Conservation Careers & Job Opportunities

The State of Connecticut, Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) is creating a new Office of Planning and Resilience and is recruiting for an Office Director to help stand up and run this new office at our downtown Hartford Office, located at 79 Elm Street, across from historical Bushnell Park.

The Office of Planning and Resilience will work with resilience practitioners within DEEP, other state agencies, federal agencies, municipalities, and nonprofit organizations. This office will manage DEEP’s climate resilience grant program, coordinate efforts to deploy green infrastructure and nature-based solutions that improve community resilience, and help to jump start projects and secure project funding that will be crucial to moving forward projects that have benefit on the aquatic environment, build resilience, and reduce risks to communities.