Resilience Water National Practice Lead - Funding and Implementation

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people in over 70 countries dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play, and together we solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact.

Arcadis is seeking a capital project and infrastructure Funding and Implementation – National Practice Leader to join the Resilience Water Business Area in the United States. This full-time, hybrid position reports directly to the Resilience Water Management Practice Director and can be based anywhere in the United States where Arcadis has an active office.

The National Practice Leader collaborates with the Practice Director and leaders across every Arcadis division to create innovative strategies, partnerships, and value propositions that advance capital projects, infrastructure, and resilience initiatives nationwide. The role involves understanding clients' funding, finance, and implementation blockers and needs, examining emerging issues and market trends, exploring innovative possibilities and alternative project delivery options, evaluating partners and competitors, mentoring others, and providing technical support to team leads and practitioners.

The leader will explore and implement emerging funding models such as blended finance, outcome-based contracts, and incentives, while also driving success through traditional approaches (grants and bonds). Success is measured by project advancement, new partnerships, new markets, market reputation, the value of order intake, revenue growth from new funding mechanisms, and a reduction in project delays due to resolved bottlenecks.

As a National Practice Leader, you will partner with cross‑functional teams to develop successful proposals, integrate funding and implementation mechanisms with technical solutions, and support strategies that advance capital projects, infrastructure programs, and resilience initiatives for clients and partners. You will collaborate closely with practitioners and technical experts to ensure strong coordination across the National Funding Team while serving as a trusted advisor to clients and a thought leader within the industry.

• Identifying and resolving obstacles to project advancement, including funding gaps, permitting challenges, and partnership issues.
• Building technical expertise in both traditional and emerging mechanisms to accelerate critical client projects and community improvements.
• Serving as Pursuit Lead for major and strategic initiatives, including those reviewed by the Pursuit Committee.
• Leading thought leadership efforts in collaboration with Communities of Practice, practitioners, the Practice Director, and the Growth team, while representing Arcadis at national forums.
• Providing mentoring, technical support, and participating in recruitment and staffing strategies to strengthen team capabilities and maintain national practice excellence.

This role also includes oversight of quality control, escalation of issues to senior leadership as needed, and approximately 40% in‑person engagement for client meetings and project coordination activities.

The ideal candidate will have comprehensive knowledge of funding pursuits, program development, and/or grants and program management, including the tools, techniques, and methodologies needed to achieve successful outcomes. Strong communication skills are essential, with the ability to articulate client perspectives and convey thought leadership effectively. The role requires the ability to lead and motivate teams by influence, fostering collaboration and engagement across diverse stakeholders.

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field
• 10 years of experience leading funding and implementation‑related efforts, such as grants, revenue, finance, or supporting policy and initiative implementation
• 3 years of experience advancing innovative or experimental funding, financing, and implementation means…