Description: Small water and wastewater systems have a tough time recruiting and retaining experienced staff. What happens when your current operator or manager retires, or moves to a larger system? Who knows what they know? Who can replace them? Workforce planning strategies help ensure you attract and retain a strong team, and provide a basis for utility management and planning. Join us for this workshop to talk about succession planning, recruitment, and staff retention.

Learning Objectives:

• Analyze gaps in your current workforce
• Retain talent long-term, and prepare them for shifting skillsets and needs
• Recruit and work with newer generations of water managers
• Prepare for retirements with succession planning and knowledge transfer tips
• Trouble-shoot current challenges and opportunities to build out your team

Trainer: Patrick Lynch, Project Manager, Syracuse University Environmental Finance Center

Certificate: This workshop has NOT been submitted for continuing education credit approval. We will provide a certificate of attendance to eligible attendees but cannot guarantee it will meet your PDH or CEU requirements.

Who Should Attend:

• Managers, owners, and operators of water systems serving less than 10,000 people, or wastewater systems with an average daily flow of less than 1 million gallons
• Decision-makers for water and wastewater utilities, including mayors, finance officers, utility managers, public works directors, city councilors, board members, tribal council members, and clerks
• Consultants and technical assistance providers serving water and wastewater systems

Partners:

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Description: Small water and wastewater systems have a tough time recruiting and retaining experienced staff. What happens when your current operator or manager retires, or moves to a larger system? Who knows what they know? Who can replace them? Workforce planning strategies help ensure you attract and retain a strong team, and provide a basis for utility management and planning. Join us for this workshop to talk about succession planning, recruitment, and staff retention.

Learning Objectives:

• Analyze gaps in your current workforce
• Retain talent long-term, and prepare them for shifting skillsets and needs
• Recruit and work with newer generations of water managers
• Prepare for retirements with succession planning and knowledge transfer tips
• Trouble-shoot current challenges and opportunities to build out your team

Trainer: Patrick Lynch, Project Manager, Syracuse University Environmental Finance Center

CECs: This training is approved for 2.0 hours of continuing education credits for Municipal Waterworks and Wastewater by the WI Department of Natural Resources. 

Who Should Attend:

• Managers, owners, and operators of water systems serving less than 10,000 people, or wastewater systems with an average daily flow of less than 1 million gallons
• Decision-makers for water and wastewater utilities, including mayors, finance officers, utility managers, public works directors, city councilors, board members, tribal council members, and clerks
• Consultants and technical assistance providers serving water and wastewater systems

Partners:

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You will learn how to: 

• Analyze gaps in your current workforce
• Maintain a workplace culture that attracts qualified applicants and partners
• Retain talent long-term
• Recruit and work with younger generations
• Prepare for retirements with succession planning and knowledge transfer tips

Trainer: Averi Davis, Program Manager, Syracuse University Environmental Finance Center

Certificate: This training has been approved for 1.0 Training Credit for New Mexico Water and Wastewater Utility Operators by the NMED-Drinking Water Bureau.

Who Should Attend:

• Managers, owners, and operators of water systems serving less than 10,000 people, or wastewater systems with an average daily flow of less than 1 million gallons
• Decision-makers for water and wastewater utilities, including mayors, finance officers, utility managers, public works directors, city councilors, board members, tribal council members, and clerks
• Consultants and technical assistance providers serving water and wastewater systems

Partners:

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• Wed, Oct 18, 2023 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
• Thu, Oct 19, 2023 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT

Description: Do you have the money you need for operations and capital? Are you proactively managing and saving to replace your assets? The right people you need to run your system? This workshop provides an overview of the technical, managerial, and financial skills and information to help manage your water and/or wastewater (W&WW) system successfully now and into the future, including financial planning, benchmarking, physical assets, and workforce development.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the components of utility management
• Learn about environmental finance, financial benchmarking, and rate-setting
• Think critically about financial, physical, and human resources for the future of your system
• Communicate your plans and financial needs to decision makers and the public

Trainers: Austin Thompson, Associate Director, and Melanie Sanchez, Project Director, UNC Environmental Finance Center

Continuing Education Credit: This training has been approved for 4.0 hours of Wastewater and Drinking Water Continuing Education Credits by the Kentucky EEC. 

Who Should Attend:

• Managers, owners, and operators of water systems serving less than 10,000 people, or wastewater systems with an average daily flow of less than 1 million gallons
• Decision-makers for water and wastewater utilities, including mayors, finance officers, utility managers, public works directors, city councilors, board members, tribal council members, and clerks
• Consultants and technical assistance providers serving water and wastewater systems

Partners:

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Learning Objectives:

• Understanding the components of utility management
• Thinking critically about financial and human resources for the future of your system
• Communicating your plans and financial needs to decision-makers and the public

Trainers: Kristen Downs, PhD, Project Director, UNC Environmental Finance Center and Patrick Lynch, JD, MPA, Program Manager, Syracuse University Environmental Finance Center

Continuing Education Credits: This training has been approved for 2.0 Water and Wastewater Operator Training Contact Hours (TCHs) by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection.

Who Should Attend:

• Managers, owners, and operators of water systems serving less than 10,000 people, or wastewater systems with an average daily flow of less than 1 million gallons
• Decision-makers for water and wastewater utilities, including mayors, finance officers, utility managers, public works directors, city councilors, board members, tribal council members, and clerks
• Consultants and technical assistance providers serving water and wastewater systems

Partners:

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Description: Regional Development Organizations (RDOs), known locally as councils of governments, regional planning commissions, economic development districts, and other names, provide various types of assistance to their member communities in a host of service areas. During this 1-hour webinar, learn about the Green River Area Development District’s (GRADD) Hire to Operate (H20) program, a collaboration with state and local partners to address the shortage of certified water and wastewater operators in Western Kentucky through a Registered Apprenticeship Program. The H2O Apprenticeship Program creates a pipeline of highly qualified operators for rural utilities and stable, quality careers for new entrants to the workforce, dislocated workers, and incumbent workers at minimal cost to the apprentices or local utilities.

Presenters:

• Joanna Shake, Green River Area Development District 
• Paula Payne, Green River Area Development District 
• Pete Conrad, Henderson County Water District
• Brett Schwartz, NADO Research Foundation

Certificate: This webinar has NOT been submitted for approval of continuing education credit. We can provide a certificate of attendance to eligible attendees, but cannot guarantee it will meet your PDH or CEU requirements.

Partners: 

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Learning Objectives:

• Analyzing gaps in your current workforce
• Maintaining a workplace culture that attracts qualified applicants and partners
• Recruiting and working with younger generations
• Retaining talent long-term
• Preparing for retirements with succession planning tips

Trainers: Patrick Lynch & Tess Clark, Program Managers, Syracuse University Environmental Finance Center

CEUs: This webinar is NOT pre-approved for Continuing Education Credit, but we will provide certificates of attendance to eligible attendees for their personal record.

Who Should Attend:

• Managers, owners, and operators of water systems serving less than 10,000 people, or wastewater systems with an average daily flow of less than 1 million gallons
• Decision-makers for water and wastewater utilities, including mayors, finance officers, utility managers, public works directors, city councilors, board members, tribal council members, and clerks
• Consultants and technical assistance providers serving water and wastewater systems

Partners: 

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Learning Objectives:

• Outreach techniques for reaching the appropriate audience
• How to create interest in water careers
• Latest employment trends to help inform your search
• Best practices for recruiting water professionals at the local levels
• Tools for presenting your workforce needs to Select Boards and Town Councils

Trainers: Tess Clark, Program Manager, & Patrick Lynch, Program Manager, Syracuse University Environmental Finance Center

CEUs: Approved for 1.5 TCHs for Wastewater Operators by Massachusetts DEP.

Who Should Attend:

• Managers, owners, and operators of water systems serving less than 10,000 people, or wastewater systems with an average daily flow of less than 1 million gallons
• Decision-makers for water and wastewater utilities, including mayors, finance officers, utility managers, public works directors, city councilors, board members, tribal council members, and clerks
• Consultants and technical assistance providers serving water and wastewater systems

Partners: 

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Description: This workshop will build knowledge and skills for intentional water workforce recruitment, retention, and succession planning strategies.

Leaning Objectives:

• Assess existing challenges in workforce development
• Promote your organization among potential employees
• Maintain a workplace culture that attracts and retains high quality staff
• Support diversity and inclusion in the workplace
• Prepare for retirements and unexpected exits

Trainer: Brian Bohnsack, Program Manager; and Jeff Severin, Program Manager, Wichita State University Environmental Finance Center

Cost: Free

Continuing Education Units: Approved for 5 hours in any area (2022.1505).

Please Note: Lunch will not be provided and is the responsibility of attendees.

Who Should Attend:

• Managers, owners, and operators of water systems serving less than 10,000 people
• Decision-makers for water utilities, including mayors, finance officers, utility managers, public works directors, city councilors, board members, tribal council members, and clerks
• Consultants and technical assistance providers serving water systems

Partners:

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Session 1 | Monday, May 16, 2022

Session 2 | Wednesday, May 18, 2022

*Register once for both sessions

Description: In this two-part online training series you will obtain a solid understanding of asset management and the unique characteristics of green and natural assets that need to be considered when incorporating these assets into the traditionally gray asset management process. With aging infrastructure, limited resources and regulatory requirements, a comprehensive approach to managing your system is vital. Asset management can help you overcome these challenges and manage your water system effectively. Additionally, it is important to remember that green assets have important functions to keep source waters healthy and reduce stormwater quality and quantity. As such, it is important to manage the green and natural components as assets. The asset management process can be used by anyone who wishes to manage any type of assets – whether green, gray or mixed.

Trainer: Dawn Nall, Research Engineer; and Hayley Hajic, Research Scientist, Southwest Environmental Finance Center at the University of New Mexico

Cost: Complimentary.

Who Should Attend:

• Managers, owners, and operators of water systems serving less than 10,000 people
  
• Decision-makers for water utilities, including mayors, finance officers, utility managers, public works directors, city councilors, board members, tribal council members, and clerks
  
• Consultants and technical assistance providers serving water systems

Continuing Education Units: Approved for 4.0 Technical Contact Hours (Drinking Water) for Indiana Water Operators by IN DEM.

Questions? Contact smallsystems@syr.edu

Partners:

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