Would you like the opportunity to make a difference in your community, helping residents and businesses in the greater Portland region get the information they want to make smart decisions for themselves and the environment? If so, consider joining Metro’s Resource Conservation and Recycling Program as manager of our Behavioral Change team. If you’re the right person for the job, you’ll be ready to provide leadership to a talented group of people who provide information and technical assistance to youth and adults. Their work focuses on providing information that can help our community produce, use and discard materials sustainably, thereby conserving natural resources, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and minimizing environmental and human health impacts.

This team does its work through programs that reach youth at schools, at venues such as the Oregon Zoo and Blue Lake Regional Park, and at Outdoor School. It connects with adults through natural gardening and Healthy Home toxics reduction programs, and through the online and on-the-phone services of the Recycling Information Center. It also provides technical assistance to the construction sector and to businesses through the regional Recycle At Work program.

Are you the right person for the job? We’re looking for someone who will lead, support and foster the professional growth of a group of highly self-motivated employees. We need someone with a demonstrated commitment to teamwork who thrives in collaborative environments. We want someone who can help make sure our behavior change work is strategic, coordinated, reflects best practices and makes an impact. And we must have someone who is excited about helping us implement Metro’s Equity Strategy by ensuring that diversity, equity and inclusion are foundational pieces that inform the provision of culturally responsive services and programs.

The Resource Conservation & Recycling Program (RCR) is part of the Property & Environmental Services department (PES). RCR works to advance the region’s efforts to minimize the environmental and human health impacts from the extraction, production, consumption and end-of-life management of goods used by the area’s residents and businesses. Our PES mission is to work together to be the best at serving people and the environment through operations, education, oversight, policy and planning. We make a great place for our customers, employees and community to live, work and visit and we are committed to having fun together as we do our work.

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