Consultant Infrastructure Funding and Compliance Specialist

Consultant Position At Stantec

At Stantec, we design with community in mind. We bring together engineering, environmental sciences, architecture, and consulting to solve complex infrastructure challenges and improve quality of life around the world. This role is a client-facing consulting position within Stantec's Management & Technology Consulting (MTC) group. As a Consultant, you will support and deliver consulting engagements focused on infrastructure capital planning, funding, policy, and compliance for public- and private sector clients across North America. You will work as an integral member of multi-disciplinary project teams, applying analytical, organizational, and communication skills to help communities plan, fund, and deliver needed infrastructure investments. This role emphasizes critical thinking, quantitative and financial analysis, clear written communication and visualization, and client collaboration, with guidance from senior consultants and project managers.

Key Responsibilities

• Project Delivery & Client Support
• Capital Planning & Funding Support
• Analytical & Technical Contributions
• Team Collaboration & Professional Development

Your Capabilities and Credentials

Knowledge of and experience with infrastructure projects, policy analysis, funding programs and financial analysis. Direct work experience/history with government agencies, including local, state, or federal entities and utilities. Elements of project management experience, including preparing and managing project scope, schedule, team activities, communication, and deliverables. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Experience working with, acquiring, and analyzing large data sets. Proficiency with Microsoft Office Excel including quantitative modeling and analysis required. Proficiency with PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat Pro and other business systems required. Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills. Self-starter capable of efficiently and proactively working independently as well as with a geographically dispersed team on multiple projects simultaneously. Strong sense of team. Always willing to step in and take on additional responsibility for the good of the entire team. Strong attention to details as deliverables are open to public review and scrutiny. Willing to travel as needed. In the first year, travel may be up to 25%. As you develop your skills for success and become a crucial part of multiple project teams, travel requirements may increase. Requires a satisfactory driving record.

Traits and Attributes of Top Performers

Intellectual curiosity: Top performers are driven to ask why things work or don't work currently and how we might address thiseven if, or especially if, this thinking falls outside of conventional wisdom. We need bold thinkers willing to challenge assumptions and develop new solutions. Lifelong learners: This field provides ample opportunities to develop new skills and tools, and to combine left and right brain thinking to combine math, modeling, and an understanding of public perception to solve complex problems. There are little to no "routine" answers. The most successful candidates have a genuine desire to continually learn to solve our clients' problems and improve the communities we serve. Analytical problem solvers: Top performers understand (or are capable of quickly learning) how different factors, variables, and policies result in corresponding financial impacts. They understand how to make appropriate simplifying assumptions and how to model complex systems accurately. Collaboration and co-creation: Successful candidates will have the ability to work effectively with individuals of diverse cultures, disciplines and abilities in a cooperative and generative manner, to achieve a common goal. Creativity and adaptability: Top performers will have the ability to think about a task or a problem in a new or different way, to create strategies for disruption, breakthrough, and transformation. Strategic and systematic thinking: Top performers will be able to synthesize different sides of an issue by examining a range of options and outcomes, considering the interconnectedness of elements as parts of a whole system, and building intellectual frameworks to guide decisions, solve problems, support innovation, and inform analysis and action. Entrepreneurial mindset: Strong candidates will both seek and thrive on all opportunities and risks; Top performers will leverage tenacity and optimism to innovate, effect change, break orthodoxies and create new value for clients. Sincere desire to please our clients: Top performers seem to have an innate drive, beyond personal gain, for ensuring that our clients are pleased with our performance and our deliverables, and they realize that providing rigorous, error-free, and unbiased advisory services is a critical step in ensuring the client's long-term sustainability.

Education and Experience

Bachelor's Degree in business, finance, economics, statistics, data science, engineering, accounting, planning, or related fields are required. Master's Degree is a plus. 5 years total post-undergraduate work experience related to planning, economics, asset management, infrastructure funding/delivery, financial analysis and working for local government agencies in these areas.

Pay Transparency

In compliance with pay transparency laws, pay ranges are provided for positions in locations where required. Please note, the final agreed upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. At Stantec certain roles are bonus eligible. Actual compensation for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on the agreed number of working hours per week.

Benefits Summary

Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) have access to medical, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health saving accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase program, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage and paid family leave. Regular full-time and part-time employees will receive ten paid holidays in each calendar year. In addition, employees will be eligible to accrue vacation between 10 and 20 days per year and eligible for paid sick leave (and if more generous, in accordance with state and local law). Temporary/casual employees have access to 401(k) plans, employee stock purchase program, and paid leave, in accordance with state and local law. The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements.

Primary Location

United States | FL | Tampa

Organization

2248 Water-US M&T Consulting-Tampa FL

Employee Status

Regular

Business Justification

New Position

Travel

No

Schedule

Full time

Req ID

1005083

Equal Employment Opportunity

Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment. At Stantec we are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process then please inform a member of our Talent Acquisition team.