GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS CONSULTANT I - 37011004

Requisition No: 858899 

Agency: Environmental Protection

Working Title: GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS CONSULTANT I - 37011004

 Pay Plan: Career Service

Position Number: 37011004 

Salary:  $3,714.85 Mo. / $44,578.20 Yr. 

Posting Closing Date: 10/12/2025 

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GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS CONSULTANT I

State of Florida

Department of Environmental Protection
This position is located in Fort Myers, FL

 

 

Position Overview and Responsibilities:

• The Florida Department of Environmental Protection protects, conserves and manages the state’s natural resources and enforces its environmental laws. Each position works together as a whole to advance Florida’s position as a world leader in protecting natural resources while growing the state’s economy.
• Will conduct organizational studies and evaluations on office procedures providing technical assistance and developing procedures to assist the South District to operate more efficiently and effectively. This position is a highly independent position responsible for a wide variety of complex administrative duties in the South District’s Business Planning Administrative (BPA) team. This position provides full performance level administrative support for the South District’s Permitting Program and Compliance Assistance Program (CAP). The incumbent is expected to work with and apply the principles of Continuous Improvement to reduce waste, improve processes, and provide services that add value to all customers.

 

Permitting Program Support

Provides administrative support for complex actions of the regulatory permitting programs. Assigns permitting workload to permit processors and coordinates workload assignments with permitting supervisors. Provides weekly reports to the supervisors and the permit processors. Analyzes permitting workload to identify problems and recommends improvements to the supervisor. Processes incoming permit applications and correspondence. Organizes and uploads various regulatory applications and documents in the various e-folders and databases.  Establishes and maintains e-files of applications, forms, documents, correspondence and other similar items received by and created by the South District. Send applications to appropriate agencies commenting and maintain mailing list contact information. Prepares out-going correspondence, such as requests for additional information, auto-letters, and permit documents. Conducts research in various databases and performs error-free updates.  Assists customers, provides permitting status updates to the public, and handles permitting information requests. Coordinate these permitting activities with other BPA and professional staff to promote efficiency and streamlined workflow within a team setting. 

 

Compliance Assistance Program (CAP) Support

Provides administrative support for multifaceted actions of the regulatory CAP compliance programs. Maintains a working knowledge and understanding of CAP programmatic area functions, databases, and processing needs. Receives complaints, conducts research and gathers appropriate information, enters data and performs updates of CAP’s complaint tracker (routing system).  Monitors compliance email inboxes for compliance monitoring reports and submittals, updates the corresponding compliance databases, uploads the documents into the compliance e-file, and routes the information to appropriate CAP staff for review. Assists with coordinating the review of compliance activities, Monthly Operating Reports (MORs), and Discharge Monitoring Reports (DMRs). Maintain a log of open enforcement cases, tracks any payments that are due, and reviews the legal case tracking system. Updates CAP inspection/enforcement tracking database and prepares monthly reports to assist the CAP management team with monitoring and assessing staff performance: number of inspections (by staff and program), timeliness of inspection reports sent (by staff and program), list and number of pending/overdue inspection reports, and the number and timeliness of closed non-compliance cases. Provides training of CAP staff in the use of CAP’s various tracking databases. Prepares and completes final enforcement documents for issuance/execution, database update, and upload into the into the enforcement e-file. Assists customers, provides complaint or enforcement status updates to the public, and handles