EFC Specialist

About Delta Institute

Delta Institute strives to create a Midwest and Great Lakes region with a healthy environment, robust economy, and vibrant communities. Delta develops programs that show how policies, ideas, and resources can be harnessed for a more sustainable and resilient region. Delta takes a systems view of how businesses, communities, and government impact and are impacted by the environment and economy, and pursues comprehensive solutions that align these pieces.

Delta seeks to attract a diversity of experience, skillsets, and perspectives to challenge assumptions and create new approaches to long-standing problems.

Our work engages population centers like Chicago, St. Louis, and Detroit; mid-sized cities such as Gary and South Bend, Indiana;
Great Lakes coastal towns like Michigan City, Indiana and Muskegon, Michigan; and rural communities and watersheds with tens of thousands of acres of farmland and waterways across our region. Delta was founded in 1998 and continues to contribute to communities through a multidisciplinary team.

All Midwest communities and landscapes thrive through an integrated approach to environmental, economic, and social challenges. Our work is organized into distinct initiatives that move our mission forward, clearly define our work, and articulate impact. The programs functional hive focuses on implementing projects in Delta’s three initiative areas:
Resilient Agriculture, Nature-Based Climate Solutions, and Sustainability & Support Services.

Overall, a Specialist at Delta performs program, administrative or organizational development-related tasks. Specialists are directed day-to-day but manage large work projects with guidance from Directors and Leads. Specialists may serve as liaisons with clients and stakeholders and are responsible for ensuring timely communication, consistent workflow and high-quality deliverables. Specialists represent the organization at public events and assist in fundraising efforts.

Specialist, Environmental Finance Center (EFC)

The Delta Institute USEPA Region 5 Water Infrastructure Environmental Finance Center (Delta EFC) provides drinking water, clean water, stormwater, and green infrastructure technical assistance to meet community priorities for water infrastructure. A key priority is helping communities apply for Drinking Water and Clean Water State Revolving Fund support in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Tribal Communities within this region.

EFC technical assistance focuses on community-identified needs with the EFC team providing clear scopes of work to advance water infrastructure priorities. Examples of current technical assistance include, but are not limited to:

• Lead Service Line Replacement Planning
• Green Infrastructure Planning and Prioritization
• Nutrient Limit and Emerging Contaminant Compliance Support
• Funding and SRF Financing Assistance
• Community Outreach and Engagement Strategies
• Water Loss Investigation and Control Planning
• Utility Rate Analyses
• Capital Improvement Planning

More information on Delta’s Environmental Finance Center can be found here: (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

Role: EFC Specialist will assist with overall implementation and coordination for Delta’s USEPA Region 5 Regional Water Infrastructure Environmental Finance Center. The position provides technical, analytical, administrative, communications, and strategic support. Specifically, the EFC Specialist will be assigned direct technical assistance tasks based on discrete scopes of work with defined roles, responsibilities, and deliverables. The technical assistance will cover drinking water, clean water, stormwater, and green infrastructure.

The Specialist will directly manage implementation of technical assistance and coordinate with community partners with support from the EFC Lead and other staff. The Specialist will coordinate with functional hive staff to ensure the delivery of high-quality, on-time, and on-budget work scopes.

The EFC Specialist will also coordinate with the EFC Lead to provide support for oversight and…