Water Resources Specialist 3 (Surface Water Section)
Job Summary:
This position is responsible for the processing, expediting, and approving and/or rejecting surface water right applications, permits, certificates and claims. The roles obligation is for ensuring adherence of surface water right applications and claims to Department policies, regulations and procedures and State and Federal statutes and rules.
This position may offer the ability to work remotely, within Arizona, based upon the department's business needs and continual meeting of expected performance measures. A minimum of two days on-site at the ADWR office per week is required.
Job Duties:
This position is responsible for researching, compiling, analyzing, interpreting, and integrating water resource management data through a variety of sources and other program areas. Coordinating and participating in complex inter-departmental projects that require multi-disciplinary expertise. This includes investigating and resolving water resource management issues of a complex, sensitive and visible nature and preparation of reports with recommendations that may impact multiple water resource management program areas.
Additionally, this position is responsible for assisting in the development and maintenance of Department databases and in the development, maintenance, updating, imaging and preserving of Department records and files.
Knowledge of:
- Current concepts and practices in water resource management
- Information sources and research methods/ techniques utilized in water resource management
- The behavior and occurrence of water in nature
- The historical governmental involvement with water supply, water usage, and water resource management
- Department Policies and procedures as well as the rules and statutes governing surface water rights, Public Water Code and Groundwater Management Code
- Current State and Federal water resource management laws and regulations, including water rights administration and water management planning
Skills in:
- Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships within the Department, other governmental entities, private section and the public
- Analyzing and interpreting water resources management data
- Effective written and oral communication
- Using computers to organize/analyze/ interpret water resource management data
- Interpretation and use of aerial imagery, topographic maps and ArcGIS
- Applying a multi-disciplinary approach to resolve complex, sensitive, and/or visible water resource management issues
Ability to:
- Analyze a situation, identify problem areas, propose solutions, and assist in the implementing solutions
- Independently gather appropriate information from documents or through content knowledge experts, to support the decision-making process
- Work effectively with individuals within and outside of the agency; ability to maintain customer services orientation through interactions with clients, consultants, agency staff and others
