TCEQ - Deputy Director I (TCEQ Employees Only)

Deputy Director Opportunity At TCEQ

Join TCEQ! We bring passion and drive to carry out our mission of protecting our states public health and natural resources. As part of TCEQ Compliance and Enforcement, you would help ensure that those we regulate comply with the states environmental laws.

Heres What Youll Be Doing :

• Manage OCE administrative functions, including directing staff activities related to providing support to the OCE Director, Area Directors, Division Directors, and other Director staff.
• Set policy for OCE related to administrative functions including correspondence, documentation, travel, training, work schedules, and implementation of agency policies and procedures.
• Ensure development and maintenance of standard operating procedures for OCE; internal SharePoint pages, external web pages including data sources, programs for the effective management of public information, legislative, media and other external requests.
• Direct staff activities related to organizational performance metrics.
• Serve as division contact to the Agency Records Management program concerning records retention, storage, access, and destruction.
• Manage agency homeland security responsibilities, including providing state-wide coordination, direction, and management of activities necessary to fulfill agency responsibilities as a member of the Texas Homeland Security Council.
• Notify and coordinate with those responsible for much of the states critical infrastructure, including producers and purchasers of drinking water for the public, high-risk dams, refineries, petrochemical facilities, wastewater-treatment facilities, and low-level radioactive waste disposal facilities.
• Manage the OCE budget functions including directing staff to appropriately control all aspects of budget development, implementation, and coordination with Office of Administrative Services.
• Provide budget updates to the OCE Director and makes recommendations for necessary changes throughout the budget cycle.
• Oversee the distribution of salary enhancement budgets and development of additional funding requests or exceptional item requests, as needed.
• Ensure OCE grant programs are managed effectively to ensure optimal use and distribution of funds.

Key Qualifications :

Qualifications : Required Education Experience :

Transcript / College Hours or Course Work :

See instructions on how to attach documents. A copy of your official college transcript or evaluation of foreign credentials in CAPPS is required if needed to meet the qualifications listed above.

Work Schedule :

Standard business hours are M-F, 8 : 00 a.m. - 5 : 00 p.m. Individual and work group schedule determined by the TCEQ Headquarters.

Benefits :

Condition of Employment :

TCEQ will conduct a criminal history records search, driving history (if required for the job) on candidates offered employment. In compliance with ADA, if you need any special accommodations during the employment process, please contact HRSS for assistance at (512) 239-0102.

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is an Equal Opportunity Employer.