Coastal Resource Manager - County of Orange

COASTAL RESOURCE MANAGER
(REGULATORY COMPLIANCE MANAGER)

SALARY INFORMATION

 Effective June 27, 2025 – 4.0% increase

Salary may be negotiable within the range listed above, based on position requirements and successful candidate’s qualifications, subject to appropriate authorization.

 

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

This recruitment is being held to establish an open eligible list to fill current and future Regulatory Compliance Manager positions within the OC Community Resources/OC Parks. The eligible list established may also be used to fill similar and/or lower-level classifications throughout the County of Orange.  

 

OC Parks is comprised of eight divisions, including three park operation divisions; systems and resources division; strategic communications division; planning and design division; entitlements division; and the business administration division.
 

THE OPPORTUNITY
OC Parks is seeking a dynamic leader to serve as the Coastal Resource Manager.  The Coastal Resource Manager is responsible for the development and implementation of enhanced, coordinated coastal resiliency activities, otherwise referred to as County Coastal Resiliency Program.  The program aims to enhance coordination and collaboration to address coastal erosion, build and/or maintain collaborative cross jurisdictional bodies for coordinated approaches to regional challenges and similar activities.  This position will also serve as liaison to both internal and external stakeholders and work collaboratively with those stakeholders to address coastal challenges and other coastal land use items. This position will provide high level of leadership and management approach to address regional challenges consistent with OC Parks’ mission and policy direction as set by the Board of Supervisors.

This position, utilizing appropriate discretion for program decisions, will provide management and leadership of this Coastal Resiliency program and duties will include, but are not limited to:

• Directly manage, lead, analyze, coordinate, and plan activities relative to the development and implementation of regional and County-wide collaborative bodies, inclusive of crafting and negotiating legal contracts (e.g., MOUs/MOAs), funding agreements, regional/County-wide work plan proposals, and more.
• Directly manage and implement directives and recommendations, as appropriate, from the South Orange County Regional Coastal Resilience Strategic Plan, the Board of Supervisors, and other policy documents.
• Manage, coordinate, and evaluate the implementation of strategic environmental and coastal programming activities relative to coastal resiliency and utilize discretion to make program decisions to enhance and achieve County policy objectives.
• Ensure the County Coastal Resiliency Program and project operations comply with regulatory agency and environmental standards, requirements, and best practices and further strategic policy goals as set by the Board.
• As required, serve as an Executive Officer of newly established regional and County-wide collaborative bodies, providing for administrative support and management, as well as ensuring compliance with any administrative or legal requirements such as compliance with the Brown Act.
• Serve as a subject matter expert by providing analysis, exercising appropriate discretion, making decisions and taking actions relative to technical land use, resiliency project based, or similar complex regulatory or land use based requests/actions that involve external jurisdictions.
• Provide excellent communication with elected County leadership, appointed County leadership, internal county staff, external agencies (cities, special districts, etc), and the general public when necessary.
• Serve as a liaison and represent OC Parks in engagements with internal and external stakeholder groups at all levels on coastal resiliency or technical land use projects.  Such stakeholders may include organizations such as Cities, state agencies, joint power authorities, special districts, tribal partners, HOAs, developers, non-profits, community groups, and more. 
• Review third-party development proposals to ensure that work is performed in a matter that is compatible with OC Parks’ mission and goals and consistent with park planning documents where applicable.
• Analyze, facilitate, and/or implement real property transactions and regulatory activities and processes related to OC Parks owned and managed property. 

The position requires a detail-oriented person with strong leadership skills, outstanding interpersonal and communication skills, and the ability to think creatively. This position reports to the OC Parks Deputy Director.
 
DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS & CORE COMPETENCIES
 
In addition to the above, the ideal candidate will possess the following:

Technical Experience

• Knowledge and experience developing or implementing collaborative bodies such as coalitions, collaboratives, or similar organizations for a specific unifying cause. 
• Knowledge of coastal entitlements/land use review and permitting processes, including experience working with or supporting projects within the California Coastal Commission, Local Coastal Programs, and Coastal Development Permit processes.
• Knowledge and experience working or supporting projects within the Coastal Zone with an emphasis on projects related to beaches, sand nourishment, public beach access, recreational coastal amenities, or similar.
• Knowledge and experience with reviewing and analyzing real estate instruments (such as leases, licenses, etc).

Leadership 

• Strong ability to lead projects as a sole contributor and utilizing and leveraging support for grander project results delivery. 
• Ability to lead internal and external meetings, including public meetings that may be subject to the Brown Act.
• Ability to lead internal and external stakeholders to diplomatic consensus and build shared support.

Oral | Written Communication Skills

• Ability to provide complex information and requests in a clear, concise, logical, and persuasive manner both orally and in writing.
• Ability to work and communicate with various levels of an organization including County leadership and elected officials and their staffs.
• Provide effective communication to staff and management, both verbally and in writing.

Relationship Building | Interpersonal Skills

• Collaboratively partners with professional, paraprofessional, academic, and other technical staff to meet goals and objectives.
• Ability to interact with elected officials, agency and county management, internal county staff, external agencies such as cities, special districts, etc., as well as the general public.                                                                                                                 

Strategic Planning | Organizational Skills

• Ability to prioritize work and manage time effectively in order to handle multiple projects simultaneously and effectively while meeting timeline demands/deadlines consistently.
• Understands the process of fiscal and revenue planning and management within a governmental setting.
• Demonstrates understanding of government and public sector organizational structures and ability to navigate those structures.
• Ability to efficiently and effectively plan and manage the preparation of critical documents such as public meeting agendas, work plans, and more.
• Ability to strategically obtain and manage program grants, contracts, agreements, and similar legal documents.
• Knowledge of assessing resource needs for project delivery and the appropriately seeking or allocating resources.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Please click here to learn more about the minimum qualifications for the Regulatory Compliance Manager position.
 
PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS
Click here to learn more about the Physical & Mental Requirements as well as the Environmental Conditions for the Regulatory Compliance Manager classification.
 
RECRUITMENT PROCESS
Human Resource Services (HRS) will screen all application materials to identify qualified applicants. After screening, qualified applicants will be referred to the next step and notified of all further procedures applicable to their status in the competition.
 
Structured Oral interview (Weighted 100%)
Applicants will be interviewed and rated by a panel of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs). Each applicant's rating will be based on responses to a series of structured questions designed to elicit the applicant's qualifications for the job.
 
Based on the Department's needs, the selection procedures listed above may be modified. All applicants will be notified of any changes in the selection procedure.
 
Eligible List
Once the assessments have been completed, HRS will establish an eligible list of candidates. Candidates placed on the eligible list may be referred to a selection interview to be considered for present and future vacancies.The County is committed to providing a mechanism to give preferential consideration in the employment process to veterans and their eligible spouses and will provide eligible participants the opportunity to receive interviews in the selection process for employment and paid internship openings.  Please click here(Download PDF reader) (Download PDF reader) to review the policy.