Volunteer & Green Redmond Coordinator

*This position will start on or after January 1, 2025*
 
The City of Redmond is a thriving, culturally diverse community, and home to over 80,000 residents. Redmond is the hub of an array of commerce and industry ranging from technology, aerospace, and gaming to biomedical and innovation start-ups.
 
We are seeking skilled and motivated individuals to join our team as our Volunteer & Green Redmond Coordinator. As a Volunteer & Green Redmond Coordinator, you will have a key role in helping leverage the power of our volunteers citywide with our goals for sustainability, tree canopy, and conservation. Passionate about sustainability and volunteerism, this position will work across the department, community and city to achieve our tree canopy and sustainability goals.  
 
As the Volunteer & Green Redmond Coordinator, you will plan, develop, implement and manage the volunteerism programs and our Green Redmond program which coordinates planting events, Forest Stewards, and other sustainability projects throughout the year.  
 
In this role, you will be joining a Parks and Recreation Department with a vision of protecting and enhancing the community’s quality of life by delivering exceptional services. Parks and Recreation embraces their mission to build community through people, parks, arts, recreation, and conservation.
 
This is an onsite/hybrid position.
This position is full-time and might require some weekends and evenings.
 As we evaluate candidates, we are not just looking for your experience with Volunteer Coordination and sustainability. We are also looking for skills vital to the work we do. 
 
Inspired & Skillful Collaboration: How do you build trust with internal and external groups? This position works across the department, the city and with the public to help create opportunities to build community and create a more sustainable future for the City of Redmond Parks & Recreation system. Collaboration and trust are vital. 
 
Visionary & Strategic Leadership: How have you made tough but balanced decisions, while displaying wisdom, empathy and resilience to overcome difficult challenges, diffuse conflict and facilitate buy in? 
 
Creativity & Innovation: How do you display creativity and innovation as you tackle the complex problems in parks, conservation, and community building? 
 
Building & Nurturing Relationships in a Diverse Community: The City of Redmond is committed to being a leader and fostering a socially-just community with cultural humility. How do you effectively enable positive collaboration with diverse communities, ensuring genuine inclusion in the decision-making and execution process? 
 
Sharing Expertise & Learning from Others: How do you share your expertise with those who may not know how to navigate volunteerism and sustainability? How do you learn from them to ensure that our programs reach and serve every corner of Redmond?  Education and Experience

• Three years’ experience in program coordination and development, 
• High school diploma or equivalent; college degree or coursework preferred
• Or equivalent combination of education, experience and training that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities 

Licenses and Certificates

• Valid Washington State Driver's License
• Valid First Aid & CPR certifications (must be obtained within 6 months of hire)

Other
This class description describes the general nature of the work performed, representative duties as well as the typical qualifications needed for acceptable performance. It is not intended to be a complete list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of the job.

Please review the Program Coordinator job description for more information about the knowledge, skills, abilities, working conditions, and physical requirements.

Selection Process

• All applicants will be notified of their application status. 
• Top candidates will be contacted to participate in the next phase of selection process, which may include testing and/or an interview. 
• Note, the City may review existing application pools to fill this position or use this pool to fill future vacancies.

Offers of employment are conditional based on the candidate successfully passing both background and reference checks. Internal candidates are subject to passing a new background if the previous check was conducted more than six months ago.
 
Additionally, new hires relocating to the area are required to have Washington State residency within 30 days of their start date to comply payroll tax purposes.Our employees earn competitive wages and enjoy an exceptional benefits package that includes:
 

• MEDICAL INSURANCE - Choice of two plans for employees and their eligible dependents: Premera or Kaiser Permanente. All employee healthcare premiums paid for by the City of Redmond.
• PRESCRIPTION DRUG INSURANCE - Included with each medical plan
• DENTAL INSURANCE - For employees and their eligible dependents
• VISION INSURANCE - For employees and their eligible dependents
• OTHER INSURANCE - Life, accidental death & dismemberment insurance, short and long-term disability, optional employee-paid voluntary life insurance
• FLEXIBLE SPENDING ACCOUNTS - For tax savings on healthcare and dependent care expenses
• PAID VACATION & HOLIDAYS – with (13) paid holidays per year
• EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (EAP)
• RETIREMENT PLANS - Department of Retirement Systems (DRS) plus additional options that include: Municipal Employees Benefit Trust (Social Security replacement plan) and MetLife 457 Plan
• Annual COLA adjustments
• Annual merit increases of up to 5%

To learn about benefits at the City of Redmond, please visit C2MB (ajg.com) 

Salary : $80,184 - $108,252