates (language, deliverables, time frames, and cost) contracts and agreements verbally and in writing by interacting with vendors, internal staff and other state agency staff to award contract for needed services. - Manages and facilitates protest debriefings with non-successful bidders. - Communicates with ERB management to ensure documentation is accurate and submitted prior to deadlines. - Independently reviews and/or approves contract requests and determines applicable regulations. - Provides technical assistance to internal and external constituents and stakeholders regarding contract activities, including providing advice and resources. - Provides tailored one-on-one and group trainings as needed. - Researches and stays current on contracting laws, rules, regulations, best-practices and trends. - Advises junior Contract Specialists on contracting and procurement subject matter. Qualifications - Consistent with Procurement Reform Law (RCW 39.26.110), this position requires the completion of the following DES contracts training courses within 90 days of hire: - All courses required for School of Procurement Professionals. - Qualifying candidates will meet one of the following criteria options: - Option 1: A law degree from an accredited college or university approved by the Washington State Bar Association and one (1) year of experience in negotiating, administering or terminating government contracts, contract property management, contract cost or price analyses or contract compliance administration. - Option 2: Master's degree involving major study in business administration, public administration, business law, commerce, mathematics, statistics, economics, or closely allied field and two (2) years of experience in negotiating, administering or terminating government contracts, contract property management, contract cost or price analyses or contract compliance administration. - Option 3: Bachelor's degree involving major study in business administration, public administration, business law, commerce, mathematics, statistics, economics, or closely allied field and three (3) years of experience in negotiating, administering or terminating government contracts, contract property management, contract cost or price analyses or contract compliance administration. - Option 4: Seven (7) years of experience in negotiating, administering or terminating government contracts, contract property management, contract cost or price analyses or contract compliance administration. - Option 5: One (1) year of experience as a Contracts Specialist 2 in state government or equivalent role. Requirements - The ability to take action to learn and grow. - The ability to take action to meet the needs of others. - Demonstrates above average knowledge and skills regarding government contracting. - Demonstrated skills in providing leadership to co-workers and stakeholders. - Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly and effectively (oral and written) with internal and external stakeholders with diverse and divergent needs. - Demonstrated ability to deliver presentations and participate in meetings with other staff and stakeholders. Preferred Qualifications - Three (3) years professional experience (high level proficiency) developing, managing, and providing consultation for competitive government contracts in Washington. - One (1) year experience collaboratively working as a project team member in a large enterprise data management system. - Two (2) years’ professional experience developing, managing, and providing consultation for non-competitive government contracts in Washington. - Two (2) years’ professional experience monitoring and negotiating budget and contracts. - Provide consistent, high-quality (error free) reviews of written communications with acute attention to detail. - Ability to interpret and convey rules and regulations, and legal terminology to broad audiences. - Clear, accurate verbal and written communication. - Strong analytical ability demonstrated by using data and information in a clear and rational thought process to assess and understand issues, evaluate options, create accurate conclusions, and make clear and sound decisions. - Demonstrate above average knowledge and skills regarding government contracting. How to Apply - Only candidates who reflect the minimum qualifications on their NEOGOV profile will be considered. Failure to follow the application instructions below may lead to disqualification. - A cover letter that specifically addresses how you meet the qualifications for this position. - Current resume. - To take advantage of veteran preference, please do the following: - Attach a copy of your DD214 (Member 4 long-form copy), NGB 22, or USDVA signed verification of service letter. - Please black out any PII (personally identifiable information) data such as social security numbers. Include your name as it appears on your application in careers.wa.gov. Notes - Prior to a new hire, a background check including criminal record history will be conducted. Information from the background check will not necessarily preclude employment. - HCA is an equal opportunity employer. We value the importance of creating an environment in which all employees can feel respected, included, and empowered to bring unique ideas to the agency. - Our diversity and inclusion efforts include embracing different cultures, backgrounds and viewpoints while fostering growth and advancement in the workplace. - Studies have shown women, racial and ethnic minorities, and persons of disability are less likely to apply for jobs unless they feel they meet every qualification as described in a job description. Persons over 40 years of age, disabled and Vietnam era veterans, as well as people of all sexual orientations and gender identities are also encouraged to apply. - If you have any questions about the required qualifications or how your experience relates to them, please contact us at HCAjobs@hca.wa.gov. - Persons with disabilities needing assistance in the application process, or those needing this job announcement in an alternative format may contact Angelic Matthews at Angelic.Matthews@HCA.WA.Gov. - The Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA) is an E-Verify employer. All applicants with a legal right to work in the United States are encouraged to apply.