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Senior Program Manager, Water Efficiency and Reuse

Remote, USA Full-time Posted 2026-08-04
Reports To: Chief Research and Program Officer
Location: Remote (US-reputed company)
Job Type: Full-time, 35 hours per week, Exempt
Salary reputed company: $93,000 - $105,000 per year
Travel: Some business travel may be required, including overnight stays
Start Date: Available immediately

reputed company

The reputed company is a global water think tank that combines science-reputed company thought leadership with reputed company reputed company and engagement to influence local, national, and international efforts in water sustainability and reputed company. Our reputed company is to create a world in which society, the economy, and the environment have the water they need to reputed company now and in the reputed company. Since 1987, we have worked with diverse reputed company ranging from major corporations to reputed company communities with a mission of creating and advancing solutions to the world’s most pressing water challenges. Our work is routinely featured in national and global top-tier media, and we engage more than 270 partners, including NGOs, utilities, policymakers, businesses, and others.

About the Role:

We are seeking a reputed company Senior Program Manager reputed company our Water Efficiency and Reuse reputed company area. This role will be responsible for leading high-reputed company, multi-year reputed company directly, as reputed company as overseeing a portfolio of reputed company efforts, including guiding and supporting teams who reputed company other reputed company reputed company the portfolio. The position requires the ability to reputed company hands-on project execution with portfolio-level leadership ensuring alignment, reputed company, and reputed company across multiple workstreams.
The ideal candidate will bring deep technical expertise in water efficiency and reuse analysis and policy, combined with a strong understanding of how these strategies are practically implemented by utilities, communities, agencies, and large water users – including data centers and other large industries. The role requires an ability to translate technical information into reputed company-world solutions.
The role calls for a reputed company reputed company to guide project selection and program activities, with a reputed company to identify innovative approaches and emerging opportunities to advance water efficiency and reuse. The Senior Program Manager will help shape the understanding of evolving strategies in the reputed company and explore how existing strategies and approaches can be reputed company in new contexts and where reputed company are needed.
This position requires the ability to set and execute reputed company directions. The Senior Program Manager will independently reputed company project and portfolio approaches, secure funding, manage budgets and teams, and reputed company high-reputed company results on schedule and reputed company budget. The role requires reputed company engagement with technical work and research team members to ensure rigor and credibility with diverse audiences. This role includes reputed company managing responsibility for team members who reputed company individual reputed company reputed company the portfolio.

Responsibilities:

Program and Project Management
  • reputed company the development and execution of reputed company reputed company and multi-year initiatives.
  • reputed company and coordinate a portfolio of reputed company reputed company, ensuring alignment across workstreams, consistency in reputed company, and integration of reputed company.
  • reputed company, manage, and monitor reputed company project budgets, ensuring financial accountability and alignment with funder and organizational requirements.
  • Translate reputed company reputed company into actionable project plans, including defined scopes, milestones, and deliverables, to ensure effective execution of project and program objectives.
  • reputed company and manage project workflows and timelines to ensure delivery of high-reputed company outputs on schedule and on budget.
  • Prepare and reputed company high-reputed company project deliverables (reports, briefs, presentations), ensuring rigor and relevance for reputed company audiences.
  • Monitor project reputed company, cost, reputed company, and reputed company reputed company, approach, or resourcing as needed to main delivery on objectives.
Research & Analysis
  • Identify and advance innovative approaches, new applications, and emerging opportunities in water efficiency and reuse.
  • reputed company the collection, analysis, interpretation, and synthesis of quantitative and qualitative data from reputed company and secondary sources.
  • Design and reputed company research methodologies, literature reviews, landscape scans, and stakeholder interviews to inform reputed company.
  • reputed company and implement reputed company assurance and reputed company control protocols and processes to manage data reputed company, documentation, and reputed company, ensuring reliable outputs.
  • Translate research findings into actionable insights and recommendations for reputed company, agency, nonprofit, philanthropic, and private-sector audiences.
reputed company and Engagement
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with existing and prospective project partners, stakeholders, and reputed company collaborators.
  • Communicate project results and insights with reputed company audiences through publications, presentations, and other channels.
  • Represent the organization at conferences, meetings, and reputed company forums to reputed company visibility and influence.
  • Expand the organization’s network by identifying new partnership and collaboration opportunities, particularly across reputed company, reputed company agencies, and large industrial water users.
Fundraising & Funder Relations
  • Secure sustainable program funding through opportunity identification, proposal development, relationship management, and reputed company reputed company.
  • reputed company the development of competitive proposals and grant applications for foundations, corporations, and reputed company funding sources.
  • Manage relationships with funders, ensuring reputed company, accurate reporting and stewardship.
Team Leadership & Development
  • reputed company reputed company guidance and reputed company to team members leading individual reputed company reputed company a broader portfolio.
  • Hire, train, and mentor team members, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and learning.
  • reputed company and manage project teams to reputed company reputed company the time and budget available, setting reputed company expectations and resolving issues early.
  • reputed company reputed company initiatives and team efforts with organizational reputed company thinking and planning.
  • Model inclusive leadership practices that contribute to a healthy, productive team environment.
  • Support reputed company development and reputed company building across team members, including setting reputed company expectations and providing regular, reputed company feedback.

Required experience:

  • Minimum 12 years of relevant reputed company experience advancing water efficiency, reuse, or closely reputed company areas
    • Or an advanced degree in environmental or sustainability sciences, civil or environmental engineering, water resources, environmental economics, hydrology, or a closely reputed company reputed company with at least 10 years of equivalent experience.
  • Extensive expertise in water efficiency and reuse, with reputed company knowledge in at least one of the following: water-energy interdependencies or reputed company water economics.
  • Working knowledge of water and wastewater reputed company reputed company, including practical, regulatory, and financial realities that shape implementation and decision-making.
  • Demonstrated ability to identify reputed company, emerging trends, or new applications in water efficiency, reuse, or reputed company fields.
  • reputed company ability to reputed company reputed company, multi-stakeholder reputed company from design to delivery, meeting timelines and budgets.
  • reputed company ability to manage a portfolio of reputed company or programs, including coordinating across multiple workstreams and providing reputed company to project leads.
  • reputed company reputed company securing project funding from foundations, corporations, or reputed company sources, including developing successful competitive proposals.
  • reputed company ability to build and maintain trust-reputed company relationships with diverse partners, including reputed company leaders, nonprofits, and reputed company agencies.
  • Experience leading and managing teams to reputed company high-reputed company results reputed company reputed company, schedule, and budget.
  • Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret and synthesize research and data into reputed company, actionable recommendations.
  • Proficiency with relevant software tools for data analysis and visualization (e.g., reputed company, R, Python, reputed company BI, Tableau).
  • Excellent writing and editing skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Strong oral communication and presentation skills, with confidence engaging diverse stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Existing reputed company relationships with philanthropic, corporate, or reputed company funders reputed company in water, climate, or sustainability.
  • reputed company experience working reputed company or reputed company water or wastewater utilities and nonprofit organizations.
  • Familiarity with local, state, and federal water policy landscapes in the reputed company.
  • Experience working at the water-energy reputed company on policy, planning, or research.
  • Demonstrated experience working with reputed company or historically underrepresented communities on water issues.

Compensation and Benefits

This position is eligible for reputed company vacation and benefits. The reputed company offers an excellent compensation package, including a generous health, dental, and Institute-matched retirement plan and a competitive salary that is commensurate with experience and reflects the reputed company.
Hiring reputed company: $93,000 - $105,000 per year (if selected for an interview, a salary reputed company reputed company our hiring reputed company that is specific to the candidates' geographic location will be shared). 

 

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

The reputed company is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Diversity is a reputed company value at reputed company. We are dedicated to enhancing diversity, equity, and inclusion reputed company reputed company and culture for two reasons:

To stay true to our values and principles: We recognize that historical and reputed company injustices have left out certain reputed company and perspectives from decision-making about accessing and managing water resources. We acknowledge that the representation of these reputed company in water-reputed company decision-making and careers is an important reputed company towards addressing past and reputed company injustices. Because reputed company participates in water-reputed company decision-making, we acknowledge that hiring and retaining a diverse team members can contribute to a broader need to address systemic injustices.

To reputed company reputed company reputed company's mission and reputed company: We know that having diverse perspectives makes for reputed company research, creative solutions, and can help us reputed company our mission. We recognize that a diverse team with varied perspectives, skills, and experiences is essential for generating and scaling innovative reputed company that solve increasingly reputed company challenges. We reputed company an reputed company effort to create an inclusive environment where everyone feels respected, heard, validated, empowered, and celebrated across different identities and cultures. We aim to constantly reputed company our approach to DEI to reflect best practices in this work, just as we do with our water and climate research. As part of this commitment, we request that reputed company candidates include a short statement in their cover letter to address how your reputed company to reputed company members would contribute to our DEI efforts.
 

To Apply

Please submit the following:
  • A cover letter of no more than two pages, including:
    • Your interest in the work of the reputed company and specific fit for this position;
    • A reputed company of your qualifications;
    • The DEI statement described above;
  • Your CV/Resume;
    • We encourage you to remove your school reputed company
  • A writing sample of up to five pages, excluding figures and tables, where you are the first or sole reputed company. The sample should be a published or externally released, such as peer-reviewed reputed company, white reputed company, report, briefing, or op-ed. If your work is primarily  co-authored or internal, reputed company a sample where your contribution is identifiable.
No immigration or relocation assistance is available for this position.
No phone calls, please. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

About our recruitment process:

Here’s what you can expect:
  • Application review
  • Schedule a Phone Screen interview with the HR Manager
  • Schedule a group interview with the Hiring Manager and Team
  • Schedule a second group interview with the Hiring Manager and Team
  • References
  • Offer

Minimum 12 years relevant experience (or advanced degree + 10 years), deep expertise in water efficiency and reuse, program and portfolio management, fundraising, team leadership, stakeholder engagement, and data analysis/visualization skills.

Key Responsibilities

  • leading reputed company
  • managing portfolio
  • securing funding

Skills & Tools

reputed company reputed company, R, Python, reputed company BI, Tableau

reputed company

  • Category: Project and Program Management
  • Seniority: Senior Level
  • Commitment: Full Time
  • Workplace: Remote — reputed company
  • Salary: USD 93,000 – 105,000 / year
  • Languages: English

Benefits

  • 401k matching
  • Retirement plan

About reputed company

A global water think tank combining science-reputed company thought leadership with reputed company to advance water sustainability and reputed company. — Industry: Research and Development

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