Capital Budget Fund Coordinator; Environmental Planner

Keeping Washington Clean and Evergreen

The Department of Ecology is hiring a Capital Budget Fund Coordinator (Environmental Planner
5) within the Water Resources Program.

• Headquarters Office in Lacey, WA.
• Upon hire, you must live within a commutable distance from the duty station.

• This position is eligible for telework and flexible schedule options.
• You may telework most of your work time with occasional in-person meetings and activities.
• Schedules are dependent upon position needs and are subject to change.

• Apply by March 15, 2026
• This position will remain open until filled. The agency reserves the right to make a hire at any time after application review begins. Applications received after the date above may not be considered.

In this role, you will support the Office of Columbia River and the Water Resources Program to enhance statewide water supply to benefit the environment, economy, and citizens. You will oversee grant and contract agreements issued by the Water Resources Program (WRP) and Office of Columbia River (OCR) with a biennial appropriation exceeding $100 million. You will ensure agreements follow all applicable laws and provide oversight to guarantee timely spending and adherence to legislative intent.

Additionally, you will provide agreement and capital budget consultation to the Water Resources Program and the Office of Columbia River.

• Review grant and contract agreements to ensure they meet applicable policies, procedures, rules and laws. Develop and implement grant application best practices, policies and procedures.
• Actively engage with financial managers and recipients to negotiate agreement language to resolve disputes or conflicts regarding agency best practices, policies, budget and project timelines.
• Track and monitor expenditures from all bond accounts and report to WRP / OCR Financial Services Manager to support bond sale information provided to the Office of the State Treasurer.
• Coordinate project level information by appropriation and/or program to roll up detail for OCR, WRP Program Leadership Team, Capital Budget Officer, Chief Financial Officer, etc., ensuring conformance to Ecology Capital Improvement Plan.
• Obtain, monitor and update quarterly cash flow estimates from all recipients to ensure project performance matches bond sale estimates. Provide project level detail as needed to ensure significant milestones and expenditures are anticipated for inclusion into OST deliverables.

For detailed information on how we calculate experience and responses to other frequently asked questions, please visit our Recruitment website.

11 years of experience and/or education as described below:

• Experience in environmental or natural resource planning, program development, governmental financial management, budget administration, grant or contracting oversight.
• Education involving a major study in business, finance, accounting, land use, urban, regional, environmental, or natural resource planning, landscape architecture, geography, land use or environmental law, public administration with an environmental emphasis, or a closely related field.

Examples of how to qualify:

• 11 years of experience.
• 10 years of experience AND 30-59 semester or 45-89 quarter college credits.
• 9 years of experience AND 60-89 semester or 90-134 quarter college credits (Associate’s degree).
• 8 years of experience AND 90-119 semester or 135-179 quarter college credits.
• 7 years of experience AND a Bachelor’s degree.
• 5 years of experience AND a Master’s degree.
• 4 years of experience AND a Ph.D.

• Two years of professional experience in full-time budget analysis and planning.
• Familiarity with water resources and water supply capital construction projects and all phases of development, implementation and closeout.
• Knowledge of planning principles, techniques, current trends, environmental laws, policies and programs concerning all phases of state resource development; governmental administrative structure at local and state levels; environmental, social and other problems affecting development of local and state environmental resource…