Siler Climate Consulting (SCC) is hiring a Climate Resilience Project Manager!
Siler Climate Consulting is looking for an experienced project manager to join our small team this fall! We are looking to hire someone who lives in the greater Boston region who will be available for regular in-person engagement with current and future clients in Massachusetts. A successful candidate will have procedural justice experience, the ability to design and facilitate equitable engagement and collaborative governance processes with our clients across New England.
We’re looking for someone who is an excellent communicator, collaborative, curious, and deeply committed to social and climate justice. SCC is committed to supporting this person in pursuing regular professional and political development to deepen a core element of our theory of change, which is that local climate action must be deeply aligned with and in solidarity with broader movements for justice, sovereignty, and liberation.
Climate Resilience Project Manager Desired Qualifications
Project & Client Relationship Management
Work with a range of clients as the primary point of contact for the Siler Climate Consulting team, providing strong project management and stewarding collaborative and continued client relationships. This includes timely communications, tracking scopes of work, budgets, and timelines, utilizations of shared project tracking tools (currently Basecamp and Google Drive) and adapting to the changes needed to SCC clients.
Facilitation, Community Engagement, and Collaborative Governance
Facilitate group processes and collaborative governance, hold space for challenging conversations and engaging new partners in decision-making and implementation
Design and implement community outreach and engagement process throughout and outside of all phases of a typical planning cycle that is focused on relationship building
Develop climate communications materials that expand who belongs and what is considered climate action using inclusive language, art, and other creative modalities
Climate Equity and Justice
Center equity and justice in climate planning and implementation by asking hard questions, conducting root cause analyses, and applying systems-thinking
Advance holistic climate solutions that improve the material conditions
Work with communities of people at the margins to build bridges out of systems of domination and into solidarity and repair
Support and enable small, rural, low capacity communities to make meaningful and sustainable progress on climate planning and implementation
Research and writing
Draft climate action plans and implementation frameworks
Draft technical memos and make technical information accessible to target audiences
Research best practices and pursue continued learning to expand possibilities and enable transformative potential of climate action
Curiosity and Care
We’re looking for someone who is an excellent communicator, collaborative, curious, and deeply committed to social and climate justice.
Pursue regular professional and political development to deepen a core element of our theory of change, which is that local climate action must be deeply aligned with and in solidarity with broader movements for justice, sovereignty, and liberation.
Grant writing
Apply for state grants writing to the program eligibility criteria while advancing a locally-impactful project. Experience with the Commonwealth of MA’s MVP program would be highly advantageous.
Technical Municipal Climate Planning
Support municipal governments in reducing carbon emissions, preparing for climate impacts, and recovering from disasters
Conduct climate vulnerability assessments using qualitative and quantitative data alongside experiential and other ways of knowing
Review municipal bylaws and regulations for opportunities to better incentivize or encourage climate resilient practices
Develop maps to geospatially represent data, patterns, or emergent stories of a place using Geographic Information Systems
Provide urban and/or graphic design services for client engagements
Demonstrated experience in landscape and urban design projects using industry softwares such as but not limited to AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite, Canva, ESRI products, and/or SketchUp
Information about Siler Climate Consulting
Siler Climate Consulting (SCC) is a worker-owned cooperative supporting municipal climate action. We work with municipal, regional, and state governments to imagine and facilitate climate plans, projects, and programs that unlock the transformative potential of climate action while also addressing the underlying structural and systemic drivers of the climate crisis. SCC supports municipal climate action across multiple scales, from neighborhood to national.
When this person joins the team, we’ll be growing from a team of three, to a team of four! As a worker-owned cooperative, we make important decisions by consensus. We do have structures of accountability and responsibility, as well as clarity about who stewards what parts of the business and projects, what types of decisions are made by the project manager, and what types of decisions are for the team to respond to. This person will be joining an existing work culture, and will also shape it. It’s not a requirement to want to be a worker-owner, but that will be an option after the first year of “candidacy.”
How to apply
Step 1: Read the full hiring announcement and role description (this document).
Step 2: Develop application materials. The materials we’re looking for are:
A Resume
A cover letter that touches on this following in some way:
How has where you are from influenced your practices or priorities around climate resilience or collaboration?
Why do you want to work with Siler Climate Consulting?
What do you think are the most important principles or values in climate action and urban planning? How have you or will you bring these into your work?
What is a superpower of yours?
Step 3: Submit application to siler.climate.consulting@gmail.com with the following subject: “Application - Climate Resilience Project Manager - [your name]” by 11:59pm PT on Sunday, September 28, 2025.
Information about this hiring process
Because we are a small cooperative, we unfortunately are not able to respond to individual inquiries or requests for conversation regarding this call for applications. We strongly encourage interested individuals to submit an application for the role and look forward to being able to have more depthful conversations with those candidates who we are able to invite for interviews.
Starting on September 29, the SCC hiring team will carefully review all applications received, and expects to conduct two rounds of interviews for this position. Interviews will be conducted virtually via Zoom in early October. We will send all interview questions to applicants in advance. While our timeline may be adjusted if circumstances require, our current goal is to make offers to successful candidates by October 2025, with a desired start date in November 2025.
At this time, SCC is only able to consider applications from individuals who are based in and legally able to work in the United States. This Climate Resilience Project Manager will be offered an annual gross salary of $100,000 with the starting benefits of 5% 401k match,100% health insurance coverage, and unlimited paid time off. SCC is a worker-owned cooperative, and after a one year candidacy, this person will be eligible to become an employee co-owner of the business.